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What Can You Do to Help the Environment?
Attend Earth Day Week April 21-24 at Olympic College! Join us for activities, discussions, movies, and more at Olympic College Bremerton, Poulsbo, and Shelton campuses.
Something for everyone. See links below for exciting events happening at each Olympic College location!
Special Thanks:
The Environmental Taskforce and OC’s Environmental Club would like to thank the OC Foundation, OC Bookstore, guest speakers, community organizations, and National Geographic’s Green Guide Magazine for supporting Olympic College in becoming a climate neutral campus.
OC Bremerton Earth Day Activities:
Neighborhood Clean-up Project - Sponsored by OC’s Environmental Club and Hi-Lo’s Café
3:30 - 6 p.m., Students will assemble at the Bremer Student Center then walk to 15th and Wycoff and clean up as they go.
Earth Day Film Fest - Sponsored by OC’s Environmental Club
11 a.m. - 3 p.m., Bremer Student Center, North/South Conference Rooms
Join us for three films followed by facilitated discussions about each film.
Wednesday, April 23
Guest Speakers: Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele
Presenting: Facing Climate Change – Understanding Global Change through Local People
12:30 - 2 p.m., Bremer Student Center, North/South Conference Room
Benjamin’s and Sarah’s work features intimate photographs, field audio and personal profiles that humanize climate change. For more information visit www.bendrum.com/climate_change or click here for a PDF info sheet.
Facing Climate Change is a Blue Earth Alliance sponsored project. Blue Earth Alliance raises awareness about endangered cultures, threatened environments and social concerns through photography. For more information visit www.blueearth.org.
Earth Day Dance - Sponsored by OC’s Environmental Club
7 - 11 p.m., Bremer Student Center
Students are encouraged to wear their best "Green" gear.
Thursday, April 24
Community Environmental Agency Fair
10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Bremer Student Center, North/South Conference Rooms
Demonstrations, information and free gifts.
OC Poulsbo Earth Day Activities:
Recycling Program Kick off
Graffiti Forum kick-off “Lightening Our Footprint”
Poulsbo Commons
Sustainable Building Advisor Certificate Program Information Session
4:30 - 6 p.m., Rm 010
Tuesday, April 22
Environmental Film Festival and Roundtable Discussions
Noon - 1 p.m. throughout the week in OCP 105
Wednesday, April 23
Community Environmental Agency Fair
9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Poulsbo Commons
Film Fest: The Forest Through the Trees
Noon - 1 p.m., Rm 105
Graffiti Forum discussion in Commons (light refreshments provided)
Speaker: Kathleen O’Brien
10 a.m. - Noon, Rm 221
Topic of Discussion: Sustainability
Note: This is an ITV meeting and will be broadcast in Bremerton in CSC 411B and in Shelton in TJL 111.
Kathleen O’Brien is founder and president of O'Brien & Company, a nationally recognized leader in sustainable design-build consulting, education, and research. She is also the author of The Northwest Green Home Primer.
Author book signing
11:15 - Noon with Kathleen O’Brien
for The Northwest Green Home Primer
Thursday, April 24
Film Fest: Kilowatt Ours
12:30 - 1 p.m., Rm 105
OC Shelton Earth Day Activities:
On-campus Planting Project with Native Plants
11:00 – 2 p.m.
Environmental Fair and Discussion with Community Employers – Benefits of Going Green
Noon - 2 p.m.
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