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ETSU Environmental Studies Minor

last update: March 16, 2009

Spring 2009

1. Wednesday, February 4, 7-8:30pm. D.P. Culp Center Forum Room. Climate Change Panel Discussion: Half-hour webcast in preparation for the "teach-in," tomorrow, followed by a climate change panel discussion, with questions from the audience. Panelists will include: Yongli Gao, Assistant Professor, Dept of Geosciences; Lindsey King, Lecturer in the Anthropology program in the Sociology and Anthropology Dept; Lance Lewis, President of Initiative for Clean Energy (I.C.E.), an ETSU student group; Jean Stead, Professor of Management; Ed Stead, Professor of Management. [ Update: Cancelled due to snow! We'll try to reschedule this on a Wednesday in April. Watch this calendar for updates. -- KOD 2/5/09. ]

2. Thursday, February 5. National Global Warming Teach-In.

3. Weekend of February 27-March 2, Powershift 2009 Conference in Washington DC. "Historic National Youth Summit" on the issue of clean energy. www.powershift09.org

Monday March 2nd, Washington DC, Capitol Climate Action, a mass civil disobedience at the capitol coal fired power plant in Washington DC, www.capitolclimateaction.org

A group of ETSU students will be traveling to DC to attend either or both of the above events. For more information, contact Lance Lewis, president of I.C.E. (Initiative for Clean Energy), an ETSU student group, at ice.etsu@gmail.com

Those interested in the civil disobedience action may also want to attend a civil disobedience training session on saturday, Feb 21, in Asheville North Carolina, at the Unitarian Universalist Church at the corner of Charlotte street and Edwin. For more information contact Kevin O'Donnell, odonnell@etsu.edu, 423 439-6679

Also, there will be an organizational and sign-making meeting at the Acoustic Coffeehouse "Next Door" (415 W. Walnut Street, Johnson City) on Weds Feb 25, 6-8pm. Contact Lance for info -- ice.etsu@gmail.com

4. Wednesday, March 18, lecture and slide show at 3pm, Ball Hall Auditorium; art work displayed on the outside of the building and in Slocumb Gallery, approx. 11am-4pm. The Beehive Design Collective will visit ETSU. This Maine-based group designs elaborate fine-arts banners that illustrate connections among personal consumption, politics, and environmental and social justice issues. Their new work is on Appalachian mountaintop removal. The slide presentation is entitled "The True Cost of Coal." Cosponsored by the Honors College. www.beehivecollective.org/

5. Saturday, March 21, 9am-3pm: Appalachian Trail Maintenance Trip. Click here for details.

6. Tuesday, March 24, 7pm, Ball Hall Auditorium (art bldg, rm 127), "A Sense of Wonder," a new film about environmentalist Rachel Carson, will be screened. Cosponsored with ETSU Women's Studies as part of Women's studies history month. www.asenseofwonderfilm.com. For info contact Dr. Fred Waage, Professor of English, at waage@etsu.edu

7. Thursday, March 26, 7pm, Culp Center Auditorium: Al Gore will speak! Sponsored by ETSU’s College of Public Health as part of its Leading Voices in Public Health Lecture Series. For more information call (423) 439-4243.

8. Thursday, April 2, 7pm. Ann Pancake, author of Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel, to speak at Reece Museum.

9. Thursday, April 23, 10am-2pm, Borchuck Plaza (in front of Sherrod Library). ETSU's Annual Earth Day Celebration, organized by I.C.E. (Initiative for Clean Energy), an ETSU Student Group.

10. Saturday, April 25, 9am-3pm: Appalachian Trail Maintenance Trip. Click here for details.