EARTH DAYS
2007
At
Climate Change and You:
Local Actions for a Global Problem
Faculty and students from diverse departments at Salem State College, along with environmentalists and community representatives from HealthLink, have been celebrating Earth Day at SSC since the spring of 2000. In 2005, Earth Day became Earth Days and we expanded our program to a week-long series of events.
This year, 2007, we will celebrate Earth Days the week of April 9-14. Since the goal of Earth Days is to present members of the College and the local communities it serves with information about the human-caused environmental changes on our local, state, national, and global communities, the chosen theme this year is: "Climate Change and You: Local Actions for a Global Problem". This theme aims to examine the increasing concern that society has for global warming climate change and its predicted impacts on both natural systems and human systems. We intend to explore the many dimensions of global warming's causes and effects and to look for local actions that can contribute towards solving this global problem. The replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy sources will be one of the many local actions that we hope will be examined in our undergraduate student poster competition and panel discussion.
The schedule of events for Earth Days 2007 is below:
For Further Information, Contact
Co-coordinators of SSC Earth Day Planning Committee:
John Hayes,
Geography, (978) 542-6922; jthayes@earthlink.net
Hope Benne,
History, hbenne@salemstate.edu
Updates
on the web:
www.salemstate.edu/earthday/
MONDAY, APRIL 9,
2007
VETS
HALL- Monday morning, April 9
Environmental Career Forum 10:30 AM
- 12:30 PM
Representatives from state and federal government, environmental organizations, activist groups, watershed groups and more will attend. Students should come to network with environmental professionals, to investigate summer and academic year internships, and learn about potential jobs. Faculty coordinator for this event: Prof. Dan Marien, Political Science
Check in for Student Posters, Lobby 10:30
AM - 11:00 AM
Student Poster & Art Competition 11:00
AM - 12:15 PM
Over
80 research posters, submitted by students in many disciplines across our
campus, will be judged in the morning.
Visitors are encouraged to view the posters and speak with the students
who created them during the competition phase and until 12:30 PM. A new addition to this event this year will
be an Earth Day art exhibit and competition.
Faculty coordinator
for poster competition: Prof. Marcos
Luna, Geography
Faculty coordinator
for art exhibit & competition: Prof.
Ken Reker, Art
Panel Discussion 1:30-3:00 PM
Panel on “Global Climate
Change: Exploring Local Impacts and Solutions" will examine the many
facets of global warming and its likely impacts with a focus on practical
solutions that can begin now.
Panelists:
Eric Friedman, Director of State Sustainability,
Stephen Nodvin, Ph.D., Director,
Bob Sheppard, Deputy Director, Clean Air-Cool Planet,
Amy Barad, Project Manager--Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
Trust,
Panel
Moderator: Dr. Steven
Silvern, Dept. of Geography,
Slater Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Meier Hall, Monday
Afternoon, 3:30 PM, April 9
"Is Pluto a Planet?" - Lecture by Prof. Owen Gingerich,
Dept. of History of Science,
This lecture
has been re-scheduled from this year's Darwin Festival which lost a day due to
snow. Prof. Gingerich's lecture is
sponsored by
the SSC Department of Chemistry & Physics and the
Charles Albert Read Trust. The Earth Day
Planning Committee is very pleased to add this special event to our Earth Days
2007 celebrations!
SSC Earth Days Film & Speaker Series
(With
Pizza Lunch)
April 10-12, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2:30-4:00 PM
Slater Lecture
Hall, Room 432 Meier Hall
"An
Inconvenient Truth" – Sponsored by the BioSociety Student Club
[This will be a showing of the Oscar-winning
movie by former Vice-President Al Gore]
Wednesday, April 11 - 12:30-1:45 PM
“Live &
Updated Presentation of An Inconvenient Truth” presented by Jeff Barz-Snell,
local pastor and trained in Al Gore's Climate Change project. -- Sponsored by
the Salem Geographical Society (Geography student club)
Thursday, April 12 - 11:00 AM-12:15
PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 6 -
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
Earth Day Art Exhibit by students of Salem-area public schools.
Campus Library, 1st
Floor Window Display
Environmental art by students of Salem-area public schools will be
on display on the first floor of the campus library. As was done last year, the art will be
mounted on the window glass along the main hallway leading to the library. The art is viewable from both inside the
library and from the hallway. Last
year's exhibit was very well-received and was viewed by large numbers of
people. Please come and see what our
local public school students have done--you will not be disappointed!
Exhibit organized by Dr. Greg Carroll, Dept. of Education,
EARTH DAY EVENTS SPONSORED BY MASSPIRG
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM,
Solar Smoothies and Earth Day pinwheels!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 9:00 -11:00 AM,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 3:00 PM, Campus Underground,
Film:
"Who Killed the Electric Car?"
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, Step It Up Campaign--a nation-wide campaign for activism on global
warming
Potluck Lunch - (more details
to come)
COLLABORATIVE EARTH DAY COMMUNITY EVENT
ON SATURDAY, APRIL 28:
EARTH DAY and OPEN HOUSE at the
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Events include:
Environmental information booths
Student Art
Tide pool with local organisms
Children's crafts and games
Refreshments
Contact person: Mr. Kevin
Andrews, 978-740-1280
For Further Information, Contact
Co-coordinators of SSC Earth Day Planning Committee:
John Hayes, Geography, (978) 542-6922; jthayes@earthlink.net
Hope Benne, History, hbenne@salemstate.edu
Participating Committee Members for 2006-07:
Kevin Andrews,
Rick Brandt, Geography
Martha Dansdill & Jody Howard, HealthLink
Ana Echevarria-Morales, Foreign Languages
Jan Lundstrom, English & The
Marcos Luna, Geography
Daniel Marien, Political Science
MassPIRG
Lynn Nadeau, HealthLink
Peter Oehlkers, Communications
Ken Reker, Art
Steve Silvern, Geography
David Tapley, Biology
with contributions from: Doug Allen, Geology; Ryan Fisher, Biology;
the BioSociety, the Salem Geographical
Society, and the Earth Science Association.
FINANCIAL
SUPPORT FOR
EARTH DAYS
2007
Generously
Provided By:
President
Nancy Harrington, Office of the President
Dean Marc
Glasser, The
The Peace
Institute
Tefferteller
Foundation
and
HealthLink