All Events for
November 2009
ENVS 4100: Campus Carbon Neutral Class
CAMPUS CARBON NEUTRAL CLASS WILL HAPPEN IN THE SPRING--PLEASE NOTE REGISTRATION DIFFICULTIES
The Campus Carbon Neutral Planning class (ENVS 4100-001) taught by Environmental Center Director Dave Newport will be offered in the Spring, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 - 6:15pm. However, because of registration difficulties, students must register for wait list. If you want to take the class, please go ahead and wait list for it. Your wait list will be converted to enrolled as soon as the registration difficulties clear up.
Please feel free to contact Dave with any questions. You can view last term's class website at http://ecenter.colorado.edu/envs4100
4th Annual Colorado Environmental Film Festival
Thursday - Saturday, November 5th - 7th
American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden.
The Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF) is an exciting, inspiring, and energizing event that includes world-class environmental films, an engaging exhibition hall with representatives from local and national organizations and companies, topical forums and discussions, and a children's environmental film program. True to the spirit of Colorado, this event is supported and attended by people who value the natural world and share a passion for the power and beauty of film.
Presented by the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education; for more details see www.ceff.net.
The Role of the Courts in US Climate Policy
Monday, Nov 6th
CIRES Auditorium
12:00 - 1:00 pm
The CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and the CU Environment and Society Program have decided to join forces for a joint brown bag seminar series. All talk are free and open to the public.
For more information please visit http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/outreach/center_talks.html
Base Closure, Memory, and Erasure
Friday, November 6th
GUGG 205
3:30 - 4:30 pm
A weekly colloquia presented by the Department of Geography. This week's presentation will be made by David Havlick University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Department of Geography.
For more information please call (303) 492-2631 or visit www.colorado.edu/geography.
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival: Sweet Crude Screening
Saturday, November 7th
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival, Colorado Springs
10:35 am
The Sweet Crude screening will be held at the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival in Colorado Springs. Details and tickets at http://www.rmwfilmfest.org.
Sweet Crude is about Nigeria’s Niger Delta - the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years since we met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The film confronts issues of human rights, resource control, environmental justice and mainstream media agendas.
Please do also check out our web site: http://sweetcrudemovie.com and our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/pages/Sweet-Crude/37104116077.
The Practical Peacemaker: Speaker Kate Lawrence
Tuesday, November 10th
Humanities 250
7 pm
Kate Lawrence will speak about her book The Practical Peacemaker: How Simple Living Makes Peace Possible. She is a writer and activist on environmental and vegetarian issues, and a reference librarian. A meditator for over thirty years exploring both Christian and Buddhist practice, she is currently a Zen student. Her website is http://compassionatespirit.com/KateLawrence/Practical-Peacemaker.htm.
This event is sponsored by Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, www.rmpjc.org.
Sustainability Series: Denver Water with Peter Kraft
Tuesday, November 10th
Wynkoop Brewery (18th & Wynkoop), Denver
6 pm
"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
-Jacques Cousteau-
Developing a sustainability ethic includes conservation rebates, buy-backs, Xeriscape, fun media, some rules; and Green Team initiatives including GHG inventory/climate change, full-scale alternative energy assessment, and developing a sustainability master plan.
For more information, please visit: http://sites.google.com/site/s2denver/Home
Clean Energy Action: Vehicle Contribution to the Carbon Footprint
Tuesday, November 10th
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine Street
7:30 – 8:45 pm
Kathryn Miles, Chief Technology Officer for EEtex, Inc., will discuss the vehicle contribution to the carbon footprint and the new technologies that can reduce carbon and other global warming gases. Her approach to integrating the vehicle with the grid will solve several issues related to electrical energy storage and the integration of battery storage into vehicles will reduce the emissions of our transportation. Ms. Miles will also offer her reflections on being a woman in a traditionally male dominated technology environment, and offer suggestions to women seeking to work in the engineering field.
For more information, contact Andy Lenec at alenec@cleanenergyaction.org or visit the website:
www.cleanenergyaction.org.
Live Green Pledge
For Life
ecenter.colorado.edu/livegreen
The CU Environmental Center will host a campus-wide pledge day on Tuesday, November 10th, giving students an opportunity to sign the Live Green Pledge, while partnering with CU Recycling to bring you America Recycles Day on campus. Look for the Live Green Pledge at locations such as the Hill Underpass, Hellems Lawn, Rec Center, Business School and the Bike Station. In the spirit of living green, there will be free coffee for those with reusable mugs and other fun recycling goodies.
Make a committment to Reduce your Impact on the Environment by choosing 3 actions from the Live Green Pledge. By choosing 3 actions you will significantly reduce your impact as well as Double your efforts because CU Administration has committed to match each pledge with $5 towards Sustainability Initiatives on campus. This is a HUGE opportunity to hold the University accountable as well as yourself. Together we can make a difference. Sign the pledge at ecenter.colorado.edu/livegreen
For more information contact Sarah Dawn or Jesi at the Environmental Center UMC 355 or visit ecenter.colorado.edu/livegreen
German Technology Experts at the Wind Energy Business Networking
Thursday, November 12th
Rolling Hills Country Club, Golden, CO
6 - 9 pm
The scope of the event is to further collaboration between German and American leaders in the Wind Energy industry – especially in the state of Colorado, which is rapidly becoming a center for Renewable Energies Research in the United States. This is a unique opportunity for members of the Colorado commercial industry, representatives and city councils to personally meet with high-ranking officials of German wind energy companies. The delegation will be accompanied by the German Consul General in Los Angeles, Wolfgang Drautz, who will also open the networking reception.
Detailed information on the individual participants is available on our website: www.gaccco.org.
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