Earth Week 2009

This year it’s not just one day.  We’re celebrating Earth Week!  Throughout the week, the campus coffee shops will be featuring Fair Trade Coffees.  You can learn more about Fair Trade when you stop in to any of the coffee shops on campus…and don’t forget your refillable mug! 

Monday April 20th

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle will present “A Woman in a Strange World” at 5 p.m. in the Bone Student Center Prairie Room as the featured speaker for the Women’s History Month Cultural Dinner.  She will discuss the importance of sustainability to our planet and how she became successful in a male dominated field. Tickets for the dinner may be purchased through April 13 at the Linkins (West Campus), Watterson Food Court, and Southside dining centers. Ticket price is $15.25 for the public. Illinois State meal plan participants can purchase a ticket using one meal access.

Tuesday April 21st  

Recycle the Quad! - More and more students are frustrated that recycling is not available on site at off campus apartments.  This semester a group of students have gotten together and are working to find a solution.  In an effort to raise awareness about the issue and create a visual impact, these students will be collecting recyclables from off campus apartments over the weekend.  What they collect will be on display on the Quad – and later recycled.

Wednesday April 22nd - EARTH DAY

• 10am -4pm Earth Day fair on the Quad
• 12pm Tree Walk with the Dean of Green beginning at the Sassafras Grove
• Sustainability Trivia contest in the Dining Centers (sponsored by Campus Dining Services and University Housing) during lunch and dinner with giveaways and a chance to win a green IPOD nano (refurbished of course!)
• 1pm and 7pm "The True Cost of Coal" presentation Bowling and Billiards Center Activity Room.
• 4pm "Tourist Visions: Place and Popular Environmentalism in the Postwar American West" a presentation by Bill Philpott, Department of History sponsored by the Colloquium on Visual Culture, CVA (Center for Visual Arts) 149
• In the Green Productions -musical performance and multimedia presentation by Jack Kaufmann.  7:30pm in Schroeder Hall 138

Thursday April 23rd

Reduce your Carbon Footprint Day! - There are so many things that individuals can do to reduce our carbon footprints and every little thing helps.  So pledge to do at least one thing differently today.  If you normally drive to campus, try biking or walking if you live close enough.  Or you could use the new electronic rideshare board on the Parking and Transportation website and find someone to carpool with.  Instead of turning on the TV when you get home, get lost in a good book.  Your action can be as simple as remembering to unplug your cell phone charger when it’s not in use.  

Frontline/PBS documentary HEAT will be shown at 7pm in Capen Auditorium.

Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, fires, floods and droughts. On the eve of a historic election, award-winning producer and correspondent Martin Smith investigates how the world's largest corporations and governments are responding to Earth's looming environmental disaster.

"I have reported on the Cold War, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the rise of Al Qaeda, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," says Smith. "But nothing matches climate change in scope and severity."  www. pbs.org 

Tree Plantings on the Quad – students in the Preschool classes at Metcalf will join ISU Grounds staff for the special occasion.

• Morning tree planting in honor of Jesse Fell’s Birthday – West side of Hovey
• 2 pm Arbor Day tree planting – South end of the Quad towards CVA
• 4pm - 6pm - Civic Engagement and Global Youth Service Day service celebration Brown Ballroom, Bone Student Center, Illinois State University -Get a tree sappling to plant in honor of Arbor Day and learn how you can get more involved in the community!