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World Student Community for Sustainable Development

Ready to Act? Realising Sustainability through Collaboration
March 2008 Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 10

Dear WSC-SD Members,

For this month’s newsletter of WSC-SD, I, Marie Onga, will take over the responsibility of editing. Thank
you so much for Jess Schulschenk, our Director of External Relations, for her great work on past
newsletters. Now it is my pleasure to send you all the updates from our student communities and
individual members. Also please check out the important news from Regina SC about the upcoming
Student Summit for Sustainability in May. There are certain things you can prepare for it!!

As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions (executiveboard@wscsd.org). I appredciate for

all the contributions and…… enjoy !!

Best regards,

Marie

Director of Internal Relations, Executive Board

World Student Community for Sustainable Development

NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
1. STUDENT SUMMIT FOR SUSTAINABILITY & UPDATE FROM REGINA
2. UPDATE FROM LAUSANNE – Unipoly, EPF and University of Laussane, Switzerland
4. UPDATE FROM BOSTON – Students for Global Sustainability (SfGS), MIT, Cambridge
5. UPDATE FROM ZÜRICH - [project21], ETH and the University of Zürich, Switzerland
6. UPDATE FROM TOKYO –Alliance for Global Sustainability University of Tokyo
Students Community (AGS-UTSC), Japan
7. UPDATE FROM NAIROBI – SfGS-UoN, University of Nairobi, Kenya
 8. UPCOMING EVENT - SEALNet Summer Project

1. STUDENT SUMMIT FOR SUSTAINABILITY, CANADA MAY 2008 & UPDATE FROM REGINA

We have a whole host of wonderful speakers confirmed for the conference. It's all on
our website at www.s3regina.org. A few more will be confirmed in the weeks leading to
the conference.

Also, on the "what's new" section of our website, see the following updates:

IMAGES OF THE GLOBE PHOTO COMPETITIO

Capture the sights and rhythm of your community in images and enter your work of art
in the S3.2008 photo competition to win an award.
Refer: http://www.s3regina.org/Photo%20competition/Photo%20competition.pdf

SELECTIOS COMPLETED...
Congratulations to all successful applicants! We received a record-breaking number of
papers and posters for presentation! Applications for financial support were equally
substantial and far exceeded the resources available for such support. Processing of all
applications has since been completed and successful applicants have already been
notified. Thanks to all our applicants and best wishes!

COFERECE SCHEDULE
Check out the Schedule here:
http://www.s3regina.org/Conference%20Schedule/S3%202008%20Schedule.pdf

2. UPDATE FROM LAUSANNE – Unipoly, EPF and University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Dear members of WSC-SD,

Here are the upcoming events of Unipoly.

Balelec Festival
Unipoly will be active during the Balelec music festival. This yearly festival is the
biggest event held on the campus. We will have a stand and thus will be able to inform
and sensitize people about sustainable development in particular about garbage
management.

Paper management
We have put some stickers explaining how to print in two-sided mode or with many
pages per sheet on every computer of the University. The goal is to reduce the paper
consumption and to evaluate the impact of these stickers.

Geosciences Seminar
Unipoly has been asked by a Professor of the Geosciences faculty to evaluate the efforts
made by the University concerning sustainable development. We will then present the
conclusions of our study during the Faculty seminar.

Summit Foundation – Music Festivals

The Summit Foundation, with whom we have already been collaborating for two years,
has recently asked us to be present at other festivals in the Lake of Geneva Region. We
are thus looking for new memebers interested in collaborating in this project.

Warm regards from Lausanne,

Steve Bennoun (on behalf of Unipoly)

3. UPDATES FROM BOSTON – Students for Global Sustainability (SfGS), MIT, Cambridge

The event we had in March was as follows:

Clean Energy Revolution - a talk on a new energy economy by Ted

Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, distinguished authors and
environmental advocates reviewed in publications such as the New York
Times and Wired Magazine. The attendance was over 80.
Bo Zhao
SfGS Executive Board: sfgs-exec@mit.edu

3. UPDATES FROM TOKYO – Alliance for Global Sustainability University of Tokyo Student
Community (AGS-UTSC), Japan

Reports and Workshops on Environmental Education

Sustainability Education Working Group in AGS UTSC had sent 2 students to 4th
International Conference on Environmental Education (EE) held in Ahmedabad, India
in December 2007. ( http://www.tbilisiplus30.org/ ) Yudai Sato and Kensei Yamaji,
both from Graduate School of Frontier Science, University of Tokyo, attended the
conference as participants and also presenters in panel discussion.
To share the outcomes and experience, they held the reporting meeting on March 20 at
Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. Other than normal presentation, they held
workshops that they experienced at the conference of EE. 2 questions, “How are the
ideal graduate school students like?” and “How should we develop teacher education to
promote environmental education?”, were asked to participants in workshops. By
having such a workshop, participants of this meeting could both get the information
about EE and experience the thought and discussion that two representatives had at the
conference.
Sustainability Education Working Group is planning to send 2 students to the world
ESD conference in Germany in March 2009.

Ayumi Arakawa
Executive Board of AGS-UTSC
3. UPDATES FROM NAIROBI (Partner) – SfGS-UoN, University of Nairobi, Kenya
James Kimanzi
Liaison of SfGS-UoN

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8. UPCOMING EVENT: SEALNet Summer Project

Thank you Yacoob, our Individual Member, for sharing this information with us. I do
believe there are people who will be interested in.

Passionate about a cause?

Want to make a difference in Southeast Asia?
Want to meet other college students who share the same vision?
Want to learn how to become a better service leader?
JOIN SEALNet!
WANTED: TEAM MEMBERS FOR SEALNet Summer Projects

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS (project dates, locations, goals)

http://www.sealnetonline.org/projects
APPLICATION DEADLINES
Apr. 7, 2008 for Project Malaysia
Apr. 14, 2008 for all other projects
SUBMIT AT http://www.sealnetonline.org/forms/2008_projects_application

Who We Are
The Southeast Asian Service Leadership Network (SEALNet) was founded at
Stanford University in 2004. Our mission is to create a cross-cultural network
between students and professionals interested in Southeast Asian
developmental issues. Our goal is to empower students to create positive
change both by participating in service leadership projects and by inspiring
other students to become leaders in their own communities.

FIND OUT MORE!

Video from past projects
http://sealnetonline.org/about_us/media_center/video_center
Questions? Email sealnetrecruit@gmail.com

Thank you all for your inputs and messages! See you soon.

Please direct feedback to your EB members at executiveboard@wscsd.org

WSC -SD Website: http://wscsd.org