Environmental Events

Events at Goucher

Date: Thursday, February 14
Event: Campus Conversation on Environmental Sustainability
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Heubeck Multipurpose Room
Description: The Goucher community is invited to participate in a conversation about environmental sustainability. Many of you have already stepped up to support Goucher's environmental campaign, but we hope the entire campus will help promote environmental sustainability on our campus and beyond.

Date: Friday, February 15
Event: RecycleOlympics
Time: 12-3 p.m.
Location: Pearlstone Atrium

Date: Monday, February 18, through Saturday, April 5
Event: RecycleMania
Location: Campus-wide
Description: RecycleMania is a friendly competition among college and university recycling programs that provides the campus community with a fun, proactive activity in waste reduction.

Date: Wednesday, February 20
Event: Screening of King Corn
Time: 7-10 p.m.
Location: Kelley Lecture Hall
Description: Aaron Wolf, who directed, co-wrote, and produced King Corn, will introduce this documentary about two friends who move to the Midwest to learn about their food's origins. They plant and grow a bumper crop of corn. But when they try to follow it into the food system, what they find raises questions about how we eat and farm.

Date: Saturday, March 1
Event: State of Our Watersheds Conference
Time: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Merrick Lecture Hall
Sponsor: The Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Resource Management
Description: The conference focuses on actions needed to repair and protect local streams to make the Baltimore region a "greener" place to live.
Cost: Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Lunch included.

Date: Wednesday, March 5
Event: Screening of Dimming the Sun
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Kelley Lecture Hall
Description: The film Dimming the Sun  investigates the discovery that the sunlight reaching Earth has been growing dimmer. At first glance, less sunlight might hardly seem to matter when our planet is stewing in greenhouse gases. But the discovery of global dimming has led several scientists to revise their models of the climate and how fast it's changing. the film unravels this baffling climate conundrum and the implications for Earth's future.

Date: Saturday, April 19, through Saturday, April 26
Event: Earth Week
Time: Various times
Location: Various locations

Date: Monday, April 21
Event: Automotive Industy Prospectives on Global Warming
Time: 3:45 p.m.
Location: Van Meter Hall, Room B10
Description: Dominique Thormann, Executive Vice-President for Finance of Nissan North America, presents the Nissan Green Program 2010. For more information e-mail Daniel Barker at daniel.barker@goucher.edu. The talk is sponsored by the Physics and Astronomy Club and the Physics Department. 

Date: Tuesday, April 22
Event: Linda Weintraub Lecture -- "Eco-Art and Artist: Are Microbes and Fungi Beautiful?"
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Kelley Lecture Hall
Description: Linda Weintraub is an artist and educator, with several books about artists, ecology, and the  environment currently used as texts in colleges throughout the country. Weintraub's appearance is the 2007 Irwin C. Schroedl Jr. Lecture in the Decorative Arts and Material Culture.

Date: Wednesday, April 23
Event: Screening The End of Suburbia
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Kelley Lecture Hall
Description: A movie that discusses the dwindling supply of cheap energy in the form of fossil fuels and its effect on society.

Date: Thursday, April 24
Event: Sandy Lerner, "Wanted: A Replacement Biosphere"
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Buchner Hall
Description: Sandy Lerner, business entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, activist, and farmer, will discuss organic agriculture.

Events Off-Campus

Date: Friday, February 1, to Sunday February 3
Event: Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education's Annual Conference (MAEOE)
Location: Flintstone, Maryland
Description: MAEOE's annual conference brings together many of Maryland's leading environmental educators to participate in workshops, lectures, excursions, and socials.  This year's keynote speaker is Kevin Coyle, vice president of education and training for the National Wildlife Federation. A variety of workshops and exhibits will be featured throughout the weekend.  
Cost: Scholarships are available to full-time college students; full cost depends on amount of participation.

Date: Thursday March 20
Event: Sierra Club Volunteer Night: March Window
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Location: Sierra Club Legislative Office
                      600 14th Street NW Suite 750
                      Washington, D.C.
Description: Want to help the Sierra Club's D.C. Chapter grow? Volunteer your time to our annual March Window! Each year, the month of March is set aside as an opportunity for Sierra Club Chapters to send direct mail fund appeals to their members, it's called "The March Window." The D.C. Chapter is looking for energetic volunteers to help stuff and address envelopes, chat and eat with our volunteer leaders, and assist getting the letter to the mailing facility.
Cost: RSVP required (building secured after hours)
Contact: Debby Cooney at resmarcomcast.net or damonluciano@gmail.com

Date: April 25, through Friday, May 2
Event: Baltimore Green Week
Location: Various locations throughout Baltimore
Description: For the Baltimore Green Week press release click here. For the schedule of events click here.
Cost: Free and "low cost" 

Date: Saturday, April 26
Event: Baltimore EcoFestival
Location: Druid Hill Park Reservoir in Baltimore
Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Description: This celebration of sustainable living will include workshops, vendors, demonstrations, healthy food, music and art. Geared toward families, the EcoFestival is the opening event of the Baltimore Green Week.
Cost: Free

Date: Saturday, April 26
Event: Anacostia Watershed Society's Annual Anacostia River Earth Day Cleanup and Rally Celebration
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Clean up)
              12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (Celebration)
Location: Watts Branch
                      5200 Foote Street NE
                      Washington, D.C.
Description: Join our army of Earth Day volunteers as we clean the watershed one plastic bottle and one old tire at a time. Last year, volunteers took 49 tons of trash out of the river in one day. Cleanups will take place at a number of sites throughout the watershed. The Sierra Club Washington, DC Chapter has requested to work with the Watts Branch Community Alliance in Watts Branch. AWS and its partners will supply water, gloves, trash bags, and a limited array of tools at each of the cleanup sites. Volunteers are welcome to bring their own gloves, waders, or other tools, however, this is not necessary. If you volunteer for a cleanup site, please remember to dress appropriately for the day. Layering your clothing is important, especially if the day promises to be warm. Boots, long sleeves, and long pants are encouraged. Rain gear will be important in the case of inclement weather. Following the cleanup, help us celebrate the day with food, live entertainment, and community spirit at AWS's Earth Day Rally Celebration at the Seafarers Yacht Club.  All those volunteering for the Sierra Club will be required to sign a liability waiver.
Cost: RSVP required
Contact: Chasta Piatakovas at 202-320-1205 or washingtondc.chaptersierraclub.org.