Earth Week Events
Environmental Studies Conference: Building a Sustainable Future
April 17 • MG 2100 (Planetarium)
2-6 p.m. • April 19 • on the Quadrangle
Movie - “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
7 p.m. • April 19 • MG 1000
SAB is sponsoring this event.
For more information on these events and additional off-campus events, log on to http://earth.truman.edu.
April 17 • MG 2100 (Planetarium)
8:45-9:15 a.m. - Light refreshments servedBike CO-OP Workshop
9:15-10:20 a.m. - Stewards of the Earth: Managing and Monitoring
1. Environmental Management Accounting - Julia Reed
2. Technology or Society: Who is to Blame for the Dead Zone? - Courtney Bonney
3. Values and Practice in Public Land Management, MDC - Eric Tumminia and Sam Pounders
4. Returning to the source: A collaborative effort to monitor watershed quality - Shannon Earhart
10:30-11:50 a.m. - Reflections on Nature: Selected Readings
1. Monica Baron
2. In the Coop and Spring Shorts Cassie Phillips
3. Eric Tuminia
4. Mark Spitzer
5. Iain McKee
Noon-1:20 p.m. - Lunch Seminar (lunch provided, vegetarian and vegan options)
Food Consciousness discussion leaders: Michael Seipel (agriculture) and Steven Carroll (ecology)
Adore Adair's Eatin' Eden: Living Locavore in Kirksville - Eric Tumminia and Sam Pounders
1:30-2 p.m. - Consumer Decisions
1. Palm Oil: the next ‘cruel oil’ Shanna Seyer
2. The Responsible Dollar: Buying responsibly produced animal products Pamela Stokes
2-3:20 p.m. - Building and Development
1. Eco-suburbia - Brett Wiley
2. Natural Building Workshop - Tamar Friedner and Sara Peters from Dancing Rabbit
Note: meet outside on the mall green space
3:30-4:50 p.m. - In Our Own Backyard: Sustainable Projects at Truman
1. Purple + White = Green: The Need for a Sustainability Coordinator at Truman State University - Libby Amick and Steven Carroll
2. Truman State University’s Compost Project: The Energy Perspective - Dan Fister, Luke Gardner, Allyson Rost and Ginger Daugherty
3. Truman State University’s Potential for Biodiesel Production and Use - Laura Farkas
7-8:30 p.m. - Building on Sustainable: Using Green Building for a Better Tomorrow
Keynote Panel: Michel Goldschmidt, Ronn Phillips and Rachel Katz BH 176 (Little Theatre) Reception to follow. The Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, ECO and the Division of Language and Literature will sponsor this event.
The Division of Science will sponsor the conference.
Building Toward Sustainability: Using Green Building for a Better Tomorrow
Keynote Panel: Michael Goldschmidt, Ronn Phillips and Rachel Katz
7-8:30 p.m. • April 17 • BH 176
A reception will follow. The Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, ECO and the Division of Language and Literature will sponsor this event.
2-6 p.m. • April 19 • on the Quadrangle
Movie - “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
7 p.m. • April 19 • MG 1000
SAB is sponsoring this event.
For more information on these events and additional off-campus events, log on to http://earth.truman.edu.
