Events
“Who’s Your Mama?†Environmental Film Festival
Friday, April 19, 2013 at the Kiva
$7 Adults. $5 Student Admission
http://www.whosyourmama.org/
5:00pm: Local Foods Reception featuring Lucky Penny Creamery
6:00pm: Local Shorts about Kent Environmental Council, Fracking Debate, PARTA
6:30pm: Eco Shorts from The Mountain Film Festival of Telluride http://www.mountainfilm.org/7:30pm: FEATURED FILM “LOST RIVERSâ€. Written and Directed by Caroline Bacle. Produced by Katrina Soukoup.
Kent Bike-N-Brainstorm
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Interested in biking in Kent and have thoughts on how to improve it? AMATS has partnered with the City of Kent, Kent State University and PARTA to do a Bike-N-Brainstorm in order to get feedback on how to make Kent a better bicycle community. Join us fora ride through various parts of the city followed by a brainstorming session to discuss the ride and what is needed to improve and encourage biking in Kent http://switching-gears.org/information/bike-n-brainstorm
Campus Sustainability Day 2012 Keynote Broadcast Preparing Students for a Changing Climate
Wednesday October 24th 2012 | 2:00-3:30pm EST
Moulton Hall Ballroom
Join us in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Campus Sustainability Day. Along with colleges and universities around the country, we will join a live webcast panel discussion of national leaders in sustainability education. They will discuss the solutions and challenges of preparing students to meet the needs of a changing economy, society, and planet. Together, colleges and universities, and the people and organizations that support them are moving new programs and initiatives in education forward in order to create the leaders of a sustainable future.
About the Panelists
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.
“Let's Take a Ride/Walk"
Thursday, October 20, 2012
11:30 AM
We start at the Student Center
. . . go down the Esplanade
. . . and to the Laziza restaurant in Downtown Kent
Past Events:
Sustainability Task Force Brown Bag Lunch Series for Fall 2011
Bring your lunch and join us for presentations on sustainability topics. Sustainability Task Force Members, bring a friend. All are welcome!
“Kent State University – Energy Conservation, Renewable Energy and more!â€
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Noon to 1:00 PM
Moulton Hall Ballroom
Kent State University has made great progress in the area of energy conservation, including three major energy conservation projects addressing almost fifty buildings and approximately 3 million square feet. A project to install solar photo-electric panels on the Field House to produce electricity is currently in the proposal phase. Bob Misbrener, project manager 2 in the Office of the University Architect, will present about these energy-efficiency retrofits, the schedule for future upgrades, and the status of renewable energy on campus.
View the Power Point presentation from the September 20 meeting
“Home, Home on the [sahelian] Range: Pastoral Ecologies and National Risksâ€
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Noon to 1:00 PM
Moulton Hall Ballroom
Dr. Wendy Wilson-Fall, chair and associate professor in the Department of Pan African Studies, will help us think globally about sustainability issues. Her presentation will focus on the unfortunate coincidence of three factors; challenges to nomadic pastoralism, weak government support, and the appearance of Al Qaida in the Sahara desert and the Sahel. The “greening†of Africa depends on understanding the importance of, and committing to, the nurturing of new development models that create strong community level institutions. The savannah and Sahel regions of Africa have potential climate implications for us all.
View the article about The Fulani Model of Sustainable Agriculture
View Dr. Wilson-Fall's presentation
“Tour of Harbourt Hall – scheduled to be the Kent Campus’ first LEED-certified buildingâ€
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Noon to 1:00 PM
Harbourt Hall
Project Manager Charmaine Iwanski will provide a tour of Harbourt Hall. Learn about the features that make this major renovation of an existing building energy-efficient, healthy and green.