Earth Week 2010

Starting tomorrow Monday, April 19 Earth Week kicks off. Come celebrate the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the modern environmental movement by getting involved in some fun, eco-friendly activities on and off campus. A green tip for Marathon Monday: buy local beer! Check out Harpoon IPA and UFO Hefeweizen, some popular beers from Harpoon Brewery in South Boston.

On Campus

Monday, April 19

Meatless Monday
All dining halls will be serving vegetarian lunch.

Vegetarian Cooking Demonstration with Dining Services and CORE
When: 4:30 p.m.
Where: FitRec

Planet Earth Screening
When: 7 p.m.
Where: The Kenmore Classroom Building, Room 106

Tuesday, April 20

Food Miles Maps
Posters will be displayed in all the dining halls illustrating the distances that our food travels, and the CO2 expended.
When: All day
Where: Dining halls

Wednesday, April 21

SED Green Screening of the film Earth 2100
When: 3 – 5 p.m.
Where: School of Education Auditorium, Room 130

Composting in the Dining Halls
When: 5 – 7 p.m.
Where: Dining halls

Leadership Campaign Earth Eve Sleep Out
Join hundreds of people to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day on April 22nd by joining the call to Repower Massachusetts with 100% Clean Electricity by 2020. Register here.
When: Wednesday night to Thursday morning
Where: Boston Common

Thursday, April 22

Earth Day Celebration on GSU Plaza
Environmental groups from Boston University and the Boston area will gather on GSU plaza to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. There will be free local, fair trade and organic food, demos, giveaways, bike-powered smoothies, seed-planting, water taste testing and music. Participating groups include Sustainability@BU, BU Recycling, Dining Services, Environmental Student Organization, Slow Foods, BU Bikes, Compostability, BU Vegetarian Society, MassPIRG, Outing Club, Organic Gardening Collective, NetImpact Undergraduate Chapter, BU Student Alliance for Progressive Change, Boston Vegetarian Association, Urban Adventours, Save That Stuff, Gazelle, Solar Road Trip, Andrea DeLeon, Newton North Greengineers, and Zip Car.
When: 11 – 3 p.m.
Where: GSU Plaza

Dining Services Chowder Cook-Off
Dining services will be hosting a chowder cook-off on GSU Plaza.
When: 11 – 3 p.m.
Where: GSU Plaza

Local & Fair Trade Food Tastings
Hood will provide ice cream samples, Cabot Farm will have a cheese tasting and there will be a representative from Ward’s Berry Farm. Also, Slow Foods will be making Fair Trade Banana splits (with Ben & Jerry’s ice cream!).
When: 11 – 3 p.m.
Where: GSU Plaza

Goodwill, not landfill
Stop by the GSU plaza to donate items you no longer use and check out the room display. Purchasing gently used items saves landfills from over-population, and helps reduce CO2 emissions as factories are not producing new things. Last year BU diverted 6.75 tons of reusable stuff. For a list of what objects to bring and what not to bring, please visit Sustainability@BU.
When: 11 – 3 p.m.
Where: GSU Plaza

Free Store
The Women’s Resource Center will be hosting a free clothes swap during the Earth Day festivities. Bring clothes, take clothes! All clothes left over will be donated to Goodwill.
When: 11 – 3 p.m.
Where: GSU Plaza

Earth West Campus Block Party
CFA : Logo Contest Entries Displayed, SVA Printmaking Demonstration
BU Bands : Presentation at 3pm in conjunction with the Logo Contest Winner Announcement CGS: “Reuse” Your Blood Drive and Recycling Table
Health Services : “Reduce” Your Risk of STDS (Part of STD Awareness Month)
Agganis Arena : Tennis Tournament Ticket Give Away and Tennis Ball Challenge
BU Bikes: Bike Safety Checks from an EMS Mechanic
Red Cross: Disaster Relief Information Booth
Starbucks, Chipotle, Panera and Qdoba : Free Food & Drink
BHOP: Gift Certificate Raffle for Two Pizzas
The block party will also feature outdoor recycling bins and a Carbonrally Sign-Up Table.
When: 10 – 4 p.m.
Where: West of the BU Bridge

Keep Local Farms @ BU Medical Center
BMC will become the first hospital in Massachusetts to join an effort called Keep Local Farms, designed to help local farmers through this tough economy.  There will be a press conference with the state’s agriculture commissioner, BMC CEO Kate Walsh, and local farmers followed by samples of farmer’s products. Vendors include Garelick Farms, Cabot Cheese, Grafton Village Cheese, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Stonyfield Farms, Newman’s Own and Ben & Jerry’s. BMC will donate 10 cents from every single-serve (bottle) purchase of milk to Keep Local Farms.
When: 10 – 2 p.m.
Where: Menino Pavilion lobby, 850 Harrison Ave.

Friday, April 23

Soul Purpose Symposium
Students from the Boston area are invited to attend this free, inspiring environmental activism workshop with local musician-activist group Melodeego.
When: 3 – 6 p.m.
Where: College of Arts and Sciences, Room 314

Earth Justice Student Forum
Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore will host this event, involving dialog with and presentations by various student communities at the School of Theology. How can we work together with and among diverse groups to foster earth justice?
When: 5 – 7 p.m.
Where: School of Theology Basement, Oxnam Room

Melodeego Concert
When: 8:30 p.m.
Where: BU Central

For a full list of on campus Earth Week events, visit Sustainability@BU’s website.

Off Campus

Thursday, April 22

Earth Day Concert 2010
92.5 F.M. The River, Boston’s independent and solar-powered radio station, is gearing up for a free lunch time concert featuring Citizen Cope and They Might Be Giants in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. For more information, check out The River’s website.
When: 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Where: the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway

Saturday, April 24

11th Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup
Join more than 3,000 other volunteers along all 80 miles of the Charles River to pick up trash from along the banks of the Charles River at one of more than 50 sites from Boston to Milford. Volunteers are provided with supplies at sign in. Wear durable, weather-appropriate clothing that can get dirty and bring drinking water.
When: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Where:

  1. Hatch Shell, on the Esplanade, Boston (Red Line near Charles/MGH T stop)
  2. Memorial Drive opposite JFK Park, upstream of Anderson Bridge, Cambridge (Red line near Harvard Square)
  3. The Fens behind the MFA, in parkland across the footbridge near intersection of the Fenway and Forsyth Way, Boston (Green E line MFA stop, bus accessible)
  4. Herter Park at Artisani Playground, Allston (bus accessible)
  5. DCR Brighton Pool, at rotary off North Beacon Street and Soldier’s Field Road, near IHOP Restaurant, Brighton(bus accessible, parking available)
  6. DCR Dealtry Pool, 138 Pleasant St, Watertown (bus accessible, parking available)
  7. DCR Upper Charles River Reservation, at the footbridge off River Street behind Shaw’s Parking Lot, Waltham (parking available)
  8. Hemlock Gorge Reservation, at Hamilton Place parking lot off Elliot St., Newton/Needham (parking available, about a mile from Green Line Eliot stop) – meet at 9:30am
  9. DCR Cutler Park, at the parking lot near intersection of Fourth Ave. and Kendrick Street, Needham (parking available)
  10. Whole Foods Market parking lot, 255 Hartford Ave., Bellingham(parking available)

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