{"id":55398,"date":"2019-01-14T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=55398"},"modified":"2019-01-14T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T23:42:59","slug":"environmental-buzzwords-at-centre-of-public-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/01\/environmental-buzzwords-at-centre-of-public-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental buzzwords at centre of public discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSustainability\u201d and \u201cstewardship\u201d are among the many environmental buzzwords that have become a part of everyday life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what exactly do those words mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers from Brock\u2019s Posthumanism Research Institute (PRI) and Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) will delve deep into the meaning of these and other terms during an upcoming discussion held on campus Wednesday, Jan. 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brief presentations will be given on the environmental concepts of sustainability, stewardship, transformation, resilience and consumerism, followed by an open discussion with the audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event features guest speakers Julia Baird, Assistant Professor in Brock\u2019s ESRC and the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies; Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor in the ESRC; Christine Daigle, PRI Director and Professor of Philosophy; Trevor Norris, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies; and Ryan Plummer, Professor and ESRC Director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event, held from 1 to 3 p.m. in Plaza 600F, will be hosted by David Fancy, PRI member and Associate Professor, Dramatic Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All are welcome to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSustainability\u201d and \u201cstewardship\u201d are among the many environmental buzzwords that have become a part of everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,37,38],"tags":[4035,296,7417,4316,4034,5119,7430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55406,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55398\/revisions\/55406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}