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CU Going Local Documentary Series presents
April 30: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Duane G1B20, 6pm

The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and eccentric/innovative thinker cast in rural Illinois. The film documents John's struggle to redefine his family farm for over twenty years, witnessing the colorful drama of John's life. With the death of his father during the late 60's John turns his traditional family farm into an experiment of art and culture, making it a haven for hippies, radicals and artists. The Real Dirt on Farmer John charts the end of this idealistic era as the farm debt crisis of the 1980s brings about the tragic collapse of the farm. As the intricate weave of rural America unravels, vicious local rumors turn John into a scapegoat, condemning him as a Satan-worshipping drug-dealer. Threatened with murder, his home burned to the ground, John defies all odds to transform his land into a revolutionary farming community. At the film's close, the Peterson family farm is one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the United States. Out of the ruins of single-crop agriculture, John creates an extended farm village where people and art can thrive alongside agriculture. Contact: Lilly Justman, LJustman@gmail.com

CU Going Local Documentary Series presents
April 30: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Duane G1B20, 6pm

The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and eccentric/innovative thinker cast in rural Illinois. The film documents John's struggle to redefine his family farm for over twenty years, witnessing the colorful drama of John's life. With the death of his father during the late 60's John turns his traditional family farm into an experiment of art and culture, making it a haven for hippies, radicals and artists. The Real Dirt on Farmer John charts the end of this idealistic era as the farm debt crisis of the 1980s brings about the tragic collapse of the farm. As the intricate weave of rural America unravels, vicious local rumors turn John into a scapegoat, condemning him as a Satan-worshipping drug-dealer. Threatened with murder, his home burned to the ground, John defies all odds to transform his land into a revolutionary farming community. At the film's close, the Peterson family farm is one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the United States. Out of the ruins of single-crop agriculture, John creates an extended farm village where people and art can thrive alongside agriculture. Contact: Lilly Justman, LJustman@gmail.com

Environmental Art Open House and Charrette
Tuesday April 29 12-7pm ATLAS room 105

Join students, faculty, staff, and the community to develop an outdoor public art piece on the CU campus about student commitment to the environment. CU's student government (UCSU), has commissioned an award-winning artist for a campus installation about student environmental protection. The goal of the artwork is to inspire and enlighten on a deeper level than mere words. The artwork will also complement the natural beauty and campus aesthetic CU is renown for.

Bruce Campbell has been selected for this evocative artistic approach. In sharing his thoughts on the project, he commented: "The artwork to be created transcend race and gender, suggesting one human family, and enabling all to see themselves in the artwork. The humble nature of the materials suggest the hope that all can share the planet sustainability while continuing to build, create and foster cultural expression." For more information about the artist, please visit www.brucecampbellart.com.

Over twenty tons of steel and stone have been salvaged from the recent demolition of CU’s Fine Arts building and will serve as the primary materials for the art piece. The installation may coincide with the construction of the new arts building or could be in another, more visible location that would have a shorter timeframe for installation.

An open house with refreshments has been scheduled for 12-7 pm Tuesday April 29 in room 105 of CU's ATLAS building. From 5-7pm, a charrette or “structured visioning session” will be facilitated toward the creation of the art piece this Summer.

Take advantage of this opportunity to participate! For more information, contact the Environmental Center at 492-8308 or email cure@colorado.edu

Friday, April 25 8-9am, UMC Aspen Rooms Campus Sustainability Awards Ceremony

The University of Colorado will recognize the significant achievements and extraordinary efforts of outstanding individuals and departments at the annual sustainability awards ceremony. The breakfast ceremony will be held on Friday, April 25, 2008 from 8 to 9am in the UMC Aspen Rooms. Chancellor Peterson will present the 2008 Campus Sustainability Awards.

Nominations are accepted through March 14.
http://ecenter.colorado.edu/greening_cu/index.html#awards

To attend the ceremony, RSVP to ecenter@colorado.edu or 303-492-8308 by Tuesday, April 22nd. This event is sponsored by the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Vice Chancellor for Administration, and the UCSU Environmental Center.

The campus environmental awards program started in 1997 as a means to recognize commitment to reducing the burden that the CU campus places on the environment. Outstanding efforts make CU’s successful and challenging approaches to attaining sustainability possible. The awardees exemplify CU’s continuing efforts to become a sustainable institution. They set the example for environmental stewardship and responsibility. Some of the awardees have made groundbreaking efforts that will change the overall way CU operates, and others make an impact on the community and campus environment with their everyday actions. All in all, the campus community is contributing toward a sustainable future.

Tuesday, April 22
CU Earth Day Bazaar
Save the Planet, Save the People

UMC Fountain, 10:30am-3:30pm
Social Action Station with FREE ice cream and FREE Clif bars, Exhibitors, Voter Registration, Student Groups Sponsored by CU Environmental Center in collaboration with UCSU Environmental Justice Steering Committee, Students for Peace and Justice

Norlin Quad, 10:30am-3:30pm
Creation Station, Field Day Games, Student Groups, Acoustic Music, Voter Registration Brought to you by: UCSU Environmental Justice Steering Committee, CU- COPIRG, CU- Conscious Alliance.

UMC 417, 1-4pm
Fashion S.W.A.P.
(Sustainable Women’s Apparel and Paraphenelia) Bring reusable clothing items for exchange; Refreshments and Prizes Sponsored by CU Environmental Center, Women’s Resource Center

Humanities 1B50, 7pm and 9pm
EarthDance: The Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
Sponsored by CU Environmental Center

April 22
7:00pm and 9:00pm
Humanities 1B50
EarthDance: The Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
Helping You See Green.

7:00 p.m. 90 minutes of weird and wonderful environmental films
9:00 p.m. 90 minutes of more weird and wonderful environmental films
EarthDance is not your average film festival. The 20 short films (30 seconds to 30 minutes each) are a fun, funny, and provocative lot. Compiled into 90 minute blocks, the juried compilation of comedies, documentaries, animations, and adventures invite you to laugh and celebrate your relationship to the natural world. These unique films help individuals to feel connected to and inspired by a growing community of people who are actively engaged with the planet – from business people making green from going green, to artists, designers, and architects inspired by the natural world, to extreme athletes and comedians sweating and poking fun at green. Whoever said you had to sacrifice entertainment for ecology? Or sexiness for sustainability? EarthDance: Helping You See Green.

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The Earth Day 5K Run/Walk and Expo
Sunday, April 20; Race start time 9:30 a.m.
CU-Boulder Research Park

The Earth Day 5K is a benefit for the Center for ReSource Conservation and an opportunity to celebrate Earth Day. Come out to experience the excitement of one of Earth Day’s biggest events, raise money for a great cause and qualify for the Bolder Boulder. Make sure you plan to stay for the Earth Day Expo at the CU-Boulder Research Park. Cost: Pre-registration - $20 adult, $8 for children 12 and under. Race day registration - $25/$10 to register on race day. CU Students registration proceeds benefit a new scholarship fund. Details TBA. http://www.conservationcenter.org/events.htm

Better Boulder Better World
Saturday, April 19

Better Boulder Better World is back and better than ever in 2008 with 26 volunteer project to choose from this year! Volunteer Clearing House will provide the first 250 volunteers with breakfast, totes, t-shirts and (for non-RTD accessible sites) transportation. Projects are already filling up, so sign up as soon as you can to ensure a spot.

Join us for this day of service and community on April 19, 2008. There are a number of environmental projects. What a perfect way to honor earth day!

To sign up and for more info: http://www.colorado.edu/vch/bbbw/projects.html

Friday, April 18 9am-12pm followed by lunch discussion UMC 245 Campus Sustainability Roundtable

This roundtable will serve to update departmental and operational staff and interested public about current progress and strategic directions in campus environmental issues.

*To reserve a lunch, RSVP to ecenter@colorado.edu or 303-492-8308 by Tuesday, April 15.

Campus Sustainability Roundtable
Friday, April 18, 2008
9:00am-1:00pm (Lunch discussion 12-1pm*)
UMC 245

This semesterly roundtable serves to update departmental and operational staff and interested public about progress and strategic directions in campus sustainability issues.

*To reserve a lunch, RSVP to ecenter@colorado.edu or 303-492-8308 by Weds, April 16.

