Earth Week Schedule

Earth Week Schedule of Events

All of the events (lectures and films) will take place on Bellevue College's main campus (at 3000 Landerholm Circle SE). Unless otherwise noted, lectures are 50 minutes and will take place in Room C130 (BC Cafeteria) and displays and demonstrations will be set up in the Student Union Building (campus map).

Our overall theme this year is "Environmental and Social Justice", but you'll find talks on many other topics, too.

Monday, April 18
10:30	Sustainable Business Hour - hosted by Marika Reinke, Sustainable Business Program Kevin Wilhem, CEO, Sustainable Business Consulting Return on sustainability
11:30	Christina Gallegos, Board Co-Chair, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice Food justice in Seattle
12:30	Dan Albert, Associate ASLA, LEED AP,Civesca LLC Vertical farming and the future of food
1:30	Nathan Palmer-Royston, Product Designer, Theo Chocolate Fair trade and chocolate
2:30-4:30	Film - Blue Gold: World Water Wars - film summaries Followed by discussion

Tuesday, April 19
9:00-2:00	*Second Annual BC Farmer's Market* (in Courtyard)
8:30	Tim Kearney, Mathematics Instructor, BC Veganism around the globe
9:30	Andrea Gargas, Director, Symbiology, Inc. This is what democracy looks like: Eyewitness from the front line of the Wisconsin labor uprising
11:30	Mike Hanson, Botany Instructor, BC and Michael Meyer, English Instructor, BC Food rebellions
12:30	James Rasmussen, Coordinator, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition/Technical Advisory Group Home: Living in the Duwamish Superfund Site
1:30-3:20	*National Poetry Month/Belletrist* Publication Party Literary Reading (Library Media Center, L126) -** BC Poetry Reading (Sponsored by the English Department, Library Media Center, Earth Week, and Faculty Professional Development Committee)
1:30-3:30	Film - Gasland- film summaries Followed by discussion
3:30	Andrea Gargas, Director, Symbiology, Inc. Emerging disease: White nose syndrome causing massive declines of North American bat populations

Wednesday, April 20
8:30	Katherine Davies M.A., D.Phil., Core Faculty, Environment & Community and Associate Director, Center for Creative Change, Antioch University The environmental health movement: How an emerging social movement is transforming the way Americans think about the environment
10:30	Lisa Lynch, Faculty in the Ecopsycology Program, Antioch University Exploring ecopsychology and our relationship with the changing climate
11:30	Sustainability careers & jobs panel Host: Amanda Senft, Biology/Environmental Science Instructor Panelists: Courtney Sullivan, Education Manager for the National Wildlife Federation Cesar Arizmendi, Architectural consultant. Arizmendia EcoDesign Christian Sarason, Product Manager, 3tier Renewable Energy Information Services Julia Ruedig, Product Manager, Blue Marble Biomaterials Keith Rose, Air Quality Specialist, EPA Office of Air, Waste and Toxics
12:30	Keith Rose, Environmental Scientist, Environmental Protection Agency Ambient air pollution, health effects, standards, and monitoring methods
12:30	Tom Murphy & anthropology students, Edmonds Community College (Cafeteria) Demos on local knowledge including Coast Salish ethnobotany and wildlife tracking
1:30	Tom Murphy, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Edmonds Community College Sustainability and local knowledge: How can anthropology help solve humanity's looming crisis?
3:00-4:30	Film - Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai - film summaries Followed by discussion

Thursday, April 21
9:30	Deric Gruen, Sustainability Coordinator, BC Spinning the globe, adventures in the Middle-East, Africa and Latin America by bicycle
10:30	Sustainable Business Hour - hosted by Marika Reinke, Sustainable Business Program Vera Chang, Bon Appétit Management Company The story behind the food
11:30	Reverend Robert Jeffery, Title, Clean Greens Market Clean Greens Farm and Market - bringing fresh produce to South Seattle through a community-based agriculture project
1:30	Yoram Bauman, UW Instructor, Author and Stand-Up Economist The comedy of economics and climate change
2:30-4:00	Film - End of the Line- film summaries Followed by discussion

Friday, April 22
8:30-9:30	Film - Buyer Be Fair - film summaries Followed by discussion
9:00-12:00	Work party to build raised beds for the student veggie garden (Meet on the west side of the BC greenhouse)
9:30	Sustainable Business Hour - hosted by Marika Reinke, Sustainable Business Program Jerry Kroon, Vice President, Damar AeroSystems Making gold from going green
11:30	Mark Storey, Philosophy Instructor, BC Naked action, social responsibility, and the environment
12:30-2:00	Earth Week "Taste of BC" Community Potluck (in C120) (Co-sponsored by the BC Employee Pluralism Committee)
12:30-2:30	Film - Ghostbird - film summaries Followed by discussion

Throughout the Week:
"Clothing Swap"
Displays and Information
Community Recycled Art Project
ELFCC Events
"BC Vets Recycle"
Film Series
Contests

Read more about environmental issues:
See the display of books related to Earth Week topics in the BC library and check our the Earth Week Reading List.

BC Earth Week is organized by the BC Student Science Association. For more information contact Rob Viens in the BC Science Division at rob.viens@bellevuecollege.edu or (425) 564-3158.

Bellevue College
Earth Week 2011, April 18-22
12th Annual - Environmental and Social Justice