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Q&A with filmmaker and FoodCorps founder Curt Ellis
Bad corn, good movies, and healthy school lunches
Re-cap: April 20th, Beyond Paper & Plastic Dialog - Incarceration
The Sustainability4All’s Beyond Paper & Plastic dialog on April 20th was both informative & inspiring. The topic was on incarceration & how it affects Black families. I had always been aware of how the legal system (including police, courts and private prisons) is prejudiced against & condemn more African-Americans than Caucasians, and how minor drug charges can turn normal people into hardened criminals and results in unfair loss of rights afforded to citizens. But I had never connected the two until this panel showed me that this was a systemic problem.
Spotlight: PSU's Upcoming Village Building Convergence Projects - get excited!
On Friday, April 27th, PSU’s Social Sustainability Taskforce (SSTF) of the Sustainability Volunteer Program met up to continue discussing project ideas for the upcoming Village Building Convergence (VBC). What is the VBC you ask? Well, in short, it is a Portland-based, week-long festival that is essentially about bringing communities together to work on neighborhood improvement and place-making projects. While the VBC is now in its 12th year, this is the first year that the PSU campus is registered as an official project site.
Earth Week Re-cap: Intercultural Sustainability Exhibition Spotlight - Slovakia Presentation
The Wolf Private Nature Reserve has an area of 21.24 hectares and is situated in Prešov region, in the Čergov Mountains. WOLF has aquired the forest from a private landowner. The amount that was necessary for buying the forest - 3.2 million Slovak crowns - was raised by the fundraising campaign "Buy Your Own Tree" and help of supporters from 19 different countries across the world. WOLF has been the owner of the forest since 1998 with no human interventions taken in this forest ever since.
PSU Earth Week Wrap Up
PSU's Annual Earth Week celebration was hosted by environmental groups on campus and encouraged participation in sustainable lifestyle workshops from eco fashion shows to vertical gardening. There were also many engaging lectures and discussions hosted by various professors and student groups. Here is our wrap up of a selection of events that occurred:
Bike to PSU Challenge - This May!
May 1–31, 2012
Start a team, join a team, or ride solo.
Challenge your friends.
Win prizes.
How does it work?
Video from Sustainability 4 All
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Amazing video from the recent event hosted by the Sustainability Leaders Network!
Community Building through Social Sustainability
Is there a better opportunity to talk about Social Sustainability on campus than Earth Week? Probably not!
Social Sustainability... What does that even mean? Let me try to explain it.
Earth is Home
In recognition of the 42nd Earth Day, PSU Library’s Green Team is devoting a week to encouraging visitors to honor our shared home, the astonishingly beautiful and resilient planet Earth! From April 16th to April 21st we’ll have on temporary display a number of books related to ‘green thinking’ and environmental sustainability. Look for them in the New Books section, just inside the front door.
Take the EcoWiki Community Survey to Win a Chinook Book! (by April 30)
The EcoWiki Task Force has some ideas for improving the site, and we need your feedback! As a little incentive, we'll be giving away Chinook Books to three random participants. Winners can choose a paper version or a mobile app.
Some of our ideas include:
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on Americorps Internship for The Intertwine & The National Park Service
on Spotlight: PSU's Upcoming Village Building Convergence Projects - get excited!
on Contemporary Native American Art Seminar at PSU, taught by Wendy Red Star