Watch Your Waste —Energy and Other Matters
The theme of this year’s Earth Day celebration at Salem State University is “Watch Your Waste—Energy and Other Matters,” which focuses on the issue of waste, in all its facets, as one of the central challenges to creating a sustainable society. We invite you to participate in this year’s Earth Day events to learn, contemplate, and discuss the problems of waste and prospects of a less wasteful society.
Attention students, faculty and staff!! Help support our programming efforts for Earth Day Week! Raffle tickets will be sold for a variety of restaurants, museums, and other vendors during Earth Day Week! Winners will be announced at our special Earth Day Evening Program on Thursday, April 21 in Marsh Hall!
Thanks to our Earth Day raffle sponsors!
Representatives from state and federal government, environmental organizations, activist groups and more will attend. Students should come to network with environmental professionals, to investigate summer and academic year internships, and learn about potential jobs.
Faculty coordinator for this event: Prof. Jennifer Jackman, Political Science
Over 80 research posters, submitted by SSU students in many disciplines, will be judged in the morning. Visitors are encouraged to view the posters and speak with the students who created them during the competition phase and until 12:30pm. We will also be featuring an Earth Day art exhibit and competition in Vets Hall.
Faculty coordinator for poster competition: Prof. Marcos Luna, Geography
Faculty coordinator for art exhibit & competition: Prof. Ken Reker, Art
Faculty Speakers: John Hayes, Geography,and Christine MacTaylor, Chemistry and Physics
Community Speaker: Paul Marquis, Energy and Sustainability Manager, City of Salem. Part of the Civic Engagement Spring 2011 Series.
Faculty coordinator: Prof. Jennifer Jackman, Political Science
Sponsored by the Salem State University Civic Engagement Committee
"The Story of Stuff is a 21-minute film that looks at the underside of our production and consumption. From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Bottled Water, released in March 2010, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand – how you get Americans to buy more than a half billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. The film explores bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap." [storyofstuff.org]
Pizza and sodas will be provided.
Sponsored by the Salem Geographical Society and the Department of Geography.
No Impact Man documents the yearlong project of Colin Beavan, a New Yorker, to reduce to the strict minimum his and his family's impact on the environment. 90 Minutes. Studio: Oscilloscope Laboratories. Directors: Laura Gabbert & Justin Schein.
Refreshments provided.
Sponsored by Department of Political Science and Political Science Academ
Interwoven with personal testimony and archival media footage, Earth Days chronicles the emergence and development of the modern environmental movement. 120 Minutes. Studio: PBS. Director: Robert Stone.
Refreshments provided.
Sponsored by Department of Political Science and Political Science Academy
[carpooling will be available from the North Campus tennis courts beginning at 9:45am and 1:45pm] Participants in the Cat Cove tour will observe aquatic organisms being produced and grown for restoration, enhancement, and commercial initiatives. A brief history of the facility and how it has evolved will be provided. Projects from Cape Ann to Cape Cod will be discussed and linked to securing a safe and dependable supply of high quality seafood (whether from the ocean or freshwater; such as largemouth bass being grown in cranberry bogs). Tours will be led by Drs. Mark Fregeau and/or Joe Buttner, with assistance provided by Hatchery Manager Scott Weston and student workers.
Speakers: Molly Ettenborough - Recycling Coordinator, and Andy Port - Planning Director - City of Newburyport.
A light lunch will be provided.
Sponsored by the BioSociety
“The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudi Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. Filmmaker Josh Fox’s documentary is part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.” [www.gaslandthemovie.com]
Pizza and sodas will be provided.
Sponsored by the Earth Science Association
Garbage Dreams is an award-winning film that follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s “garbage people”, the Zaballeen, recycle 80 percent of the city’s waste until the forces of globalization entice the city to privatize its garbage collection and disposal operations in 2003. The film chronicles the forces and effects on the teenage boys and their community.
Pizza and sodas will be provided.
Sponsored by the Salem Geographical Society and the Department of Geography.
This film reveals the history and worldwide scope of plastics pollution, investigates its toxicity, and explores solutions. “Addicted to Plastic” is a global journey across five continents and the middle of the Pacific Ocean to detail plastic’s path over the last 100 years…and provides solutions to recycling, toxicity, and biodegradability.
Refreshments will be provided.
Sponsored by the Economics Student Club.
Guest Speaker: Bob Dilmore, Environmental Engineer from the National Energy Technology Laboratory
Sponsored by the Earth Science Association
Social hour with refreshments and live music
Introductions & Opening Remarks
Announcement of student Poster Competition & juried Art Exhibit winners
Featured Speaker: Weston Wilson, EPA whistleblower on the potential contamination of drinking water supplies from hydrofracking of coal beds to extract methane
Presentation of "Friend of the Earth" Awards to the following:
Closing Remarks and thanks to all
See a list of past Friend of the Earth Award recipients (pdf)
Press coverage of the 2011 Friend of the Earth Awards. Also see past press coverage: Earth Days 2008, 2006
Financial Support for Earth Days 2011 Generously Provided By the following:
