Program-WSSD

Condensed Program

3rd World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities

Designing tomorrow’s campus: Resiliency, Vulnerability, & Adaptation

14-16 September 2016 || MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Location: Samberg Conference Center

13 September 2016 – GUPES Forum

12 - 7 pm – Meeting of the Global Universities Partnership of Education for Sustainability  and the Green Gown Awards- Invite only meeting
Invited session for GUPES members

Chair: Monika Monika Macdevette, Deputy Director of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Location: TBD

14 September 2016 – IINC Meeting

9 am - 2 pm Meeting of the International Intergenerational Network of Centers [please contact Peter Blaze Corcoran to attend at pcorcora@fgcu.edu]

Chair: Peter Blaze Corcoran
Location: Samberg Conference Center Salon West

14 September 2016 – WSSD

1:00 pm Registration Opens

2:30 pm Tour of MIT Campus (If you are interested in joining please email sustainableMIT@mit.edu by Sept 1, 2016)

4:00-4:15 Opening Remarks and Welcome

Conference Chairs:
Walter Leal, Manchester Metropolitan University UK and HAW Hamburg, Germany 
Julie Newman, Director of Sustainability, MIT

4:15 – 5:30  Opening Panel

Are Sustainability Policies Good Indicators of Commitment of Higher Education Institutions?

Chair: Walter Leal, Manchester Metropolitan University UK and HAW Hamburg, Germany
Panel Members:
Nicholas Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy, MIT
Prof Wu Jiang, Tongji University, Global Universities Partnership of Education for Sustainability co-chair
Chris Shiel, Professor of Life and Environmental Science, Bournemouth University

5:30  Welcome Reception (Light Refreshments)

15 September 2016

8:30 am         Light refreshments: Coffee/tea

9:00-9:15      Opening remarks: Israel Ruiz, Executive Vice President and Treasurer MIT

9:15-10:30    Keynote Panel

Partners in Resilience: Higher Education’s Role in Metro-Boston Climate Adaptation Planning

Moderator: Amy Longsworth, Director, Boston Green Ribbon Commission
Panel Members:
Dennis Carlberg, AIA, Sustainability Director, Boston University
Kerry Emanuel, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
Paul H. Kirsten, Professor, School for the Environment; Academic Director, Sustainable Solutions Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Boston
Robert Manning, Director Engineering & Utilities, Harvard University

10:30-11:00  Break

Tracks:

1. Innovations in Curriculum and Research
2. Collaborative Community Partnerships and Engagement
3. Sustainable Systems: Design, Build, Operate
4. Comprehensive approaches to Sustainable Development: Integration of curriculum, research and operations
5. Student participation and Engagement in Sustainability Issues

   *Each presentation will be for 15 minutes with 5 minutes of Q&A time for a total of 20 minutes each.*

11:00-1:00  Parallel Track Presentations

1:00-2:00    Lunch

2:00–3:30   Parallel Track Presentations

3:30-4:00   Break

4:00-5:15   Parallel Track Presentations

6 pm Dinner

 

16 September 2016

8:30-9:00    Light refreshments: Coffee/tea

9:00-9:15     Opening remarks: A case study of MIT Plan for Climate Action: Tom Kiley, Senior Advisor to the VP Research, MIT

9:15-10:30  Keynote Panel

The role of the Sustainable Development Goal’s in advancing sustainability in Higher Education

Co-Moderator: Peter Blaze Corcoran and Brandon Hollingshead, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panel members:
John E. Fernandez, Professor of Architecture and Director of Environmental Solutions Initiative, MIT
Monika MacDevette, Deputy Director of Environmental Policy Implementation, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Akpezi Ogbuigwe, Director, International Collaboration Center; Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Stephen Sterling, Professor of Sustainability Education, Plymouth University

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-1:00    Parallel Track Presentations

1:00-2:00      Lunch

2:00-3:00      Parallel Track Presentations

3:00-3:30      Break

3:30-4:30      Keynote Panel

The role of networks: Collectively coping with Resiliency, Vulnerability, and Adaptation

Moderator: Iain Patton, Chief Officer, Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges, England
Panel members:
Leanne Denby, Director of Sustainability, Macquarie University
Zena Harris, Executive Director, International Sustainability Campus Network
Meghan Fay Zahniser, President of American Association of Sustainability in Higher Education

4:30 – 5 pm Hand-over of the best papers awards & closing remarks

Walter Leal, Manchester Metropolitan University UK and HAW Hamburg, Germany 
Julie Newman, Director of Sustainability, MIT