Events from 2007

Monday, April 16 - Fire: Climate Change and the Burning of Fossil Fuels

    Come learn about the impact of humans on the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide emissions from human industry, agriculture, and transportation are threatening to increase the greenhouse effect on Earth, warm the average global temperature, and melt the ice sheets.

  • Tabling on Sproul Midday

    Forestry Club: fuel assessment activity; Cal Overstock and Surplus Den; RSEC - Energy; Department Environmental Health and Safety; Student Organic Gardening Association; Green Campus with CFLs and other giveaways plus solar powered speakers on display; Urban Releaf

  • Strawberry Creek Restoration

    10am-Noon, TBA

    Join Friends of Five Creeks Weed Warriors removing invasive weeds from restored portions of Strawberry Creek, 10 AM - noon, north side of Cross-Campus Drive east of Oxford. Find out about restoration right on campus, and how you can help! No registration needed for individuals, but large groups please check first with f5creeks@aol.com or 510 848 9358.

  • The Local!

    11am-3pm, Sproul Plaza

    "THE LOCAL", the first ever UCB student cooperative local organic vegetable/fruit stand on campus! If you're tired of trekking to the farmer's market or Berkeley bowl for a local, delicious organic apple (or other produce), The Local is just what you've been waiting for! You can find us selling kiwis, avocados, tangelos, apples, carrots, oranges, dates, spinach, broccoli, lettuce, garlic, onions, kale, collard greens and much more!

    Check us out on Wednesday at the Sustainable Food Picnic!

  • Origins of Art: Photography

    11am-3pm, Sproul Plaza

    Origins of Art is a student Environmental Art Contest meant to raise awareness about environmental issues and foster interest in the environmental movement through art. The week long show features original pieces with environmental themes created by Cal students. See what your fellow talented peers have to say about Mother Earth!

  • The Human Impact and the Future of Forests: Professor John Battles

    Noon, TBA

    Join UC Berkeley Professor John Battles at his comprehensive lecture to learn about the impact of fire, climate change, introduced species, and chronic air pollution on the future of our beloved forests.

  • "Urban Releaf" Presentation

    5pm, 260 Mulford

    Urban Releaf is a community based non-profit Urban Forestry group that has planted trees in low income areas with sparse greenery for the last 8 years. Urban Releaf employs underserved and at-risk youth to plant and maintain over 600 trees a year in Oakland and Richmond. The discussion will cover the benefits of urban trees, positive outcomes of Urban Releaf's youth training program, a research project on how urban trees affect water quality and watershed health, and bringing environmental justice to some of the East Bay's most blighted communities.

  • Carter Brooks Presents An Inconvenient Truth, the Slideshow

    7pm, 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

    Come see Carter Brooks, a Cal alumnus, who was one of the first 50 people selected to be trained trained by Al Gore to present the famous slide-show presentation "An Inconvenient Truth." Brooks calls himself a "climate artist"; It will be a very interactive, energetic, creative and unique version of the now well-known slide-show.

Tuesday, April 17 - Water: Concern for our Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers

    Animals and plants living in both salt and fresh water sources are suffering due to increased human pollution.

  • Tabling on Sproul Midday

    Environmental Defense; Cal Overstock and Surplus Den; RSEC - Water; Department Environmental Health and Safety; Student Organic Gardening Association

  • Strawberry Creek Clean-up

    11:30am-1:30pm, starts on Upper Sproul

    Help restore Strawberry Creek on campus by helping the Office of Environment, Health & Safety staff clean up the creek. Come to the EH&S table on Sproul for clean-up supplies (gloves and trash bags) and head out to the creek to pick up trash before it washes into the bay. Return to Sproul and show your bag of trash to the EH&S staffers for a free ceramic Strawberry Creek mug!

    Wear sturdy footwear and long pants if you plan to really get down to business; sections of the creek on campus can be pretty rugged.

  • Origins of Art: Mixed Media

    11am-3pm, Sproul Plaza

    Origins of Art is a student Environmental Art Contest meant to raise awareness about environmental issues and foster interest in the environmental movement through art. The week long show features original pieces with environmental themes created by Cal students. See what your fellow talented peers have to say about Mother Earth!

