The 40th Earth Day!

Please join us to celebrate the kick-off of the Bearcat Bike Share program with a:

Bike Parade down MainStreet

the parade starts at 12:00pm at University Pavilion Plaza, will wind its way down MainStreet, pausing at TUC for an official announcement and then will finish in front of ERC

If you're interested in riding one of the 30 new bike share bikes, please email me at green@uc.edu immediately to reserve your spot. If not, please bring your own bike and join the parade or just come and watch to show your support.

Date: Thursday, 22 April 2010
Time: 12:00 - 12:20
Location: MainStreet


Please join us to plant 10 native trees (red oak and dogwood) in a new grove of trees in the heart of West Campus.
Gloves and shovels provided. Please wear closed-toe shoes and clothing that can get dirty.Meet at the big trees on McMicken Commons, just west of Swift Hall.

Dinner provided.

Please RSVP to green@uc.edu

Date: Thursday, 22 April 2010
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Location: McMicken Commons


Join UC as we sponsor recycling at the Earth Day home Reds game against the L.A. Dodgers. The game is free for our volunteers.

Please RSVP to green@uc.edu

We will be meeting at 7:00pm at the Great American Ballpark on Thursday, April 22. Please come to the north side of the ballpark along East 2nd Street to the entrance called “Gapper’s Alley” where there is a large opening in the side of the stadium. From here, we will get our volunteer credentials and be able to enter the ballpark and enjoy the game until the 6th inning when we will return to Gapper’s Alley and get our t-shirts, gloves and bags to start recycling. Please wear closed-toe shoes and clothes than can get dirty.

Date: Thursday, 22 April 2010
Time: 19:00 - 22:00
Location: Great American Ballpark


UCsustainability and MainStreet present a free Climate 101 lecture:

Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics

Dr. Adrian Parr, Women's Studies, will speak in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day about the current politically-charged debate over climate change and how the environmental movement is positioned in today's age of neoliberalism.The lecture will occur on the steps of MainStreet, weather permitting, in public speaker style.


Date: Thursday, 22 April 2010
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Location: MainStreet (TUC Atrium rain location

Week of Events

UCsustainability and MainStreet present a free workshop:

Make Your Own Birdhouse/feeder

Join us to learn how easy and fun it can be to make a home or feeder for birds, using reusable items like milk cartons and orange juice containers.

reUC is the sponsor for this workshop

Date: Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Location: Catskeller (front porch)

Student Sustainability Coalition has a new day, new place, new time!

Come hear about the exciting new related to recycling on campus and the kick off the Bearcat Bike Share program and help with last-minute preparations for Earth Day and the Ohio Sustainability Conference next week.

Stick around after the meeting for a special Climate 101 lecture and film premiere about Earth Day!

Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Location: TUC Atrium

UCsustainability and MainStreet present a Climate 101 lecture:

The Environmental Crisis and Earth Day, 1970

Dr. David Stradling, History, will discuss the history of the environmental movement in the 1960s and the crises that led to the creation of the EPA and Earth Day, both in 1970. This special lecture will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.Followed by a regional film premiere of "Earth Days."

Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Location: MainStreet Cinema

UCsustainability and MainStreet present the regional film premiere of:

It is now all the rage, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement through the extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers — among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart, and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins.

Date: Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Location: MainStreet Cinema

UC|sustainability Spring Events

Cincinnati Regional Food Congress
Saturday, April 10, 9:00am-3:00pm, Niehoff Urban Studio, 2728 (Short) Vine Street

The Food Congress is a day-long event aimed at creating and educational forum among a diverse and inclusive group of stakeholders to communicate about the Cincinnati food system, its programs and practices and vision for a change. In response to the economic recession and consequential increased food insecurity, discussion of practical steps to increase food access and food security, along with methods of implementation will serve as the overarching theme for the Food Congress events.

Structured Discussion Topics
1. What is food policy?
2. Living without food, what it means to be food insecure
3. Promoting local food distribution
4.Urban Agriculture and youth growers

To register: food.project@uc.edu
UC Community Design Center



Town Hall Meeting: An Informal Conversation with Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson and Gene Logsdon
Sunday, April 11, 7:00pm, Cintas Center Arena, Xavier University

Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson and Gene Logsdon are farmers, among other things. To most of us, they need little or no introduction. They know the land, they know farming, and they have all been visionaries in their own way about the land as our inheritance and our future. All have written books, poetry and articles- non-fiction and fiction- that inspire us. Sometimes they confuse or infuriate us, but they always make us think, and they teach us what it means to have a deep connection to the land.

Presented By:
Ethics/Religions and Society Program, Xavier University
Edward B. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue, Xavier University
President's Advisory Council on Environment and Sustainability, University of Cincinnati