Planned Schedule and Presentation/ Discussion Topics:

A-Introductions
B-Updates (5-10 minutes each):

1. Campus Sustainability, Climate Action Plan/ CCEES: Newport, Moe Tabrizi
2. Transportation Update: Tracy Calvin, David Cook, Peter Roper, Bryan Flansburg
3. Recycling: Dan Baril, Jessica Bradley, Amin Gheysar, Lynne Harrahy, Ed vonBleichert
4. Athletics Sustainability: Jeff Lipton
5. Purchasing Update: Jeff Darling, Jon Bortles
6. Energy /Water Conservation: Amin Gheysar, Lynne Harrahy, Moe Tabrizi, Rob Hall
7. Green Building: Moe Tabrizi, Curt Huetson
8. Sustainable Food: Juergen Friese, Lauren Heising, Robin Margolin, Amy Telligman
9. Environmental Studies: Sam Fitch
10. Energy Initiative: Carl Koval, Paul Komor
11. FM Facilities Operations Sustainability Update: Ed vonBleichert
12. Integrated Pest and Turf Management: Ed vonBliechert
13. UCSU: Amy Harris
14. Environmental Justice: Alexis Goggans, Amy Harris, Maria Linderoth, Vinnie Nappo
15. Sustainability/Climate Integration with Flagship 2030 Taskforce: Paul Leef
16. Residence Hall EcoStar Challenge: Lynne Harrahy, Joe Shantz
17. Green Office Program: Marianne Martin, Lindsay Booth
18. STARS pilot: Marianne Martin
19. Environmental Health and Safety Update: Sherril Potter
20. Energy and Climate Revolving Fund: Rob Hall

April 17, 7pm, MCDB A2B70
CU Going Local Documentary Series presents…
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

CU Going Local presents a Re-localization Documentary Series! Come learn more about the re-localization movement and the issues surrounding our currently unsustainable industrialized food regime. Films illustrate a variety of topics surrounding our food culture's oil dependency and stimulate a number of provocative topics our nation currently faces.

CU Going Local Documentary Series presents…

April 17: What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, with a discussion facilitated by Michael Brownlee of Boulder County Going Local. 6pm MCDB A2B70

The topic of this film is human life, and our survival. "What a Way to Go" addresses many of the major threats to our life as a society which are, as we all know, coming together to form a "perfect storm"—a nexus of catastrophe that could sweep many, if not all of us, into extinction. Peak Oil quickly becomes a simple hors d'oeuvre as the film moves on to climate change, mass extinction, population overshoot, famine, disease, toxins and other threats to civilization.

Interestingly, the film identifies agriculture as the point where trouble first began for the human race. Cities are no longer sustainable, we must re-localize into smaller, sustainable, and local communities

Other films in the series are: April 23: The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. 6pm Duane G1B20

April 30: The Real Dirt on Farmer John. 6pm Duane G1B20

For more info: Lilly Justman, LJustman@gmail.com

Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming
Wednesday, April 16, 5pm, Humanities 335

Join a live broadcast featuring positive, practical solutions to global warming being implemented by higher education campuses around the country.

• Meet award-winning students and staff who are creating solutions
• Be a part of the conversation with the experts
• Special appearances by Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm and more!
• Laugh and be inspired by student videos

Monday, April 14th
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Koelbel Business Building room 210

Global Problems, Individual Solutions: A forum on CU’s carbon neutrality plan
Screening of “The 11th Hour”

A free viewing of Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The 11th Hour” will be offered on Monday, April 14th from 5:00pm – 7:00pm in the Koelbel Business Building on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus in room 210. The film will be followed by an all-student panel on what CU is doing about climate change.

The panel will focus especially on CU’s commitment to achieve carbon-neutral status and whether CU is really serious about that commitment. Students will have an opportunity to learn more about what we can do about climate change as individuals, and also get the chance to tell the administration what they want to see happen on their campus.

The CU student government is the nation's only campus government to stand with nearly 300 college presidents and chancellors in a national campaign to commit institutions of higher education to climate neutrality. The American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment campaign kicked off in fall 2006. Chancellor Bud Peterson signed the commitment in February 2007.

Representation from the CU Administration will be present to hear student input on the carbon neutrality agreement firsthand.

The event is sponsored by the University of Colorado-Boulder Student Union, University Biodiesel, and CoPIRG. Free pizza and refreshments will be provided.

April 8, 7pm Atlas 100
CU Going Local Documentary Series presents…
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

CU Going Local presents a Re-localization Documentary Series! Come learn more about the re-localization movement and the issues surrounding our currently unsustainable industrialized food regime. Films illustrate a variety of topics surrounding our food culture's oil dependency and stimulate a number of provocative topics our nation currently faces.

CU Going Local Documentary Series presents…

April 8: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. 7pm Atlas 100

Cuba is the only country that has faced an abrupt massive reduction of fossil fuels and provides an example of options and hope for the future. In this fascinating film Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens.

Other films in the series are:
April 17: What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, with a discussion facilitated by Michael Brownlee of Boulder County Going Local. 6pm MCDB A2B70

April 23: The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream. 6pm Duane G1B20

April 30: The Real Dirt on Farmer John. 6pm Duane G1B20

For more info: Lilly Justman, LJustman@gmail.com

Building Bridges: Life-Enhancing Communication
A Nonviolent Communication Workshop for Activists presented by Clayton Barker
(recent CU grad, & student of Marshal Rosenberg) April 5th, 2008
10 AM - 4:30 PM

Sponsored by: The Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center, the CU Environmental Center & Students for Peace and Justice UMC room 245 on the CU Campus (http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?bldg=UMC&x=12&y=10 )
$10 - $20 sliding scale;
no one turned away for lack of funds
(please bring your lunch; snacks will be provided)

Call RMPJC at (303) 444-6981, betty@rmpjc.org, or the CU Environmental Center at 303-492-8308, ecenter@colorado.edu for further info or to reserve a space at the workshop.

Tentative Weekend Training Topics:

• Why Use Compassionate Communication with Activism?
• What is Compassionate Communication?
• Empathy
• The Four Foundations of Compassionate Communication
• Expressing Honestly
• Receiving Empathically
• The Four Options for listening
• Expressing Gratitudes
• A Few Compassionate Communication Games and Activities

1. A Certificate of Completion in Compassionate Communication Training to add to the Resume portfolio!
2. Handouts for each section of the training outline
3. Practice sheets to integrate Compassionate more deeply into the consciousness of the Seco Pearl Staff
4. Where to obtain further media and literature on Compassionate Communication
5. Information on how to further connect with Compassionate Communication trainings and practice meetings

April 3 Thursday, April 3, 6:30 p.m.
Humanities 1B50
Michael Duffin
Co-founder, PEER Associates
(Place-based Environmental Education Research) Using the Local Community as Classroom and Curriculum
A talk for the campus and community

Sometimes the sheer joy of teaching and learning can get lost in the scramble to pass the next standardized test. Some educators are solving this problem by finding creative ways to get their students outside, engaged in their local communities, and learning as much or more than students in traditionally organized classrooms. This "place-based education" uses the local community and environment as a starting point to teach concepts in language arts, math, social studies, and science. Surveys and interviews of hundreds of teachers and administrators provide compelling statistical evidence of the way place-based education has transformed entire school cultures, helped students and teachers become more excited about learning, and, in some cases, correlated with improvements in standardized test scores. Researcher Michael Duffin will present stories and research-based evidence about the lessons learned from his years in the field as an evaluator of place-based education programs.

Michael Duffin is a co-founder of PEER Associates, a diverse team of evaluators that provides educational research services to projects seeking to promote environmental, place-based, or empowerment goals.

Location:
http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/map.html?search=mcol&x=11&y=12

co-sponsored by
College of Architecture and Planning Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design Environmental Center Environmental Studies Program CU Outreach Committee

in collaboration with
Casey Middle School of the Boulder Valley School District
Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
School of Education

Recycling X-Games
Wednesday, April 2
10am-4pm
UMC Fountain

Every wonder what “extreme recycling” would be like? You can find out at the Recycling X Games produced by CU Recycling and sponsored by Ecologic Designs. Be warned though, this is not a spectator sport. You will be able to get your hands on some serious recyclables in games such as:

• The Dumpster Dive
• Phone Book Shot Put
• Pizza Box Throw
• Recycle Pong
• Re-Ball
• Recycled Art Competition

Saturday, March 15
Humanities 150
The Climate Project: Rocky Mountain District Regional Reunion

The Climate Project, a group of volunteers trained by former vice-president Al Gore to do his slide presentation from "An Inconvenient Truth" is having a district meeting on campus through the Environmental Center. CU students and faculty are invited to attend and observe.
11AM: Dr. James White will be presenting his research.
12 Noon: Students and Faculty are welcome to stay for lunch.
1PM: Professor William Becker on the Presidential Climate Action Plan.
2PM: Colorado's New Energy Economy.
3PM: Presentation of CROP, a global warming solution module by Alison Gannett

Open Forum on Campus Carbon Neutrality
Please attend:
Weds, March 12, 5:30-6:30pm, UMC 247
-or-
Fri, March 14, 1-2pm, UMC 247

The Chancellor's Committee for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CCEES) has formed a Carbon Neutrality Working Group (CNWG) tasked with developing a plan for the campus to attain carbon neutrality, and infusing sustainability in curriculum, research and campus life.

