Upcoming Eco-Events

Help St. Lawrence beat out the competition during the New York Negawatt Challenge, an electricity reduction competition for campus residence halls, a northeast component of Campus Conservation Nationals.

From February 11^th through March 4^th all St. Lawrence student residences will compete against rivals Skidmore, Hamilton, Colgate and Hobart and Williams Smith to see who can reduce electricity use by the greatest percentage. 

Use our building dashboard to track your building's performance, tune in, unplug and make SLU proud.

Looking for an internship or job this summer in the outdoors?

This presentation will provide information about how to find and apply to these types of opportunities. 

All class years are welcome.

For decades, the experts have fed us a menu of what good and bad eating habits are. Now, alongside the menu is a less than stellar review of America's "Health Report Card" - Why?  In this presentation, CrazyJerry will serve up one of most important aspects of your life - "The Unsustainable Diet".  Fast moving and a bit on the light-hearted side, get ready to connect some dots that will likely have you re-thinking "everything" about "eating well".  This is a delectable feast nobody can afford to miss! Hope to see you there - Bon Appetite!

This lecture is part of a semester long series used  "...to raise campus and community awareness about environmental and sustainability issues and how they touch each and every one of us in our careers and lives," said Matthew J. Burnett, assistant professor of Graphic and Multimedia Design at SUNY Canton, who created the series.  Other presentations include:

• Charles R. Fenner, Ph.D., associate professor of Business and Public Administration at SUNY Canton, will discuss sustainability lessons from Alexis de Tocqueville Feb. 20.
• Matthew J. Burnett, an assistant professor in the Graphics and Multimedia Design program at SUNY Canton, will discuss the "Bureaucracy of Nature" March 13.
• Brandon J. Baldwin, an assistant professor in the Automotive program at SUNY Canton, will discuss advances in automotive technology that increase efficiency March 27.
• Rich Douglass is the owner of Sow's Ear Farm, a 160-acre nonelectric horse-powered subsistence farm in Hermon. He will talk about low-tech solutions for a post-carbon world April 3.
• Richard Burns from National Grid will be speaking about reducing oil dependency April 17.
• Nicholas C. Kocher, an assistant professor for Business and Public Administration at SUNY Canton, will discuss marketing sustainability April 24.

For more information about the events, contact Burnett at 386-7212 or burnettm@canton.edu

Dr. Charles Fenner, a 20 year military veteran, served as an administrative officer in US Embassies world-wide. These embassies include: Bucharest, Riyadh, Moscow, and Hanoi.  He brings a unique perspective from having served in positions supporting international relations between the US and host nation.  Dr. Fenner teaches professional ethics, communication and business at SUNY Canton. Dr. Fenner's lectures focus on breaking down complex topics into applicable actions for today's youth and common man/woman.

This lecture is part of a semester long series used  "...to raise campus and community awareness about environmental and sustainability issues and how they touch each and every one of us in our careers and lives," said Matthew J. Burnett, assistant professor of Graphic and Multimedia Design at SUNY Canton, who created the series.  Other presentations include:

• Matthew J. Burnett, an assistant professor in the Graphics and Multimedia Design program at SUNY Canton, will discuss the "Bureaucracy of Nature" March 13.
• Brandon J. Baldwin, an assistant professor in the Automotive program at SUNY Canton, will discuss advances in automotive technology that increase efficiency March 27.
• Rich Douglass is the owner of Sow's Ear Farm, a 160-acre nonelectric horse-powered subsistence farm in Hermon. He will talk about low-tech solutions for a post-carbon world April 3.
• Richard Burns from National Grid will be speaking about reducing oil dependency April 17.
• Nicholas C. Kocher, an assistant professor for Business and Public Administration at SUNY Canton, will discuss marketing sustainability April 24.

For more information about the events, contact Burnett at 386-7212 or burnettm@canton.edu

"Burn Me Down" Changing the way we think and feel about our urban cores and how we live.

Rick Destito knew exactly what he was getting into when he bought a rundown, three-story Victorian house in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Syracuse. Built in the 1890s but left abandoned for years, the place was in serious disrepair: graffiti and mold stained the exterior, the windows were gone and the roof needed to be replaced. But under an innovative local housing program, he paid only a dollar for the place - plus another $60,000, and his own skilled labor, to make it suitable for his family, including a one-year old girl and a baby on the way.

For decades, people like Mr. Destito - young, skilled, motivated - were exactly the sort who left Rust Belt cities like Syracuse. But recently, in numbers not yet statistically measurable but clearly evident at the ground level, they've been coming back to the city, first as a trickle, and now by the hundreds. In some ways it's a part of the natural ebb and flow of urban demographics. But it is also the result of a new attitude among the city's leadership, one that admits the failure of the re-industrialization efforts of the last decades and instead invents ways to attract new types of residents and keep current ones from leaving. Call it urban renewal 2.0, gentrification on a citywide scale.

This lecture is part of a semester long series used  "...to raise campus and community awareness about environmental and sustainability issues and how they touch each and every one of us in our careers and lives," said Matthew J. Burnett, assistant professor of Graphic and Multimedia Design at SUNY Canton, who created the series.  Other presentations include:

• Matthew J. Burnett, an assistant professor in the Graphics and Multimedia Design program at SUNY Canton, will discuss the "Bureaucracy of Nature" March 13.
• Brandon J. Baldwin, an assistant professor in the Automotive program at SUNY Canton, will discuss advances in automotive technology that increase efficiency March 27.
• Rich Douglass is the owner of Sow's Ear Farm, a 160-acre nonelectric horse-powered subsistence farm in Hermon. He will talk about low-tech solutions for a post-carbon world April 3.
• Richard Burns from National Grid will be speaking about reducing oil dependency April 17.
• Nicholas C. Kocher, an assistant professor for Business and Public Administration at SUNY Canton, will discuss marketing sustainability April 24.

For more information about the events, contact Burnett at 386-7212 or burnettm@canton.edu

Matt Burnett is an Artist and Environmental Advocate living in the heart of the Adirondacks.   His professional work ranges from oil paintings to environmental installations addressing the relationships between Wilderness and Culture.

His work has been included in exhibitions and collections across the United States and Internationally, including exhibitions at the Mccord Museum and SUNY Potsdam and environmental installations at St. Lawrence University and Mt. Desert Island.

This lecture is part of a semester long series used  "...to raise campus and community awareness about environmental and sustainability issues and how they touch each and every one of us in our careers and lives," said Matthew J. Burnett, assistant professor of Graphic and Multimedia Design at SUNY Canton, who created the series.  Other presentations include:

• Brandon J. Baldwin, an assistant professor in the Automotive program at SUNY Canton, will discuss advances in automotive technology that increase efficiency March 27.
• Rich Douglass is the owner of Sow's Ear Farm, a 160-acre nonelectric horse-powered subsistence farm in Hermon. He will talk about low-tech solutions for a post-carbon world April 3.
• Richard Burns from National Grid will be speaking about reducing oil dependency April 17.
• Nicholas C. Kocher, an assistant professor for Business and Public Administration at SUNY Canton, will discuss marketing sustainability April 24.

For more information about the events, contact Burnett at 386-7212 or burnettm@canton.edu