Today is UNC's big Campus Earth Day celebration! Be sure to join us and lots of other great organizations on Polk Place today! Click here to download and print the UNC Earth Week 2011 flier. Today's featured activities include:
Campus Earth Day
Join us as UNC partakes in its annual campus Earth Day celebration. Tables from all sustainability-related student groups, departments, and community organizations will be exhibited. UNC students and community members will answer trivia questions about sustainability in order to enter their names in a raffle for the chance to win gift cards to local and sustainable business including Weaver Street Market, Maple View ice cream, and Twig.
Sponsor/Host: Environmental Affairs Committee and the UNC Sustainability Office
Times: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Polk Place (Main Quad)
Fee: Free!
Event Contact and email: Emily Chapin, e.chapin@unc.edu
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/
Carbon Heel Print Challenge: Weigh-off to award prizes and celebrate completion
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. Light snacks provided.
Sponsor/Host: Sustainable Triangle Field Site and the UNC Sustainability Office
Times: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: The Pit
Fee: N/A
Event Contact and email: Holly Kuestner, kuestner@email.unc.edu
Event website: http://garbagefootprints.blogspot.com/
"The Big Thirst: The Business of Water"
The golden age of water - where water is unlimited, safe, and free - is over. Award-winning investigative journalist Charles Fishman reports on his three-year odyssey to uncover how the world of water is changing and the enormous implications for each of us, no matter where we live.
Sponsor/Host: Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Center for International Business Education and Research, Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Global Research Institute, UNC Global, and Center for Global Initiatives
Times: 5:30 PM with reception to follow
Location: Kenan Center Dining Room
Fee: RSVP to rsvpkenan@unc.edu
Event Contact and email: rsvpkenan@unc.edu
Event website: http://www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/bigthirst/
To find more UNC Earth Week events, visit http://carolinagreen.unc.edu/!
