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“Make a Difference Monday” leads off
BCC’s free, public Earth Week celebration April 16-20
Don't miss the "over-consumption pie-eating" contest!
BELLEVUE, WASH. - Bellevue Community College's eighth annual Earth Week, a free, public celebration to be held April 16 - 20, opens next week with "Make a Difference Monday," featuring a 10:30 a.m. lecture by nationally-known author, activist and film producer John de Graaf entitled, "What's the Economy For, Anyway?"
De Graaf's lecture, and all other Earth Week lectures and films, will be presented in room 130 of the C Building (student union) on BCC's main campus, located at 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue (at the intersection of S.E. 28th St. and 148th Ave. S.E.).
"Make a Difference Monday" will also feature a 1:30 p.m. presentation on organic farming by Erick Haakenson, BCC Philosophy Instructor and award-winning owner/manager of Jubilee Organic Farm, as well as a 2:30 p.m. showing of the film, How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet.
The complete schedule for BCC's Earth Week, as well as background on the week's featured speakers and films, is available online at www.scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/rv/earthweek/.
Earth Week continues on "Toxic Tuesday," April 17, with lectures starting at 8:30 a.m. by three of the region's most influential toxicologists and by experts on clean energy and alternative-fuel vehicles. The film, Who Killed the Electric Car?, will be shown at 2:30 p.m.
"Waste-Free Wednesday," April 18, will feature discussions of global ecology and environmental citizenship by BCC philosophy instructors Mark Storey and Russ Payne (at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., respectively), a faith-based look at climate change by Jill Clapp-Hansen of Earth Ministry, at 12:30 p.m., and a 1:30 p.m. screening of the film, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.
An ice sculpture will be placed in the BCC campus courtyard to melt all day Wednesday as a dramatic illustration of some of the impacts of climate change. Students dressed in polar bear and penguin costumes will distribute information on climate change.
"Think-Green Thursday," April 19, will focus on regional water conservation, green building techniques and the impacts of climate change around the world. The line-up of speakers includes noted University of Washington environmentalist Dr. Richard Gammon, at 11:30 a.m., and BCC Economics Instructor Kit Taylor at 12:30 p.m. The film, Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands, will be shown at 2:30 p.m.
A pie-eating contest will be held at 10:30 a.m. to heighten awareness of over-consumption.
"Fair Trade Friday," April 20, will feature the films Black Gold and Buyer Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification, about the disturbing economics of the coffee industry, at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m., respectively. Student and community volunteers will also have the opportunity, beginning at 11:30 a.m. that day, to assist the City of Bellevue Stream Team & Parks Department in restoring Lewis Creek .
Exhibits by the BCC Student Science Association on green energy, the Kyoto Protocol and other environmental topics will be on display all week in the C Building, as will displays and information from a variety of public environmental organizations.
BCC's Earth Week, expected to be one of the largest environmental celebrations in the greater Seattle area this year, is organized by the BCC Student Science Association.