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EARTH WEEK 2010 at Lafayette College!!!!

Hello all!

If you’re visiting this website, I’m sure you’d be interested in coming out to some of our programs and events for EARTH WEEK 2010!!  A lot of them are specifically about the garden and local food! 🙂

Here’s the schedule:

You are welcome to attend any and all of these events!

For more information, see our website: Earth Day.Org

We’ll be visiting the garden at 4PM on Wednesday as part of the tour and I’ll be presenting about it on Friday at noon for the Brown Bag on Campus sustainability.

Hope to see you there!!!!!  And Happy Earth Week!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

Saturday Mornin’ Gardening

Hey everybody,

We got a LOT of work done today.  All the fence posts are in, we cut them to be about even height (~7 foot), and hung wire around the top.

We had a lot of enthusiatic help from students, faculty and staff including John Wilson, Cliff Reiter, Annette Diorio, Art Kney and his daughter Elise, LEAP/SEES students: Scott Stinner, Britta Moore, Tom Golazewski, Paul Creme, and Laura Bochner (and it was her 21st birthday!!)

We’ve still gotta: put up the fencing with fence staples and attach it to the wire at the top with zip ties.  I think we’re planning on working on Friday morning to finish it up.  Let me know if you can come!!

Thanks to everyone for coming out and helping today!!

And THANK YOU to Derek Smith for the yummy snacks..fruit and cookies from the farmers market! 🙂

Jenn

Fence Building–Again this Saturday!

Hey everyone!!

We had a building day on Saturday thanks for the help from LEAP, the Music Appreciation floor, and some great faculty and staff including John Wilson, Andy Smith, Dave Brandes, and Annette Diorio for all the help!  We got about half of the fence posts up, so we’re planning on having another building day this coming Saturday, May 9th at 7AM.

Thanks to Mr. Jim Krivoski for buying doughnuts! 😀

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These fence posts are native black locust trees from Prof. John Wilson’s farm.

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We finished one side and most of the other.   This is where the gate is going to be located.

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Professor Wilson, Sean Murphy, Scott Stinner working on the corner.  In the back: Annette Diorio, Britta Moore, and little Jack working on putting up some posts.

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Paul Creme, Zeus Wu, and Prof. Andy Smith digging a hole.

Earth Week Events!

LEAP Photo Contest
Description: LEAP invites all students, faculty, and staff to participate in its first Earth Week photo contest! The contest seeks photograph submissions that spotlight the natural environment, such as wildlife or the landscape. The contest will be open until midnight on Saturday, April 18th. The top 12 photos will be featured in a 2010 calendar. http://moodle.lafayette.edu/course/view.php?id=3122

KEYNOTE: U.S. Environmental Policy, Kate Sheppard from Grist Magazine
Date: Friday April 17th
Location: Hugel 103
Time: 12 PM (Free Food!)
Description: Kate Sheppard from Grist Magazine (Ithaca ’06) will be here to discuss United Sates environmental policy being shaped by our legislators in Washington D.C.

Environment & Religion, Rev. John Colatch, Rabbi Daniel Swartz, Professor Herman Tull
Date: Monday April 20th
Location: Kirby 104
Time: 6 PM (Free Food!)
Description: College Reverend John Colatch, Rabbi Daniel Swartz of Temple Hesed Scranton, PA, and Visiting Professor of Religious Studies Herman Tull will be here to discuss how the environmental movement has been shaped by religion.

Environmental Poster Display
Date: Wednesday April 22nd
Location: Farinon
Time: 12 PM
Description: Come join your fellow students as they display their environmentally-themed research posters in Farinon.

Earth Day Celebration
Date: Wednesday April 22nd (Rain Date: April 23rd)
Location: The Quad
Time: 4 PM
Description: Come join LEAP as we celebrate Earth Day on the Quad! We will have a solar panel display, compost display, crafts, Frisbee, volleyball, WRJH, and homemade snacks!

Movie Night in Farinon: Planet Earth
Date: Thursday April 23rd
Location: Farinon Atrium
Time: 9 PM
Description: LEAP will conclude the celebration by having a movie screening of Planet Earth in the Farinon atrium. All are welcome to watch this exciting movie.

LVAIC Conference!

Lafayette students involved with SEES and LEAP presented posters on Friday, Feb. 20th at the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Sustainability Conference.

There was some great speakers and break out sessions including keynote speaker John L. Cusack, the founder of Gifford Park Associates, Sodexho representatives, and Matt Steiman the Biodiesel Plant Manager and Assistant Farm Manager of the Dickinson College farm!

There was also a poster contest for students to display various campus sustainability efforts!  We had the biggest showing of any of the colleges with 9 posters and 11 students present at the conference!  The poster I presented entitled “Creating a Sustainable Food Loop at Academic Insititutions through Food Waste Composting and Organic Vegetable Production” placed second in the student poster contest.  Yay Lafayette!

Click here to see an article on the Lafayette website about it!

Jenn