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WSC-SD NEWSLETTER VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 May 1, 2007WSC-SD : "Ready to Act? Realising Sustainability through Collaboration"Welcome to the Volume 2, Issue 3 of your monthly WSC-SD Newsletter. The WSC-SD Newsletter employs a simple and concise format to keep you updated by means of bringing key information directly to your desktop about WSC-SD events, activities and news from various Student Communities (SCs), Executive Board (EB), "Vision" editors and Web team (WT). I am pleased to present to you all the first edition of the Newsletter after the very successful 2007 WSC-SD Annual Meeting in Tokyo The Student Summit for Sustainability 2007 (SSS 2007) titled, "Taking Action for Global Sustainability" . This newsletter introduces the newly-elected Executive Board (EB)and briefly describes their goals for making WSC-SD an organization that takes action through international collaborations and projects. We also have new Individual Members and increasing numbers of applicants, adding cultural, geographical and disciplinary diversity to our organization. Look forward to reading about their projects in future editions! This is my first newsletter as Editor-in-Chief. I have enjoyed hearing this month's updates from each of your student communities and I look forward to working with you all throughout the year. I will be publishing this newsletter at the beginning of each month and will be accepting contributions for the next newsletter received by May 25. A big thank you to Nnaemeka Okochi for his hard work on the Newsletter last year! Laura Meredith Editor ( laura.meredith(at) wscsd.org ) Your email feedback is welcome. Please send feedback to executiveboard(at) wscsd.org Whatever your topic of interest, it's just a click away…enjoy! CONTENTS:1. COMMENTS FROM THE 2007 STUDENT SUMMIT FOR SUSTAINABILITY HOSTED BY UTSC, TOKYO, JAPAN 2. UPDATE FROM TOKYO - University of Tokyo Students Community (UTSC), Japan 3. UPDATE FROM REGINA - UR Students for Sustainability (URSS), Regina, Canada 4. UPDATE FROM GO"TEBORG - Chalmers Students for Sustainability (CSS), Sweden 5. UPDATE FROM BOSTON Students for Global Sustainability (SfGS), MIT, Cambridge 6. UPDATE FROM ZU"RICH - [project21], ETH and the University of Zu"rich, Switzerland 7. UPDATE FROM WSC-SD Executive Board 1. THE 2007 STUDENT SUMMIT FOR SUSTAINABILITY (March 5 9) HOSTED BY UTSC, TOKYO, JAPANStudent Summit for Sustainability (WSC-SD AM) has been successfully done!! It’s only the START though! We, UTSC hosted around 65 students from more than 25 countries in Tokyo, Japan. We discussed, shared the experience, learned from forerunners, and made the vision for the future together. We all hope to keep this fellowship sustainable and to work together starting from here. Thanks to everyone for cooperation and supports!! We also made the web-forum for participants, and now we’re trying to revise it. Also we are now writing the Report of the summit and will send it to you, participants, and others who are interested in it after we finish writing it. So please read it for more details. For more Information about the SSS, please visit By Marie Onga ( marie.onga(at)wscsd. org ) 2. UPDATE FROM TOKYO - University of Tokyo Students Community (UTSC), Japan8 students from UT went to the AGS Annual Meeting in Spain We sent 8 students from UTSC to join the AGS Annual Meeting held in Barcelona, Spain. We had 4 posters to present during the Poster Session. We joined all the sessions they held and learned, shared the ideas, and made new networks with professors, researchers, and students!! Movie “A Crude Awakening / The Crash of Oil” was played preceding the world! Sustainability Education Working Group of UTSC had the movie show of “A crude Awakening /The Crash of Oil” preceding the official release. It is a 90 minute documentary on the planet’s dwindling oil resources. After the show, participant students exchanged and discussed their opinions from the movie. For more information onUT SC By Marie Onga ( marie.onga(at)wscsd. org ) 3. UPDATE FROM REGINA - UR Students for Sustainability (URSS), Regina, CanadaI. The URSS club was officially accepted to be the organizers for the Students Summit for Sustainability 2008. The tentative schedule for the summit is from May 7 18. The organizer committee and the university authorities are certainly excited about this unique opportunity to bring such a great event to the Queen City of Regina. The theme of the conference will be “Societies of Tomorrow.” Three sub-theme areas have been proposed:
II. One member of our club, Jose Condor, took part in the 2nd annual Graduate Student Research Conference last April 14th. This is a public event for all students, staff and faculty members on campus. III. URSS also took part in the two-day Sustainability Symposium in Regina titled "Re-Educating Ourselves Toward A Sustainable Future" on April 19 - 20. Keynote Speaker was Dr. William Rees, Co-founder of the "Ecological Footprint". He spoke on busting cultural myths in our quest to attain genuine sustainability. IV. Al Gore in Regina Yes! Former United States vice president, Mr. Al Gore gave a speech in Regina. Five of our club members attended this conference. The total attendance was 5,100. Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert arranged to bring the hottest ticket in the world right now to the Prairies. Oscar-winning environmentalist Al Gore brought his global warming lecture "An Inconvenient Truth" to Saskatchewan on April 23. Saskatchewan' s government-owned telephone company, SaskTel, fronted the $200,000 cost to bring the former United States vice president to Regina. Gore travelled to Montreal and Toronto earlier this year for public engagements and will be in Toronto again after the Regina show. His appearance at the University of Toronto in February sold out in just minutes. By Jose Condor ( condortj(at)uregina. ca ) 4. UPDATE FROM GO"TEBORG - Chalmers Students for Sustainability (CSS), SwedenWe have just had a great success in our big event Around 100 participants have come to join the seminar and we obtained new members who are really interested in taking action through CSS and WSC-SD! We are welcome to our new members and keep preparing for