Event Calendar

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Upcoming Events

Spring 2010 Meetings

SEA will meet

 Mondays at 4:00

 Tuesdays at 1:00

both at COM 309 Conference room  every week except when otherwise noted.

Green Your Life: A Symposium on Sustainable Life Choices

When: Tuesday, February 9th from 9:00am to 4:30pm

Where: Hudson Auditorium; Regnier Center 12345 College Blvd. OP, KS

Making sustainable life choices involves education for action. Come join the JCCC’s Student Environmental Alliance, JCCC’s Sustainability Committee, and other Community Environmental Leaders and activists for a free all-day Sustainability Symposium geared towards raising awareness of JCCC’s and Kansas City’s own sustainability initiatives.

Tentative Schedule:

9:30 Dr. Jay Antle, Director of the Center of Sustainability, JCCC
Read Dr. Antle’s JCCC STORMWATER PROJECT. PDF (3.2MB)

10:00 Dr. Stu Shafer, Certified Organic Farmer, Sociology professor, JCCC
Stu Shafer’s GROW ORGANIC .PPTx file (1.2MB – PowerPoint presentation – right-click and Save As a local file to launch in PowerPoint)
or download this .ZIP file and unpack for local use.

10:50 Tom Gorby, Eco-Fertilization and Lubrication Dealer for AMSOIL

11:35 “In Transition 1.0″ video, as presented by Dave Lawrence and Michael Hoey of Kansas City Food Circle/Transition K.C.

Watch it on VIMEO ~ http://vimeo.com/8029815

Acquire the DVD (In Transition 1.0) VIDEO ~ Another source… ~ Other Free TRANSITION VIDEOS

12:10 Lunch

1:00 Eric Taub, Founder and Managing Partner of Verus Carbon Neutral
Verus’ Carbon Neutral .PDF (1.8MB)

1:50 Sierra Club’s Chris Cardinal/Stephanie Cole

2:30 Susan Brown, V.P. of Sales and Marketing for Energy Savings Store of Lenexa, KS

3:30 Steven Giambrone, Dr. Deborah Williams Professors of Biology at JCCC

11th Hour screening at JCCC

2 screenings on Wednesday the 18th in Craig Auditorium (GEB 233) 

12:00-1:30pm &

6:00-7:30pm

Food Fight-November 13th at Craig Aud.

Don’t miss this eye-opening documentary on the realities of our industrial, heavily subsidized food system that is controlled by only a handful of massive multi-national corporations.  Food Fight, directed by Chris Taylor, will make you think more about the hard-to-swall0w concept of where your groceries originate. 

Seating starts at 3:00pm-Friday Nov. 13 at the Craig Auditorium: Building GEB 233 of JCCC.  Showing is free but donations to SEA supporting sustainability initiatives at JCCC are welcome.

Fall 2009 Meetings

Our fall 2009 meetings are in COM 319C by the Center for Student Involvement 3rd floor commons building. 

Times:

Wednesdays 11:00-noon and Thursdays from 3:00-4:00pm

Campus Cleanup

Saturday Sep. 26 10:00-Noon

Meet at 9:45 at the front entrance of Student Center

trash bags provided.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Our Environmental Destiny”

9:30 a.m., Thursday, October 1, 2009
M. O. Looney Complex

Missouri Western State University-St. Joseph, MO 64507

For more info: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/convocation

Video showing of “The Story of Stuff” & “The Age of Stupid”

Wednesday Oct. 14, 12:00-3:00 noon  @ Craig community auditorium

Linda Hall Climate Change Symposium

Website: http://climate.lindahall.org

Date: Friday October 16

Time: 8:00am to 4:30pm

Address: 5109 Cherry St. KCMO 64110

Registration is Free for JCCC students if you contact S.E.A.: isaac-miller@sbcglobal.net or call 913-980-0368

350.org climate rally Oct. 24th

If you live in Kansas City and are concerned about climate change go to

Kansas City action: http://www.350.org/o24/action/4416

If you live in Overland Park and are concerned about climate change go to

JCCC action: http://www.350.org/node/6002