  • EcoFeminism: Women and the Environment

    Noon, 202 Cesar Chavez

    Join Berkeley National Organization for Women to chat with these inspiring women:

    Lisa Bauer

    Manager, Campus Recycling and Refuse Services
    Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability

    Becky Rosen

    Board of Directors, Women's Environmental Network
    EPA Region 9, Berkeley Alumni

  • Student Organic Garden Tours

    4-5pm, Virginia Street and Walnut Street

    SOGA (Student Organic Gardening Association) will be opening the Student Organic Garden for tours and question and answer sessions about organic gardening.

  • Film Showing: Discovering Hetch Hetchy

    5pm, 260 Mulford

    In 1890, the Hetch Hetchy Valley was protected as part of Yosemite National Park. Naturalist John Muir dubbed it Yosemite's twin and considered it "one of nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples. Hetch Hetchy was carved by glaciers that left towering granite cliffs and soaring waterfalls set around a grassy mountain meadow floor.

    Discover Hetch Hetchy with Harrison Ford is the tragic story of a magnificent valley that was dammed and flooded beneath 300 feet of water for use as a reservoir. Experience this film's provocative case to drain the reservoir and restore the Hetch Hetchy Valley. To learn more about solutions for restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley, please visit www.discoverhetchhetchy.org.

  • Re-thinking Plastics

    6-7pm, 106 Wheeler

    Plastic, a relatively recent arrival in packaging and product development, has exploded across the planet. Although plastic has many virtues, such as being lightweight, inexpensive and durable, its true liabilities are just beginning to be realized. Viable alternatives are available and are currently being used by enlightened individuals and businesses, including some right here in Alameda County.

    As a leader in the waste management business, the Berkeley Ecology Center encourages all customers to eliminate their consumption of plastics, whether "recyclable" or not. Students at the University of California have the opportunity to take the lead in a campus movement to eliminate plastic and adopt simpler, healthier, and more sustainable habits of consumption and packaging.

  • Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry

    7pm, 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

    Concerned about human rights and environmental justice?

    Spend an evening with activists who fight to protect workers, communities and the environment from the impacts of the global electronics industry.

  • Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology Film Festival

    7pm, 22 Warren

    Fed Up: Genetic engineering, world hunter, family farming -- a Bay area oriented orientation on sustainable and industrial agriculture. 57 minutes.

    King Corn: Two boys who read Omnivore's Dillemna decided to do their own corn experiment on 1 acre in Iowa. 22 minutes.

    Fowl by Andrew Legge: A visually delightful portrayal of the poultry industry, from free range to factory farmed by an award winning Irish filmmaker. 26 minutes.

Wednesday, April 18 - Spirit of Life: Eco-friendly Business and Human Rights Awareness

    Business and respect for the environment should not be mutually exclusive. Hear from business leaders who have maintained competitiveness while respecting the Earth. Also, because Earth Week's goals include encouraging the coexistence and cooperation of all living things, come learn about current human rights issues and how you can help.

  • Tabling on Sproul Midday

    Slo Chai: Free Ice-cream Floats and Tea!; Presidio School of Management; RSEC - Consumption, Hazardous Waste, Re-USE, Recycling; Student Organic Gardening Association; Overflyeration Fellowship; Urban Releaf; Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability

  • Origins of Art: Fashion

    11am-3pm, Sproul Plaza

    Origins of Art is a student Environmental Art Contest meant to raise awareness about environmental issues and foster interest in the environmental movement through art. The week long show features original pieces with environmental themes created by Cal students. See what your fellow talented peers have to say about Mother Earth!

  • Sustainable Food Picnic at The Local! (Produce Stand)

    11am-3pm, Kroeber Plaza (Fountain near College and Bancroft)

    Bring a pack lunch and enjoy a picnic on the grass by The Local and listen to music!

