Registration for Climate Action Planning Workshops
UMACS is hosting free workshops on writing a climate action plan for your school at four locations throughout the upper midwest in July. For more details and to register, click here. Join representatives from other midwest colleges and universities to learn how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on your campus . We will have a representative from the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Program as well as information from schools in different stages of planning for the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. In order to reach as many people as possible while minimizing travel, UMACS has arranged for four workshops through out the region.
Welcome
The Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability (UMACS) is a non-profit organization focusing on sustainability in higher education institutions throughout the region. UMACS serves as a networking tool, information resource, and conference organizer for faculty, staff, campus administrators, students, and others seeking to place their campuses on a more sustainable footing.
Biennial regional meetings were hosted in 2006, by the College of St. Benedict | St. John's University in Minnesota, and in April 2008, by Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Schools interested in hosting the 2010 biennial meeting should contact Jon Jensen at Luther College for more information.
UMACS Launches New Website
UMACS has launched a new website with the intention of facilitating greater sharing of information between Midwest colleges and universities. The new site allows users to create a campus sustainability profile for their school, upload information on sustainability projects on their campus, and add events to the UMACS calendar.
Jon Jensen from Luther College explains:
Our goal is to make this an interactive site where users are creating the content, not just reading it. It's neither realistic, nor efficient, for a volunteer organization to compile information on all the great stuff happening on the campuses in our region. But we can create a space for others to share their stories, and collectively we can pull our information into one spot.
To become a campus liaison for your school, please complete this simple form.