Fall 2013 Convergence Info

This convergence focuses on Building Sustainable Communities. By demonstrating successful sustainable communities and providing necessary skills and resources, we will strive to empower students to create their own sustainable communities. We will include aspects of socially just communities, action oriented communities, powering these communities, and the ever important topic of food in communities.

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Workshops Offered at this Convergence (subject to change)

Body, Mind and Community - Bridging Sustainability and Consciousness

Communicating Sustainability

Sustainable Gastronomy

A World of Waste: Waste Diversion and Reduction in California and India.

GRID Alternatives: Solar for Social Justice

Using Cooperatives to Build a Solidarity Economy

Women & Design Matter

Impact Advocacy: Fair Trade on Campus

Ending Corporate Personhood & Creating Democracy in America

Integrating Mycology into the Landscape

Environmental Consciousness

Bicycle Learning Center

Micro-Hydro Power

The Living Building Collaborative

CCAT Tour

Moon Cycles: Understanding Female Fertility

Anti-Oppression for Environmental Activists

Sea Level Rise: Vulnerability and Resiliency on the Global and Local levels

Anti-Fracking

Intro to Fossil Fuel Divestment

Building Strength within the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

Sustaining forestry economies

California: A New Front in the Tar Sands Fight

Earth Tub Composting Demonstration

RePowering Humboldt with Renewable Energy

Connecting sustainability with everyday concerns

Public Banks - Viable Communities

Divesting from fossil fuel education through solar education

Organizing community awareness of hazards and risks in the local environment

Media and Activism

FUN-draising 101

Increasing Inclusiveness & Building Bridges with Underrepresented Communities in the Environmental Movement

Welcome to CSSC 101

Transition Towns - Creating resilient communities

Earthen Plaster at CCAT

Become a DIVEST FILM FEST host

developing and maintaing urban gardens/eatable landscaping

Real Food Challenge - Change Your Campus Food System!

Debating Across Differences

A Stakeholder Approach to Resolving Disputes

Energy 101

Arcata Marsh Sanctuary Tour; sustainable wastewater treatment, and plants and animals of the marsh

GMOs Federal vs. Local Legislation

Fair? Trade

Creating Creatively