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April 19, 2008 - April 29, 2008
EARTH WEEK 2008 features 11 days of exciting programs, volunteer opportunities and events. Scroll down to learn more and register.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Off the Grid 2008: Earth Week Kickoff Concert
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
An outdoor music festival run "off-the-grid" with bio-diesel energy, featuring the bands Mission of Burma, Revision, The Amygdaloids, and TreeUnion! Join us for a day of great music, fun, educational exhibitions and giveaways. Free and open to the public. For map and directions, visit http://solar1.org/about/map/
Solar One - 23rd Street and the East River
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Boating n' Breakfast
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
It's spring! Head up to Central Park Lake to cruise around in a row boat, chew on bagels, and listen to chirping birds and splashing paddles. Meet on the island triangle at Astor Place at 10:30 AM to take the 6 uptown. $10 per hour, split among your shipmates.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: You & NYU
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
What can really be recycled? Have this and other questions answered as NYU Sustainable Resources Manager Dianne Anderson and NYU Recycling Coordinator Sarah Boll discuss how issues of recycling, water resources, and sustainable living are being addressed at the University. Find out about new initiatives and how you can get involved!
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), Room 805
Pedal Power Panel
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A panel of experts in the biking field, including guests from Transportation Alternatives, The Hub Station!, a bike messenger and a bike shop owner. Hear their thoughts on biking and get a glimpse of the past, present, and future of the biking revolution in NYC.
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), Room 905
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Earth Day Street Fair
10:30 AM - 2:30 PM
The annual Earth Week Street Fair is kicking it up a notch by bringing together environmental groups from NYU and the local community over abundant music, art, and food. Stop by to learn what people are doing, share your own ideas, and take a bite out of the world's longest vegetarian sandwich!
Washington Place between Greene Street and Washington Square East
Eat and Greet (Minus the Meat)
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Join us for a delicious vegetarian dinner and a panel discussion on "Sustainability in a Local and Global Context" followed by keynote speaker Paul Steely White, founder of Transportation Alternatives.
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), 4th Floor Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Solar in the City
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Enjoy lunch with guest speaker Chris Neidl from Solar One, who will discuss the future of solar energy in NYC.
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), Room 904
Screening of "Everything's Cool"
6:30 PM
Come see the film Everything's Cool, which chronicles global warming messengers through an extraordinary three years of transformation from 2003 to the eve of 2007. Delicious, low impact, organic snacks will be served!
The Tank, 279 Church Street
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Volunteer Opportunity: Gardening at NYU
10:00 AM - NOON
Work on cultivating your green thumb as we team up with the NYU Garden Shop to beautify the NYU campus through planting.
OXFAM and Climate Change
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Stop by to learn about Oxfam's most recent initiative addressing climate change and students' experiences lobbying in Washington D.C.
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), Room 907
Friday, April 25, 2008
VIP DAY 2008
9:00 AM - NOON
Join students, staff and neighbors for the annual springtime spruce-up in Washington Square Park. Pitch in to make the accessible areas of WSP beautiful and ready for spring and summer fun. Volunteers will be painting railings, light posts and filling new planters with flowers. Volunteer for an hour or stay the whole morning. All participants will receive an EarthWeek08 t-shirt.
Volunteer Opportunity: Furnish A Future
9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Furnish a Future is New York City's only free furniture bank, which collects tons of new and used furniture and household items from businesses and private homes for distribution to formerly homeless families. Since 1992, they have helped more than 22,000 families turn bare rooms into comfortable homes. FaF provides more than practical help - they bring pride, permanence and peace of mind. Volunteers will be organizing donated furniture and other household items.
Volunteer Opportunity: Materials for the Arts
12:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Materials for the Arts provides free supplies to 3,110 arts programs and is the largest provider of art supplies to NYC public schools. Materials are gathered from companies that no longer need them and then distributed to non-profit organizations for reuse. In 2005, 757 tons of materials, valued at over $5.3 million, were kept out of landfills and distributed to non-profit arts organizations, public schools and social, health and community service organizations with arts programs.
Bike-in Outdoor Movie
7:00 PM
Vegetarian dinner and a movie - catch an outdoor screening of Garbage!, a documentary that will open your eyes to the huge impact of our waste on the world.
Third North Courtyard, 75 Third Avenue
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Hiking: Appalachian Celebration from the Station
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Join eco-Broome for an Appalachian Hike through the Pawling Nature Reserve. We'll take Metro North right to the trail, spend the day hiking through the gorgeous mountains, pick up unsightly litter as we go, and eat lunch at a beautiful clearing overlooking the park. We'll bring some snacks, but pack a bag lunch and dress ready to hike the mountains. Meet at Broome Street Residence Hall, 400 Broome Street. (Check out the trails at: http://www.berkshirehiking.com/hikes/pawling_nature.html)
Pawling Nature Reserve
Green House Gathering
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Living in the Green House next year? Come get to know your fellow residents and hear more about what Residential Education is doing to make the experience as fun and green as possible.
Snacks/refreshments will be served.
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), Room 914
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Swap-O-Rama-Rama-Sunday
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops which features creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. Bring a bag of old clothing, all of your creative juices, and get ready to swap and alter with the help of local artists. The afternoon will include: a sewing area and decoration station where you can learn to embroider, knit, crochet, and silkscreen; an all-day participatory fashion runway featuring both the silly and the sophisticated; and a showcase of AuH2O designs by Kate Goldwater! (ADMISSION WITH NYU ID: Free with a bag of clothes; ADMISSION FOR NON-NYU: $10 with a bag of clothes)
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), 9th Floor
Monday, April 28, 2008
Screening of The 11th Hour
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Enjoy a free showing of the film "The 11th Hour," as well as a Q&A session with a diverse panel of environmental leaders, including Kenny Ausubel of Bioneers and Steven McGuire, founder of Coalition for Sustainable Africa. (FREE ADMISSION WITH PRINTED RSVP AND PHOTO ID).
Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Closing Festivities
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us as we celebrate the culmination of what will surely be an Earth Week of unprecedented success! Share your thoughts about this year's events, give recommendations for next year, or just hang out and have a good time.
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), Room 914
Freegan Info Session
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Come to this session to learn more about what it means to be a freegan.
60 Washington Square South (Kimmel Center), Room 808