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Last Updated: April 08,
2005
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Earth Week 2006
(March 27-31)
(Archived Schedule)
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Monday
March 27 |
1PM-2PM
Class Presentation
MUB Ballroom A
Diane Miller's Class -- Student Presentations on Environmental Topics (View
presenters and topics for Monday March 27)
5PM-7PM
Symposium
MUB Ballroom A
LEED
(view a PDF of this presentation)
Environmental Ethics
(view a PDF of this
presentation)
Habitat for
Humanity - Alternative Energy Approaches
(view a PDF of this presentation)
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Wednesday
March 29 |
12:10PM-12:50PM
Karen Tischler: UPPCO Land Sale in the UP
(view
an overview PDF of this presentation)
MUB Ballroom A
Karen Tishler presented on the sale of local watersheds. Some community members fear the development of these areas will destroy local habitats and disrupt the watersheds which eventually empty into Lake Superior.
People learned about the impact future sales could have.
1PM-2PM
Class Presentation
MUB Ballroom A
Diane Miller's Class -- Student
Presentations on Environmental Topics (View
presenters and topics for Wednesday March 29)
View the corresponding materials from
"Bottled Water: The Facts, and Where Your
Bottle Goes" by Mark Johnson
5PM-7PM
Presentation
MUB Ballroom B
Rain Gardens
(view
a PDF of this presentation)
Porous
Pavement
(view
a PDF of this presentation)
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Thursday
March 30 |
12:10PM-12:50PM
Lunch and Learn
MUB Ballroom A
Faculty Panel Q&A (View Faculty Panelists & Topics)
7PM-9PM
Feature Film
The End of Suburbia (Click Here for Film Description)
Other feature
films shown earlier
Thursday March 23 - El Dorado
(Click Here for Film Description)
Thursday
March 16 - Film: The Future of Food
(Click Here for Film Description)
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Friday
March 31 |
12:10PM-12:50PM
Lunch and Learn
MUB Ballroom A
Sustainable Building Techniques Used in
Developing Countries -- (view
a PDF of this presentation) presented by faculty
& students in Master's International or
Engineers Without Borders
The presenters (Kenneth Koers, an undergraduate Chemical Engineering student from Engineers Without Borders, and David Tobias, a graduate student in Environmental Engineering) talked about various sustainable building techniques from various cultures, including: Rammed Earth, Adobe, Timber/Lodge House, Straw Bale, and Sod Roof.
They may also touch on other sustainable building considerations such as site layout, passive solar, gutters/cistern collection of rainwater, cooling courtyards, etc ...
1PM-2PM
Class Presentation
MUB Ballroom A
Diane Miller's Class -- Student
Presentations on Environmental Topics (View
presenters and topics for Friday March 31)
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IMPORTANT
We also
had another small Earth Day
celebration in the MUB on April
21 (to honor the USA celebration of Earth
Day on April 22) with a free Lunch
& Learn session as part of our Reduce >
Re-use > Recycle Program --
the topic was "Creative Ways to Re-use
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Contact
Information
If you have general
questions or comments, please contact Shalini Suryanarayana (shalini@mtu.edu)
and please put
"ESC Question/Comment" in the subject
line.
Electronic
mail
 If
you have any questions on the recycling program at MTU: recyclinginfo-l@mtu.edu
General
Information: shalini@mtu.edu
Webmaster:
edoppwebmaster@mtu.edu
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