Under Chancellor Peterson's leadership, CU is among the elite campuses committed to the vital goal of carbon neutrality. To meet the Chancellor's deadline, the plan must be deliberated, researched, and written in the next 18 months—and the CNWG needs your guidance and input to make the plan viable.

Please attend one of two open forums for an overview of the conceptual components of the plan, and, most importantly, to provide an opportunity for student, faculty, staff and community input into these early stages of development.

March 12
10am-3pm
Spring Bike Jam

Get your bike ready for spring. Be on the lookout at Kittredge, Engineering, Physics, Norlin, UMC, the Rec Center, Williams Village and the Bike Station for skilled bicycle mechanics and live music. Unlock that sad looking bike from its stationary state and let our mechanics tune it up free of charge. The mobile mechanic will be on duty as well.

Wednesday, March 5
Old Main Chapel, 6:00pm
Out of Poverty: Design for the Other 90%
A presentation and discussion with Paul Polak

In a hard-hitting new book, Paul Polak tells why traditional poverty eradication programs have fallen so short, and how he and his organization developed an alternative approach that has succeeded in lifting 17 million people out of poverty.

Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the “Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths”: that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will end poverty. Polak shows that programs based on these ideas have utterly failed—in fact, in sub-Saharan Africa poverty rates have actually gone up.

These failed top-down efforts contrast sharply with the grassroots approach Polak and IDE have championed: helping the dollar-a-day poor earn more money through their own efforts. Amazingly enough, unexploited market opportunities do exist for the desperately poor. Polak describes how he and others have identified these opportunities and have developed innovative, low-cost tools that have helped impoverished rural farmers use the market to improve their lives.

Throughout the book Polak tells fascinating and moving stories about the people he and IDE have helped, especially Krishna Bahadur Thapa, a Nepali farmer who went from barely surviving to earning $4,800 a year—solidly upper middle class by local standards. Out of Poverty offers a new and promising way to end world poverty, one that honors the entrepreneurial spirit of the poor themselves.

In 1981 Paul Polak founded International Development Enterprises (IDE), the non-profit organization he currently heads as president. Through his work with IDE, he has helped over 17 million impoverished farmers in developing countries to escape the cycle of subsistence poverty. IDE makes innovative, low-cost water-resource technologies accessible to the world’s poorest farmers, enabling them to access and control water, increase and diversify agricultural production, create new wealth, and improve their families’ quality of life. What makes Polak’s work unique is the market-based approach that he brings to poverty alleviation—an approach based on his belief that the rural poor are natural entrepreneurs who, if given the opportunity, will invest their own limited resources to ensure their families’ security and well-being.

Polak’s and IDE’s achievements have been recognized the Scientific American Top Fifty award for agriculture policy (2003), the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award (2004), and the Tech Museum award for the design of IDE’s low-cost drip irrigation system (2004). Articles about IDE and Polak have appeared in National Geographic, Harpers, Forbes, and Scientific American. Polak gives frequent talks and presentations at leading universities, as well as academic and professional conferences like the 2006 International Symposium on Groundwater Sustainability (ISGWAS), the Annual Meeting of the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Association (NCIIA), the 2006 Aspen Design Summit, and the 2007 Pop!Tech Conference.

To learn more about Paul and his work at IDE, please visit http://www.ide-international.org.

Sustainability 360: Wal Mart's Commitment to the Future
February 26, 5:30-7:30pm
University Memorial Center, Aspen Rooms

A presentation and discussion with Janelle Kearsley, Director, Corporate Strategy/Sustainability, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Co-Sponsored by Rocky Mountain Institute, CU Leeds School of Business. Hosted by CU Environmental Center. Refreshments provided.

Janelle Kearsley is Director of Corporate Strategy/Sustainability for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The Strategy/Sustainability team was established in 2005 as part of Wal-Mart's drive to incorporate social and environmental sustainability into its business practices. In her role, Ms. Kearsley is charged with deriving economic value from improved environmental outcomes by: educating associates on how to incorporate sustainability into their businesses; creating tools to enhance network-to-network communications; and communicating the sustainability strategy to internal and external stakeholders.

Before joining the Sustainability team, Ms. Kearsley served as a Senior Manager of Strategy and Consumer Insights for the Marketing Department. Prior to that role, she participated in the Wal-Mart MBA Leadership Development Program, where she had the unique opportunity to rotate through six Wal-Mart business units in six months.

Prior to joining Wal-Mart, Ms. Kearsley spent five years with the General Motors Corporation in Detroit, MI. She spent three years in the International Finance department at GM, and then two years in the Brand Management division of the Saturn Corporation.

Born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, Ms. Kearsley earned her B.A. in Marketing from Michigan State University, and received her MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Environmental Center Interest Meeting
Monday, February 4
5:30pm
University Memorial Center 382

Interested in Sustainability and Environment Issues? Looking for ways to get active? Need to boost your resume with service activities? Looking to network and meet new people? The CU Environmental Center invites you to learn more about how easy it is to become involved with environmental causes on and off campus. Get info on intern, volunteer and service projects with recycling, sustainable transportation, climate and energy, earth education, environmental justice, student environmental groups, and more! Refreshments too!

http://ecenter.colorado.edu/get_involved

Focus the Nation
Thursday, January 31

Focus the Nation is a national teach-in engaging millions of students about climate change solutions. A teach-in is a day when an entire school turns its attention to a single issue—when faculty, students and staff put aside business as usual, and focus the full weight of campus engagement on one topic.

Focus the Nation at CU is a campus group consisting of the CU Environmental Center and several dedicated students, spearheading the activities of the national Focus the Nation day on the CU campus.

The group’s vision for Focus the Nation at CU is to create a campus environment where a student cannot get through the day (January 31^st) without somehow encountering the topic of climate change: in the classroom, an event, panel, film, presentation, or open house. This will require the participation of many departments, disciplines and interested student groups.

To see how you can participate in Focus the Nation at CU and to view currently scheduled events visit: http://www.cufocusthenation.com Visit the national Focus the Nation webpage: www.focusthenation.org

Current participants include the Center for integrated Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative (EI), the Institute for Alpine and Arctic Research (INSTAAR), the CU Museum of Natural History, the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES), Fiske Planetarium and the Norlin Library. To date, Focus the Nation at CU has been endorsed by Chancellor Bud Peterson, the Boulder Faculty Assembly, and the UCSU student government. Featured events include:

• 2% Solution webcast (January 30)
• Polar Visions world premiere film (January 30)
• Panel Series on Climate Change.

• Climate Change 101
• Colorado’s Plan for Tackling Climate Change
• Communicating Climate Change
• The Injustice of Climate Change
• Ask Climate Expert
• The Future of Energy.
• Planet Earth on the big screen (at Fiske Planetarium)
• Speaking Out for Those who Can’t: spoken word and music performances
• The 11th Hour film screening and discussion
• The Devil came on Horseback film screening and discussion

Environmental Center Interest Meeting
Wednesday, January 23
5:30pm
University Memorial Center 382

Interested in Sustainability and Environment Issues? Looking for ways to get active? Need to boost your resume with service activities? Looking to network and meet new people? The CU Environmental Center invites you to learn more about how easy it is to become involved with environmental causes on and off campus. Get info on intern, volunteer and service projects with recycling, sustainable transportation, climate and energy, earth education, environmental justice, student environmental groups, and more! Refreshments too! http://ecenter.colorado.edu/get_involved

Note: If you cannot make the 1/23 meeting, there will be another chance on Monday, February 4, 5:30pm, UMC 382

Climate Change and Higher Education:
Leadership to Achieve Climate Neutrality
A Webcast with Michael Crow, Billy Parish and
Dave Newport, moderated by James Gorman.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
12:00-1:30pm
University Memorial Center, room 386
Bring your own lunch

The most pressing environmental issue for our society is our ability to address the threat of runaway climate change. Colleges and universities have assumed an extraordinary leadership role to research and implement the necessary solutions to achieve climate neutrality.

To date, more than 350 presidents and chancellors have signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), a unique collective action that is the first by a large sector to set climate neutrality as the ultimate goal. The ACUPCC provides a common framework for institutions to contextualize and benefit most from related initiatives on campuses across the country, such as the Campus Climate Challenge, Focus the Nation, and hundreds of institutional projects. Through these activities, higher education is leading by example, sending strong signals to the markets and policy makers with their actions and enabling the rest of society follow suit through research and education. More information including a list of signatories is available at www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org.

