Events
Below is the weeks' schedule and a brief description of each
event. Click on the event title to see a detailed page about each event.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Green Movie Premiere “The Age of Stupid”
6-7:30 p.m. Frank G. Pogue Student Center Multipurpose Room B.
The Age of Stupid’ is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel'
and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day in September'. This enormously
ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete
Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching
'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while
we had the chance?
Admission is free and open to the public. Movie
details:
http://ageofstupid.net
TUESDAY, december 1
Green
Job Panel
7-8:30 p.m.,Frank G. Pogue Student Center Multipurpose Room A.
The green job panel will provide information on the experience and education
needed to secure “green jobs” of the present and future – direct from the
employers who will be doing the hiring.
Admission is free and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY,
december 2
Green Guest Speaker – “No Impact Man”: An Evening with Colin Beavan
7:30-9 p.m., Frank G. Pogue Student Center Multipurpose Room A & B.
Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project
in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no longer
avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal
complacency with a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for
one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more
non-local food, no more material consumption… As an ardent believer in
"sustainability 2.0," Colin talks about sustainability in the most personal
narrative.
Admission is free and open to the public.
More info:
http://noimpactman.typepad.com
Thursday, December 3
Biomass Public Meeting - PA Fuels
for Schools & Beyond
2:00-4:00
p.m., Frank G. Pogue Student Center Room 143
The Pennsylvania Fuels for Schools & Beyond program is a statewide biomass
energy-use initiative promoting local renewable resources to provide reliable
energy for Pennsylvania schools and businesses. Discover how sustainably
harvested native grasses, wood, and energy crops can provide commercial heat at
significant cost savings over fossil fuels.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Green Energy Fair
4:30-7:30 p.m., Frank G. Pogue Student Center Multipurpose Room A & B.
The Green Energy Fair will feature a variety of exhibitors including internal
campus groups as well as external conservation, recycling groups and for-profit
companies. For-profit companies will include vendors who sell
environmentally friendly products, vendors who sell or install alternate energy
solutions or vendors who offer consultations on designing eco-friendly/energy
efficient homes or business. Add to that free prizes, entertainment, free
food.
Admission is free and open to the public.
SPECIAL eCycle Opportunity at the Fair!
Bring
your old tvs, computers & electronics
4:30-7:30 p.m., Frank G. Pogue Student Center Lobby
eRiecycle will have a truck at our Fair to accept your old electronics. There is
a $10 fee to dispose of computers, printers and monitors that has no or minimal recycling value.
Green
Energy Workshops
7:30-8:30 p.m., Frank G. Pogue Student Center Rooms 303A, B, C & 310.
With in depth information without the overload of technical details, the
workshops will be a chance to learn more about alternative energy and saving
energy. Subjects will include: Biomass & Biofuels-how they affect you; Wind
Power 101-planning for residential scale wind power; Solar Panels-the economics
for home or business and Home Ideas-energy efficiency solutions that work.
Admission is free and open to the public.
FRIDAY, december 4
Green Cars / Hybrid Test Drives
11 am-2
p.m. Frank G. Pogue Student Center parking lot.
What is the difference between hybrid 2.0 and 3.0? What is the most economical
hybrid today? What will you be driving in the future? Check out the
possibilities as dealers from around the Erie area bring their cars here for you
to try out.
Free test drives. Open to students and staff of EUP.