Happy third week of
WAM! Don't forget to sign the pledge to reduce individual and campus water consumption!
UC San Diego sustainability updates for the next two weeks:
1. Teach In: Water Access Around the Globe – Tues. Nov. 17, 5pm-7pm
2. Cup of Green– Mark Lovett: Water as a Global Issue – Tues. Nov. 17, 7pm
3. Water Collaboration: Technical Seminar Series: "Inexpensive Desalination" – Wed. Nov. 18, 4pm-5pm
4. UCSD Human Peace Symbol: World March For Peace and Nonviolence – Thurs. Nov. 19th, Noon
5.
Sustainability Resource Center Opening – Fri. Nov. 20th, 3pm - 4:30pm
6. San Diego Coastkeeper – Water Monitoring Volunteer Opportunity – Sat. Nov. 21st
7. The General Store Co-Op is now selling WAM filter bottles and recycled notebooks!
1. Teach In: Water Access Around the Globe – Tues. Nov. 17th, 5pm-7pm
Where: The Forum
Join student organizations One Earth One Justice, Students for Justice in Palestine & Coalition of South Asian Peoples for a teach in: water access around the globe for part of Water Awareness Month tomorrow in The Forum (located 4th floor - PC East, directly above Santorini).
The event will feature a panel of speakers & free film screening on the effects of corporate power, climate change and gender on access to clean water in India, Palestine and Bolivia.
Check out the
facebook invite and feel free to invite all your friends.
2. Cup of Green– Mark Lovett: Water as a Global Issue – Tues. Nov. 17th, 7pm
Where: Rogers Place & Market
We’re having our first “Monthly Cup of Green” with Mark Lovett from Global Patriot will join us to talk about water as a global issue & how each one of us can make a difference.
We’ll have Fair trade coffee & tea & some yummy munchies, tell your friends!!
Check out
Global Patriot's Website, and join their
facebook group
-EcoNauts, Housing, Dining and Hospitality
3. Water Collaboration: Technical Seminar Series – Wed. Nov. 18th, 4pm-5pmWhere: Atkinson Hall (also known as CALIT2), room 4004
UCSD Campus Water Collaborative’s second technical seminar, “Inexpensive Desalination: Harnessing Natural Forces” featuring Michael Motherway, President of DXV Water Technologies, hosted by the UCSD Sustainability Solutions Institute.
Refreshments will be served. There will be a 25 minute presentation, followed by an open discussion with question and answer opportunities. Seating is limited so please RSVP to
mses...@ucsd.edu.
We encourage faculty, researchers, staff and students to attend, particularly to hear from experts outside your discipline. For more information about the UCSD Campus Water Collaborative, visit
http://ssi.ucsd.edu.
4. UCSD Human Peace Symbol: World March For Peace and Nonviolence – Thurs. Nov. 19th, Noon
Where: Sun God Lawn
Let’s make UCSD’s the biggest peace sign of any university! Stand up for peace and show your support for the World March for
Peace and Nonviolence. Bring your friends, your organization for this historic event...
Want to help plan the Human Peace Symbol? Come to the Contemplation room (3rd floor of PC East) on Tuesdays at 7pm.
For more information, email eel...@ucsd.edu or click here.
Check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5z5O2UK9s&feature=related5. Sustainability Resource Center Opening – Fri. Nov. 20th, 3pm - 4:30pm
Where: The Sustainability Resource Center / Price Center Theater
Come celebrate the opening of the UC San Diego’s Sustainability
Resource Center–located in the Price
Center, at the heart of the campus, the Sustainability Resource Center
will be home to campus sustainability staff and the student-funded
Student Sustainability Collective. This unique collaboration between
students and staff will work to achieve common sustainability goals and
reach out to the campus and surrounding community. Campus
Sustainability Coordinator Maggie Souder and students from the Student
Sustainability Collective (SSC) have been working together to lead this
effort.
At the celebration, Chancellor Marye Anne Fox; Steve
Relyea, Vice Chancellor – Business Affairs; Gary Matthews, Vice
Chancellor -- Resource Management & Planning; Maggie Souder, Campus
Sustainability Coordinator; Fran Avendano, SRC co-founder and Lizzie
Caldwell, TGIF Grant Coordinator will give remarks.
We will also be announcing the winners of the Combat AQUAholism Film, Art and Innovation Competition. Souder and
Sustainability Analyst Kristin Hansen will be on site all day Friday to
answer questions. The Center officially opens for business on Dec. 1.
To RSVP to the event e-mail Hansen at
krha...@ucsd.edu For more
information go to
sustain.ucsd.edu.
6. San Diego Coastkeeper – Water Monitoring Volunteer Opportunity – Sat. Nov. 21st.
San Diego Coastkeeper’s Watershed Monitoring Program strives to:
- supplement the limited water quality data resources available,
- protect sensitive ecosystems,
- identify and abate pollution sources,
- track the effectiveness of pollution prevention plans and
- prevent further degradation of our precious water resources.
We achieve these goals by engaging hundreds of dedicated citizen
volunteer water monitors, providing useful water quality information to
the general public, and partnering with a wide variety of regulatory
agencies, academic institutions, businesses and non-profit
organizations.
Due to limited space and high volunteer interest, we are asking that
volunteers register to participate by Wednesday prior to the event.
To find out more about World Water Monitoring Day, Coastal Snapshot Day
and other projects please contact Karen Franz at (619)758-7743 or by
e-mail at kar...@sdcoastkeeper.org.
7. The General Store Co-Op is now selling WAM filter bottles and recycled notebooks!
All proceeds benefit the development of low-water irrigation systems
for the Urban Farm, Native Plant Garden, the Neighborhood Garden, and
the Compost Site.
Filter bottles: Great as portable and sustainable alternatives to bottled water!
Recycled notebooks: One initiative of the Student Sustainability Collective (SSC)
is the Counter-Consumption Program, or the DIY (Do-it-yourself)
Program. The SSC and Green Campus coordinate efforts in collecting
reusable scratch paper from on-campus recycling bins and turn them into
usable notebooks as alternatives to purchasing produced notebooks. The
SSC and GC hope to inspire students to DIY when the opportunity arises.
DIY explicitly critiques modern consumer culture, which emphasizes that
the solution to our needs is to purchase things, usually unsustainably.
DIY encourages people to take technologies into their own hands to
solve needs.
Get yours at the General Store or order online today!
-The Student Sustainability Collective
at the Sustainability Resource Center
University of California, San Diego
ssc...@gmail.com
Utilize The Student Sustainability Collective to collaborate with existing sustainability efforts.
Utilize The Green Initiative Fund to turn your sustainability ideas into reality.