Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.951213163516.27628P@badger.ac.BrockU.CA> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 16:35:16 -0500 From: Martin Sieg <mailto:ms94dk@BADGER.AC.BROCKU.CA> Subject: SD Policies Project Needs You!!! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Sustainable Development Policies Project Needs You!!!The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) promotes sustainable development in decision making within business, government and the daily lives of individuals in Canada and internationally. Our madate covers research and communications activites related to:
1. Enhancing national and international development approaches;
2. Building education and information programs that will improve sustainable development understanding and action;
3. Promoting rapid dissemination of new sustainable development knowledge about what works; and
4. Assisting communities, regions and countries to asses their sustainable development needs and means to address them.
IISD has recently received funding from the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education (CANARIE) for the development of a protoype on-line electronic tool kit for the higher education community. The aim of the project is to provide the university audiences, including administrators, faculty and students with the tools to understand basic sustainable principles and guidelines, the means to develop and share their plans and policies, and learn from each other.
There are three main anticipated results of the project:
1. An internactive learning module for use on the internet.
2. A campus sustainable policy bank based on our work in progress with the International Association of Universities, Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) and the Earth Council. The data set created will be the first ever global collection of campus policies.
3. A forum for administrators and students to comment on campus environmental policies.
The project will take place over the next four months; we hope to complete the protoype by the end of March.
If you know of any sustainable campus evironmental policies, or any sustainable development programs offered at educational institutions, please e-mail Carolee Buckler at mailto:Cbuckler@iisdpost.iisd.ca as soon as possible or, before January 30, 1996.
If you would like to know more about IISD we are on the Internet at http://iisd1.iisd.ca