[SPN-Discussion] Invitation to Register: Eco-Seminar June 2nd 2020

[Ira Feldman]

Dear friends,

Please can you share this invitation to register for a free online Eco-Seminar this coming Tuesday with your networks, especially any families with kids (or grandchildren) interested in nature conservation, biological and cultural diversity?

Very warmest,
Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL&LLB (McGill), BA Hons




REGISTER NOW AND SPREAD THE WORD

This is a reminder to register for the next Eco-Seminar in this terrific series! 
Cambridge Schools Eco-Council is organizing a mini-series of free 60 minute Online Eco-Seminars to raise awareness of key sustainability challenges and solutions, while schools have been forced online in many countries. 

Our next seminar this coming Tuesday, June 2nd:

Seminar 4:  Nature, Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Cultural Diversity - Tuesday, June 2nd
Child author speaker: Adelyn Newman-Ting Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative Child Author.
Eco-Council speaker: Nico Roman Cambridge School's Eco-Council Co-Chair and Freya Lundskær-Nielsen Eco-Council Dep Chair.
Experts: Ms. Hawa Sidique is the research and communications manager at the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, where she provides an overarching research and communications framework for Cambridge University's conservation community.  
Terra Dawn Atleo is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo and a resource stewardship economist.
Iain Webb is the Cambridge City Greenways Project Officer.


Children, students, families and members of the public can register for free over Eventbrite and participate online over Zoom, 4-5pm (UK time) each fortnight from Tuesday 21 April to Tuesday 16 June. 

Each Online Eco-Seminar focuses on a key sustainable development goal, such as Climate Action (SDG 13), Protecting and Restoring Life on Land (SDG 15) or Agriculture and Food Systems (SDG 2). Each Online Eco-Seminar includes student and expert speakers.

Register first here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/eco-seminars-tickets-103270430638 <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/eco-seminars-tickets-103270430638>
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Eco-Seminars <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/eco-seminars-tickets-103270430638>
A series of free online Eco-Seminars organized by the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council
www.eventbrite.ca <http://www.eventbrite.ca/>

Over zoom, after a 15 mins for tech testing and interactions from 3:45pm to 4pm, student Eco-Councillors and UN Voices of Future Generations child authors / ambassadors, together with world-class experts, will provide a 25-minute introduction to a sustainability challenge, and discuss creative local and solutions. For a further 25 minutes, participants can ask questions and discuss potential solutions and ways to raise education and awareness interactively, followed by a 10-minute closing from the experts and youth speakers by 5pm.

Please note: Students participate with permission under supervision of parents/guardians from their homes.

Best, 
Cassie 
Program Volunteer



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