Greening the City: Fostering Inspired and Innovative Leadership for Just and Sustainable Urban Communities

March 20-22, 2009
Main Campus of Lesley University
Cambridge, MA

A conference sponsored by Lesley University's graduate Division of Environmental Studies and Mass Audubon

Join more than 150 urban environmental leaders from throughout New England at the main campus of Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, to explore key strategies for fostering inspired and innovative urban environmental leadership. “Greening the City” is geared toward environmental practitioners and thinkers from nonprofits, higher education, local community groups, government agencies, and businesses. It will feature prominent environmental thinkers and practitioners from academia and government agencies, as well as from for profit and nonprofit organizations. There will be keynote talks, workshops, and an exhibit area, and other interactive ways to engage with the challenges and solutions arising from our increasingly urban world. Keynotes will include well know environmentalists like Julian Agyeman, environmental social scientist, activist and academic from Tufts University.

Conference registration will begin in early 2009. All efforts will be made to keep registration fees as low as possible, and need-based scholarships will be available.