Contact: Bob Adams (425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu
What does chocolate have to do with the environment? Find out at BCC's Earth Week Celebration April 18 - 22
BELLEVUE, WASH. - Bellevue Community College presents its sixth annual Earth Week - a series of 14 lectures plus films, displays and a hands-on environmental improvement project - from April 18 through 22 on the college campus.
It is believed to be the largest Earth Week celebration in the greater Seattle area this year.
Among other lectures, participants will hear BCC Anthropology Instructor Nancy Gonlin speak on "Chocolate, the Ancient Maya and Environmental Degradation" (Wednesday at 12:30 p.m.).
On Earth Day, Friday, April 22, participants will have the opportunity to help restore the Mercer Slough Wetland in Bellevue, in conjunction with the City of Bellevue Stream Team and Bellevue Parks.
In addition, fifteen environmental organizations will be on hand with displays throughout the week. BCC Interior Design students will display environment-friendly building materials and concepts. And the BCC Cafeteria will offer organic menu items, as well as free samples of organic foods from local vendors.
All events are free and open to the public. Lectures and films will be presented in Room C130 on Bellevue Community College's main campus (3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue, off 148th Ave. S.E.).
For more information, visit the web at http://www.scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/rv/earthweek/, or contact Rob Viens in the BCC Science Division at rviens@bcc.ctc.edu or (425) 564-3158.
Earth Week is organized by the BCC Science Club.
A complete schedule of BCC's Earth Week events follows:
Monday, April 18
10:30 a.m. |
Lecture: Mike Jackman, City of Bellevue Utilities Resource Conservation Manager, on the coming drought |
| 11:30 a.m. |
Lecture: B. J. Cummings, Coordinator, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, “The Duwamish River Cleanup and Community Health” |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lecture: Dave Montgomery, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, “King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon” |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Lecture: Patty Martin, founder of Safe Food and Fertilizer, “Toxins in Feed and Fertilizer: How Waste Recycling Puts You and Your Environment at Risk” |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Lecture: Michael Mayer, Attorney, Earthjustice, “The Endangered Species Act as a Catalyst for Change” |
Tuesday, April 19
| 9:30 a.m. |
Lecture: Jeanie Sedgely, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, “The Challenge of Hanford and Health: Protecting the Columbia River” |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Lecture: Mark Storey, BCC Philosophy Instructor, “Taoism and Environmental Ethics” |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lecture: Art Goss, BCC Astronomy Instructor, “The Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Venus - A Future for the Earth?” |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Film: “A Civil Action,” starring John Travolta |
Wednesday, April 20
| 11:30 a.m. |
Lecture: Stephen Garrow, BCC Media Instructor, “Back to the Earth... Deep Ecology, Non-violence, and Peace” (Immediately followed by Peace Vigil at the BCC Fountain) |
| 12:30 p.m |
Lecture: Nancy Gonlin, BCC Anthropology Instructor, “Chocolate, the Ancient Maya, and Environmental Degradation” |
| 1:30 p.m |
Envirocitizen Workshop, “Power and the Clean Energy Revolution” |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Lecture: James Torrence, BCC English Instructor, “Punk Rock and Environmentalism” |
Thursday, April 21
| 8:30 a.m. |
Lecture: Mark Plunkett, Seattle Aquarium, “Sustainable Seafoods: Choices for Healthy Oceans” |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Lecture: Rich Franko, Senior Associate, Mithun Architects, on Sustainable Design |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Lecture: Kevin Rennert, Atmospheric Science Department, University of Washington, “Local Impacts of Global Climate Change” |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Film: "Day After Tomorrow" |
Friday, April 22 - Earth Day
| 9:30 a.m. |
Film: "Rivers and Tides," followed by discussion with BCC Faculty Wendy Pickering and Carlos Trujillo |
| 10:30 p.m. |
Mercer Slough Wetland Restoration Project (with the City of Bellevue Stream Team & Bellevue Parks) at Mercer Slough Nature Park |