![INSS Conference Keynote](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2015/03/keynote_1-470x140.jpg)
We’re pleased to bring you the abstract and biography of our 2015 keynote speaker, Adjo A. Amekudzi-Kennedy, from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia…
![Call for funding proposals: Enhancing Socio-Environmental Research & Education](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2015/01/social-research-470x140.jpg)
INSS members might want to put together a collaborative grant on this — either email those you know using the member directory or comment on…
![https://www.flickr.com/photos/bnilsen/6986187535/in/photolist-bDm3ae-bDkUDg-7aYB15-7aURwx-7aUPXB-7aYDmh-7aYECf-7aUMxt-7aYCtC-7aUNXP-7aUMcF-7aULDe-7aYDEm-7aYBJC-7aYBgY-7aUPE8-7aYCkJ-7aURcn-7aYzQ1-7aUQ5K-7aURng-7aURX2-7aYC4s-7aUMUp-7aYB8A-7aUMHe-7aUPNk-7aUMnn-7aYBs1-7aYCcU-7aYDbf-7aUND4-7aUR2H-7aYDQu-7aUvvx-7aUvn2-95Xc1F-961dMw-8L96RR-8L998z-8L96g8-8L97u4-86M9HK-86Map2-86Ma4M-86Mb4c-86MaJ2-86Mbn4-86QkmG-8TJ5xE](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/12/6986187535_e30d786cb4_k-470x140.jpg)
by Robert Boyer, UNC Charlotte Abstract: Urban planning and improvisational comedy are not obvious companions, and on the surface they seem contradictory: Isn’t urban planning…
![INSS at the People’s Climate March](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/09/CaptureSept25-386x140.jpg)
Post written by Helene Hilger How many INSSers attended the People’s Climate March? I rode with a Sierra Club-chartered bus to attend the march, arriving…
![Announcing the INSS Digital media competition "Visions of Social Sustainability"](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/09/Terrace_field_yunnan_china_denoised-470x140.jpg)
The Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) is very excited to launch our film and digital media competition, “Visions of Social Sustainability.” Please see the…
![Ebola and sustainability](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/08/BauschDeforestation-e1424785515595-470x140.png)
I used to work in a virology lab as a summer research assistant, and one summer I helped study the Ebola virus. This was in…
![Corporate Idealism: an unconventional love affair](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/06/34782525_e2654cc998_z-e1424785357937-470x140.jpg)
Review of Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil by Christine Bader Christine Bader starts off her memoir with the admission that she…
![Student video about INSS April meeting](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
One of our student workers, Aidan, put together a fun video about the April meeting, and I thought it was a nice view of the…
![Climate Mitigation as Socio-Technical Transition: The Evolution of Eco-Cohousing in Tompkins County, New York](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/06/boyer.inss_.poster.image_-470x140.png)
This post is another in our series presenting member research, focused primarily on the many insightful posters presented at this year’s conference. by Robert Boyer…
![Urban agriculture and behavior change](https://pages.charlotte.edu/inss/wp-content/uploads/sites/568/2014/06/2737299930_8f9763914f_z-470x140.jpg)
Last night, I was asked to participate in a Keeping Watch panel discussion on urban agriculture in Charlotte along with Henry Owen, who talked about his…