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Partnership

IIT-Madras and APSCC partners for Sustainability Network Summit – 2014

The S-Net team at IIT-Madras in collaboration with APSCC had organized the yearly summit in 2014 that consisted of a case study competition titled GREEN VISION – 2020. The event attracted participation from several student teams from across India.

About S-NeIITM2014 Bannert: S-Net is a student run organisation at the Indian Institute of Technology – Madras (IIT-M) that works to promote various sustainable practices and awareness programmes in the campus. Established in 2009, the organisation is mentored by the administration and alumni of IITM, SNET follows a simple ideal – implementing and practicing sustainable life style and promoting it all over the nation through proven examples. The vision of a progressive administration, passion of some determined alumni and enthusiasm of a group of students has evolved into a mission to make IIT Madras a model for the nation to follow.

 

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Activity Research

Green Campus Initiative at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya – Puducherry

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Event

World Environment Day Seminar

APSCC presented a seminar on Environment and Sustainability at Paul’s Engineering College. The event focussed on Environmental Education, Sustainability Assessment and Establishing office of SustainaPaulECbility in every campus, Sustainable SWM (Efficient use, R-R-R-R, Nutrient and Energy Recovery, etc.), Sustainable Waste Water Management (Constructed wetland, Biofilter, etc.), Sustainable Management of Hazardous & Toxic Waste, Energy Efficiency & Energy generation (Bio-waste to Biogas etc.), Sustainable Water Resource Management (Protection & Conservation), Healthy Food & Food Services (Healthy & Organic Food, Supply Chain efficiency, etc.), Biodiversity Conservation & Habitat Restoration and Sustainable Transportation within the community.

 

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Event

Growth vs. Sustainability: Are These Mutually Exclusive Goals?

International Sustainable Campus Network Event

The 7th annual ISCN event was co-hosted by the International Sustainable Campus Network and the National University of Singapore.

Leaders shared best practices in campus sustainability from around the world at the 2013 Conference held June 18-20. The event focused on calling universities to advance their journey toward sustainable development, and catalyze a sustainable future.

Combining the suggestions of her fellow panelists, Golda Edwin, APSCC, tackled the topic of describing what a sustainable campus looks like in a developing country. Special consideration for India was made by noting the importance of outreach and sustainability education within the cultural context, addressing challenges like the current lack of teaching on environmental issues and on renewable energy in that country. The audience was eager to participate in the discussion related to reconciling sustainability with growth and how it is currently measured, the underlying assumptions and the relationship to quality of life. The politics associated with sustainable or unsustainable growth was a key topic addressed, including remarks on the lack of government and public understanding of “green Gross Domestic Product metric” developments, which was seen as caused by the challenging picture such metrics currently paint.

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Media

VIT bags award at the Green Campus Summit

VIT University, Vellore, has bagged the Campus Challenge 2013 Award conferred by the Association for Promoting Sustainability in Campuses and Communities (APSCC).

VIT vice-president Sankar Viswanathan received the award from the Puducherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy at a function held in the Union Territory recently.

According to a VIT release, APSCC is a non-profit organization that provides knowledge and sustainable development to educational institutions and local communities in India.

It also offers resources, organizes events, conducts training sessions, and initiates and promotes sustainable solutions at grassroots level in collaboration with a network of eminent sustainability professionals.

The award was given to the VIT University in recognition of the extensive and pioneering work carried out by the University to promote sustainability and green campus strategies, the release stated.

Link 1: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/vit-bags-campus-challenge-award/article4601255.ece

Link 2: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/VIT-bags-award/speednewsbytopic/keyid-1633575.cms