Earth Week April 2009
Last Year's Events
Sunday April 19: Day of Action
Ecological restoration at Rydell Preserve, Menasha.
Monday April 20: Sustainable Water
Peter Annin, “The Great Lakes Water Wars.” Peter Annin is the author of The Great Lakes Water Wars. (www.greatlakeswaterwars.com)
Wisconsin Review's spring reading. Readings of nature writing by several students from Douglas Haynes' Nature Writing, as well as a few other students, faculty, and staff members.
Tuesday April 21: Sustainable Conservation
RuckusRoots: an environmental nonprofit organization that unites art and music with activism to form ARTivism. Our interactive installations give young adults a creative voice in the eco-activism community. Come check out the famous Octamasher, our collaborative audio instrument, and try your hand at making and recording electronic music with your friends! Daytime, Reeve. (www.ruckusroots.org)
Posters by students in Stephanie Spehar’s course “Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conservation.” Daytime: Reeve concourse.
Sarah Otterstrom, “Conservation in Nicaragua: Sustainability for the Tropics.” Sarah Otterstrom is Executive Director, Paso Pacifico .(www.pasopacifico.org)
"The Gods Must Be Crazy" (film with discussion)
Wednesday April 22: Sustainable Food
Annual Earth Day tree planting.
- near the Arts/Communication building
Sustainable food and the community garden at UW Oshkosh. Daytime: Reeve concourse.
Earth Dinner.
- Organic Valley farmer (www.organicvalley.coop).
- Sally Ann Brickner. "Addressing Global Food Insecurity." Sally Ann Brickner is Director, Peace and Justice Center, St. Norbert College (www.snc.edu/peaceandjustice/profiles/sally.brickner.html)
Thursday April 23: Campus Sustainability
Celebration of Scholarship, with posters from the Environmental Studies Senior Seminar.
Open Forum on Campus Sustainability. Organizer: Almut Beringer
Rocking the Earth: Groovitational Pull
Friday April 24
Steve Arndt (Director of Facilities). “Clean Water Act, Storm Water, and UW Oshkosh.”
Fox River Clean-up. Steve Arndt will lead students on a clean-up of your Fox River by campus.
