AUN-EEC Conference on Creating an Ecosystem for Ecological Education and Culture

The AUN-EEC Conference on Cultivating Ecological Mindsets and Lifestyles will gathered faculty, students, and professionals from the ASEAN region to share ways to translate our awareness and love of nature to environmentally responsible behavior and carry out initiatives that support a sustainable lifestyle. The conference featured a keynote lecture by Dr. Isabel Rimoczy on the Sustainability Mindset and panel discussions on enablers of a sustainable culture and University Partnerships toward the Sustainable Development goals. Participants also had the opportunity to share their research and ideas through paper presentations on best practices in ecological education and sustainable cities and communities

Keynote

Isabel Rimanoczy, Ed.D. 

Isabel Rimanoczy, Ed.D. is an academic, who has made it her life purpose to promote change accelerators. She developed the Sustainability Mindset, a concept she has been studying for the last 15 years. It all started with business leaders who championed corporate initiatives with a positive impact on the environment and the community. What inspired these leaders to act in a business-as-unusual way?  

She created an international cohort of 190 academics from 180 universities on five continents promoting a holistic sustainability mindset with their students. The professors foster a new paradigm, social action and consciousness. The members are researching the Sustainability Mindset in their context and culture,  writing papers, and presenting at conferences. 

She is the author of fifteen books and is preparing the launch of the first Sustainability Mindset Indicator, a personal development tool to assess where we are on our journey towards a mindset for a better world.

Visit her site www.IsabelRimanoczy.net

Panel Discussion: Enablers of a Sustainable Culture

Jen Horn

Jen is a learning facilitator, coach, researcher and writer who plants seeds for reconnection and regeneration. As a certified transformational coach, she designs and delivers programs to create mindset shifts for purpose, sustainability and impact with Haraya Coaching. She also works with Ashoka as the program manager of Ashoka DIWA - to advance women social entrepreneurs in the ASEAN region. She is also the founder of Muni, a community that holds space for reflection and conversation for a more mindful, equitable and livable world, and creator of the Muni on This podcast. She is a part-time sustainability lecturer at the Leadership & Strategy department of Ateneo de Manila University, and completed her BA in Psychology from De La Salle University and her MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Surrey. Her research focused on developing a framework for understanding the personal motivations of sustainability leaders in the Philippines. Learn more about Jen's work via linktr.ee/jenhorn.

Dr. Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad

Zeeda is an Associate Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Faculty of Science, University of Malaya (UM). She has been active in campus sustainability activism since her student years until today. She was the coordinator of the UM campus greening secretariat from 2009 - 2013, the founding director of the university's Sustainability and Community Centre and was one of architects of the current set-up of the UM Campus Sustainability Living Lab programme. Currently she is leading one of UM's pioneer Campus Sustainability Living Lab - the UM Water Warriors - where she works closely with like-minded colleagues, across generations, who are passionate about water conservation. She is UM’s representatives for the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDNS), Malaysian Chapter since its inception. This year she leads the coordination of the UM’s Transformation Taskforce on Campus Greening Programme and represents the university for the ASEAN University Network on Ecological Education and Culture (AUN-EEC)

Jed de Guzman

Jed is a registered and licensed architect (RLA). Experienced in Resort and Eco-Tourism Development, supplemented by craftsmanship through the utilization of Bamboo and indigenous materials. An advocate of referencing grassroots technology and inclusive development. Currently principal of Bamboo Grassroots Atelier and Module Director for Bamboo Bootcamp where Bamboo Education is currently conducted in Davao, Bukidnon, Zamboanga del Sur, Antipolo, and more to come all over the country. He is a former Project Architect Associate Manager of Ayalaland and Hotels and Resorts Corp. and graduated in 2009 with a degree in Architecture at UP Diliman. Also took up a certificate course on Organic Agriculture at UP Los Banos Open University to delve deeper into the organic agri network.
 

Panel Discussion: University Partnerships Toward SDGs

Dr. Vorapat Inkarojrit 

Vorapat is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University. Currently, he holds the position of the Assistant to the President on Special Affairs (Sustainability) and serves as the secretary for the University Sustainability Taskforce. Mr. Inkarojrit is responsible for communicating and coordinating with management, staff and students to address sustainability issues in university functions and operations. He received a BArch (Hons) from Chulalongkorn University, a MArch and a certificate in Lighting Design from the University of Washington, Seattle and a PhD in Architecture, with a concentration in Building Sciences, from the University of California, Berkeley. His academic interests include issues of sustainable university, sustainable design, sustainable tourism, architectural lighting, the environmental aspects of infection control, and building performance diagnostics.

Dr. Wilfredo Licuanan

Al is a Full Professor of the Biology Department and University Fellow of De La Salle University (DLSU). He is the Director of the DLSU Br. Alfred Shields FSC Ocean Research (SHORE) Center.  Its Marine Station is where he conducts many research, educational, and extension activities about marine ecosystems and their interaction with coastal communities. He has been surveying and monitoring reefs for over thirty years. He has led research teams to many previously unstudied reefs from all around the country, including the Kalayaan Islands (where he discovered a coral species new to science), and the Pacific Ocean coasts from Luzon to Mindanao.  In 2017, he completed a DOST-PCAARRD funded project that undertook a nationwide reassessment of the status of reefs around the Philippines. His focus now is setting up a national reef monitoring system involving government and volunteer citizen-scientists.

Dr. Philip Arnold Tuaño

Randy is associate professor and chair of the Economics Department, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University. He is also currently serving as Program Manager, Sustainable Development Goals, Ateneo Institute of Sustainability.  He is also a project coordinator of the Human Development Network a network of academics and civil society leaders involved in advancing the cause of human development, and the Philippine country manager of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global network of universities and research organizations involved in finding sustainable development solutions for many of the world's problems.

Watch the plenary session here.