Symposiums

 
Shades of Green
Sept. 10, 2011 - Oct. 7, 2011
On the university’s Milledgeville campus and at its Macon Center for Graduate and Professional Learning.

Open to the public, the forum will feature sustainability practices and career options in green building trends, sustainable urban planning, renewable energy, health care, the global food supply chain, safe water supplies and transportation.

During the discussions about green transportation and vehicles, the forum will feature the Chevy Volt, 2011 North American Car of the Year, for test drives. Valvoline will present its new, recycled motor oil, NextGen.

Off-campus guest speakers and panelists currently scheduled include representatives from worldwide organizations:

• Center for Transportation and the Environment, Georgia
• CleanFUEL USA, Texas
• Davis Farms, Georgia
• Frito-Lay, Georgia
• General Motors, Michigan
• Mage Solar, Georgia
• M3V, Indianapolis
• Oconee Regional Medical Center, Georgia
• Perry Regional Medical Center, Georgia
• Perkins+Will, Georgia
• Sodexo, Georgia
• Steelcase, Michigan
• SymbioCity, Georgia
• Sysco, Georgia
• The U.S. Green Building Council, Georgia
• Toyota, Southeast Representatives
• Valvoline, Georgia
• Walton Rehabilitation Hospital, Georgia

For more information contact Gerri McCord with the GC College of Business at (478) 445-2599 or gerri.mccord@gcsu.edu
 

The Fifth Annual Georgia College Global Citizenship Symposium, Personal and Global Health: My Role, Our Challenges, will take place February 6-8, 2012. In the spirit of previous symposia, the broad theme provides for multiple approaches to understanding health from personal, societal, and international perspectives. Categories of health include body, mind, and spirit.

At the turn of the millennium in 2000, the United Nations and affiliated international organizations agreed on eight Millennium Development Goals and set 2015 as a deadline for achieving significant results. The goals include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality rates, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing global partnerships for development. Arguably, all of the goals are health related.

The 2012 Global Citizenship Symposium will welcome speakers with first-hand experience in health advocacy and delivery relative to the Millennium Development Goal projects.

Symposium Speakers

The keynote speakers and lead panelists for 2012 Global Citizenship Symposium represent academic scholarship, non-governmental organizations, and advocacy endeavors aimed at creating a healthier world.

 Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on livestock and sustainable agriculture, currently serves as Project Director of the Nourishing the Planet project  for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental think tank. She has spent the last year traveling to more than 25 countries across sub-Saharan Africa looking at environmentally sustainable ways of alleviating hunger and poverty.

Her knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited widely or published in The New York Times, USA Today, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, BBC, the Guardian (UK), the Mail and Guardian (South Africa), the East African (Kenya), TIME magazine, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Voice of America, the Times of India, and other major publications.
 
Danielle worked for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic and also currently serves as the food security advisor for Citizen Effect (an NGO focused on sustainable development projects worldwide). She holds an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from Tufts University and a B.A. in Environmental Policy from Monmouth College.

Danielle co-authored the first chapter of the recently published Worldwatch Institute publication, State of the World 2011, Innovations that Nourish the Planet, "Charting a New Path to Eliminating Hunger."

(www.nourishingtheplanet.org)

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