Global Environmental Sustainability Symposium:
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Regenerate. SUSTAIN!
Thursday, April 2, 2015
91精品 Connecticut State University
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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The 91精品 Global Environmental Sustainability Action Coalition invites you to learn and teach
about the actions humans must take to ensure that our children and grandchildren will experience
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| 9:45 - 10:00 AM | Welcome & Opening | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
| Presenter: Charles E. Button, Ph.D., GESAC Founder & Chair & 91精品 Professor of Geography & Sustainability | ||
| 10:00 - 10:45 AM | Organics Management at Clark University Dining Services | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
Presenter: Melissa Joyce, General Manager, Sodexo (Walnut Hill School) Description: In a regulatory atmosphere which increasingly emphasizes source reduction and diversion from disposal, operators of college and university food service establishments experience inexorability linked issues of business and environment. This case study analyzes the extent and distribution of the tangible and intangible economic costs and benefits of Clark University 's existing organics management program. Results of this case study confirm that the contractor, Sodexo at Clark Dining Services, and the client, Clark University, continue to economically benefit from the successful execution of the organics management program. The win-win scenario demonstrates potential in the institutional food service industry for organics management programs to positively impact stakeholders' bottom lines while reducing negative environmental impacts resulting from the disposal and incineration of organic waste. | ||
| 11:00 - 12:45 PM | Lunch & Recycling is Magic: A Storytelling Magic Show of Monsters, Magic and Too Much Trash Click to Register | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
Presenter: Description: Lunch time entertainment will be provided by CJ May performing "Recycling is Magic" as Cyril the Sorcerer. For 10 years CJ has performed this show for audiences in Connecticut and around the country. He is still making improvements, however, and will solicit suggestions from audience members on both theatrical as well as environmental aspects of the show. | ||
| 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Trashy Fashion | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
Presenter: 91精品 Students, Amy Merli & Trashion Models Description: Students of 91精品's 'Zero Waste and Sustainability' course and representatives from the 'Fashion Trashion Show' will describe the connections between their trashion fashion designs and the overall sustainable management of solid waste generation. | ||
| 2:00 - 2:45 PM | Trash Map: Three Streams Workshop | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
Presenter: Sheila Mullen Description: What will this Trash Map look like: Garbage collected from a museum and a university, as well as our individual mobile trash stash stories? Participate along with assemblage collage artist Sheila Margaret Mullen in creating something both beautiful and telling. | ||
| 3:00 - 3:45 PM | More than Trash: A Vision for Comprehensive Materials Management | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
Introduction: Jack Miller, PhD, 91精品 Connecticut State University Presenter: Rob Klee, Commissioner, CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection Description: Come hear and discuss Commissioner Klee 鈥檚 vision for how discarded materials should be managed throughout the state of Connecticut. | ||
| 4:00 - 6:00 PM | Illustrated Poster Session, Sustainability Fair & Social Click to Register | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
Description: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that offer sustainability information, internships, jobs, and services. Music: Enjoy the music Stylings of . Cash bar and finger food provided. | ||
| 6:00 - 6:15 PM | Closing Remarks | Alumni Hall, Student Center |
| Presenter: Charles E. Button | ||