Nov. 18:
Greener Virginia-CommonHealth workshop, USB 102, 1-3pm

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The university will be an environmentally literate community whose members think critically and act, individually and collectively, as model stewards of the natural world. – A JMU Defining Characteristic

What's Happening?

2009-10

Sept 17: On Campus Farmer’s Market
Sept 19: Old Trees Tour
Sept. 21: Professor Kit Murphy Talks Tree Frogs (7 p.m., WMRA-FM 90.7)
Sept 24: Robert Ehrlich, George Mason University, “Renewable Energy at Mason and Around the Nation Lessons Learned by One Faculty Member New To The Field”, Room 2212 in the Physics/Chemistry Building, http://csma31.csm.jmu.edu/physics/courses/391/SemSched.htm
Oct 8: Greening the Office Training, 2 pm in USB (contact: Training and Development)
Oct 7-8: State 25x25 Meeting and Commonwealth of Virginia Energy Symposium (VMI), (contact: Ken Newbold)
Oct 14: Michael Singer, artist, lecture, “Regenerative Design in the Public Realm”, 4:30 pm, Memorial Hall Auditorium, (contact: David Ehrenpreis)
Oct 19: Campus Safety and You, 9am-12pm, Festival (contact: Training and Development)
Oct 19: Dr. Krishna Kodukula, SRI International, “Efforts at CADRE to address antibiotic resistance, a global health challenge”, 3:45-4:45 pm in Roop 103, http://www.math.jmu.edu/~brownet/colloquia/
Oct 23: Dr. Marin Robinson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,  Northern Arizona University, “Wood smoke from prescribed burns: Impacts on health and the environment”, 3:30 pm in ISAT 159, http://csma31.csm.jmu.edu/chemistry/Seminars/
Nov 4: Campus Sustainability Day Annual Trash Sort, 11 am – 1 pm, ISAT lawn (contact: Georgia Polacek)
Nov 5: WATER in Benin: A Study in International Sustainable Development Dr. Bradley Striebig, James Madison University, Memorial Hall Room 6125 at 3:45pm, http://www.jmu.edu/geology/seminars.html
Nov 18: Greener Virginia-CommonHealth workshop. USB 102, 1-3pm, http://www.jmu.edu/training/development/stewardshipgreenerva.shtml

See JMU’s master calendar for details at http://www.jmu.edu/jmuweb/calendars/.

2008-09

Oct. 27, 28: Power Vote Wind Turbines on the Quad
Oct. 29: Power Vote Gore Webcast
Nov. 21: Edith J. Carrier Arboretum Holiday Plant Sale
Dec. 3: GISAT 112 Course, Success Series Teams, and Energy Pavilion Student and Staff Sustainability Project Presentations
Dec. 6 and Dec. 13: Planetarium Programs
Jan. 18: RecycleMania Begins (see competition standings)
Feb 19: Campus Water Stewardship Training and Development course
Feb 27-March 2: Power Shift Conference
March 6-14: Mountain Justice Spring Break trip
March 13: Village Green Wars, March 13-April 13
March 24: Greening Your Office Training and Development course
March 27: FROZEN Launches on Science on a Sphere
March 3-April 2: Environment Virginia Annual Conference @ VMI
April 13-18: Earth Day Week, theme days: alternative energy, grass roots environmentalism, waste minimization, spirituality, and transportation, culminating in Festival Fest
April 22: Renewable Energy Day
April 22: Green Job Fair
April 24: Eco-driving and Alternative Fuels Training and Development course