Tuesday, April 21
3.00 pm – 4.30 pm. Speaker
for the Earth.
John Dernbach. Distinguished Professor of Law. Widener Law
School.
Neidig- Garber 203.
Professor
Dernbach specializes in environmental law, climate change, and sustainable development.
Amongst a distinguished career, he has served as director of the Policy Office
at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The Policy Office
is responsible for developing and coordinating policy and regulatory
initiatives for DEP, including the integration of sustainable development
concepts into DEP programs. He has also held positions at the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Resources and the American Lung Association of
Michigan and joined the faculty at Widener in 1993.
Professor
Dernbach has written widely on environmental law and sustainable development. He
has written more than thirty articles for law reviews and peer-reviewed
journals, and has authored, coauthored, or contributed chapters to eleven
books. He is the editor of Agenda for a
Sustainable America (Environmental Law Institute Press, January 2009)
and Stumbling Toward Sustainability
(Environmental Law Institute Press 2002), comprehensive assessments of U.S.
sustainable development activities that include recommendations for future
efforts. Professor Dernbach’s talk will concentrate on these recommendations
from his new book, Agenda for a
Sustainable America.
11.00 am– 1.00 pm.
Think Healthy Bar and Landisville Farms.
Landisville farms will be in the East dining hall at the
Think Healthy Bar with samples of their organic produce. The Chefs will be
preparing recipes for people to taste during the lunch period in this location.
Landisville farms will also be handing out brochures to promote their local cooperative.
The Sustainability Task Force has established LVC as a weekly drop-off point
for the cooperative and hopes LVC members will drop by and consider signing up
for a weekly delivery during the months of June to October.
Wednesday, April 22
- Earth Day
12.10 pm. Tree
planting.
Come and join us at the Western end of Neidig- Garber for a ceremonial
tree planting.
11.00 pm – 1.00 pm.
Think Healthy Line and Landisville farms.
As above.
12.30 – end of day.
Get Down and Dirty - Recycling Display.
The students of SAFE (Student Action for the Earth) have
secretly performed “Get Down and Dirty”. They performed trash diving to collect
recyclable material not recycled in 3 dorms on the night of Friday April 3
(Silver, Funkhouser and Hammond) and 4 dorms on the night of Sunday April 5
(Silver, Vickroy, Mary Green and Keister). Professor Grant Taylor and the
students of SAFE will be constructing a visual representation from the material
around a tree in the courtyard outside Mund.