Earth Week is officially underway! Check the schedule and join in the fun! Events are scheduled all across campus April 18-26. All events, unless otherwise noted, are FREE and open to the public. For a full schedule, please visit http://sustainability.unc.edu/
TODAY:
Earth Day Celebration featuring UNC environmental groups
Time: 10 AM - 2 PM
Location: Polk Place quad
Contact: Environmental Affairs Committee
Description: Celebrate the Earth and all of our environmental campus organizations. Bring your blankets, lunch, musical instruments, anything you want to tie-dye or screen print (Vorace Tee), frisbees, etc!
Multidisciplinary Teach-in
Time: All day
Location: Select classrooms
Contact: Focus the Nation (Fern Braun, fbraun [at] email.unc.edu)
Description: TBA
Speaker: John Replogle, President & CEO, Burt’s Bees
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Koury Auditorium, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Contact: Center for Sustainable Enterprise
Description: Free and open to the public
Green Jobs Panel (flyer)
Time: 7-9 PM
Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theatre
Contact: Danielle Del Sol, Institute for the Environment
Description: What are "green-collar" jobs? How can they help find graduating students meaningful jobs despite trying economic times? How can the development of sustainable and earth-friendly technologies and sectors help get the economy back on track? Join the UNC Institute for the Environment and others for a fascinating panel on the future of green-collar jobs and the development of the green economy in North Carolina and beyond. Expert panelists include Joseph James, Purpose Prize winner and CEO of Corporation for Economic Opportunity; John Hardin, Acting Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology, and Larry Shirley, Secretary of the NC State Energy Office. The panel will be moderated by Dr. James Johnson, Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center and the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
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