Associated Students Sustainability

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality.

A conference by Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute.

Don’t miss this event, FREE and open to the public!  

WHEN:  Tuesday, April 24^th, 2012 from 7:00- 9:00 p.m

WHERE:  Colusa Hall Conference Center

Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as Nature, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes!, and The Sun; and on web sites such as www.EnergyBulletin.net , www.TheOilDrum.com , www.Alternet.org , www.ProjectCensored.com , and www.Counterpunch.com . He has appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour, and is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education.

For more information, please visit our website at www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/events
or call our office at 898-3333.

This event is sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Development and the Rawlins Endowed Professorship.

FOURTH ANNUAL EARTH DAY EVENT - CSUC Associated Students and “Computers-for-Classrooms”

Computers for classrooms will be teaming up with CSUC Associated Students Recycling to collect electronic donations in honor of Earth Day.

WHEN:  Saturday April 21 9:00am – 2:00pm

WHERE:  Associated Students lot (4^th and Cherry Streets in Chico)

Items accepted:  computers, laptops, monitors, keyboards, printers, televisions, radios, cell phones, DVD players, camcorders, stereos and other electronic parts and accessories.
We will accept all electronics working or not.

Any item not suitable for re-use will be recycled by Computers for Classrooms, and R-2 Certified Recycler.  All hard drives are wiped and NOTHING goes to the landfill.  Your donations help others.

Re-using is 25 times better for the environment than just recycling!

CALL (530) 895-4175 for more information.

When: Wed, November 10, 7pm – 10pm

Where: CSU, Chico Campus Ayres 106, Across from Celestino’s (First and Salem)

Description:

This scientific and spiritual journey into humanity’s footprint on the earth takes a close look at some Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. The film reveals that irresponsible abuse of fossil energies and polluting technologies around the world have many more consequences on people and the environment than climate change. Beyond global warming, there are countless reasons why we have no choice but to embrace a new ethic of respect for nature and to resolutely turn away from short-sighted environmental carelessness. Directed and produced by Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohy. Director Gerard Ungerman is co-sponsoring event and will be around for the discussion afterward.

http://www.belongingthedoc.com/

Check out the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1ztKZKZVo&feature=related

This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC). Other films in this series: Nov 17: Botany of Desire

Ages: All ages

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu

When: Wed, November 17, 7pm – 10pm

Where: CSU, Chico Campus Holt 170, corner of Citrus and Mansion, behind Bidwell Mansion

Description:

Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism and a student of food, presents the history of four plants, each of which found a way to make itself essential to humans, thus ensuring widespread propagation. Apples, for sweetness; tulips, for beauty; marijuana, for pleasure; and, potatoes, for sustenance. Each has a story of discovery and adaptation; each has a symbiotic relationship with human civilization. The film tells these stories and examines these relationships.

http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/

This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC

Price: free

Ages: All ages

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu

When: Wed. November 3, 7pm – 9pm

Where: CSU, Chico Campus Holt 170, corner of Citrus and Mansion, behind Bidwell Mansion

Description:

Every year in America we throw away 96 BILLION pounds of food. That’s 263 MILLION pounds a day. 11 MILLION pounds an hour. 3,000 pounds a second. Inspired by a curiosity about our country’s careless habit of sending food straight to landfills, the multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles’ supermarkets. In the process, they salvage thousands of dollars worth of good, edible food – resulting in an inspiring documentary that is equal parts entertainment, guerilla journalism and call to action.

http://www.divethefilm.com/

This film is part of a 10-week film series hosted by the Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC). Other films in this series: Nov 10: Belonging Nov 17: Botany of Desire

Price: free

Ages: All ages

For more information about this activity, contact Environmental Action Resource Center (E-ARC) at Phone: (530) 898-5676 E-mail: earc@csuchico.edu