Moderated by the editor of The New York Times' Science Times, this program will cover the highlights of what is happening in higher education around climate change, as well as the basics of the ACUPCC and what it means for specific activities around climate change, both now and in the future. It will provide models which are transferable to other higher education institutions, corporations, and communities. Participants will learn best practices, national trends and resources they can utilize.

This program is designed for anyone on or near campus who wants to do something about climate change, needs to understand more about climate change, or is facing professional challenges due to institutional desire to become carbon neutral and more sustainable.

Friday, November 30
10am-12pm followed by lunch discussion, UMC 245
Campus Sustainability Roundtable

This roundtable will serve to update departmental and operational staff and interested public about current progress and strategic directions in campus environmental issues. Detailed agenda forthcoming.
*To reserve a lunch, RSVP to ecenter@colorado.edu or 303-492-8308 by Tuesday, Nov 27.

Privilege, Accountability, & the CU Community: FORGING SOLUTIONS
Thursday, November 29, 7 pm - 8:30 pm
UMC Room 235

Calling all underrepresented students, diverse student groups, student activists, faculty and concerned citizens of the CU community to attend! The Environmental Center in conjunction with UCSU and SORCE present the third part of the first ever, Environmental Justice Discussion Series. In support of environmental and social equity, join us for a video clip of Bioneer Van Jones and a cross-community solution session aimed at solving student group and community issues! Be sure to stick around to participate in the commemorative community art display. Light refreshments will be served.

November 15
America Recycles Day

Break Through
From the Death of Environmentalism to the
Politics of Possibility
By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

November 12, 2007
2:30 pm
Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building
University of Colorado-Boulder
Free and open to the public

Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, authors of the controversial 2004 essay The Death of Environmentalism, discuss their new book Breakthrough: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility in which they articulate a new politics for a new century, one focused on aspirations, not complaints, human possibility, not limits.

For more information see http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu

Copies of Break Through will be on sale before the talk at 2pm outside of the courtroom

Sponsored by The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Center for Values and Social Policy, Environmental Studies, CU Energy Initiative, CU Environmental Center, and Natural Resources Law Center

Praise for Break Through

• "Bracing." - Michael Pollan, author, Omnivore's Dilemma
• "Fearless." - Ariel Levy, author, Female Chauvinist Pigs
• "Urgent... Nordhaus and Shellenberger are right to look to human ingenuity for the big breakthroughs that will make the impossible possible." - Gregg Easterbrook, author, The Progress Paradox, A Moment on Earth
• "A great book... More than environmental politics -- an alternative to the politics of limits and divisiveness." - Roger Pielke, Professor, University of Colorado
• "Break Through illuminates a new and empowering politics for America." - Ross Gelbspan, author, Boiling Point

Thursday, November 8 6:00-7:30pm UMC 415-417 An Inconvenient Truth Deconstructed, Part 2

Mark McCaffrey, who is one of the 1000 presenters trained by Al Gore and The Climate Project, will offer two evenings of presentation and discussion using the slide presentation developed by Gore. The first, on Thursday November 1st from 6 to 7:30 PM, will focus primarily on the climate science presented in An Inconvenient Truth, and the second, on November 8th, will emphasize the solutions, which have been significantly expanded since the film was originally released. McCaffrey has been a lead author in developing a framework for Climate Literacy with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other partners, and will discuss the essential principals and key understandings that a climatically literate student and citizen should ideally know. McCaffrey is an associate scientist and science communications specialist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder.

Thursday, November 1 6:00-7:30pm UMC 415-417 An Inconvenient Truth Deconstructed, Part 1

Mark McCaffrey, who is one of the 1000 presenters trained by Al Gore and The Climate Project, will offer two evenings of presentation and discussion using the slide presentation developed by Gore. The first, on Thursday November 1st from 6 to 7:30 PM, will focus primarily on the climate science presented in An Inconvenient Truth, and the second, on November 8th, will emphasize the solutions, which have been significantly expanded since the film was originally released. McCaffrey has been a lead author in developing a framework for Climate Literacy with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other partners, and will discuss the essential principals and key understandings that a climatically literate student and citizen should ideally know. McCaffrey is an associate scientist and science communications specialist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder.

Climate Change is Here
Wednesday, Oct. 31 10:30 am - 2:30 pm
UMC arcade area (next to the fountain)

“Climate Change is Here” hopes to show students the range of groups that care about climate change. On Halloween, diverse student groups will come together to talk about climate change, each from their own perspective. Students will trick-or-treat to each table to learn where they fit into the solution.

From skiers and climbers, to business students, pre-health, and engineering, to minority groups and groups of faith, we are the generation who will live and work with climate change as a reality. Find out how to turn off climate change!

Free Candy! (And maybe some other "cool" give-aways.) Costumes encouraged!

Sponsored by the CU Environmental Center's Energy Team.

Wednesday, October 24
10am-12pm, followed by lunch discussion, UMC 247 Campus Sustainability Day V Webcast
Building a Durable Future: Community, the Campus, and Deep Economy

The fifth annual SCUP webcast supporting Campus Sustainability Day (CSD) will feature presenters: Norm Christopher, director of sustainability, Grand Valley State University

Tom Kimmerer, executive director, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)

Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Colorado Bioneers: Connecting for Change
Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth and People
October 19-21, 2007
University of Colorado at Boulder

Boulder is one of 21 communities in North America with a Bioneers satellite forum, taking place October 19-21 at CU-Boulder. Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) is the preeminent gathering of leading scientific innovators & environmental visionaries who offer practical solutions to the most pressing environmental and social issues of our time. Bioneers, in its 17th year, uniquely and authentically connects the dots between environment, health, social justice and spirit.

Bioneers creates community opportunities for sharing, learning and action, and brings together the region’s progressive ideas, people and organizations. The 5th annual Colorado Bioneers features the Green Living Expo; film, music and arts; networking; children’s eco-activities; and sessions and workshops addressing topics of regional importance.

Sessions include relocalization strategies, ecosystem restoration, youth leadership, food and farming, business, ecological medicine, green building and new urbanism, environmental justice, teaching sustainability, health and labor.

The event features a live satellite downlink of the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA. Plenaries include: John Abrams - Paul Anastas - Judy Baca - Carol Bebelle - Charlotte Brody - Majora Carter - Eve Ensler - Jay Harman - Van Jones - Winona LaDuke - Wallace J. Nichols - Evon Peter - Katharine Redford - Edward Tick - Ka Hsaw Wa - Judy Wicks

Colorado Bioneers is produced by the University of Colorado Environmental Center in collaboration with numerous partner organizations.

Visit http://ecenter.colorado.edu/bioneers for more information on Colorado Bioneers.

Visit the Bioneers website at www.bioneers.org for more information about the Bioneers Conference and our partnership.

Friday, October 5, 3:30 – 5:30pm
Old Main Chapel
“Evangelicals, Scientists, and the Environment: Bridging Science and Religion to Care for the Creation”
A Lecture By Calvin B. DeWitt
Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison

In addressing the global crises of climate change and biodiversity, religion and science need to pull together to take concerted and effective action, and this requires that we quickly bridge the divides that have separated us. The debate is over. We must now crack through the human predicament and move forward to maintain and restore the biospheric integrity upon which human society and all life on Earth depend. Preparing the interface between the communities of science and religion is vitally necessary for enabling and motivating individual people and societies to do understand how the world works (scientia), what ought to be (ethica), and what has to be done (praxis). The new book by E. O. Wilson, The Creation, is one of many bridge-builders between scientists and evangelicals—a book that was an important catalyst at a remarkable and unprecedented meeting held at Melhana Plantation in Georgia in December. Called by Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals, and Harvard’s Nobel Laureate, Eric Chivian, it brought 28 leading scientists and evangelicals together to converse. Remarkably, they found out they liked each other, and most remarkably was their writing “An Urgent Call to Action” released at a press conference at the National Press Club on January 17. The members of the group, including leading expert on biodiversity Peter Raven, NASA climate scientist James Hansen, and biological oceanographer and Harvard’s James McCarthy, now president of the AAAS, joined with other participants to announce that they “happily discovered far more concordance than any of us had expected, quickly moving beyond dialogue to a shared sense of moral purpose.” The divide is being bridged. Other divides remain—across religions, across businesses and enterprises, across races and cultures. The Melhana experience can be a model to all. Its Urgent Call to Action must be headed, as it states, “We cannot wait one more day.” The time has come to pull together to take responsibility for the Creation that so remarkable sustains us all.

