We've recently released our 2024-2029 #StrategicPlan , which articulates the mission, vision, values, guiding goals, and core strategies for the next five-year chapter of IonE! 🌱🎉

Learn more about the process behind its development and read the plan: environment.umn.edu/about-us/strat…

Have you registered for The Rights of Nature vs. Human Rights yet? Join us on Thursday either in person at Cowles Auditorium Humphrey School of Public Affairs or via live stream. All sessions will be available in English and Spanish.

April is #EarthMonth ! This year’s #EarthDay theme is “Planet vs. Plastic.” There are many ways to get involved in and around campus this April.
Check out the schedule of UMN Earth Month events at z.umn.edu/EarthMonth2024! It will be updated as the month progresses.

Reminder for the UMN science community (faculty, research staff, postdocs, grad students, & comms practitioners) – Speaking Science 2024 registration closes tonight!

Admission is free. Join us this Friday: z.umn.edu/speak-sci-2024

#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #SpeakSci24

We’re excited to share that National Adaptation Forum will feature Bazile Panek and Ziigwanikwe Katy Bresette in conversation about Indigenous knowledges in adaptation practice.

We're sponsoring this session as part of our Innovation in Adaptation speaker series.

mwcasc.umn.edu/node/1021

Reminder to sign up for Monday's lecture! Speakers will explore the Antiquities Act, which was the first U.S. law to provide general legal protection of cultural and natural resources of historic or scientific interest.

➡️ RSVP: savetheboundarywaters.org/SigurdOlson24

You're invited to the UMN Environmental Justice Summit, taking place in O N E 🌎 W E E K! Students will have the opportunity to connect with community members and organizations within the greater Twin Cities area focused on climate action: ow.ly/XNam50QLNXL Institute on the Environment UMN 🌳

Join us in person on Monday, April 8, from noon – 1 p.m. at the IonE offices for 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝘼𝙘𝙩. Speakers will explore the #AntiquitiesAct as a land preservation tool.

Learn more and RSVP: savetheboundarywaters.org/SigurdOlson24

Have a collaborative project idea to address an environmental or sustainability issue?

➡️ IonE’s Spring 2024 Mini Grant RFP is open now through Sunday, April 28! Grants of up to $3K will be awarded to support projects across the UMN system.
environment.umn.edu/fellows-grants…

Rylie Pelton, Institute on the Environment UMN research scientist, applies her IonE sustainability learnings to the real world through her consulting company, LEIF, LLC, through which she helps companies understand & reduce their impacts. research.umn.edu/news/transform…

Wondering where to get started on data visualization? Join our next seminar on March 25!

Cee Nell and Althea Archer of the USGS Vizlab (USGS Data Science) will share their expertise in using visual design to communicate science to the public.

mwcasc.umn.edu/node/856

Reminder! Our next People & Planet conversation takes place virtually on Monday (3/18) at 12 p.m. CDT 🌎

Register for free: umn.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

We're hiring a Graduate Research Assistant to support the development and implementation of IonE's leadership training + events for graduate programs!

This position is for the 2024 summer term, w/ the possibility of extension. Apply by March 31: hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job

Join us for the next Institute on the Environment UMN People & Planet event on Monday, March 18th on bringing interdisciplinarity to the challenges facing our planet and people with #OpenRivers editor Laurie Moberg, Christine Baeumler, Amelious Whyte, and Julie Hanus! environment.umn.edu/people-planet-…