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IUPUI Campus Sustainability Day - October 24, 2012 A day that will showcase the sustainable actions of IUPUI, provide information and activities of all types, and encourage personal sustainability.

Presented by the IUPUI Student Sustainability Council, SSC find us at:

http://facebook.com/SustainIUPUI

Public Speaking Events:

10:30 to 11:15

CE 308

Sustainable Gardening: Latino Student Association & DIGS

Members of the LSA speak about their experience volunteering at the IUPUI Urban Garden, sponsored by DIGS, during the summer 2012 semester, where together both organizations grew 300+ pounds of produce without the use of harsh chemicals and utilized natural sustainable agricultural practices, such as companion planting and no-till farming methods. If you’ve eaten at Wild Greenz or at one of the OutTakes stations, you’ve eaten produce grown by LSA and DIGS.

3:00 to 3:30

CE 308

Sustainable Agriculture: Sustainability of Traditional Agriculture in Africa!

Professor Rick Bein, Department of Geography at IUPUI, is presenting on traditional agriculture Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainable, generational, time-honored methods will be discussed in this mode, outside of the money-centric economy.  MC Anthony Bozzo

4:00 to 4:45

CE 308

Sustainability Without Borders

Professors Bob Beck, Tim Brothers, and Rick Bein host a panel discussion on sustainability around the globe. All three

presenters draw on their experience with agriculture in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and in Africa, and compare and contrast what it means to be sustainable across cultures. MC Anthony Bozzo

3:00 to 3:45

CE 309

Sustainable Study Abroad: Office of Study Abroad

  

4:00 to 4:45

CE 309

Sustainable Transit: Citizens’ Alliance for Transit

 

 

Activites Around Campus:

12:00 to 1:00

UC (LL)

Sustainable Health: Courtney Kees – Studio Ruby Lake

Sustaining your health is just as important as sustaining the environment. Health and Environment are connected. Join Courtney Kees, from Studio Ruby Lake, for a well-deserved midday break and experience the cathartic effects of Yoga. MC Carole Belleville

12:00 to 1:30

UL (LA)

Sustainable Entertainment: Screening of the documentary “Bag-It” **update

Screening of the documentary Bag-It. Bag It is a documentary that brings light to the daunting environmental side-

effects brought about by the world's #1 consumer product, the plastic bag.

2:00 to 3:30

UL (LA)

Sustainable Entertainment: CSD 2012 Keynote Broadcast

Featuring Dr. Geoffrey Chase, leader of the Ponderosa Project, Julie Elzanati, Director of the Illinois Green Economy Network, Debera Johnson, founder of the Partnership for Academic Leadership in Sustainability, Julian Keniry, Senior Director of Campus and Community Leadership, National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program, and Neil Weissman, Provost, Dickinson College, this panel invites questions from the audience to discuss best practices for creating ecological curriculum, advancing experiential and living laboratory learning, and engaging faculty and the surrounding community in meaningful and critical education. Panelists represent experience from across the higher education spectrum and bring a diverse range of ideas, solutions, and programmatic influences to the discussion.

11:00 to 2:00

UC (OD)

Bike Clinic (IndyCog): Traffic Safety

IndyCog, an Indianapolis based Bicycle Advocacy group, is hosting an outdoor Q & A focused on Bike Safety. Join Kevin Whited from IndyCog and strengthen your knowledge on Bike Safety, as well as network with a local bike organization.

11:00 to 2:00

UC (OD)

Sustainable Wheels: Butler Toyota

Lenny Hunter, General Manager for Butler Toyota of the Butler Auto Group will be bringing 3 Prius models onto campus. Additionally, he will be talking to students about the advanced technology of the new Prius models now available at their local Indianapolis Toyota dealership. In addition to talking about the advanced technology of the Prius, they will be telling college students about the Toyota first time buyers and College Graduate programs.

 

 

 

11:00 to 2:00

UC (OD)

Sustainable Wheels: IndyGo Hybrid Bus

Continuing our theme of “Year of the Bike” representatives from Indy Go will be parking a hybrid bus, featuring Allison

Transmission technology, to demonstrate its user friendly bike racks. This is ideal for those sustainability minded students on the go who chose not use the antiquated technology of fully fossil fuel supported automobiles.

11:00 to 2:00

UC (OD)

Sustainable Health: LA Fitness – Virtual Bike Experience

Catering to the unique environment, LA Fitness Spin trainers will be providing an interactive biking simulation. LA Fitness will be transforming a sidewalk into a street environment to provide an outdoor spinning class. Best of all, all the equipment from the bikes, to the stair climbers do not use electricity from the grid because all electronics are powered by kinetic activity or human motion. Debated spinning class? Try it here for free!

6:00 to 8:00

CH

Dumpster Dive

Dumpster Dive: Ray's Trash will move a housing dumpster and place it adjacent to the Housing Office entrance off of Porto Allegre. A representative from Ray's will remove items from the dumpster as a demonstration of the recyclable materials it contains.

10:00 to 2:00

Blake

circle

Ewaste Collection

Ewaste Collection: RecycleForce will utilize a 50 foot truck on Blake Circle for collecting personal electronic items from individuals.

11:00-12:00

UG

(Urban

Garden)

Campus Urban Garden Tour

Join Travis Tornquist, an IUPUI DIGS Member and Urban Garden Manager, on a tour of the Campus Gardens, located next to the SL Building and University Library. Travis will discuss the progress of the UG and its benefits to the campus, including strategic relationships and progressive movements in space and food planning.