Sustainability and Climate Change Conference and Biocultural Restoration Workday!
[Posted May 10th]
Our CERENE Student Leaders, and Kapi’olani Community College faculty dedicated to climate change, sustainability and resiliency gathered for a weekend workshop and discussion hosted at UH Manoa. The conference brought together national and local organizations who have joined forces to support and inspire faculty and other formal and informal educators, including graduate students, to integrate social, economic and environmental sustainability into undergraduate education.
The gathering was organized by University of Hawaiʻi faculty and staff and is sponsored by the national Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), the national Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities’ (SENCER) Center for Innovation West, the EPSCoR-funded Transcending Barriers to Success in Economics (TBSE), the Western Region Continuums of Service Conference 2025, the UH Mānoa College of Social Sciences, and CERENE at Kapiʻolani Community College.
Our CERENE Student leaders, Nicole and Nimue were able to join in to provide the student perspective along with faculty from Philosophy, Economics, English, Anthropology, Hospitality and CERENE. After discussion with others one of our BIG take-aways, is the focus on Kin-ship and Relationship being at the heart of sustainability, resiliency and climate change education. The newly published paper by Chip Fletcher and our own Kap’CC English faculty, Krista Hiser lays this out nicely (this was one of the papers we discussed at the conference) — but really, at the heart of the future of our work we all agree is place-based (neighborhood scale) kinship!
To read more about the event visit: https://socialsciences.manoa.hawaii.edu/sustainability-and-climate-change-across-the-curriculum/
