Webinar Opportunity: Universities & Municipalities: Working Together for Sustainable and Just Futures

Please consider attending the following webinar on May 19th, 2022, at 2:30pm EST: “Universities & Municipalities: Working Together for Sustainable & Just Futures” presented by Colleen Murphy-Dunning of Yale University’s Urban Resources Initiative and Hixon Center for Urban Ecology

Colleen Murphy-Dunning is the Program Director at the Urban Resources Initiative (URI), a not-for-profit university partnership based at the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, and a Lecturer in Urban and Community Forestry at the Yale School of the Environment. Faculty, staff, and students can significantly contribute to local environmental conditions. The Urban Resources Initiative (URI) at the Yale School of the Environment has worked in close partnership with the City of New Haven and New Haven residents to address local environmental concerns that they have identified. Colleen will describe some of URI’s projects to address community-led environmental priorities and offer Yale students’ valuable learning opportunities.

Register here for this webinar!

ALA/SustainRT scholarships for 2022 graduates

ALA/SustainRT scholarships for 2022 graduates:

Congratulations! We hope all 2022 graduates are excited to embark on or continue your library career and continue your membership in the professional community of ALA and the Sustainability Round Table. We understand that dues can be a financial challenge and therefore SustainRT is offering a number of scholarships to pay for one year’s membership in ALA and SustainRT. Our goal is to help you continue to interact with a large community of library peers in ALA and develop and share your ideas and expertise to further sustainable communities in all types of libraries.

You can apply for one of the scholarships by submitting an application at https://forms.gle/tSjwgxwmKDPEAFBv6. The deadline is May 30, 2022. If you have any questions, please contact any SustainRT Membership Committee member (https://www.ala.org/rt/sustainrt/membership – you must be logged into ALA to view email addresses).

Sincerely, The SustainRT Membership committee