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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">It is a pleasure to announce that the
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call for proposals</a> is now open for the </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#4BA524;background:white"><a href="http://srdc.msstate.edu/NSS+NEES/"><span style="color:#4BA524">National Sustainability Summit (NSS) & National Extension
Energy Summit (NEES) 2019</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Hosted by the </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://ifas.ufl.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">University of Florida IFAS Extension</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> and
the </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://srdc.msstate.edu/"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Southern Rural Development Center</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> in partnership with </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nifa.usda.gov/"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">USDA-NIFA</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">,
this joint national conference will be held </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006FC9">April 16-19, 2019</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://westshoregrand.com/"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">The
Westshore Grand</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> in </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.visittampabay.com/"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Tampa, Florida</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Learn more at the conference website: <a href="http://srdc.msstate.edu/NSS+NEES/">http://srdc.msstate.edu/NSS+NEES/</a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://srdc.msstate.edu/NSS+NEES/2019_NSS-NEES_CallforProposals_Final_1Aug2018.pdf"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Download the full Call for Abstracts</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Submit your proposal online at <a href="https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_23NbKRepbHhfNPv"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">NSS+NEES-2019</span></strong></a></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Deadline to submit: </span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red">Monday October 1, 2018 11:59pm EST</span></strong><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="http://srdc.msstate.edu/NSS+NEES/"><span style="color:#4BA524">NSS+NEES 2019</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white"> will
bring leading sustainability and energy educators and practitioners together to showcase land grant university Extension and research program successes, share challenges, and identify opportunities to strengthen our collective impacts. </span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Extension
professionals, researchers, graduate students, formal and informal educators, practitioners, and community partners are invited to participate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Submit online today
<a href="https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_23NbKRepbHhfNPv">at this link</a>, and thank you for sharing this opportunity with your sustainability and energy colleagues and partners. We hope to see you in Tampa next April!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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The NSS+NEES Planning Team, o</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">n behalf of the
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.anrep.org/people/initiatives/nnsle/"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">National Network for Sustainable Living Education</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">
and the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.anrep.org/people/initiatives/neei/"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">National Extension Energy Initiative</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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