This Year's Earth Week Events, April 19-24
Monday, April 19
6:00 p.m to 9:00 p.m. Bemis Great Hall
AgriCULTURE: "We are what we eat"
Tres Rios Coop potluck dinner and seminar with local farmer Doug Wiley
Tuesday, April 20
7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tutt Science Center Lecture Hall
Impending Water Wars: A panelist discussion featuring Professor of Environmental Science and Policy Phillip Kannan, Pikes Peak Sierra Club Chair Jane Ard-Smith, Professor of Economics Mark Smith, and Vice Mayor Richard Skorman;
Wednesday, April 21
11:30 to 2:00 p.m. Worner Student Center Quad
Full Circle Food and Community Connections
--an event to showcase environmental endeavors of our community and the college's new composting program, with an organic picnic, speakers, and organization information booths
7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. McHugh Commons
Creativity and Earth -- an engaging interdisciplinary discussion including topics such as the relation between human creativity and natural beauty, creativity as a wild capacity in humans beings, creativity in evolution, creation-based faith and relations to land, market appropriation of artistries, environmental issues evoked in film and literature, and the need for ingenuity in solving environmental problems--featuring Colorado College professors.
Thursday, April 22
12:00 p.m. Tutt Science Center Room 122
Tutt Science Center Presentation
Professor Nate Bower and Justin Pohlman
6:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. McHugh Alumni Plaza
Mountain View Hoedown -caller, live music, dancing. Food and refreshments provided.
Friday, April 23
11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Energy Day in Worner Quad
-featuring the Environmental Science Mobile Lab, fuel cell vehicles, renewable energy education, and solar cooking
6:00 p.m. Armstrong Theatre
Linnemann Lecture
"Sustainable Seas: The Vision, the Reality"
--lecture by Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic explorer-in-residence, Time magazine's first "hero for the planet", and former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Saturday, April 24
8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Olin Hall Rooms 1 and 185
EV Day
Senior Seminars , presented by Colorado College Environmental Science Majors (topics TBA)
11:30 p.m.
"A Spirit in Love with the Earth: The Promises of Religious Environmentalism"
Roger Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy, 'Reading Spirit' Columnist, Tikkun Magazine
--Events are to be held on the Colorado College Campus; all are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact:
Emily Wright (719) 227-0394, e_wright@coloradocollege.edu