Upcoming Environmental Events

Spring 2010 Events at Goucher

Date: Wednesday, February 24
Event: Screening of The End of the Line
Location: Kelley Lecture Hall
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Description: The End of the Line is an independent documentary film lauded at the Sundance film festival as the Inconvenient Truth of the oceans. For more information, click here.

Date: Thursday, March 4
Event: Recyclemania Art Showcase
Location: Hyman Forum in the Athenaeum
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Description:  Goucher is promoting recycling and celebrating the environment through this art competition and showcase. Students can enter paintings/drawings/printmaking, photography, or sculptures that focus on the environment and/or recycling. Winners’ works will be displayed in the Athenaeum. Send application to Reema Khanchandani at Reema.khanchandani@goucher.edu by Thursday, February 25.

Date: Tuesday, April 13
Event: Spring 2010 Meyerhoff Visiting Professor: Michael Pollan
Location: TBA
Time: 8 p.m.
Description: For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by The New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Tickets: This event is free and open to the public, but tickets must reserved in advance by calling the Goucher College Box Office at 410-337-6333 or by e-mailing boxoffice@goucher.edu. There will be a book signing following the lecture; books will be available for purchase.

Date: Saturday, April 17
Event: Clean Stream Project
Location: In front of the Sports and Recreation Center.
Time: 9 a.m.
Description: Attendees should wear long pants and waterproof shoes. Gloves and light breakfast will be provided. Rain date is Saturday, April 24 at the same time and location.

Date: Thursday, April 22
Event:  Low Carbon Diet Day
Location: All campus dining halls
Time: All Day
Description: The college’s dining facilities will serve foods that help illustrate key principles of how food production and consumption can help reduce climate change. In addition, results about Bon Appétit's food waste reduction efforts will be announced. Bon Appétit, Goucher's food management company, will also offer a Low Carbon Diet Calculator online at www.eatlowcarbon.org. The calculator is s based on the best-available science and teaches users about the relative carbon impacts of their food choices. It’s a fun way to look at your individual contribution. Bon Appétit is also introducing a Low Carbon Diet Facebook application that allows user to take a "Low Carbon Diet quiz" and share results with their friends.