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Are you helping to lead sustainability efforts on your campus?Join the 2025 UMACS Coffee Chats for Sustainability Leaders series! We meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 9:00-10:00 am CST. These facilitated meetings are an opportunity to share best practices, resources and struggles with your regional peers.
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2025 Coffee Chats for Sustainability Leaders
June 18: Wellness Model for Sustainability
For those of you who have been part of UMACS for a while will know the three hosts of this coffee chat: Erika Bailey-Johnson, Allyson Green, and Monica McDaniel. These UMACS "alums" have offered to join us to share their "Wellness Model for Sustainability" which has been recently published in the Sustainability and Climate Change Journal. The unique model includes a wellness component and a visual representation that includes the environment as the foundation of other systems. The model better represents the worldviews of local Indigenous communities and the lived reality of the people working in sustainability. Register here!
July 23: The Promise and Peril of the AI Revolution AI poses both opportunity and threat for the environment and society, accelerating resource consumption while offering glimmers of hope about its potential to be a powerful tool for environmental sustainability efforts. Led by Stratis Giannakouros, Sustainability Director at the University of Iowa, participants will gain an understanding of how AI technologies impact the environment and how they can be leveraged to promote sustainable practices. - Register here!
For those of you who have been part of UMACS for a while will know the three hosts of this coffee chat: Erika Bailey-Johnson, Allyson Green, and Monica McDaniel. These UMACS "alums" have offered to join us to share their "Wellness Model for Sustainability" which has been recently published in the Sustainability and Climate Change Journal. The unique model includes a wellness component and a visual representation that includes the environment as the foundation of other systems. The model better represents the worldviews of local Indigenous communities and the lived reality of the people working in sustainability. Register here!
July 23: The Promise and Peril of the AI Revolution AI poses both opportunity and threat for the environment and society, accelerating resource consumption while offering glimmers of hope about its potential to be a powerful tool for environmental sustainability efforts. Led by Stratis Giannakouros, Sustainability Director at the University of Iowa, participants will gain an understanding of how AI technologies impact the environment and how they can be leveraged to promote sustainable practices. - Register here!