Student Environmental Alliance

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.