Earth Week: Calendar of Events

April 2008

Monday
Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
21
Alternative Transportation
9:30am Earth Week Opening Ceremony at the SUB

11:00am - 3:00pm Alternative Transportation Show on the Commons Plaza

10:30am - 11:30am
Bike Workshop at the Commons Plaza

6:00pm Vegan Dinner in the SUB Appaloosa Room

7:00pm
Environmental Film Festival featuring "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" in the Borah Theatre

22
UI Campus Day: Preserve the Palouse

UI Campus Day projects begin at 9:00am

10:00am-12:00pm Avista Light Bulb Exchange in the UI Commons

2:00pm Discussion on the decline of the Grande Ronde Aquifer with Dr. Steve Robischon. SUB Silver Room

4:00pm Wild Connections: documentary film about Hells  Canyon & Wallowa- Ecosystems. CNR Room 10

5:15pm Sustainability Council Meeting with ASUI in the Commons Panorama Room

8:00pm ASUI Earth Day Concert featuring Intervision
SUB Ballroom
23
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

10:00am - 3:00pm PCEI Composting Workshops on the Commons Plaza

10:00am - 11:30am Webinar: "How to Create a Local Foods Purchasing Program" Commons Whitewater Room

11:00am - 3:00pm 2nd Annual Aluminum Art Competition on the UI Commons Plaza

11:00am - 3:00pm Revolution Earth Game Show Commons Food Court

6:30pm Women's Bike Clinic at the Poultry Hill Bike Barn

24
 Energy and Green Design

All Week The Amazing Energy Race Scavenger Hunt

12:00pm - 3:00pm UISC Student Sustainability Project Symposium. Engineering Physics room 214

11:00am LEED Building Workshop with Professor Miranda Anderson in the Art and Architecture Shop Critique Space

1:00pm-5:00pm Rare Plants in Rangeland Symposium in the SUB Silver Room.

2:30pm Campus Sustainability Tour Departs from the SUB
25
Food Systems & Social Justice

All day: UI Engineering Expo

12:00pm - 1:00pm Vandal Green Arbor Day Tree Planting Ceremony at Pitkin Forest Nursery

3:00pm Eating Organic: Discussion with Kenna Eaton of the Moscow Food Co-Op. Ag Science 106

5:30pm Critical Mass Bike Ride. Departs from Friendship Square.


26
Rock the Earth 2008

8:00am - 7:00pm
Palouse Climbing Festival at the SRC Climbing Wall

9:00am - 2:00pm
PCEI Paradise Stream clean-up

9:00am Moscow Bicycle Prize Ride begins at the 1912 Center

3:00pm - 10:00pm Live Music & Food on the Tower Lawn

3:00pm - 10:00pm
Village Bicycle Project Celebration

3:00pm Environmental Club BBQ

4:00pm Live music with Dolphin Revolution

6:00pm live music with Sole Serene

8:00 Fire Dance performed by Melissa Obenchain

8:00pm TRACY LYONS Concert


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