Remember Earth Day back in April? That’s when staff and students wrote their wishes for a sustainable business future onto reclaimed neckties (stropdassen) and hung them from the trees in Tinbergen Plaza, between L and T buildings.

The fabulous ideas written that day can now be read and admired again, because the neckties with their green business wishes have found a new home in Green EUR’s Tree…

Dear students,

Time is short (submission due by 24 May), but you may wish to consider participation in a very nice competition on the sustainable future of the Province of Zuid-Holland, which may not only bring you eternal fame but also considerable financial gain (10,000 euros).

Have a look at enclosed description (in Dutch) and give it a go.

Good luck!

Frank Wijen

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Hi Everyone,

We invite all students to join us next wednesday 16:00 to the infodrink of GreeningRSM in the faculty lounge.

There will be a discussion on how to improve sustainability on campus and some info about GreeningRSM.

Drinks will be available.

 Flyer_D.pdf

You can attend…

C30, an environmental project office in Amsterdam, has published an analysis of figures of the Dutch Central Statistics Office (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek). They connected the dots between economic growth between 1990 and 2009 and figures on emissions, energy and water consumption, and wasting natural resources. Their provocative conclusion: There is no…

Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future

Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding strength and making medical leaps and bounds. On stage, he shows a few intriguing items made of the versatile stuff.

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Link to a UK newspaper article with an interesting reader discusssion - do you have any comments to add?

Just found this beautiful work of an Australian artist who creates colourful trash collages. Click on the picture to go through to the original article on BoingBoing.

From May 7 to 14, youths from around the world will take to the streets in an effort to make their voices heard on the key global issue facing their generation - climate change. Marches are taking place across all inhabited continents and young people around the world are being encouraged to take part. The iMatter March is the offspring of environmental youth organization Kids Vs. Global Warming founded by Alec Loorz, who is…

During the week from June 6th - June 10th, the Erasmus School of Accounting and Assurance (http://www.esaa.nl) and CSR Expert International (http://www.csrexpert.org) will be organizing a five-day international "Corporate Social Responsibility Summer School 2011".

More information…

For her inaugural address last month,…