    "THE LOCAL", the first ever UCB student cooperative local organic vegetable/fruit stand on campus! If you're tired of trekking to the farmer's market or Berkeley bowl for a local, delicious organic apple (or other produce), The Local is just what you've been waiting for! Every Wednesday at Kroeber Fountain from 11am-3pm you can find us selling kiwis, avocados, tangelos, apples, carrots, oranges, dates, spinach, broccoli, lettuce, garlic, onions, kale, collard greens and much more!

  • Chill Out

    Noon, 260 Mulford

    Need a break after spring break? Chill out this Earth Day!

    Join more than 40,000 students, faculty and staff all across the United States who are tuning into a live, national Earth Day broadcast on how college and universities are innovating positive, practical solutions to the climate crisis. Learn how these bold, visionary projects are fostering energy independence while creating new jobs for a better future!

  • Keynote Speaker on Sproul: Randy Hayes, recent Sustainability Director of Oakland and Founder of Rainforest Action Network

    Noon, Upper Sproul

  • Putting Your Life in Balance: Kevin Bracy Knight, Presidio School of Management

    2pm, 130 Wheeler

    Our lives are often a hectic mess of things that we "should" do and things that we never get around to because we were doing something that we didn't really need to do. Stress and anxiety in our culture are usually a result of feeling that we have too much to do and that the things that we do actually get around to are not the deeply pleasing. A consequence of all of this frustration and rushing is that we spend money trying to buy the pleasure that we cannot get in our normal lives. This is consumer culture at its heart.

    Wherever you are in life, it is never too late (or too early) to learn how to get in order.

  • Student Organic Garden Tours

    2-3pm, Virginia Street and Walnut Street

    SOGA (Student Organic Gardening Association) will be opening the Student Organic Garden for tours and question and answer sessions about organic gardening.

  • Positioning Yourself for a Green Job: Interviewing Authentically and Writing Your Rsum

    3-4:30pm, C220 Haas School of Business

    Come learn from Susan Bernstein, Life, Career and Money Coach who earned her MBA at Haas how to get a job that is environmentally friendly and satisfying for you!

  • Living Green: How Cal students can do it

    5:10pm, TBA

    This workshop is aimed at educating all members of the UC Berkeley community on how to live sustainably. Students for a Greener Berkeley will present various campus resources as well as general lifestyle tips on how to reduce waste, conserve resources, and make environmentally responsible decisions.

  • Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble: Lester R. Brown

    6:30-7:30pm, 2050 Valley Life Sciences Building

    Mr. Brown has been called "one of the planet's most important thinkers" and a "guru of the environmental movement." He is founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, and author or co-author of 50 books related to the environment.

    This lecture is open to the public, but seating will be limited.

Thursday, April 19 - Wind: Alternative Energy Sources, Air Pollution, and Transportation

    Come learn about alternative energy sources, including wind power, solar power, biodiesel fuels, and others. Also learn how to be a more eco-conscious commuter, decreasing the amount of pollution you contribute to your environment.

  • Tabling on Sproul Midday

    RSEC - Transportation; Department Environmental Health and Safety; Student Organic Gardening Association

  • Transportation Fair

    11am-2pm, Sproul Plaza

    This year the Sustainable Transportation Fair is part of Cal's Earthweek festivities and features representatives from Cal's partners in sustainable transportation solutions. The Bay Area's mass transit agencies and car share outfits will be there to provide information on how to reduce costs through sustainable commuting. In addition to options for your personal transportation, the Fair will feature examples from the Cal Clean Fleet, UC Berkeley's own electric, hybrid, and flex fueled vehicles that are in use today and helping Cal reduce its emissions impacts on the planet. Also in the mix will be student representatives of Campus sustainability groups showing off alternative fuels and transportation technologies. Cal's own Professor Daniel Kammen will keynote the event with a brief talk about the future of energy and transportation.

  • Origins of Art: Recycle Sculpture

    11am-3pm, Sproul Plaza

    Origins of Art is a student Environmental Art Contest meant to raise awareness about environmental issues and foster interest in the environmental movement through art. The week long show features original pieces with environmental themes created by Cal students. See what your fellow talented peers have to say about Mother Earth!

