Earth Week Activities in LaX


By borges, Section Hills and Valleys
Posted on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 09:08:43 PM CST

Lots of activities at UW La Crosse this week.  See them all in the full story...

Monday 21
    Info @ Clock tower on consumption reduction
Dumpster Dive - Clock tower, UWL campus  10-3pm
Check out the mystery in the deep, dark dumpsters on campus!  We will discover how much of the trash could really be recycled!

    Sami Rasuli - Main Hall Auditorium, UWL campus 7pm
Sami Rasuli is a member of the Muslim Peacemaker Team which was founded in Iraq in conjunction with the Christian Peacemaker Teams.  He will be speaking on the enivornmental and humanitarian results of the war in Iraq.

Tuesday 22
    Info @ Clock tower on "What is sustainability?"
    Talloires Declaration Signing Ceremony - Clock tower, UWL campus 12:30-2
Chancellor Joe Gow will be signing the Talloires Declaration so that UW-L will become a more environmentally literate and sustainable university.
    Ceramics Sale - Port O' Call, Cartwright Center 9am-7pm
        Student ceramic artwork will be for sale and for show all day!

    Hixon Trails and Marsh Clean Up - Meet at Clock tower at 3:30 or Myrick Gun Shelter at 4
        If you would like to go in the marsh rubber boots are encouraged. 

    Sustainability Panel Discussion - Ward Room in Cartwright Center 6:30
        Speakers include:
            Roald Gunderson-  on whole tree architecture and sustainable building.
            Kelly Cain- is the UW River Falls environmental director
            Mike Pieper- from WTC is an expert on wind energy  

Wednesday 23
Info @ Clock tower on bike stuff
Bike Maintenance - Clock tower, UWL campus 10-3pm

Ceramics Sale - Port O' Call 9am-7pm
    Student ceramic artwork will be for sale and for show all day!

    Film Festival -The Story of Stuff and The True Cost of Food- Noon - La Crosse Public Library Auditorium
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of it is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute; fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.  Stuff exposes the connections between environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

The True Cost of Food entertains and educates about the production and delivery of our food and how we, the consumers, can stop the practices that harm our health, our planet and our quality of life.

Terry Gips - Ward Room, Cartwright Center UWL campus 7-9pm
A widely published ecologist and Natural Step Framework instructor will share some of his knowledge with us.

Thursday 24
    Info @ clock tower on what plants/earth does for you!
Terra Cotta Pot painting/selling - Clock tower, UWL campus 10-2pm

    Movie showing/Drum circle - Center for the Arts field, UWL campus 7-10pm/ rain site: Cowley Room 140
        Watch a night showing of Planet Earth among your fellow Earth lovers.

    Neighborhood Clean Up - Meet at Clock tower at 3:30
With the snow melting comes an enourmous amount of trash in our neighborhoods.  Don't be a punk and come clean up the junk.

    Film Festival - Affluenza - 7pm (55min) - La Crosse Public Library Auditorium
    Explore the high social and environmental costs of materialism and over consumption.

Friday 25
Film Festival - Design E²   Noon (55min) - La Crosse Public Library Auditorium
        Learn about efforts to design and build eco-friendly structures through sustainable architecture

Franciscan Sisters `Cosmic Walk' presentation - Port O'Call, Cartwright Center UWL Campus   1-5pm
Sister Lucy will lead us through a timeline of the unfolding universe.  She will help to provide a perspective of where humans fit into the bigger picture and how our personal choices can impact all things.  If you cannot attend to whole event, come at 4 to walk through the timeline on your own!

Open Mic @ Bluffland Bloom and Brew - Hosted by Cait Shannahan 7-10pm

Saturday 26
    5K Run/Walk - Start at Myrick Park end at Cameron Park
(any questions contact Jen Phelps @(920) 257 9340)
        8:30 - Number pick up at Myrick Park
        9:30 - Race begins
        10:30 - Awards at Cameron Park
        11 - Earth Day Celebration Begins!

    Celebration to follow at Cameron Park
        11 - Welcoming Ceremony
        11:15-12 - The Browsers
        12:10-12:55 - Derek Pritzel
        1:05-2:30 - Figureheads
        2:40-3:40 - Moonshine Conspiracy
        3:50-5:30 - Down Lo
Also at the park: The Local Foods Fair, Jugglers, Slack Lines, Captain Planet, Drumming, Pet Therapy Dogs, Activities for kids - Face Painting
Remember to bring a ride back to your vehicle!
Rain Site at Three Rivers Waldorf School - 901 Caledonia St.

Sunday 27
Film Festival: This Ancient Love and Renewal - 3pm - La Crosse Public Library Auditorium
         This Ancient Love brings together glorious visuals from Cape Cod with two songs by women    
          whose voices  join the images in breathtaking conversations between land and music.

         Renewal traces the rise in environmental activism among religious communities throughout America.  
        All are striving to preserve what they see as God's creation, and all are increasingly working together
         as conscious stewards of the earth.

All Earth Day Film Festival activities sponsored by Coulee Partners for Sustainability in cooperation with the La Crosse Public Library.  

Saturday, May 3
    Bike Rodeo and more - 9 to Noon - Bike Rodeo and more
Biking skills activities (Free bike helmets)
Bike fit and safety check
Biking rules and safety tips
Safe Routes and other biking information
Bike Paramedics and police
City Bus with bike rack and demonstration/instructions

Every Day
Bike to Worship
Weekday
Neighborhood rides
    Starting locations and times to be announced

Friday, May 9
Celebrate Bike to Work Week - Cameron Park
Music by Grand Picnic
Root beer Floats
Door Prizes

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