Annual Sustainability Champion Celebration/ Virtual Happy Hour! April 25th, 7-8:30pm
Our Flagship event is the Annual Campus Sustainability Champion Celebration! We learned during COVID that this event works extremely well as a Zoom Event, providing our winners with the greatest opportunity to attend and to provide a brief introduction to the project or initiative that earned them the title of PERC Campus Sustainability Champion! Allegheny College has provided a great example of how to make the event even more fun by hosting a virtual happy hour at their school for winners, sponsors and other interested parties. More in subsequent emails about this opportunity…
This tremendous event recognizes students, faculty, administrators, and staff (as well as student and non-student organizations) of Pennsylvania colleges and universities who have made meaningful contributions toward environmental sustainability on their campus, in their community, or in society at large.
Some particulars are as follows:
1. Each institution may nominate:
- Up to three (3) individual students
- One student group (no limit on group members)
- One (1) faculty or staff
2. Nominations must be made by Friday, April 5 at 5pm, and must be submitted by the PERC representative from your school. Find your rep here: PERC- the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium - meet your rep (pagreencolleges.org)
3. Champions will be invited to participate in the 2024 Campus Sustainability Champion Celebration/ Virtual Happy Hour event.
Please tap on this Google Form link to submit your nomination(s).
Our Keynote speaker for this year’s event is English Professor John MacNeill Miller from one of our member schools, Allegheny College! John is an Environmental Humanitarian, and he is described by colleagues as “having a wonderful presence, and he tells a great story.” Among many other things, John will elaborate on the role of the humanities in addressing environmental concerns.
John has authored many publications and papers, including:
- Shakespeare’s Starlings: Literary History and Fictions of Invasiveness
- Mischaracterizing the Environment: Hardy, Darwin and the Art of Ecological Storytelling
- The Ecological Plot: A Brief History of Multispecies Storytelling, from Malthus to Middlemarch
Thanks and we look forward to seeing you at this great PERC event in April!