Campus Sustainability Day - Complete Schedule of Activities

10/25/06

Contributed by Marian Brown

Campus Sustainability Day, on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, is the annual celebration and showcase of all the Ithaca College community is doing to advance campus sustainability. The day's events take place from 9:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. in the Campus Center; the complete schedule of activities and presentations follow.

Campus Center - Displays and demonstrations
9:00a.m. – 5:00p.m.
Main Campus Center lobby, McDonald Lounge, Clark and Klingenstein Lounges
Solar trailer demonstration on the Greenhouse deck at the Center for Natural Sciences

Clark Lounge - Student Presentations

11:00-11:20a.m.
“Student Activism at Ithaca College”
Presenters: Dan Carrion and Jack Haurin

11:20-11:40a.m.
"Sustainable Enterprise Field Experience in Ecuador"
Presenters: Sarah Brylinsky and Kaitlin Regan

3:00-3:20p.m.
“Green Resource Hub”
Presenter: Sarah Naylor

3:20-3:40p.m.
“Wind Turbine Workshop” Presenter: Colin Howard

Klingenstein Lounge – Faculty Presentations

10:00-10:30a.m.
"Sustainability and Vocation"
Presenter: Kathryn Caldwell

10:30-11:00a.m.
"Maintaining Biodiversity: The Problem, the Challenge, and Student-aided Solutions"
Presenter: John Confer

11:00-11:30a.m.
“Why Women?”
Presenter: Vera Whisman

3:00-3:30p.m.
“The Sustainable Human”
Presenter: Monty Berman

3:30-4:00p.m.
"Integrating Sustainability into Calculus: A Quantitative Look at Energy"
Presenter: Tom Pfaff

4:00-5:00p.m.
“Sustainable Travel and Carbon Offsets”
Presenter: Daniel Greenberg from “Living Routes” with Astrid Jirka, International Programs

North Meeting Room – Special Presentations

9:00 – 10:00a.m.
“Sustainable Eating from the Dirt to the Dinner Table”
Presenter: Sandra Steingraber, visiting distinguished scholar, DIIS

11:45a.m.-12:30p.m.
Sustainability Café Series:
“Sustainability in Dining Services”
Presenter: Jeff Scott, director of Dining Services

12:30-2:30p.m.
SCUP Webcast: “Where is your campus on the continuum of integrated campus planning?”

3:00-4:00p.m.
“The Quest for a Sustainable World: What we know, what we can do”
Presenter: Jason Hamilton

4:00-4:20p.m.
Special campus announcement
Presenter: Zachary Ford, Student Body President

4:20-4:40p.m.
“Alternative Transportation”
Presenter: Aaron Bloom

4:40-5:00p.m.
“The TRANSform Challenge”
Presenter: (tbd)

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