MCEC will be kicking off on February 1 at colleges across Minnesota. Here at Macalester, we have a number of sweet activities lined up. Check them out if you’re in the Cities!

“Climate Change Policy Opportunities: A screening of “The First 100 Days” Webcast and discussion with our elected officials,”

7:00 – 9:00 Wednesday February 4^th, John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
Come engage with Minnesota’s elected officials while kicking off the Minnesota Campus Energy Challenge! The night, a part of the National-Teach-In on Global Warming, will start off with the “Solutions for the First 100 Days” webcast, featuring David Orr, Billy Parish, and others, followed by a panel discussion with politicians, including State Representative Erin Murphy. The discussion will focus on what kind of policy changes can be made in the first hundred days of Obama’s term in office, including current and upcoming climate focused policy and how the politicians plan to partner with the youth climate action movement. The evening will conclude with questions from the audience.

Sponsored by: Sustainability Office

“EnviroMarathon”

9:00 – 3:00 John B. Davis Lecture Hall

3:00 – 9:00 Olin-Rice 100

Thursday February 5^th

Our EnviroMarathon, part of the National Teach-In on Global Warming, will be a series of talks, presentations, and discussions from 9:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night, led by renowned Macalester faculty as well as leaders and activists of the environmental movement. Over the course of the day, a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on the environment, sustainability, and climate change will be presented as Macalester joins over 600 campuses engaging in climate issues on Feb 5^th for the National Teach-In on Global Warming.

Current Schedule

9:00 – 9:40 – Amy Damon “Poverty and Wildlife: Development and Conservation Conflicts Around Serengeti National Park”

10:00 – 11:00 – Christie Manning and Elise Amel “Psychological Tools to Empower Sustainability”

11:00 – 12:00 – Michael Griffin “Enduring Myths and Icons in Media Coverage of the Environment”

3:00 – 4:00 William Moseley – “Beyond Knee-Jerk Environmental Thinking: A Geographic Perspective on Conservation, Preservation and the Hetch Hetchy Valley Controversy.”

4:00 – 5:00 Dave Sheild – “Geothermal Energy, Modeling Economic Growth through Environmental Sustainability”

5:00 – 6:00 K.P. Hong – “One Earth, Many Stories: Primacy of Responsibility over Religious Diversity”

7:30 – 8:00 Andy Frank “America’s Greenest Campus: Walking the (Carbon Footprint) Walk”

8:00 – 9:00 Hannah Rivenburgh “Marking Turf, Mow Jobs, and Mono-culture: The Gendered and Ecologically Fragmented American Suburban Lawn”