Celebrate Earth Day all week!

April 19, 2010

Daily events

Planet Earth

Watch Planet Earth evenings in Ross Dining Hall

Wednesday, April 21

Climate Change and Methane Markets:  Living Global Environmental Policy

The Government Goes Green: Career Conversations about Environmental Science Opportunities
12:30 pm Mitchell Green Lounge

Climate Change & Methane Markets: Living Global Environmental Policy
Presentation by Annenberg Speaker Ashley King, Co-Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Methane to Markets program
4:30 pm McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219

Earth Day! Thursday, April 22

Professional in Residence: Ashley King

10:00 am – 12:00 pm Career Services Office, Adirondack House
Drop by for conversation, advice, or questions from Co-Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Methane to Markets program.

Dish Rescue!

3-4pm

Led by the Dish Rescue Action Team (DRAT!) superheroes will be flying around campus to find dishes and return them to the dining halls. We ask that people take dishes out of their rooms and put them outside their doors or in commons spaces so that we can pick them up.

Middlebury Earth Hour

7-8pm

Turn off your lights and other electronic devices and head over to Proctor terrace for games and acoustic music (weather permitting). Earth Hour is completely voluntary, but makes a huge difference. When a lot of people do it, we save a lot of energy!

Scott A. Margolin '99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs

7 pm, McCullough Social Space

Education, Sustainability, and Letting Go by John Elder, College Professor

This event is part "A Celebration of John Elder’s 37 Years at Middlebury College", full listing of events here.

Earth Week Film Festival- The Cove

8:00 pm--Dana Auditorium

Friday, April 23

Earth Week Film Festival- The Age of Stupid

8:00 pm-- Axinn Theater

A Celebration of Nature and the Arts

Various events all day Friday and Saturday. Full schedule here.

Greening Study Abroad

Presentations by Sustainable Study Abroad Grants recipients

12:15 p.m.
Robert A. Jones ’59 House conference room

Shannon Engelman, Tanzania
A vegetation study in the coral rag forest

Kaitlynn Saldanha, Argentina
Sustainable Development in Patagonia

Jonas Schoenefeld, Chile
Sustainable University Initiative Chile

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.  RSVP by emailing the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs

Saturday, April 24th

A Celebration of Nature and the Arts

Various events all day Friday and Saturday. Full schedule here.

Earth Week Film Festival- Food Inc.

8:00 PM--Axinn Theater