As Mike Kornitas shared, NJHEPS spent the late spring and summer making plans for an eventful and productive fiscal year 2013. We have been extremely fortunate to be hosted in the Sharp Sustainability Education Center at Ramapo College, and are excited to participate in the upcoming Center dedication. We congratulate the entire Ramapo College community on this wonderful event and milestone-and are grateful to Sharp Corporation for their generosity.  

Entering her third year at Ramapo College of New Jersey, NJHEPS' newest intern Christina Crescimanno has shown great enthusiasm and passion for the natural environment around her campus. Majoring in Environmental Studies with a double minor in Public Policy and Psychology, she has had her fair share of environmental activism. She has enjoyed participating in the 2011 Powershift Conference in Washington DC, living in the sustainable facilities on campus, and organizing protests against the natural gas pipeline proposed for the Ramapo Reservation. Christina shows promise and excitement regarding her new position and looks forward to working with the members of NJHEPS to help inform the youth community of state-wide issues and events, as well as improve the environmental conditions within New Jersey.

 

(MAHWAH, NJ) - Friends and supporters of Ramapo College will join together Friday, September 21 to dedicate the Sharp Sustainability Education Center.

The Center is a demonstration space for sustainability practices, and includes classroom laboratory space, hosts forums for discussion and symposia of sustainability issues such as water use, open space, land use and development and alternate energy. It is also the headquarters for the New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability.

 

Toshiyuki Osawa, the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sharp Electronics Corporation, will travel from Japan to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The company, which is celebrating its 100^th anniversary, has been a strong supporter of the College for more than 30 years.

 

Sharp Electronics provided financial support for the construction of the Center and also significant solar products for demonstrations and educational instruction. The Center also allows for advancement of the College's education outreach programs by offering classes to area schoolchildren.

Paul Hoffman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Science Center, will serve as keynote speaker for the dedication.

 

Corporate Vice President David Alai and other senior management leaders from Sharp will also attend. The dedication will be one of the highlights in the celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the corporation.

 

For more information contact:

 

Anna Farneski

Afarnesk@ramapo.edu

201.684.6844

  

Thanks to a generous grant from the Schomburg Foundation, the Master's Program in Sustainability Studies at Ramapo College is delighted to announce a major workshop series of events.  A draft program can be found here.

The speakers for this event series are all key players from Civil Society Organizations and from the United Nations, collectively engaged in planning for a post-Rio+20 future.  The purpose of the workshop series is to lay out the framework for a road map to plan for a Global Citizens Movement to help us move beyond the major United Nations Rio+20 conference held earlier this year in June. 

We are writing to invite you to this intensive workshop, in which the many dimensions of the UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro will be explored, and a coherent path forward will be charted.

As you may be aware, by most conventional accounts, Rio+20 was at least a disappointment, if not a failure.  We argue that real, path-breaking, and innovative solutions began to emerge from the grassroots level out, and we will present many dimensions of these solutions, as well as strategize a way forward into a more sustainable future. 

 

More information and and registration can be found here.