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⏰ Monash University students, it's your last chance to sign up for the Social Innovation Summit on Saturday 14 August!

✨Saturday 14 August, 9.30am – 4pm
✨Speakers from She's A Crowd, Good Cycles, Ally Assist and For Change Co
✨Learning and Teaching Building, Room G.31, Ground Floor

Join us for inspiring conversations and big ideas about social change and social business. Featuring workshops and presentations from leading social innovators and entrepreneurs, we’ll explore how innovation is fuelling social change – and how alternative, future-thinking business models and ideas are making an impact.

Spaces are limited, so get in quick. The Social Innovation Summit is brought to you by Leave No One Behind.

Sign up If you're feeling unwell, get tested for COVID-19 and stay home until you’ve received a negative result. View our latest COVID-19 updates.

OUT NOW // In 2020, the world paused. We didn't.

Now more than ever, we believe in the power of people 🙋‍♀️ and science 🔬 to help us build back better. Explore our 2020 Annual Report to see how we’re advancing the wellbeing of people and planet for current and future generations. https://lght.ly/n34l7j1

⏰ Applications closing soon (1 July) ⏰

Are you a Monash University student? Ready to take your knowledge of sustainability to the next level?

Develop your skills as an emerging sustainability leader and change agent with Green Steps. Open to students across all faculties and disciplines, the program includes:

⭐️ five days of sustainability leadership training
⭐️ a consultancy project
⭐️ access to a global network of over 1,300 sustainability leaders

There are 30 fully-funded scholarships available. No previous knowledge of sustainability is necessary. Applications close 1 July. To apply, visit: http://monash.edu/greensteps

Green Steps Training: 5 days of sustainability trainingExperience: Take part in a consultancy project with Monash University's Office of Environment and Sustainability

Event announcement 📣

Green Steps is 20 and we want you to celebrate with us! Please join us at this exciting event. Hear from three multi-disciplinary speakers about what the world in 2040 could look like - and what we can all do to ensure that future. Alumni, supporters, and friends of the Green Steps program are invited to share in this landmark celebration and be inspired by stimulating and critical discussions on possible sustainable futures. BOOK HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/green-steps-20-years

Do you want to learn how to improve your written communications? Our new self-paced, online course - 'INSPIRE' - will teach you how to influence behaviour through written communications, to get the responses you're after.

INSPIRE your communications - BehaviourWorks Australia Learn a proven method underpinned by behavioural science for improving written communications and increasing compliance.

Ever wondered how some stores can sell T-shirts for as little as $3? Find out the truth behind the fast fashion movement (and how we can fix it!) https://www.monash.edu/msdi/news-events/news/circular-textiles-economy

Are you looking to get involved in the transition to a low-carbon future but don't know where to start? Our colleagues at MSDI share how to get involved in community-owned renewable energy projects -

People power: everyday Australians are building their own renewables projects, and you can too Ever wanted to own your own wind farm? Well now you can.

Want to use your degree to change the world? Applications are now open for Monash Sustainable Development Institute's Green Steps program. Green Steps offers innovative and practical sustainability training and consultancy projects for ambitious emerging student leaders. The program will run virtually this year, kicking off in December. Applications for the program close Monday 16 November at midnight. Apply here: https://bit.ly/33NpbxS

Monash University

Our colleagues at MSDI BehaviourWorks Australia went on a mission to find out how the government could better communicate with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Here's what they found:

We asked multicultural communities how best to communicate COVID-19 advice. Here's what they told us Multicultural leaders say it's vital to involve their communities in COVID-19 response strategies, tailor messaging to community values and choose trusted messengers to deliver it.

"...some might say a global pandemic is not the time to burden health-care professionals with another responsibility. We argue there’s no better time to raise this issue than when the eyes of the world are on health care. The pandemic has shown us we can achieve change at pace and scale if the evidence is clear and the collective will is shared."

https://www.facebook.com/ConversationEDU/posts/3615392531821682

Health care has a huge environmental footprint, which then harms health. This is a matter of ethics "Frankly, why should any hospital purchase coal-fired energy when it produces toxic air pollution that harms health?"

Want to know how you can help end racism in Australia? Leave No One Behind winner, Jamal Elsheikh recommends how we can make changes to become better supporters of racial justice.

I talk to kids every day about racism. This is what they ask - ABC Life Young people don't have the power to change the past, but they've got the opportunity to change the future.