Sustainability Roundup [June 2024]

News, Events, Links, Jobs (Come work with us!, Global Land Squeeze, The ENVR impacts of AI)

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News:

• The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates. The Guardian

• New Book by Jamie Wang: Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore. MIT Press

• Public consultation period now open for the Nijmegen Agenda, Earth Systems Governance Network. Deadline June 24

Events

• Stakeholder Dialogue: on Sustainable and Responsible Investment by ABP, 19 June, 15.00-17.00, CT-1, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

• Meeting: Sustainability Interest Group, by Radboud Teaching and Learning Centre, 11 June, 3.00-4.30, TvA 1 00.36, Radboud University

• Lecture: Hot Spot Sustainable Democracy: Between Learned Societies, University Careerism and Scientist Rebellion: Academics cannot escape Citizenship, by Dr. F.M.R.C. Basten, and Prof. em. Roel in 't Veld, 12 June, 12:15-13.30, EOS 00.240, Radboud University

• Event: ’Future-proof Teaching? HELP!’ Education Day Radboud Science 2024, 11 June, 9.00-18.00, Huygen Building, Radboud University, featuring two members of the RCSC Core Team :

  • Keynote: Integrating Sustainability in More Courses: a Bottom-Up Approach, by Bernard van Gastel, 9.45am, HG00.307

  • Session: A Planet in Crisis: The Role of Education, by Dr. Marjan Smeulders, 10.25-11.25,

• Workshop: Cultivating Citizen Engagement for Food Sharing, Otherwise, 10 June, 15.30-17.00, Thuis, Wageningen

• Lecture: Decolonizing Kant’s Critique of Taste, by Prof. Dr. Andrea Marlen Esser (University of Jena), June 10, 15.30-17.30, E 2.55, Erasmus Building, Nijmegen

• Event: Toekomstboeren and La Via Campesina Event on Peasant Struggles in the Netherlands, Europe, Latin America and Worldwide, 11 June, 19.30-21.00, IIRE, Lombokstraat 40, Amsterdam

• Event: Exploring and Imagining Food Futures, 14 June 2024, Voedselpark Amsterdam

• Online Seminar: Palestinian Seed Stories, last Seminar of the Series: Post-Capitalist Food Futures:, with Vivian Sansour, Centre for Space, Place and Society, 20 June, 17.00-19.00, Online and Forum C0221, Wageningen University,

• Food Autonomy Festival, from 21 to 23 June 2024, Het Groeneveld, Amd Noord

• Event: Nimma aan de Zee, from 6 to 23 June 2024, Lux, Nijmegen

• Training: Active Hope, from 22 to 24 August, Wageningen

Links

• New report from IPES-Food. Land Squeeze: What is driving unprecedented pressures on farmland and what can be done to achieve equitable access to land?

• New Agroecology Partnership for the EU website is live

• New publication: A framework to assess the degrowth transformative capacity of niche initiatives. Chris Vrettos, Jennifer B. Hinton and Laura Pereira Degorwth journal

• New publication: Green, J.F. The Climate Establishment and the Paris partnerships. Climatic Change 177, 84 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03730-5

Jobs

• Coordinator at the Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges (4 year contract). Deadline June 14th

• PhD Candidate / Postdoctoral Researcher: Governing the Acceleration of the Transition to Animal-free Safety Assessment. Deadline July 7

• Coördinator of the Agroecologie Netwerk. Deadline June 10

• Call for Abstracts for the '2024 Earth-Space Symposium on Sustainability, Governance, Futures' from the ESG Working Group on Earth-Space Governance. Deadline July 5

• 2 PhD and 2 postdoctoral positions to work on indigenous knowledge and conservation UAB (Barcelona)

• WUR postdoc talent program call open