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Gund Launches $4,000 Prize for Environmental Writing

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont invites submissions for the inaugural Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics, which celebrates outstanding writing on the environmental limits of our finite planet.

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ANZSEE 2019 Conference

The 2019 Australia New Zealand Society of Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) Conference will address the great challenges of our times: environmental crises and how we can live more sustainably on our planet.

With a great line-up of keynote speakers and panels open to all, make sure you book now. Speakers and panels spans some black humour on climate change from the inimitable Australian comedian Rod Quantock at our vegetarian conference dinner to a panel on the School Strike for Climate (SS4C) movement, with student protesters Harriet O’Shae Carre and Kaity Thompson, led by climate campaigner David Spratt.

Joshua Farley (University of Vermont, Burlington, US) will speak on the future of ecological economics. Renowned in ecological economics circles, Farley teaches in Economics for the Anthropocene graduate training and research program, a North American university partnership that uses ecological economics to create real-world environmental solutions.

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Anthropocene to the Ecozoic (A2E) Symposium

You are cordially invited to participate (in person or by Internet) in the “Anthropocene to the Ecozoic” (A2E) Symposium October 17 and 18 at McGill University.. This is the final event to celebrate the successes of the Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A) project, a 6-year SSHRC funded research effort that has included 40+ students and over 100 collaborators and partners.  The three key universities have been UVM, McGill University, and York University. Please click here for the draft agenda. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the support you have given to E4A students over the past five years.

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REMINDER DEADLINE 30 OCTOBER 2019

Academics and activists who wish to actively participate in submitting sub-themes or suggesting new sub-themes for inclusion in The 7th International Degrowth and 16th ISEE Joint Conference; Building Alternative Livelihoods in Times of Ecological and Political Crisis Conference should submit a proposal by 30th October 2019.

Descriptions of the sub-themes should speak to the overall conference theme. Click here to submit.

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