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Thanks to a grant from the CCCU, earlier this spring The President’s Council at King’s decided to adopt the STARS system, which stands for Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System. STARS was created by ASSHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) to help universities become more sustainable. You can learn more about [...]

This is “Reading Week” at King’s, so many of our students are spending time reflecting upon their learning so far this semester while enjoying a well-deserved break. Here are a few questions to contemplate while you relax: 1) This week Flourish makes the list again with its Cultivating Community post asking, “Is Your Church Ready [...]

Yesterday I attended a very interesting scoping meeting at the City of Edmonton to discuss food and agricultural planning for the city’s future. Stakeholders from private and public entities, including higher education, were invited to comment on the future of food in the city. The information gathered at this and the other three similar scoping [...]

Top three blogs of the week, selected by Michael Ferber: 1) Missing the Milky Way http://www.wonderofcreation.org/2010/02/03/missing-the-milky-way/ Edmonton is not a large city by global standards, yet we do have significant light pollution. This post by Dean Ohlman will have you at Elk Island in no time, enjoying the starry skies in our local sky preserve. [...]

This week we begin a new feature on The King’s Green Pad: “Blogs of the Week.” Near the end of every week one of the King’s Green Pad contributors will provide a few links to blogs representative of environmental discussions occurring in the blogosphere. Here are the picks for this first installment: #3) Climate Change [...]

There has been a lot of exciting blog activity in the last week related to Creation Care. Here are my top 3 recommendations (plus a bonus!): #3 – Now that King’s is an official member of the AASHE I hope that most faculty, staff and students are reading their blog on campus sustainability on a [...]

In this third report from the Stewardship and Conservation in Canada Conference, I’d like to discuss the most interesting break out session of the event. Out of many worthy options I chose to attend a session hosted by Marian Weber and Colin Soskolne, both from the University of Alberta. Their presentations could not have been [...]

My second of what will be three posts from the Strengthening Stewardship Conference is actually a verbatim from the State of Stewardship in Canada report. This report sets the context for this working conference. Especially important – and still up for debate – are six recommendations that are meant to set the stage for advancing [...]

I’m live at the 4th National Stewardship and Conservation Conference in Calgary, AB. It has been a splendid 16 hours so far with engaging presenations from speakers such as the Premier of Alberta and numerous other federal leaders representing governmental and private sectors. You can follow it live at http://www.stewardship2009.ca/admin/contentx/default.cfm?PageId=10995 A core focus of this [...]