  • Keynote Speaker on Sproul: Michael Gelobter, CEO of Redefining Progress

    Noon, Upper Sproul

  • Film Festival: "Crude Impact"

    7pm, 110 Wheeler

    Film Festival: "Crude Impact"

  • Film Festival: "Ripe For Change" with Panel Discussion

    7pm, 101 Moffitt

    Film Festival: "Ripe For Change" with Panel Discussion

  • Rainforest Action Network Activist Training Session

    Evening, 242 Dwinelle

    Rainforest Action Network Activist Training Session

Friday, April 20 - Earth: Protecting and Appreciating Our Environment

    Join us for the final and biggest day of Earth Week: UC Berkeley Earth Day! Celebrate the environment with your fellow students on Sproul Plaza and Memorial Glade.

  • Tabling on Sproul Midday

    Beehive Collective; Berkeley Roots and Shoots; Chancellor Advisory Committee on Sustainability ClimateChangeEducation.Org; Department of Environment, Health and Safety; Ecology Center (sharing information about green living in the city); Environmental Defense; Forestry Club; Green Apartment Tours; KQED; Lawrence Hall of Science; PG&E (with giveaways and cool gadgets); RSEC; Student Organic Gardening Association; Urban Releaf; Work With Ease

  • AltiPlano Gold Workshop

    10-11am, TBA

    AltiPlano Gold Workshop

  • Origins of Art: Complete Exhibit

    11am-3pm, Sproul Plaza

    Origins of Art is a student Environmental Art Contest meant to raise awareness about environmental issues and foster interest in the environmental movement through art. The week long show features original pieces with environmental themes created by Cal students. See what your fellow talented peers have to say about Mother Earth!

  • Climate Change and the Plants of California: Professor David Ackerly

    Noon, TBA

    California is considered one of the world's biodiversity hotspots: the richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on Earth. California has over 2000 plant species that are found nowhere else in the world, from redwoods-the world's tallest trees-to the diminutive wildflowers of vernal pools and mountain meadows. Join us to hear Associate Professor David Ackerly discuss how climate has shaped the diversity and distribution of California's unique flora, and the potential threats posed by global climate change.

  • Beehive Collective Presentation - Dismantling Monoculture: Tales of Ants and Economics in the Americas

    1pm, 122 Barrows

    The Beehive is a wildly motivated all-volunteer, art-activist collective that has gained international attention and participation for its collaboratively produced graphics campaigns. With three giant illustrated portable murals, a six foot tall fabric storybook, and an engaging narrative, the Bees take audiences on aninteractive VISUAL tour of the connections between COLONIZATION, MILITARIZATION, and RESOURCE EXTRACTION in the Americas. We will be exposing the agendas of the Free Trade Area of the Americas and Plan Colombia, and celebrating resistance to Plan Puebla Panama in Mesoamerica.

    It's a picture-lecture to be understood by anyone - not just the experts and political analysts! JOIN IN as we de-construct the complex and overwhelming issues that are shaping our world, using bio-regionally accurate depictions of animals and insects as metaphors to link cultural and ecological diversity.

  • KQED Documentary about Earth Day

    2pm, 110 Wheeler

    KQED Documentary about Earth Day

  • Ocean Festival Benefit Concert

    5-7pm, Lower Sproul

    The Ocean Festival '07 is a benefit concert and festival event sponsored by the Berkeley chapter of CALPIRG, a national student organization that takes on social and environmental issues and brings them to the attention of lobbyists and assembly members both in the Capitol and in D.C. The benefit concert is being organized by CALPIRGs Plastics In the Ocean Campaign, a student-run effort to promote awareness and action in response to the crisis of plastic accumulation and pollution in our oceans.

    The concert's main priority is to provoke awareness. Various environmental organizations (both on campus and from the community) will be tabling at the event, and a range of relevant exhibits, displays, and demonstrations, all related to the topic of oceanic health and welfare, have been planned for the day. All proceeds will go directly to the Algalita Marine Research Foundation endowment fund.

    Visit the Ocean Festival '07 website for more information.