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RCE NTX New: Summer 2024

The Culled Produce Project, initiated by Texas Health Resources in collaboration in with the University of Texas at Arlington, is a strategic endeavor aimed at addressing environmental impacts, improving public health, and enhancing the overall well-being of the Fort Worth community. By diverting still fit-for-consumption foods from landfills, this initiative tackles food waste, mitigating environmental and public health impacts associated with food disposal and contributing to a healthier, resilient, and prosperous habitat.

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RCE NTX New: Winter 2023

Reflecting on the enriching experience at the RCE Americas meeting in September, hosted by RCE Greater Atlanta, RCE North Texas is excited to announce our own bi-monthly meetings. Taking inspiration from RCE SASKATCHEWAN's successful model, these meetings aim to enhance participation and collaboration while ensuring a continuous and productive dialogue with a focused 30-minute agenda. We encourage partners to sign up for brief presentations to share insights into their work and programs at each meeting.

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RCE NTX News: Summer 2023

Universities and colleges around the world are making commitments to advance the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) through their teaching, research, operations, and partnerships. One proven model for making good on this commitment is to establish a United Nations-affiliated RCE network. RCEs - Regional Centers of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development - are regional multi-stakeholder networks, grounded in higher education, that advance the SDGs through education and training. RCEs are proliferating, with over 180 networks around the world, including 27 in the Americas.

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RCE NTX NEWS: Spring 2023

The first in-person RCE North Texas Summit was hosted November 9-10, 2022, at UT Dallas in collaboration with UT Arlington's Office of Sustainability. The summit was a success with over 100 researchers, educators, government officials, business leaders, and students brought together to focus on local sustainability issues and explore possible solutions. This year’s summit dedicated time to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 13 (Climate Action) along with a youth network that elevated young voices in sustainability.

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RCE NTX NEWS: Fall 2022

RCE Salisbury hosted the 11th Americas Regional Meeting from 3-5 October 2022 to explore the theme 'Now, More than Ever! The RCE Network as a Peace Leader!, with the support of the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

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RCE NTX News: Spring 2022

Eight Local Governments (cities and counties) from the United States were selected to undertake the first SDGs Cities Challenge for U.S. communities, a leadership and learning cohort delivered by ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA and RCE North Texas with knowledge expertise provided by Brookings Institution and the UN Association of Australia (Victoria).

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RCE NTX News: Fall 2021

North Texas is about to become more heavily populated with population projections more than doubling from the current 7.2 million residents by the year 2050. In this rapid growth scenario, all sectors of the region have grave concerns which prompt the question, “How will North Texas fare as it confronts the diverse population projections together with the associated environmental, economic, and social challenges that are sure to follow?” Education is the cornerstone of everything we do, and with this summit and dialogue we hoped to provide a platform for meaningful conversation for our region and support local governmental, nonprofits and other organization in their efforts.

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RCE NTX News: Summer 2021

As the gears of the world start turning again, there is an air of hope in the effort to build back better. This coincides with one of our core values at Nexus PMG: To Build A Better World. There’s no doubt that more jobs, embracing renewables, and improved infrastructure will contribute to a better world. But as we as risk assessment specialists know, change to systems can reveal new challenges. We won’t pretend to have insights into all of the challenges that lie ahead. However, we can make some educated guesses.

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RCE NTX News: Spring 2021

RCE North Texas is one of the 179 RCE’s worldwide founded in March 2019. RCE North Texas is a network of multidisciplinary stakeholders, including higher education institutions, businesses, non-governmental organizations, community associations, and local, regional, state and federal government agencies. Our region has grown dramatically over the past forty years, with growth projections indicating a more than doubling in population size from the current 7.2 million residents by the year 2050. In this rapid growth scenario, how will North Texas fare and grow in a sustainable manner as it confronts exploding population projections and associated environmental, economic and social challenges? RCE North Texas is an influencer in the community as cities expand, providing the resources to maximize the potential economic opportunity that well-managed communities can offer and be a conduit for trans-formative education in North Texas. We are focused on the following SDGs, deemed priority for our region: Good Health and Well-Being (3); Quality Education (4); Sustainable Cities and Communities (11).

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RCE NTX News: Fall 2020

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mark their 75th anniversary at a time of great disruption for the world. 2020 must be a year of dialogue when we come together to discuss our priorities as a human family, and how we can build a better future.The RCE facilitated North Texas’s dialogue with three virtual events. Each one focused on an SDG prioritized in North Texas: Good Health and Well-Being (SDG 3); Quality Education (SDG 4); and Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11).

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RCE NTX News: Summer 2020

The first RCE North Texas Symposium was planned for Sept 16, 2020. Since we could not meet in person due to the current health crisis, we decided to move the symposium to spring 2021. We feel that this symposium will offer opportunities for networking, collaboration, and workshops, and it was best to do it in-person and not virtual. We will keep you posted about the plans and schedule in the next coming months. Thank you to all those who submitted an application for panel presentation.

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RCE NTX News: April 2020

RCE members were hosted in August by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, one of the collaborators that participated and contributed to the approval of the RCE in the North Texas. RCE member and Dallas Fed Assistant VP and 11th District Sustainability Officer, Dex Beyene, welcomed the group, discussed the Bank’s sustainability initiative and followed by brief comments from Stephen Clayton, Community Engagement Manager, at the Dallas Fed.

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RCE NTX News: February 2020

Issues of sustainability are going to be the lens through which most of our students apply their education, and every field of study across a college campus should be educating students to their role of building a more sustainable future. Leading the Office of Sustainability at UT Dallas, teaching, and working with young people on sustainability, I have observed 2 challenges over and over again which have become my passion to address.

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