The Office of Climate Action is sponsoring the “Best University Sustainability Hack” at HackRU 2024! We are offering first, second, and third place prizes to the teams that create the best hacks to promote sustainability, environmentalism, and/or climate action in colleges and universities. HackRU is a 24-hour hackathon at Rutgers University. They welcome hundreds of students to build awesome tech ...

Speaker: Munira Khayyat, New York University.  Abstract: What worlds take root in war? This talk takes us to the southern border of Lebanon where resistant ecologies thrive amid perennial gusts of war. In frontline villages, armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and scattered landmines have become the conditions within which everyday life is waged. Here, multi-species partnerships such as tobacco-farming and goat-herding ...

Speaker: Brian Lovett, USDA ARS  More information here.