our next activities in this year. The seminar was in collaboration with the AGS and was designed as an interface between students, scientists, NGO’s, and local government. Chalmers students were able to see the cutting edge efforts in the field of sustainable development from Chalmers, from the city of Go"teborg, and from Sweden. More importantly, students learned about many great opportunities to get involved and to become action-takers! In the next month, we will be hosting a field study of the ‘passive houses’ of Linda*s, Sweden designed by internationally renowned architect Hans Eek. By Akiko Sasaki, Councilor ( akiko(at)vtek.chalmers .se ) For more information:CSS Student 5. UPDATE FROM BOSTON Students for Global Sustainability (SfGS), MIT, CambridgeEcoExpo - April 25, 2007 The MIT Students for Global Sustainability held the first ever EcoExpo, an exhibition that highlighted the initiatives of MIT undergraduate and graduate students furthering the cause of environmental sustainability. Its goals were to bring together students working towards sustainability and showcase initiatives for the general MIT community and members of the administration and local community. The event was a huge success! Nearly 30 student-led groups concerned with environmental issues at MIT presented posters and displays. Presentations included local projects, such as greenhouse gas reductions at MIT, the MIT green fund, and powering campus computers by stationary bike! International projects were also well represented, like Jessica Vechakul's presentation on bicycle ambulances in Zambia, cleaner ceramic manufacturing in Mexico and sustaining a train station in Torino, Italy. The SfGS organizers also invited forty administrative leaders from MIT, many student activists and community members concerned with sustainability. Through the EcoExpo SfGS was able to to convey the incredible energy and enthusiasm at MIT and to inspire new ideas, new connections, and a strengthened campus commitment to sustainability through this event. Thanks to the EcoExpo organizers for their hard work and creativity in planning such a great event! For EcoExpo exhibition titles, abstracts and more information: Coverage of EcoExpo and Earth Day events by the MIT Tech paper:
For more information about sfgs: by Laura Meredith(laura. meredith(at) wscsd.org ) 6. UPDATE FROM ZU"RICH - [project21], ETH and the University of Zu"rich, SwitzerlandWhat is going on with [project21] ? Here an excerpt: "Tibetian medicine - an introduction to history, philosophy, praxis and pharmaceutical products" that is the title of [project21]' s first book! The comprehensive and advanced system of the traditional tibetical medicine meets largely the ideal of sustainability. p21 works for the longterm conservation and living transmission of the 3000 year old wisdom. At the AM 2006 in Switzerland an idea was born that is still active. We want to create a place in the Swiss alps where science and wisdom can meet in an atmosphere of oppenness and mutual respect to work out longterm solutions for fundamental social challenges - this is in short the vision of Science meets Wisdom. This semester's Wednesday special deals with the question: How to achieve a sustainable economy? An economy is sustainable when a dynamic equilibrium between the consumption and regeneration of resources is achieved. Is this Vision realizable? Three experts present their vision and possible solutions. The presentations are typically followed by an intense, stimulating discussion. [project 21] is still working on a label for student flats in Zu"rich which are consuming energy in an exemplary economical way. The label will be launched through a competition. Our aim is to make students aware of their energy consumption and to promote easy practicable energy-saving measures. Currently the heads who carry the project further are missing. Tobias Bruderer, WSC-SD liaison ( tobiasbr(at)student. ethz.ch )
7. UPDATE FROM WSC-SD Executive BoardI. Newly Elected Executive Board During the Student Summit for Sustainability the following students were selected and approved as the new executive board of the WSC-SD for the 2007/2008 year: President and Director of Finance: Carl Justin Kamp Director of Communication and IT: Laura Meredith Director of External Relations: Jess Schulschenk Director of Internal Relations: Marie Onga Director of International Projects: Sanae "Sunny" Ohshiro Webmaster: Asim Khan II. International Projects and WSCSD Rebranding The director of international projects is a new position created this year, reflecting the focus and direction of the WSC-SD in the coming year. The theme of this year’s annual meeting, or Student Summit for Sustainability, was about taking action for global sustainability, thus, the WSC-SD wants to do exactly that: take action! We all feel strongly that now is the time to combine our efforts and resources for an international collaboration between schools that make up the WSC-SD and act, not just discuss. Therefore, our the Executive Board worked very diligently to come up with a new catch phrase and vision for the WSC-SD: World Student Community for Sustainable Development (WSC-SD) "Ready to Act? Realising Sustainability through Collaboration" Vision: The WSC-SD is a multi-disciplinary network of motivated students with the ability to think and act both locally and globally, and who share the vision to make a difference. Our purpose is to be a leading international student organization that carries out meaningful projects which result in positive and enduring changes that improve lives in communities around the world. III. New WSC-SD Partner Student Community! The Executive Board is pleased to announce the acceptance of the Students for Global Sustainability - University of Nairobi (SFGS UoN) as a WSC-SD Partner University and we sincerely look forward to our continued communication and collaboration with our friends in Kenya. IV. Annual Report The WSC-SD Annual Report has been published by last year's Executive Board. The report describes the history of WSC-SD and a report of SC, EB and WSC-SD activities. Check it out and see what our network accomplished last year! Laura Meredith (laura.meredith(at)wscsd.org )
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