Professor DeWitt’s Lecture is part of
"The Crisis of the University: ?Freedom, Tolerance, and the Pursuit of Truth”
a National Faculty Forum at the University of Colorado, Boulder Hosted by the CS Lewis Foundations and the Center for Western Civilization

"Privilege, Accountability, and the CU Community"
October 2nd, 6 p.m. UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom

The Environmental Center in conjunction with UCSU presents the first ever, 3-part Environmental Justice Discussion Series. Join us for dinner and an evening of performances, guest speakers and conscious reflection on various environmental justice issues. The highlight of the evening will be a group discussion surrounding the implications of privilege and environmental justice on the CU community, facilitated by Dr. Rabaka. Following the event, we invite all attendees to the 5th annual Bioneers Conference: Visionary and Practical Solutions to Restoring the Earth & People, held October 19-21 to engage in a dialogue of solutions to environmental justice issues. The series will end with a final discussion on addressing accountability and implementing solutions to environmental justice issues within the CU community, to be held October 24th at 6pm in UMC Aspen Rooms.

Dowload flyer (ms word) for more information.

September 26
Recycled Art and Product Extravaganza 10-4, UMC Fountain

Ever think of where your used bike tire tubes could end up? How about that billboard you saw last month on the highway or the car hood from a car you junked? If you come to the Recycled Art and Product Extravaganza, you will see the next life for these, and many more reused and recycled materials. Local Boulder companies like Ecological Design, Savitrees, and Buffalo Exchange will be showcasing and selling their stylish and functional products that are made from recycled and reused materials. Local artist Bruce Campbell, among others, will be displaying his recycled artwork to further show how reuse and recycling can lead to amazing artwork. Stop by the UMC Fountain, enter to win a door prize from these amazing companies, and help “Close the Loop” through your support of reused and recycled art and products!

Tuesday, September 25
7:00 - 9:00 PM
CU-Boulder Norlin Library's Center for British and Irish Studies 5th Floor
Climate Change: Is It Debatable?

Science or politics? Scientists say climate change is a reality we must come to terms with, while others suggest that more study is needed. Is more discussion what we need or it is time to focus on action? And who decides what we do next? Come hear the response of our panel members to these questions and more, and join the discussion. Speakers will include Chuck Kutscher from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Diane Dandeneau from Interfaith Power and Light/ConservEd and Lisa Dilling from CIRES.
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/news/

Thursday, September 20, 6:00-7:30pm, Norlin Library, 5th Floor Bioneers Screening & Discussion Series

SARAH CROWELL: The Courage to Walk in Beauty: Creating Space for Young People to Find Truth and Power (2006)

Who’s Got Next? Cultivating Feminine-Centered Leadership in a Hip-Hop Era: Rha Goddess (2005)

Thursday, September 13, 6:00-7:30pm, Norlin Library, 5th Floor
Bioneers Screening & Discussion Series

CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER: Stopping the Energy Colonization of Sacred Native Lands (2006)

The Reverence Movement; Aqeela Sherrills (2004)

Wednesday, September 12
6:00pm, UMC 287
Environmental Center Interest Meeting

Interested in Sustainability and Environment Issues? Looking for ways to get active? Need to boost your resume with service activities? Looking to network and meet new people? The CU Environmental Center invites you to learn more about how easy it is to become involved with environmental causes on and off campus. Get info on intern, volunteer and service projects with recycling, sustainable transportation, climate and energy, earth education, environmental justice, Bioneers, student environmental groups, and more! Refreshments too!
http://ecenter.colorado.edu/get_involved

Sierra Club President Robbie Cox
Not "A Place Apart": Environmental Justice and the Sierra Club
Wednesday, June 27 7 pm
Norlin LIbrary's Center for British and Irish Studies, room M549
University of Colorado Boulder campus

In this talk next Wednesday, Sierra Club president Dr. Robbie Cox will share how the well-known national conservation organization began to tackle environmental justice issues to increase involvement with historically underrepresented communities, and how this is changing the image of the "environmentalist". The event is hosted by the University of Colorado Student Union's Environmental Justice Steering Committee, Norlin Library, and the CU Environmental Center.

During this year's summer session at CU Boulder, Dr. Cox is teaching a class on "Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere". Dr. Cox is a top researcher in the field of rhetorical theory, the rhetoric of social movements (emphasis on environmental discourse); and research on the rhetorical and political agency of low-income citizens and communities of color as they participate in environmental and social justice decisions. A communications professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cox also served as president to the Sierra Club from 1994 to 1996 and 2000 to 2001.

The Center for British and Irish Studies is located on the 5th floor of Norlin Library, room M549. Enter through the east entrance of Norlin Library near the sundial plaza since the west doors of the library are locked at 7 pm. For a campus map showing the location of Norlin Library, visit http://www.colorado.edu/directories/webmap/.

More info about Dr. Robbie Cox can be found at http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/200010/cox.asp and http://comm.unc.edu/facstaff/facultyprofile/robbiecox/index_html .

Friday, April 27
10am-12pm followed by lunch discussion
UMC 245
Campus Sustainability Roundtable

This roundtable will serve to update departmental and operational staff and interested public about current progress and strategic directions in campus environmental issues.

Download the roundtable agenda.

*To reserve a lunch, RSVP to ecenter@colorado.edu or 303-492-8308 by Tuesday, April 24.

April 21
Volunteer for Earth Day!

CU Volunteer Clearing House (VCH) is hosting the second annual "Better Boulder Better World" in collaboration with Volunteer Connection's "I Volunteer Day". VCH will host 7-10 projects, providing breakfast, lunch, transportation and t-shirts to students, staff & faculty who sign up to participate. All community members are welcome to sign up for Volunteer Connection's will have 40+ projects. Registration and information on these collaborative events will be posted at www.volunteerconnection.net and www.colorado.edu/vch beginning April 2.

In celebration of Earth Day, there are a number of environmentally-related volunteer projects, such as:

• Outdoor habitat landscaping with the Colorado Reptile Humane Society
• Clean-up Boulder Creek with the Boulder Creek Watershed Initiative
• Denver Urban Garden project benefitting refugees from Somalia living in Denver.
• Plant native trees and shrubs with Lafayette Parks & Open Space
• Transplant, sow and mulch to get Boulder's Growing Garden programs ready for spring and summer.

Friday, April 20, 2007
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
UMC 235
Campus Environmental Awards

The University of Colorado will recognize the significant achievements and extraordinary efforts of outstanding individuals and departments at the annual environmental awards ceremony. The luncheon ceremony will be held on Friday, April 20, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the UMC 235. Vice Chancellors Tabolt and Stump will present the 2007 Campus Environmental Awards to:

• Amin Gheysar, Individual Achievement- Waste Reduction and Recycling
• Carrie Gibadlo, Student Achievement- Environmentally-Responsible Products
• Mike Hannigan, Green Faculty
• Amy Harris, Honorable Mention- Student Achievement
• Housing and Dining Services, Departmental Achievement- Energy and Water Conservation
• Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson, Climate Leadership
• Sigma Pi Fraternity, Honorable Mention- Recycling
• Moe Tabrizi, Sustainability Leadership
• Paul Weissmann, Outstanding Alumni

Earthdance: The Short-Attention-Span
Environmental Film Festival
Museum Collections Building W100, 7-10pm
Free and open to the public!

EarthDance is a juried compilation of documentaries, mockumentaries, animations, high adventures, and dramas that invite you to celebrate and explore your relationship with the natural world. Can’t handle another hit of bad environmental news - global warming, melting glaciers, marching penguins? Then check out the 2007 EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival for a dose of humor and hope. Experience this edutaining selection of independent, alternative films that promote environmental awareness and action through humor, creativity and intelligence. Celebrating Nature, One Short Film at a Time: Each film is 30 seconds to 30 minutes long. Films include:

• motel
• tree robo
• climbing short - thailand
• shape of sound - whale sonogram - humpback
• trap jaw ants
• proper education
• IDEO
• spiders on drugs
• climbing short 2 - black canyon
• mysterious muckfish
• bear necessities
• salt pond restoration
• mouth revolution
• climbing short 3 - himalaya
• shape of sound - whale sonogram - bowhead
• Asparagus: A Staulkumentary!
• Muskrat Lovely
• The Disappearing of Tuvalu
• Flip Flotsam

"Arctic Warming: The Fight to Save a Refuge and the Latest on Northern Climate Change"
Monday, April 16, 7:00 p.m.
University Memorial Center 235, CU-Boulder

Through spectacular video and slides, renowned author and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge conservationist Jon Waterman will document the startling effects of global warming and address the on-going battle over oil drilling rights in his presentation, "Arctic Warming: The Fight to Save a Refuge and the Latest on Northern Climate Change." As a veteran of a half-dozen trips into the Refuge and author of the book Where Mountains are Nameless, Waterman tells an educational and insightful story about the potential cultural and environmental impacts of drilling for oil. The issue is contrasted with the economic benefits of oil development and further complicated by global warming. Waterman’s unforgettable trek brings us face-to-face with perhaps the most sought after patch of American soil and those who have made it their life’s work to preserve it. The event is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a book signing and reception at the University of Colorado Museum from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Event sponsors are The Wilderness Society, Indian Peaks Group of the Sierra Club, University of Colorado Museum, and CU Environmental Center.

