Welcome to planetaryuniversity.org!
We’ve just set this site up, so expect it to evolve a great deal over the coming months. You can find many places that are doing amazing work on the technical aspects of campus sustainability. Innovation exists in everything from green building techniques to transportation demand management. Our goal is to contribute to this movement. This will be a hub for exploring the way that decisions get made at universities. Only through innovative governance will we realize the huge potential for universities to make global changes by transforming their cities and regions.
Book Launch at EarthFest September 8th
11:30-12:30 Friday September 8th, 2006 at EarthFest
The University of Victoria Sustainability Project is hosting the book launch for Planet U at its annual EarthFest celebrations. Come out and hear local transport expert Todd Litman and environmentalist-educator Briony Penn speak about the importance of the university for creating livable communities. Co-authors Justine Starke and Michael M’Gonigle will expand on the arguments of the book in relation to UVic and its region. Holly Arntzen will provide the music and the UVSP will engage the audience in a strategy for turning UVic into a planetary university.
EarthFest
Friday September 8th, 2006,
9:00 am to 3:00 pm
An outdoor event with myriad information and vendor tables PLUS campus tours, interactive displays, demonstrations, and a few surprises!
Where: Outdoors by the Petch Fountain, located directly in front of the McPherson Library at UVic. If you are not familiar with the campus please refer to the map on the university website.
See uvsp.uvic.ca or email uvsp[at]uvic.ca for more info.
Helping a growing movement with a new strategy
“The emergence of the movement for Planet U is as important for tomorrow’s world as was the creation of the environmental movement in the decades of yesterday. Its unique capability is to foster macro change from micro precedents… It is time to rediscover the institution that, in our own backyards, we have for so long taken for granted. In the process, we might just sustain the world by reinventing the university.” (Planet U pp.204-5)
This site will be the online home for Planet U–check back soon for more resources and tools.
