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Sunday Night Group Chapter Meeting

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SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
SN(E)G Weekly Meeting: The Sunday Night Group is an open-space forum for students to express their ideas and find support for initiatives concerning and environmental activism and climate justice.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Solar Decathlon 5K Sun Run

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SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
What better way to celebrate renewable energy than by spending some of our own! The Middlebury Solar Decathlon Team will be hosting a 5K Sun Run on Sunday, April 24th at 11:00 am on the Middlebury College cross country course. You can help us build our house by registering online at http://topdesign.net/customer/bsdvt/ae-solar-decathlon.html [1] \I>or at the race starting at 10:30 am. All proceeds from the $15 registration fee benefit Midd SD. You’ll receive a t-shirt to mark the occasion.

Cross-country Trail

SNG Movie Screening: "A Road Not Taken"

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SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
In 1979, Jimmy Carter, in a visionary move, installed solar panels on the roof of the White House. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. In 1991, Unity College, an environmentally-minded centre of learning in Maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria roof. In «A Road not Taken», Swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller travel back in time and, following the route the solar panels took, interview those involved in the decisions regarding these panels as well as those involved in the oil crisis of the time.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 104

Putting Snow Back in the Snowbowl!

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SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
Middlebury is helping 350.org Connect the Dots! Across the planet now we see ever more flood, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked - the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before. Ski resorts throughout Vermont have been hit hard by the snowless and warm winter.

Snowbowl

Power Shift 2011 Kick-off Meeting

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SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
Calling all Middkids interested in climate change, environmental justice, energy, conservation, public policy, or activism! This spring, over 10,000 young leaders will converge on Washington, DC for Power Shift 2011, where we will stand together to reclaim our democracy from big corporations and push our nation to move beyond dirty energy sources that are harming the health of people and the planet.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Phone Banking for Carbon Pricing

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SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
Exercise your political will by phone banking for a carbon price in Vermont! Put on by Sunday Night Environmental Group. Other colleges in Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island will also have phone banks at the same time. No experience necessary. Scripts and snacks will be provided. Just bring your phone and political will.

Axinn Center 109

MCOG Screening: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

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SNG (Sunday Night Group), Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Campus Sustainability Coordinators, and SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil: When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba’s economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half - and food by 80 percent - people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens.

MCOG Screening: The Real Dirt on Farmer John

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SNG (Sunday Night Group), Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Campus Sustainability Coordinators, and SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this powerful story of transformation and renewal heralds a resurrection of farming in America. watch the trailer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0egeHh1_Sb4 Sponsored by: the Middlebury College Organic Farm, Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, the Residential Sustainability Coordinators, and SNG

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219

MCOG Screening: Farmageddon

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SNG (Sunday Night Group), Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Campus Sustainability Coordinators, and SUNDAY NIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP
Filmmaker Kristin Canty’s quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small family-operated farms selling fresh foods to their communities.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 219