The countdown to Earth Day continues at UNC with activities every day this week! Click here to download and print the UNC Earth Week 2011 flier. Today's featured activities include:
Plant a Rain Garden
Come learn about rain gardens, improve campus water quality and plant some native plants. The rain garden at Kenan Stadium will provide native habitat to support biodiversity and will help remove nutrients that lead to oxygen depleting algae blooms in Jordan Lake. Volunteers who help plant the rain garden will learn about actions that they can personally undertake to reduce water pollution.
Sponsor/Host: Environment, Health and Safety, UNC Sustainability Office, Energy Services, and Grounds Services
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Next to the Kenan Stadium Football Center (north side)
Fee: N/A
Event Contact and email: Sharon Myers, samyers@ehs.unc.edu
Event website: http://ehs.unc.edu/ehs/docs/rain_garden11.pdf
Carbon Heel Print Challenge: Bag distribution and festivities continue
Participants in this challenge carry a bag with all of their non-recycled, non-composted garbage throughout their daily activities for one week. The event culminates with a "weigh-off" on the Wednesday before Earth Day to honor the individuals with the lightest "garbage footprints." The top three winners will receive gift certificates.
Sponsor/Host: Sustainable Triangle Field Site and the UNC Sustainability Office
Times: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: The Pit
Fee: N/A
Event Contact and email: Holly Kuestner, kuestner@email.unc.edu
Event website: http://garbagefootprints.blogspot.com/
ABAN Earth Week Pit Presentations
A week-long celebration of the ways ABAN is impacting our world. Each day is represented by a different step in the process of our program coinciding with fun events and games. Come out to the pit this week to have some fun, learn more about ABAN, and check out our unique and environmentally conscious products.
Sponsor/Host: A Ban Against Neglect (ABAN)
Times: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: The Pit
Fee: N/A
Event Contact and email: Diana Lee, diana@aban.org, and Jenny Demarest, jenny@aban.org
Event website: http://www.aban.org/
"Defending Our Environment" Panel + Q&A
Join the Sierra Student Coalition, UNC Young Democrats, and the Roosevelt Institute this Earth Week to learn more about the history of the EPA, how current events will impact our progress on environmental issues, and what's going on now in Washington and in Raleigh as lawmakers take apart decades of bipartisan legislation defending our environment. Plus, delicious/sustainable FREE FOOD catered by Med Deli.
Sponsor/Host: Sierra Student Coalition, UNC Young Democrats, and the Roosevelt Institute
Times: 7:00 PM - 8:3 0PM
Location: Union 3205
Fee: Free, no ticket, no RSVP necessary
Event Contact and email: Evan Baker, ebbaker@email.unc.edu
Event website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114539651959802
To find more UNC Earth Week events, visit http://carolinagreen.unc.edu/!
