{"id":2900,"date":"2012-05-18T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2012-05-18T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:48:47","slug":"sustainability-visioning-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2012\/05\/sustainability-visioning-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Visioning Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working for the past couple of months with the Cities Centre and the U of T Sustainability Office to put together a symposium on sustainability, where we pose the question &#8220;What role should the University of Toronto play in the broader challenge of building a sustainable city?&#8221;. We now finally have all the details in place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Details at the Cities Centre Events Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citiescentre.utoronto.ca\/about\/Events\/U_of_T_Sustainability_Symposium_Evening_Lecture.htm?ViewMode=View&amp;DateTime=634752072000000000&amp;PageMode=View\" target=\"_blank\">An Evening Lecture<\/a>, on the evening of June 13, 6pm to 9pm, at Innis Town Hall, featuring <strong><a title=\"Sustainabilityadvantage.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainabilityadvantage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Willard<\/a><\/strong>, author of &#8220;The Sustainability Advantage&#8221;, <strong><a title=\"Tanzeel's bio at Heritage Toronto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagetoronto.org\/find-out-more\/about\/board-directors\/tanzeel-merchant\" target=\"_blank\">Tanzeel Merchant<\/a><\/strong>, of the Ontario Growth Secretariat and Heritage Toronto, and <strong><a title=\"John Robinson at UBC Sustainability\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sustain.ubc.ca\/category\/tags\/john-robinson\" target=\"_blank\">John Robinson<\/a><\/strong>, Director of the UBC Sustainability initiative and the\u00a0Royal Canadian Geographical Society&#8217;s\u00a0Canadian Environmental Scientist of the Year.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Visioning Workshop details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citiescentre.utoronto.ca\/about\/Events.htm\" target=\"_blank\">A full day visioning workshop<\/a> on June 14, 9am to 5pm, at the Debates Room, Hart House. With a mix of speakers and working group sessions, the goal will be to map out a vision for sustainability at U of T, that brings together research, teaching and operations at the University, and explores how we can use the University as a &#8220;living lab&#8221; to investigate challenges in urban sustainability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And it&#8217;s free. <a title=\"Registration form for U of T Sustainability Symposium\" href=\"http:\/\/uoftsustainabilitysymposium.eventbrite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Register here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working for the past couple of months with the Cities Centre and the U of T Sustainability Office to put together a symposium on sustainability, where we pose the question &#8220;What role should the University of Toronto play in the broader challenge of building a sustainable city?&#8221;. We now finally have all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}