Campus 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
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
Lester Brown: Plan B 4.0, Transition to a New Energy Economy
Wednesday, November 18th
Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law
6 pm
Free and Open to the Public; Plan B 4.0 books will be available for sale and book signing will follow the lecture.
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the industrial revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and how it will affect our daily lives.
Lester R. Brown is president of Earth Policy Institute, an organization dedicated to building a sustainable future. Described by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers,” Brown started his career as a tomato farmer. Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science, he spent six months living in rural India, where he became intimately familiar with the food/population issue. Brown later became head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's International Agricultural Development Service. In 1974 he founded the Worldwatch Institute, leaving in 2001 to found the Earth Policy Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 50 books, the most recent of which is Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, and has received 24 honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the 1987 United Nations Environment Prize, a MacArthur Foundation “genius award,” and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize.
For more information please visit http://www.earth-policy.org/index.php?/about_epi/C32/
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