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