The Ecology and Culture Area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA), which ISF is chairing, is soliciting papers on Popular Culture and the Challenge of Sustainable Futures for the 2024 annual conference (… Read More
Many Voices, One planet: Accounting for the past and narrating sustainable futures.
The conference theme offers a platform for environmental communication research, practice, arts, and activism dealing with the range of voices that raise concerns about our planet. Addressing questions of… Read More
Sonoma, California
Sonoma State University invites you to participate in the 44th Association for Interdisciplinary Studies Annual Conference in Rohnert Park, CA, on November 10-12, 2022.
The theme of the conference is Wicked Problems and Interdisciplinarity: Sustainability,… Read More
THE NEW GLOBAL TREATY ON PLASTICS
What Role Should Civil Society Play?
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The annual meeting of the MEA provides an opportunity for our community of scholars, educators, professionals and practioners to exchange experiences and ideas in a friendly environment. Participants at MEA conventions address a wide diversity of topics in our programs, and we encourage… Read More
Virtual
The meeting of the HLPF in 2022 will be held from Tuesday, 5 July, to Thursday, 7 July, and from Monday, 11 July, to Friday, 15 July 2022, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. This includes the three-day ministerial… Read More
Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced a resolution designating July as Plastic Pollution Action Month, stemming from extreme concern over the plastic pollution crisis that is threatening human health and marine ecosystems.
The resolution… Read More
Virtual
Global Plastics Outlook, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 21 June 2022
Global plastics production has grown relentlessly in recent decades. Plastics help us preserve food, insulate constructions, use electronics and make vehicles more fuel-efficient, among other things. Yet, the sheer magnitude of plastics consumption in our societies results in a high production-… Read More
Nairobi, Kenya
Almost two years have passed by since the expiration of the Strategic Plan of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which includes the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. The past two years have been some of the most tremulous times for nature and humans as the world was thrown into an… Read More