Weekly Round Up for ENVS
Students
This brief newsletter is intended
to give the reader a glimpse of campus happenings and opportunities.
New items added in red
VOLUNTEER
OPPORTUNITY – Recycling Audit
Building Services and Recycling Services has a great
volunteer opportunity coming up this Thursday.
The department will be conducting a trash and recycling audit of Neptune
Hall on Thursday, March 8th from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. The purpose of this audit is to see how
effective the current waste management system is and another audit will be
conducted in six months after the new single stream system is implemented to
record the progress of the program. This
is an opportunity for students to learn about the NIU recycling system, the
changes that are currently being implemented, and also receive personal insight
on the recycling habits of the campus.
The audit will take place at Building Services West, formerly
the John Deer Building, which is just west of the Convocation Center. We will be separating the different types of
recyclables and measuring the amount of recyclable materials that are mixed in
with the trash. One flow of materials
will be coming in at 9:00 a.m. and another flow will be coming in at 2:00
p.m. Gloves will be provided, and this
may be considered a dirty job. We are
looking for as many volunteers as possible to sort and weigh the materials, and
they may come and go at any time within the working hours.
Please contact Tammie Pulak or Sarah Wawerski at Building
Services, 815-753-1155, with any questions about this audit or Recycling
Services. Another audit of the same
focus will be conducted at the Lowden building later this spring when we will
need volunteers as well.
ENVS Candidate Talks
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Environmental Anthropology
o
CANCELLED March 9th,
12p, Wirtz 103A
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March 19th, 12p, Wirtz 103A
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Energy & Environmental Technology
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March 19th,
1p, Wirtz 104
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March 26th, 1p,
Wirtz 104
Events & Opportunities for
March
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Complete Calendar of Events
listed online
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Green Paws Environmental
Alliance
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Wednesday, March 7th,
6p, DuSable 456
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Committee for the
Preservation of Wildlife
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Wednesday, March 7th,
Montgomery 443
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Environmental Studies Student Club
o
Monday, March 19th,
7p, Wirtz 220
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Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day (URAD)
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Registration ends March 9th
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Event day is April 24th
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Taming Training Balance: 2012 Traveling Solo
Exhibition
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Art Student Siew Lian Lim to showcase her MFA
Thesis Exhibition
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March 19-23, with a reception on March 21st
from 5:30-9p
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NIU Gallery, 215 N 4th Street
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Earth Appreciation Month
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Complete list of activities found on the ESE
website at: http://www.niu.edu/ese/events/earthappreciation_2012.shtml
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Re-Reuse-A-Palooza
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March 23rd, The House Café
Looking Ahead
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NIU Cares Day
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April 14th
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Tumbling Snow in the Soviet Union: A History of
Avalanche Vulnerability in the Khibiny Mountains, 1929-1991 (Dr. Andy Bruno)
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April 2nd, 3:30p, HSC Heritage Room
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Tour Richard Born’s DeKalb Home, complete with
solar array to charge Chevy Volt
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April 22nd, 1:30p
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Jack Pizzo to talk about
Ecological Restoration
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April 23rd,
7p, Wirtz 220 (subject to change)
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2nd Annual Environmental Film
Festival
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April 26th, 3-10p, Egyptian Theatre
3:00p Doors
Open
4:00p Our
Planet Earth (1991, 23 minutes)
4:30p The
Lorax (1972, 28 minutes)
Dinner Break
6:00p Butterflies
and Bulldozers (2010, 62 minutes)
7:30p Division
Street (2009, 63 minutes)
9:00p Green
Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time (2010, 74 minutes)
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