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.