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Campus Sustainability Day
Campus Sustainability Day will be held on Wednesday, October 25, 2006. Campus Sustainability Day is an annual celebration and showcase of all the great work the Ithaca College community is undertaking to advance sustainability in our teaching and scholarship, our operational activities, and our communication and outreach efforts.
This year’s line-up of activities starts with a Preview Event, on the evening before Campus Sustainability Day. On Tuesday, October 24th, Ithaca College and Cornell University are collaborating to co-sponsor a presentation by Dr. Anthony Cortese, president of Second Nature, entitled “How Ithaca College and Cornell University can help lead society on a healthy, just, secure, and sustainable path.”
Cortese will also be available in an open discussion forum with the campus at 4:00p.m. on Tuesday, October 24, in Williams 225.
Click to view the poster for this event
Click to read Anthony Cortese’s biography
Campus Sustainability Day begins on Wednesday, October 25th at 9:00a.m and runs until 5:00pm in the Campus Center.
Displays and demonstrations will be on-going throughout the day in the Campus Center lobby and the McDonald Lounge. Among these will be EarthCafe 2050, the interactive demonstration of “ecological footprinting,” and its companion demonstration, the “giant footprints.” Come discover how large a “footprint” YOU are leaving on the earth.
Also on display will be more information about “Positive Growth”, the sustainability initiative at Ithaca College . Discover what IC is doing to infuse sustainability into curriculum across disciplines and to create applied research opportunities studying campus sustainability. Find out more about the smart, sustainable decisions managers of campus operations have been making. And learn how we reach out and share what we’ve learned within our campus community, to our surrounding region, and to our colleagues in higher education.
Other departments, organizations and activities will be presenting information about their work, including the Sustainable Conscious Living Community, Ithaca College Dining Services, the Bookstore, Students for Sustainability, the Ithaca College Environmental Society, the Resource and Environmental Management Program, TRANSform, the Tompkins Renewable Energy Education Alliance, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) and more.
Faculty and student presentations will be held throughout the day – watch for the final schedule of presenters and topics posted outside the Clark and Klingenstein lounges, where these talks will be held. Schedules topics include green building, "the sustainable human", maintaining biodiversity, wind turbine workshop, "re-fashioning", sustainable building design, student research in Ecuador, alternative transportation, and much more!
There will also be some special presentations held throughout the day:
9:00a.m. – 10:00a.m - Sandra Steingraber, visiting distinguished scholar, environmental toxicologist and acclaimed author of “Living Downstream”, will present on “"Sustainable Eating from the Dirt to the Dinner Table." North Meeting Room, Campus Center.
11:40a.m. – 12:30p.m. - Sustainability Café – “Sustainability in Dining Services” will be presented by director of dining services, Jeff Scott. Jeff will update you on everything dining services has done to date to incorporate more sustainable practices, and give you a preview of some of their plans for the future. “Teachable edible” snacks will be provided – local and organic foods to taste test. North Meeting Room, Campus Center.
12:30 – 2:30p.m. - The Society of College and University Planning (SCUP) webcast entitled “Where you you on the continuum of integrated sustainability planning?” featuring case studies and success stories from other higher ed institutions, including Harvard University, Arizona State, and Grand Valley State University. North Meeting Room, Campus Center . For more information about this webcast, click: http://www.scup.org/csd/4/
3:00 – 4:00p.m. - Jason Hamilton “The Quest for a Sustainable World – What we know, what we can do.” North Meeting Room, Campus Center.
At 4:00p.m., stay tuned for a special announcement from Zachary Ford, student body president, about an important new campus initiative to encourage environmental sustainability, personal responsibility, and campus pride.
4:00 – 5:00p.m. - Daniel Greenberg with “Living Routes” along with Astrid Jirka from the Office of International Programs will present on “Sustainable Travel and Carbon Offsets”, in Klingenstein Lounge.
Click to view the poster for Campus Sustainability Day
Click to view the complete schedule of activities (PDF)
