• Online registration form

• Conference information page

• Pre-conference workshop on conducting a greenhouse gas inventory and writing a climate action plan

Conference Theme: Nuts, Bolts, & Stories of Success

The 2010 UMACS conference will provide the latest in sustainability practices across a spectrum of hot topics, reinforced by case studies, stories, and posters from a wide range of campuses throughout the region. UMACS encourages faculty, students, staff, & administrators (individually or as teams) to register and attend the conference. This is an opportunity to hear success stories from other campuses, highlight your campus sustainability projects, and network with individuals working on sustainability on other campuses.

Conference Program

Keynote Speakers

Paul Rowland

"Campus Sustainability:  How Far We've Come & Where to Next"

Paul Rowland became the Executive Director of AASHE on August 1, 2009. Paul was one of the founders of the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University where he served in a variety of capacities including Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Education, Coordinator of Environmental Education, and Director of Academic Assessment. More recently he has served as Dean of the School of Education at The University of Montana and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Idaho. He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from New Mexico State University and an M.S. in Ecology and a B.A. in Biology from Rutgers University. 

Winona LaDuke

"Restoring Land-Based Economies in the Seventh Generation"

Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations, and is the mother of three children. She is also the Executive Director of Honor the Earth, where she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups.

In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project.

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, Winona has written extensively on Native American and Environmental issues. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA and serves, as co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network, a North American and Pacific indigenous women's organization. In 1998, Ms. Magazine named her Woman of the Year for her work with Honor the Earth. Also in 1997, her first novel, "Last Standing Woman", was published by Voyager Press. In 1999, South End Press published "All Our Relations", a non-fiction book on Native environmental struggles. Both books are available through the Native Harvest catalog. Winona's editorials and essays have also been published numerous times in national and international journals and newspapers.

"Hot Topics"

• Academic & Co-Curricular Programming

• Climate Action Plans

• Comprehensive Sustainability & Master Planning

• Energy Conservation & Efficiency

• Grounds Maintenance & Habitat Restoration

• Local Food Systems and Composting

• Localized Carbon Offsets

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Resell Ideas

• Renewable Energy Production

• Sustainability-Based Integrated Planning

If you have questions about the conference, please contact Kelly Cain at kelly.d.cain@uwrf.edu