Coming back from the AASHE Conference

I had the chance to participate at the 2nd biannual Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference, in Raleigh, North Carolina last week. It was in an interesting timing with the presidential election still hot in the air and delegates hugely supportive of Barack Obama. (We took a picture with all student delegates cheering “Yes We Can”). It was quite refreshing to see hundreds of Sustainability Coordinators coming together, from every part of the States and Canada. The conference gathered impressive keynotes speakers and all of them spoke about the huge tasks ahead to solve the climate crisis.

The grassroot movement is well alive in the United States, and now with a president that understands the issues and wants to act; a lot of thing will change in 2009. I’m hoping that Canada can at least jump into the wagon of changes; our leadership role has been lost for a long time already.