For more information: http://jonathanwaterman.com

For directions to the UMC: http://ecenter.colorado.edu/about_us/directions.html

For directions to the University of Colorado Museum: http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/Visit/directions.html

CANCELLED

April 3
6:00-7:30pm
Humanities 135
CU-Boulder
Monthly Bioneers Screening

Bioneers community gatherings are a great opportunity to join fellow Bioneers to learn and strategize for community solutions. Monthly gatherings feature an hour of Bioneers presentations (from the video archives) followed by group discussion with local experts. Free and open to the public.

MICHAEL POLLAN
Beyond the Bar Code: The Local Food Revolution The brilliant New York Times writer and best- selling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire once again bounds out-side the box to depict the profound societal transformation underway that is irrevocably changing the way we eat and grow our food.

JASON CLAY
Harmonizing Global Commodities, Biodiversity and Business Today, a highly destructive, globalized, commodity export-oriented agriculture threatens the very ecosystems required to meet our food and fiber needs. Jason Clay, vice president for the Center for Conservation Innovation at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has been one of the most innovative and effective leaders in international human rights and environmental work for over 20 years and was one of the inventors of the "green marketing" of rainforest products. Now, he is working with the UN, investors, retailers, producer groups and NGOs to reform the immense international cotton, oil palm, sugar, soy, grape and potato industries to lessen their ecological impacts.

THIS SCREENING IS CANCELLED-- PLEASE CONSIDER ATTENDING 'THE CLOCK IS TICKING' EVENT INSTEAD ON APRIL 3 AT 6PM (SEE COMMUNITY EVENTS BELOW).

University of Colorado
The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock

Friday, March 16
4:30-6:00 Keynote Session MARK UDALL, Congressman (D-CO) JEROME RINGO, Chairman of the Board, National Wildlife Federation; President, Apollo Alliance.

6:15-7:00 Reception, sponsored by Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP

Saturday, March 17
8:30-8:45 Welcome and Introduction: MAXINE BURKETT, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado

8:45-10:30 Panel 1: Environmental Justice and the Current Social and Political Climate

• ROBERT BULLARD, Professor of Sociology, Clark Atlanta University
• EILEEN GAUNA, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
• RACHEL GODSIL, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
• REBECCA TSOSIE, Professor of Law, Arizona State University

• LUKE COLE, Director, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
• MICHAEL B. GERRARD, Partner, Arnold & Porter (N.Y.)
• RUTH GORDON, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law.
• RICHARD LAZARUS, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

• SHEILA FOSTER, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
• CLIFF RECHTSCHAFFEN, Professor of Law; Director, JD Environmental Law Program; and Co-Director, Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Golden Gate University School of Law
• WILLIE SHEPHERD, Chairman and Co-Founder, Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP
• DEAN SUAGEE, Of Counsel, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker LLP (D.C).
• NICHOLAS TARG, Holland & Knight, former Associate Director for Environmental Justice Integration, Office of Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Recycling X Games
When: Thursday, March 15th from 12-4
Where: The UMC Fountain

The Recycling X-games will be hosted as a joint effort between CU Recycling and Freshman Council. For the past two -years the games have attracted students and staff alike to participate in games such as:

• The Dumpster Dive
• Pizza Box Throw
• Phone Book Shot-put
• Re-Ball
• Recycled Art contest
• Recycled Fashion contest

CU Bike Bash
March 14, 10am-3pm
Fine Arts Lawn

Come for the annual Bike Bash at the Fine Arts lawn to celebrate the bicycle season. Warm weather has begun and cycling is never better! This year's event is new and improved with more sponsors, vendors, events and information than before. This year, CU Jazz Ensembles joins us in the celebration, along with the fantastic observed trials RipStoke stunt show for entertainment. Try your skill at our Great Buff Bike Egg Relay and win big prizes, including a new Timbuk2 messenger bag. Visit vendor tables for everything from quick bike tunes to information on local mountain bike trails to custom and locally built steel bicycles!

The event will feature free food, live music, information and bike registration. www.cubikebash.com

Ice Fest
CU Boulder Campus

Ice Fest (see http://cires.colorado.edu/events/icefest/ ), on the CU Boulder Campus March 8th to 11th, a celebration of the start of the International Polar Year (see http://www.ipy.org ) offers a wide range of presentations, activities and dicussions that are free and open to the public.

Highlights include: March 8th- Thursday - World renown photographers James Balog and Rosemarie Keough share their spectacular images of the Arctic and Antarctic - Old Main Auditorium - 2 PM with reception to follow.

March 9th - Friday - NASA Astronaut Dr. Don Pettit, subject of a new book about life and death in space entitled "Too Far From Home" will give a presentation about his project that involves studying polar regions from the International Space Station - Muenzinger Auditorium - 2 PM An Evening with Michael Brown- Award winning Boulder filmmaker will discuss his films and show the film "Climate Crisis" that he and his brother made for BBC and Discovery Channel - Muenzinger Auditorium - 7 PM

March 10th- Saturday - Family Day - Over 15 presentations in three auditoriums on polar adventures and studies, with activities for the entire family. 10 AM to 5 PM - ATLAS Building

March 11th - Sunday - Make A Difference Day - 14 year old Alex Budd will show his presentation on climate concerns and solutions at 10 AM in ATLAS 100, followed by discussion with local youth on a climate action plan. Afternoon panel discussion with climate and energy experts, plus a town hall meeting. (NOTE- Time Change - spring forward - Sunday AM)

Volunteers are needed Saturday to assist with directing people, providing information, cooking popcorn, etc. Please arrive around 9 AM Saturday morning at the ATLAS building: http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/

Young people are strongly encouraged to participate in the Sunday morning's youth event.

March 6, 6:00-7:30pm
Humanities 135
CU-Boulder
Monthly Bioneers Screening

Bioneers community gatherings are a great opportunity to join fellow Bioneers to learn and strategize for community solutions. Monthly gatherings feature an hour of Bioneers presentations (from the video archives) followed by group discussion with local experts. Free and open to the public.

PAUL HAWKEN
Biology, Resistance and Restoration: Sustainability as an Infinite Game The brilliant author/entrepreneur/change-maker encourages us all to embrace a new type of "infinite game," one without losers that supports the future of life and a re-imagined world of growth without inequality, wealth without plunder and work without exploitation.

JOHN MOHAWK
Survive and Thrive: Traditional Societies’ Lessons The renowned activist, journalist and professor John Mohawk, now director of Indigenous Studies in the Center for the Americas, is one of the most astute analysts of the roots of war and conflict in human societies. He looks at whether our future offers only more contests over scarce resources, more religious intolerance and more ethnic conflict, or whether we can learn from older traditions, such as that of the Iroquois, who created frameworks for treaties of peace and friendship based on the rule of law. But can modern industrial and post-industrial society with biological, chemical and nuclear weapons find ways to use tools for social survival that worked for people with stone-age weapons?

Kilowatt Ours
Humanities 150, 7:30pm

Filmmaker Jeff Barrie takes viewers on a journey from the coal mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida, as he discovers and shares practical solutions to America's energy related problems. The film (one hour) will be followed by a Q&A with local wind, solar and resource conservation representatives.

Sen. Gary Hart and a Plenary of Campus Leaders to Address Climate Action at Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit
Thursday, February 22, 9:00 ­ 11:30 a.m., Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU-Boulder

Senator Gary Hart and a plenary panel of the Rocky Mountain Region's campus leaders will address the challenges of climate change as well as the opportunities for action. Senator Hart, who is currently the Wirth Chair Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, will present the 2007 Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit¹s opening keynote entitled The New Security in the 21st Century. He has served as a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1975 to 1987 and was the co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century. Senator Hart¹s keynote will set the stage for the plenary panel on Campus Leadership for Climate Action featuring Vice Chancellor and Dean Susan Avery of the University of Colorado-Boulder, Arizona State University President Michael Crow, University of Florida Vice President Ed Poppell, and Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak of CU-Colorado Springs. Tickets separate from the full-day summit passes are available for these events and can be purchased at the door. Admission is $20 for the public; $10 for students; and Free to UCB students with valid ID. Includes both the keynote and plenary panel. For more information, visit http://ecenter.colorado.edu/rmss2007/.

