NEWS & EVENTS
Chicago Climate-Tech Week
Chicago is coming together to create the first ever Climate Tech Week powered by TechChicago! As a city, we have an opportunity to focus our attention towards the...
Botany Pond Restoration Update
Inviting space on campus being restored to original glory as ‘wonder of biodiversity,’ with sustainability, faculty expertise central to effort (source: UChicago News...
UChicago pilot food program wins national award for campus sustainability
Dining effort to feed students during academic breaks becomes higher-ed model (UChicago News) When Christopher Toote first came to the United States from his home in the...
Midwest Climate Summit Student Leader Application
Midwest Climate Summit Student Leader Application Deadline to apply: Friday, August 4, 2023 More info and application are available here. The Midwest Climate Collaborative...
Christina Gerhardt – “Sea Change” 6/28 @6pm
Christina Gerhardt will discuss her book Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. This event is in-person, located at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Wednesday, June...
Unpacking ESG: Is Corporate ESG “Woke” Capitalism? 6/21 @12pm
Unpacking ESG: Is Corporate ESG "Woke" Capitalism? Hosted by Stigler Center, Booth School of Business & Financial Times June 21, Virtual 12–1:15 p.m. CDT Register here...
Webinar: Transforming Education for Sustainable Development, 6/12 @1pm
Transforming Education for Sustainable Development: Engaging Youth in Universities and Beyond June 12, 1:00 - 2:00 PM CT, OnlineLed by Won Jung Byun, UNESCO, this webinar...
U.N. COP28 UChicago Delegation Information Session 5/22 @ 5pm
The Energy Policy Institute at UChicago and Career Advancement have teamed up to lead the University's delegation to COP28. What is COP? The 2023 United Nations Climate...
Scarcity: a history from the origins of capitalism to the climate crisis, 5/18 @ 5pm
"Our book offers a new interpretation of the idea of scarcity in economic thought. We explain how modern economics arrived at its influential axiom of scarcity - infinite...
EPIC: How India Became the Most Important Country in the Climate Fight, 5/17 @ 5:30pm
May 17, 2023, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm CDT With a rapidly growing population and an economy growing even faster, India’s energy demand is set to double by 2030. If this increased...
book event: Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ, 5/9 @ 4pm
Eleana Kim, University of California, Irvine Michael Fisch, University of Chicago (interlocutor) Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 4:00pm CT, Room 142, 1155 E. 60th St. This book talk...
CEGU presents Michael Kimmelman: The Future of Cities and the Challenge of Participatory Democracy, 5/1@ 4:30pm
with Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times and interlocutor Nootan Bharani, The University of Chicago, Arts + Public Life The Theatre, Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th St. Third...