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NJHEPS SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION WORKSHOP
SWITCH: COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE & STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE
How can our communities of practice bring about change toward sustainability?
Explore cases from Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, Chip Heath (Stanford) and Dan Heath (Duke), Random House, 2010--- recommended by David Grant, former President & CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
Apply the “Switch” approach to NJHEPS and each of our Communities of Practice as “change agents.” 
Social networking strategies to make the “switch” to sustainability thinking & practices.
 
October 8, (Friday), 8:30 am  -  2:30 pm
Conference Center, Montclair State University
No cost for NJHEPS member institutions –
but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
REGISTER HERE
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=204482
Recommended Resources & Opportunities:
Visit the NING Site for updates and information on the Communities of Practice & connect with colleagues.
http://NJHEPS.NING.COM Click on Groups
Select a Community of Practice, if you missed the April 9, 2010 Kick Off Workshop. See program for list of communities of practice in formation.
 
Visit the Switch website and read Chapter 1 (available free)
http://SwitchTheBook.com  Click on Resources and Sign Up
 
Purchase & read the Switch book, if you can. Available B&N, Amazon
 
Read article on the PSE&G Institute Of Sustainability Studies @ Montclair State University   Michael Weinstein Director http://www.montclair.edu/news/article.php?ArticleID=5530&ChannelID=10
 
Bring a colleague or friend who would be a valuable addition to our communities and would benefit from participating.
 
Great article on social networking for sustainability: Working Wikily http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/1705/
 
Sustainably yours, 
Tom Bryant and Don Wheeler
Co-Chairs, NJHEPS Sustainability Education Committee
 
Thomas A. Bryant, Ph.D.
Chairperson, NJHEPS Finance Committee
Trustee / Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Newark School of Theology
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Rutgers Business School
tom.brystra@gmail.com
Donald F. Wheeler, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability
DrDWheeler@optonline.net 201-445-9272 office; 201-675-4263 cell
Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Global Studies Kean University 
Terra Meierdierck
Program Manager
New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability
Terra.Meierdierck@gmail.com  201-684-7830 
www.njheps.org

I recently helped NJHEPS and its partner Kean University win a three-year $180k pollution prevention grant from EPA Region 2 (which will be starting 1 January '10) to provide multiple workshops to help educate the nearly 400 colleges and universities within Region 2 (NY, NJ, PR, and the VI) on how to reduce their energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, thus allowing the schools to protect the environment while saving operating costs. Also in early January, I will be co-keynote speaker at the 9th annual International Business & Economy Conference (IBEC 2010) in Prague, the Czech Republic, partnering with a long-time business associate, Deutsche Telekom's Vice President and Representative of the Board of Management for Sustainability and Climate Change, Mr. Ignacio Campino. I will be speaking on "Corporate Sustainability Performance Goes Mainstream: Investment Metrics and Business Risks/Opportunities", while my friend Ignacio speaks on "Integrating Sustainability into Deutsche Telekom's Global Business Operations and Culture". IBEC 2010 is organized by a group of leading business schools from around the world, and I previously was a keynote at IBEC 2009 in Udaipur India speaking on "Water, the Next Big Sustainability Issue after Climate Change", and spoke at IBEC 2008 in San Francisco on "Metrics for Measuring Sustainability Performance- Latest Developments in the Financial and Higher Education Sectors".