Cutting Edge Sustainability - A Dialogue with Hunter Lovins and David Orr
Thursday, February 22, 6:00 ­ 7:45 p.m., Glenn Miller Ballroom, CU-Boulder

Come eavesdrop on a living room conversation between two of the most innovative thinkers in the sustainability movement when Hunter Lovins and David Orr present the 2007 Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit's Thursday evening keynote, Cutting Edge Sustainability. Lovins is the president and founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and cocreator of the Natural Capitalism concept. She has co-authored nine books, including Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, which she wrote with Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins. David Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. He is best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. Orr is the author of five books, including his most recent work, Design on the Edge. Tickets separate from the full-day Summit passes are available for this event and can be purchased at the door. Admission to this event only is $10 for the public; $4 for students; and free for CU-Boulder students with valid ID. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. For more information, visit http://ecenter.colorado.edu/rmss2007/.

Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit:
Forging Solutions at Colleges and Universities
February 22-23, 2007 - University of Colorado at Boulder

The Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit will provide a networking forum for representatives from the region’s campuses to learn about a variety of environmental issues facing institutions, explore ways of improving campus practices and policies, and ultimately work toward boosting the triple bottom line of environmental, social and economic sustainability.

The 2007 Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit will feature leading experts, including David Orr whose keynote will share information from his new book, “Design on the Edge”, and a Plenary Panel composed of campus administrators and government officials who will discuss “Elevating Sustainability in the Mountain States Region”. Furthermore, a Green Products Expo will share the latest sustainable products and services available for institutions. The Summit will include numerous sessions, workshops and facilitated discussions on:

• Institutionalizing Sustainability: Policy and structural approaches
• Best practices for operationalizing sustainability: Building core knowledge; nuts and bolts for campus programs (ie, energy, water, recycling, transportation, green building)
• Creating a culture of sustainability: Education approaches to fostering sustainable behavior among the campus community; building systems and awareness for lifestyle sustainability
• Current and cutting edge issues such as sustainable food, zero waste and climate
• Collaborative peer group networking
• Opportunities for regional sustainability strategies

2007 Green Products Expo ­ Free and Open to the Public!
Friday, February 23, 10:00 a.m. ­ 4:00 p.m., UMC 235, CU-Boulder

In conjunction with the 2007 Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit, the University of Colorado at Boulder will host a Green Products Expo on Friday, February 23, 2007. The Expo, organized by CU-Boulder's Environmental Center, will introduce a variety of environmentally responsible products and service options geared toward institutional applications, but also of great interest to the public. The Expo will have featured representatives from industries including lighting, carpeting, furniture, paper, clean energy and more.

For more info, visit: http://ecenter.colorado.edu/rmss2007/expo.html

Tales from the Field with Jeff Corwin
Thursday, Feb. 8 at 7pm
Glenn Miller Ballroom

CU Wild will be presenting "Tales from the Field with Jeff Corwin," Feb. 8 at 7 pm at the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom. Come join us for an evening of great stories, entertainment, education, and the chance to see and learn about exotic animals. You may even have the chance to come on-stage and see the animals up close! You will not only be captivated by these animals and stories, but you will also learn about the importance of conservation and leading a more earth friendly, sustainable life. Kids are welcome and will enjoy this presentation. Tickets are available at the door, or you may purchase them in advance from the UMC Connection. Adults are $12, Kids $10 and students $8. For more information email cuwild.wildlife@colorado.edu, or visit our website at http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/cuwi

February 6, 6:00-7:30pm
Humanities 250
CU-Boulder
Monthly Bioneers Screening

Bioneers community gatherings are a great opportunity to join fellow Bioneers to learn and strategize for community solutions. Monthly gatherings feature an hour of Bioneers presentations (from the video archives) followed by group discussion with local experts. Free and open to the public.

CLAYTON THOMAS-MÜLLER
Stopping the Energy Colonization of Sacred Native Lands The brilliant young activist from the exemplary Indigenous Environmental Network depicts how relentless organizing and alliances on the front lines of resistance are stemming industrial society’s juggernaut to exploit unsustainable energy extraction from Native homelands and sacred lands of Turtle Island.

MARIA ELENA DURAZO
Building Alliances: Labor, Immigration and the Environment The president of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union’s Local 11, the first Latina woman to lead a major union in Southern California, portrays her work as national director of the Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride, a national mobilization campaign to restructure U.S. immigration and labor laws.

Fostering Sustainable Behavior: Community-Based Social Marketing Workshop
February 21, 2007
9:00am-5:00pm
University Memorial Center, CU-Boulder

The cornerstone of sustainability is behavior change. A sustainable future requires individuals and businesses to act (eg, reduce waste, water and energy efficiency, and prevent pollution). To date, most programs have relied on disseminating information. Research demonstrates, however, that simply providing information has little or no effect on what people or businesses do. But if not ads, brochures or booklets, then what? Over the last several years, a new approach, Community-Based Social Marketing, has emerged as an effective alternative for delivering sustainable behavior. The CU Environmental Center is hosting a full-day workshop with respected world expert and environmental psychologist, Doug McKenzie-Mohr. The workshop will introduce CBSM and provide participants with the knowledge they need to deliver the most effective programs.

This workshop is in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit. For information on CBSM, visit www.cbsm.com . Registration costs $140 and includes lunch and a copy of the book Fostering Sustainable Behavior. Deadline to Register is February 12. Workshop is limited to 125 participants. For info and to register: http://ecenter.colorado.edu/rmss2007

Environmental Center Volunteer Interest Meeting Thursday, February 1
5:00pm
UMC 415

Interested in Volunteering for the Environment? The Environmental Center invites you to come and learn more about how easy it is to become involved with environmental causes by volunteering your time. Join us for refreshments while we talk about student environmental groups, recycling, sustainable transportation, renewable energy, energy and water conservation, earth education, environmental justice, the Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit, and more!
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Campus Sustainability Roundtable
Friday, December 8, 10am-12pm, UMC 245
(followed by lunch discussion, 12-1pm)

This roundtable will serve to update departmental and operational staff and interested public about current progress and strategic directions in campus environmental issues.
*To reserve a lunch, RSVP to ecenter@colorado.edu or 303-492-8308 by Tuesday, December 5.

Leaders in Sustainability Series
Margie Griek of Colorado Association for Recycling
Thursday, November 16, 12-1pm, UMC 247

On recycling issues in Colorado and how Higher Education plays a role in state leadership.

Celebrate 30 years of Recycling at CU-Boulder
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
America Recycles Day

2-4pm: Tours of Campus Resource Recovery Systems
Meet at Environmental Center, UMC 355
Visit campus recycling, composting, hazardous materials facilities

4-6pm: Reception, Presentation and Awards Ceremony
Koenig Alumni Center
Connect with campus recyclers of past and present

RSVP by Monday, November 13 to 303-492-8307 or ecenter@colorado.edu

Campus Sustainability Day
October 25, 10:30am-12:30pm, UMC 245, followed by a lunch discussion, 12:30-1:30

Where Is Your Campus On the Continuum of Integrated Sustainability Planning? CU-Boulder will participate in a webcast featuring presenters and case studies from four diverse colleges and universities. SCUP’s Campus Sustainability Day will explore in depth a range of institutions—two-year, four-year, research—and see where they are in integrating sustainability throughout the campus. Does all of operations know what each other is doing? Do researchers and faculty know what operations is doing? Do faculty know what each other are doing? Do faculty incorporate things that operations does as modeling for learning? You get the idea! Our presenters have promised an in depth look at what their campus is doing, where, and how well it's all connected - as well as why it is or is not all connected.

Rich Louv: Biophilic Design and Nature Deficit Disorder
Wednesday, October 25, 7:00pm, Math 100

Richard Louv, author of “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder”, poses that “…we can create safe zones for nature exploration, given our deeper understanding of the importance of nature play to healthy child development. We can preserve the remaining open space in our cities, and even design and build new kinds of communities along the principles of green urbanism. We can weave nature experiences into our classrooms, and nature therapy into our health-care system - and, as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, we can spend more time in nature with children. Here's the bonus, when we give our children the gift of nature, we gain all the same benefits they do – the stress reduction, the longer attention span, the renewed sense of wonder.” This event is co-sponsored by the Children, Youth and Environments Center, the CU Environmental Center, and the CU Environmental Studies Program. CU students free; $5 suggested donation.

