UCR Earth Week Activities:

The events kick off at 9 a.m. on April 18 with a Sustainable Commune(ity) Breakfast in HUB 268. The free event, sponsored by the campus Office of Undergraduate Research in the Community, will showcase opportunities for community service, especially those pertaining to the environment and sustainability. The event will also be the campus’ first sustainable/zero net waste event, featuring local and organic food. In addition, service settings will be reusable glass or ceramic and any waste will be composted or recycled. The event is open to the public but space is limited, so attendees are asked to RSVP by contacting Samantha Wilson at samantha.wilson@ucr.edu or (951) 827-7739.

Daily exhibits will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UCR bell tower. Each day of the week will represent a different sustainability topic. All events are free and open to the public, but there is a fee for parking on campus.

Exhibits include:

• April 18, Materials: Visitors can bring an empty disposable plastic water bottle and trade it for a Pilot pen made from recycled bottles. There will also be a demonstration in which visitors will walk through a sidewalk chalk depiction of the process for getting a building certified under LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (EBOM) guidelines. UCR is in the process of getting its first LEED EBOM building certification for Glen Mor I residence halls.
  
  
• April 19, Waste: What would a trash can say if it could talk? Find out by visiting the UCR talking trash cans. Other demonstrations include exploring the anatomy of a waste bin and how to recycle a coffee cup.
  
  
• April 20, Carbon: Using cardboard boxes that represent a metric ton of CO2, visitors will have the opportunity to envision their impact on the environment by stacking the boxes that equate to their carbon footprint. UC Riverside’s Transportation and Parking Services will have information about alternative transportation and will display some of the campus’ hybrid, compressed natural gas and electric vehicles. There will also be information on how to improve gas mileage through vehicle maintenance.
  
  
• April 21, Water: Can you physically carry your daily water use? And how much water do you really use to make a cup of coffee or drive your car? Find out at these demonstrations. Also, answer a question about sustainability, then put your name on a tag. Each tag will represent a plant that will be donated to UCR’s student garden. There will be a tree planting at 11 a.m. on the mall lawn in front of Pierce Hall and Science Laboratories 1. UC Riverside Chancellor Timothy P. White and Jared Blumenfeld, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional administrator for the Pacific Southwest, will plant a tree to celebrate a memorandum of understanding, signed last year between UCR and the EPA, which is designed to increase EPA’s outreach to diverse and underserved communities by offering internships, joint projects, and scientific research opportunities to students and faculty. Students will help in the planting process.
  
  Join Chancellor Timothy P. White and EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld for an Earth Week Tree Planting Ceremony Thursday, April 21 from 11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at the Pierce Lawn (in front of Pierce Hall & Science Laboratories 1)
  
  
• April 22, Energy: Find out how much energy it takes to get things done and learn about some renewable energy options. A solar oven will be used to cook bread or fruit cobblers. After Earth Week the oven will be moved to a campus residence hall for student use.
  
  
• Friday, April 22, 2011, 12-1:30 p.m., HUB Room 355.
  "Earthquakes, droughts, floods and storms are Natural hazards, UnNatural disasters are deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission." A presentation of a joint World Bank and United Nations special report on global disaster management by Dr. Apurva Sanghi, Sr. Economist and Team Leader, World Bank. Sponsored by the Water Science and Policy Center, Water Resources Collections and Archives, and Global Studies Program.

Earth Day and Environmentalism (without book cover images)

• 10 ways to change the world in your 20s [electronic resource] / Libuse Binder.Publisher Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2009.
• Capitalism, Democracy, And Ecology : Departing From Marx / Timothy W. Luke. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999. GE195 .L847 1999.
• The global environment and world politics / Elizabeth R DeSombre.  London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.  GE170 .D473 2002.
• Getting to grips with green plans : national-level experience in industrial countries / D B Dalal-Clayton; Izabella Koziell; Nick Robins; Barry Sadler. London : Earthscan, 1996. GE170 .D35 1996.
• Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project final report to Congress : status of the Sierra Nevada / Davis : Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, University of California, 1996.  GE155.S54 S52 1996 v.3.
• Environmental life-cycle assessment / Mary Ann Curran.  New York; McGraw-Hill, 1996.  GE145 .C87 1996.
• Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Humanistic Studies of the Environment  / Jill Ker Conway; Kenneth Keniston; Leo Marx. Amherst, University of Massachusettes Press. 1999  GE140 E18 1999.
• People, penguins, and plastic trees : basic issues in environmental ethics / Christine Pierce; Donald VanDeVeer; Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Pub. Co., ©1995. GE42 .P46 1995.
• The greening of ethics / Richard Sylvan; David Bennett. Cambridge, UK : White Horse Press ; Tucson, USA : University of Arizona Press, 1994. GE42 .S95 1994.
• Earthright / H Patricia Hynes; Rocklin, CA : Prima Pub. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1990.  TD170.2 .H96 1990.
• Cleaner production in industry : integrating business goals and environmental management / Ian Christie; Heather Rolfe; Robin Legard; London : Policy Studies Institute ; Poole, Dorset : BEBC Distribution, ©1995. TD171.5.G7 C57 1995. 
• In search of environmental excellence : moving beyond blame  / Bruce Piasecki; Peter Asmus;  New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1990. TD171 .P53 1990.
• One world for one earth : saving the environment / Philip Sarre; Paul Smith; Eleanor Morris; London : Earthscan Publications in association with the Open University, 1991. TD170.2 S26 1991
• Cultural studies and environmentalism [electronic resource] / edited by Deborah Tippins ... [et al.] Publisher Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2010. Electronic book.
• Eco-socialism as politics [electronic resource] : rebuilding the basis of our modern civilisation / Qingzhi Huan, editor. Publisher Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2010. Electronic book.

This exhibit was created on April 18, 2011 and designed by Margaret Hogarth, Steve Mitchell, and Sara Palmer.