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Consider signing up for the free Environmental Peacebuilding MOOC co-taught by Dr. Richard Matthew. The eight week course begins March 1st and will condense over 200,000 pages of material into 8 hours of dynamic video content. Learn more here:

Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace » Home Environmental Security and Sustaining Peace Massive Open Online Course Sign-up for March 2018 launch. Many conflicts are triggered, exacerbated or prolonged by competition over scarce natural resources; climate change will only make the situation worse. That is why protecting our environmen...

CUSA Researcher Connor Harron was recently featured in The School of Social Ecology's Student Spotlight for his work to address malnutrition through garden-based education in Swaziland. Click below for more information.
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https://www.devex.com/news/what-to-expect-from-habitat-iii-88929

What to expect from Habitat III The Habitat III summit on sustainable cities and urbanization is this week. It is the seminal gathering of U.N. Habitat that happens only once every 20 years. Devex previews what to expect from the conference.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/oct/17/climate-change-could-drive-122m-more-people-into-extreme-poverty-by-2030-un-united-nations-report

Climate change could drive 122m more people into extreme poverty by 2030 UN report warns that without measures to halt and reverse climate change, food production could become impossible in large areas of the world

Important day today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0slyWtM_YU

CUSA researchers Connor Harron and Lydia Natoolo, while conducting fieldwork in east Africa, recently met with members of parliament in Uganda to discuss their efforts to support rural hospitals and explore potential partnerships with the University and Love A Community

US Group roots for Kumi Hospital Love A Community, a US based non-profit organisation, has pledged to support Atutur Hospital in Kumi, Uganda, to enable it provide better health facilities to the community.The President of Love A Community, Lydia Natoolo, told the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah, in a meeting…

Last week, CUSA researchers and students from Engineers Without Borders (EWB) visited the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano to learn more about utilizing grey water for a water distribution system they are currently developing for a rural village in Madagascar. The team plans to send researchers to Madagascar and install the system this September!

As part of the "Food Matters" lecture series organized by Social Ecology's Community Outreach Partnership Center, Eco-chef Roger Feely and Jaime Maldonado are helping us "reimagine Mexican foodways" through a participatory cooking and dining experience.

Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling is SO important.

Sea Turtle With A Lodged Fork Is Exactly Why We Need To Recycle A graphic video shows researchers pulling the fork from the animal's nostril on a beach in Costa Rica.

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There’s a new theory behind the rise of Isis. And it's very controversial A year after his 700-page opus "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" stormed to the top of America's best-seller lists, Thomas Piketty is out with a new argument about income inequality. It may prove more controversial than his book, which continues to generate debate in political and economic circl…