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Sunday, October 26, 2014: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM, Room D136 (Student Summit Session)

A National Online Community for Student Sustainability Leaders

We will share stories from student sustainability leaders from across the country that are connecting with one another, building relationships and sharing ideas about how they are making their campuses and communities more sustainable. Students are coming together using the National Wildlife Federation's new EcoLeaders community to spread innovative ideas and resources across campuses and communities. Students, just like others in the sustainability world are not interested in re-inventing the wheel. But up until now, there hasn’t been a “virtual space” where collaboration, lessons learned and best practices could be shared with other students on a national level. This workshop will feature unique ways that students are collaborating, engaging with one another and earning recognition for the work they are doing. The workshop will showcase a variety of successful projects and ideas and how collaboration has spurred successful sustainability ventures.

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2014: 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM, Room B119

Using Online Tools to Support Offline Action and Innovation

If you plant a tree in the forest but didn't tweet about it did it really happen? While the real results of sustainability projects and programs take place offline and can be measured in concrete terms like gallons of water save and number of trees planted, online tools help tell the story, build support for your projects and help spread innovation and creative ideas for solving tough problems. This interactive session will explore tools and strategies for sharing your story online and engaging supporters such as online communities and social media. We will draw from examples and case studies from campuses successfully using online engagement to build support and recruit participants to their programs. Participants will also have the opportunity to share success stories from their own experience and share their favorite online resources. Of course, we will tweet the best ideas! Finally, we will share planning tools for developing goals for online engagement and measuring and tracking success both online and in the "real" world. 

 

Tuesday, October 28 1:00 – 2:00 PM, Room B112

Engaging Students in Years of Living Dangerously

The YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY is a journey into the eye of the storm, as Hollywood’s brightest stars and today’s most respected journalists explore the issues of climate change and bring you intimate stories of triumph and tragedy. YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY takes you directly to the heart of the story in this awe-inspiring and cinematic documentary series event from Executive Producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger. National Wildlife Federation is the education partner for the series working with producers to extend its reach to the community with an emphasis on high school students and college and university audiences. This presentation will feature: an episode in the series and/or behind the scenes footage; the educational resources developed (MOOC, curriculum, case studies); and Q and A (possibly panel format) with experts (producer, correspondent, scientist, featured "cast" member) to discuss the series and learn action steps on how to share this documentary with campus audiences and advance the sustainability efforts on campus.