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New Events and Opportunities for Fall 2019
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UCI Sustainability Week 5 Digest
 

Greetings Anteaters,

Join us for the Fourth Annual Sustainival this Thursday! Learn about all the valiant, local work being done in sustainability and how you can get involved at more than a dozen booths. Reusable bags, bamboo utensils, succulents, limited edition Petr stickers, Falasophy meal tickets, and more available while supplies last. The Sustainival will take place this Thursday, October 31st 12-2pm between Langson Library and Gateway Studies Center. Let us know on Facebook if you can make it.

Also, remember that you can submit any sustainability-related events or opportunities you hear about to the SRC website and we'll publish them and include them here in the digest. To do so, and to see examples, visit UCI sustainability events calendar or the opportunities database.

For any questions, feel free to contact us at sustainability-center@uci.edu.

Sam LeFevre
SRC Office Coordinator      
 


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Second SCWG Meeting
The second quarterly meeting of the Sustainability Co-curricular Working Group (SCWG) is today, October 28th, 4-5 pm, in the Sustainability Resource Center! If your organization is at all interested in discussing sustainability-related goals, programs or co-ops with other orgs, we'd love to have you at the meeting! Please send one representative. Additionally, if you can't make this meeting, we will have another towards the end of the quarter, so keep an eye out for updates.

Company Town


A groundbreaking investigative documentary that tells the story of Crossett, Arkansas, where a local pastor David Bouie galvanizes citizens against Georgia-Pacific, one of the nation’s largest paper mills and chemical plants owned by Koch Industries. It offers a rare look inside a small town ruled by a single company that has employed generations of the town’s residents while burdening them with massive pollution, sickness, and death. Company Town asks, what do you do when the company you work for and live next to is making you sick? This is the story of a modern-day David vs. Goliath.

October 28, 2019
5:30 - 8:30 pm
Education Building, Room 1111


Department Seminar: V. Ram Ramanathan



The UCI School of Physical Sciences and the Department of Earth System Science invite you to a special talk by renowned climate change scientist Ram Ramanathan.

Bending the Curve: Overarching Solutions for a Rapidly Warming Planet
Ram Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego

Tuesday, October 29, 2019
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
The Jenkins Room, CRH 3101

Ram Ramanathan is the Edward Frieman Presidential Professor in Climate Sustainability. He discovered the greenhouse effect of halocarbons 44 years ago and provided fundamental insights into the feedback effects of clouds and water vapor in climate change. Ramanathan is an international leader in developing solutions for slowing global warming. He was the science advisor for Pope Francis’ delegation to the 2015 Paris Climate Summit. In 2013, he was named the Champion of Earth by the United Nations. 

More info
here.


Embodying Resilience

 

UCI Community Resilience Projects is excited to collaborate with the UCI Africana Institute of Creativity Recognition, and Elevation (AICRE) to share the experimental work of Dr. S. Ama Wray, Associate Professor of Dance. We are hosting a four-part series of 90-minute movement workshops at the UCI Cross-Cultural Center on select Thursday mornings starting October 10. The workshops are free and open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. Through participating in this class you will awaken and sharpen the skills and sensibilities that are necessary to build and sustain a creative responsive and resilient community.

Register 
here.


October 31, November 7, 2019
9:30 - 11:00 am



An EVEning with Elephants

                                                                    


Join us for An EVEning with Elephants to learn about the endangered Asian elephant, and people who live alongside them!

This event will feature:

  • 1-hour documentary film, Elephant Island, about Asian elephants, produced by the BBC.
  • Q&A with researcher Dr. Shermin de Silva, director of the Udawalawe Elephant Research Project and founder of Trunks & Leaves Inc. 
  • Bharatanatyam performance, "Tale of the Tuskers," choreographed and performed by Sukanya Kumar. 
November 2, 2019
5-7:30pm
Eve Encinitas (575 South Coast Highway 101, Encinitas, CA 92024)

Tickets available
here.

Rethinking the Food System in a Time of Eco Crisis: w/ Gene Baur


Rethinking the Food System in a Time of Eco Crisis:
An Evening with Gene Baur & Mona Seymour

Monday, November 4, 2019
6:30pm – 8:30pm

FREE ADMISSION ($5 – $10 Suggested donation appreciated.)

Irvine United Congregational Church
4915 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92604


A new study conducted by University of Oxford, published in Science, suggests eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce our environmental impact on earth.

Big Ideas @ UC Irvine

 

UCI students! Want to win $20,000 for your project, startup, or student group that has social impact?

The application deadline for the Big Ideas Contest is just one month away! We know you've been thinking about applying this year and the Big Ideas team is ready to support you through the journey. We have a number of workshops, advising sessions, and editing blitzes lined up over the next month to help you get to the finish line. You can do this and we're here to help!

UC Irvine Big Ideas Info Session: October 24 @5:30, Merage School of Business, SB1, Suite 2300

Here are 2 Easy Steps to Get Started:

1. Read through the Rules and Requirements on the Big Ideas website to familiarize yourself with the Contest and the components of the 3-page proposal.

2. Sign up for an Advising Appointment with a member of the Big Ideas team to discuss your idea and any questions you have.

Learn more here.



 
The SRC weekly e-digest promotes events and opportunities that appear in the Sustainability Calendar or Opportunities Database during the week. To best ensure your event appears here, use the online form or email us at sustainability-center@uci.edu to add your programs. Deadline for submissions to appear in the e-digest is Wednesdays at 12:00pm. Thank you!
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