Bioneers:
Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth and People
October 20-22, CU-Boulder

Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) is the preeminent international gathering of leading scientific innovators and environmental visionaries who offer practical solutions to the most pressing environmental and social issues of our time. Bioneers, in its 17th year, uniquely and authentically connects the dots between environment, health, social justice and spirit. In its fourth year, the Colorado Bioneers companion event offers a weekend of sharing, learning and action, and is a uniquely affordable community event that brings together people from all walks of life working for social change.

Colorado Bioneers features live video simulcast of 15 Bioneers plenaries (including Carl Anthony, Lois Gibbs, Amy Goodman, Paul Hawken and Michael Pollan); a marketplace with products and services for sustainable living; film, music and arts; networking; children’s eco-activities; and sessions and workshops addressing topics of regional importance. Explore and network on vital issues, including relocalization strategies, ecosystem restoration, youth leadership, food and farming, local economy and small business, health, labor, ecological medicine, green building and new urbanism, environmental justice, sustainable living, and teaching sustainability.

Produced by University of Colorado Environmental Center in collaboration with numerous partner organizations. Colorado Bioneers takes place from 10am-6pm each day with additional evening activities. Registration costs $25/day; $15/day for students; free for CU-Boulder students. Volunteer and scholarship opportunities available. For a full program and to register, visit http://ecenter.colorado.edu/bioneers.

EarthDance: The Short-Attention-Span Film Festival
Saturday, October 21
7:00-10:00pm, Humanities 150
In conjunction with Colorado Bioneers

EarthDance: The Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival EarthDance is a juried compilation of dockumentaries, mockumentaries, animations, high adventures, and dramas that invite you to celebrate and explore your relationship with the natural world. Can¹t handle another hit of bad environmental news - global warming, melting glaciers, marching penguins? Then check out the 2006 EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival for a dose of humor and hope. Experience this edutaining selection of independent, alternative films that promote environmental awareness and action through humor, creativity and intelligence. Celebrating Nature, One Short Film at a Time: Each film is 30 seconds to 30 minutes long. Free to Bioneers registrants, CU-Boulder students, $5 suggested donation.

Film: Transforming Energy

On October 18th, at 7 p.m., in the new Atlas Building on CU's campus, there will be a showing of the hour long special titled "Transforming Energy". This is a special produced by Throughline Productions, a Boulder based company. Architects, engineers, visionary energy and building experts, and other environmentalists are featured in this work.

Leaders in Sustainability Series
Will Toor on Moving Transportation Forward in Boulder County and Beyond
Monday, October 16, 12-1pm, UMC 247

Boulder County Commissioner, former Boulder Mayor, former CU Environmental Center Director Will Toor will share his leadership experiences in advancing local and regional transportation initiatives including FasTracks, and the Boulder County Transportation Services Enhancement Plan.

Boulder Solar Week 2006
September 30th - October 8th

Interested in entering the solar industry, greening your home or just curious about the current technologies available for making your home environmentally friendly? Would you like to learn more about incentives and assistance available to help reduce your environmental impact?

The Center for ReSource Conservation’s Boulder Solar Week includes a full week of educational workshops and a self-guided tour of homes where participants can meet homeowners, builders, contractors, and installers to ask questions and discuss opportunities.

In 2005, over 800 people participated in the CRC's Solar Week events. This year, Solar Week will be even better, with more homes, detailed information on energy savings and environmental benefits, and focused tours highlighting energy efficiency, green building, and renewable energy. For more info, visit: http://www.conservationcenter.org/e_solarhometour.htm

Sustainable Energy Forum
Friday, September 29, 12-1:30pm, Old Main

The CU Environmental Center & The Energy & Environmental Security Initiative (EESI) present a forum series. This event will bring together campus and community members in discussing the film ³An Inconvenient Truth² and how the CU community can reduce carbon emissions and reverse global warming. Pizza provided!

An Inconvenient Truth
Thurs, September 28, 7:00pm and 9:15pm
Muenzinger Auditorium

International Film Series shows Al Gore¹s global warming film. See the film and then join two opportunities to discuss the film. The Energy Initiative is sponsoring a panel of scientists who will discuss the movie immediately following the 7 pm showing in Muenzinger Room E0046. Then, the Sustainable Energy Forum in Old Main on Friday, 9/29 will be a community forum featuring effective local individual actions to respond to global warming. Admission: $5 general, $4 w/UCB student ID. Call 303 492 1531 for info. http://www.internationalfilmseries.com/schedule.php

Leaders in Sustainability Series
Sarah Van Pelt on Developing a Climate Action
Plan for the City of Boulder
Thursday, Sept 21, 12-1pm
UMC 247

The city of Boulder is committed to finding ways to meet our growing energy demand while protecting the environment and stimulating the economy. We are also committed to making sure that our residents have the information and resources necessary to use less energy, save money and make the best possible energy choices. This includes knowing how to pick the most energy efficient products and appliances, improve the efficiency of homes and commercial buildings, use alternative transportation and much more.

Eco-Leader Meeting
Wednesday, September 20, 5:00-6:30pm
UMC 247

If you live in the Residence Hall’s and want to green your community, come to the first Hall Eco-Leader meeting. Food provided. Help turn your residence hall into a greener place. Eco-Leaders learn about recycling, clean transportation energy efficiency, renewable energy, water use, and other environmental issues. Eco-Leaders serve as their hall’s source of green information for their co-residents. Help the planet and help others help the planet.

Recycling Festival
Wednesday, September 20
11am-3pm, UMC Fountain

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the CU Recycling Program, the Environmental Center is holding a Recycling Festival at the UMC Fountain. This festival is a combination of activities, displays, recycled artwork, music, and beverages. African Drummers will be creating an exciting background of sound. Recycled art sculptures and paintings will be visible along with displays related to recycling, renewable energy, composting, and alternative transportation. Pixie Mate will be giving away their delicious blend of Mate Tea beverages in compostable containers made of cornstarch. As this a zero waste event, all of the material generated from the event will be either recycled or composted. Please come and join us in celebrating 30 years of Recycling on the CU campus!

7th Annual Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair
Saturday, September 16, 10am-6pm & Sunday, September 17, 10am-5pm
New Belgium Brewing Company’s OxBow, Fort Collins.

The Sustainable Living Fair is a solution based, hands-on, family oriented event designed to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about Sustainable Living Practices, Renewable Energy, Environmental & Social Responsibility, Natural Health, Green Building, Alternative Vehicles, Organic Agriculture, Local Economies and so much more. The Sustainable Living Fair also features keynote speakers such as Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist and author who ran for election to the office of Vice President of the United States, on the ticket headed by Ralph Nader in 1996 & 2000. The Fair also features 125 exhibitors, 35 workshops, hands-on demonstrations, Planet Youth, Zen Zone, entertainment, food and a beer garden. One-day Pass: $5, Weekend Pass: $10, Kids under 12 FREE. Volunteer opportunities. For a detailed schedule of events visit www.SustainableLivingFair.org

Fall Volunteer Information Meeting
Thursday, September 14th, 5:00pm, UMC 245

Interested in Volunteering for the Environment? The Environmental Center invites you to come and learn more about how easy it is to become involved with environmental causes by volunteering your time. Join us for refreshments while we talk about student environmental groups, recycling, sustainable transportation, renewable energy, energy and water conservation, earth education, environmental justice, the upcoming Bioneers conference, and more! Questions? Call 303.492.8308, or email earthelp@colorado.edu

Sustainable Transportation Festival
Wednesday, September 13, 10am-2pm, Fine Arts Lawn

The 2005 Fall Transportation Fair will be two days in September dedicated to showing the benefits and various resources available for students to get around on campus, in Boulder, and across the state. Students will have the opportunity to interact with their own peers and learn all about the busses, the bike station, hiking trails, the CU Bio-diesel program, NextBus, the Ski Bus, and the new car rental service among various other transportation resources available. Vendors will also be in attendance with goodies and bike gear. This festival will feature non-profit, university, grassroots, and corporate organizations with the goal of promoting clean transportation options at CU.

Integrating Smart Growth & Affordable Housing
July 13, 5:30-7pm
Folsom Stadium Club, University of Colorado

The Public Forum is one part of the 4-day National Community Land Trust 2006 Conference : Building & Sustaining Communities taking place at the Millennium Harvest Hotel from July 12-15.

The Conference is sponsored, planned and organized by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, National CLT Network, and Thistle Community Housing. For more info: http://www.communitylots.org

Although discussions on Smart Growth abound, the affordable housing perspective tends to be a very small part of the discussion. We will explore State and local policies providing exceptions to this tendency. Recognizing the decrease in federal funding to both Land Conservation groups and Affordable H