Water Access Around the Globe Teach-In Today! SRC Opening on Friday!

[SSC UCSD]

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-5pm
Where: 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=related




5. 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


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