Thanks to everyone involved for another
tremendously successful
Sustainability Series of events!!
In total we had nearly 2300 people turn-out for a total of 33 events throughout the spring 2011 semester.
In addition we had nearly 400 student volunteers contribute over 2600 hours of their time to clean-up our community, to engage our environment and to work toward a more sustainable future.
Additional Sustainability Series/Earth Week stats can be found here.
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EARTH WEEK has grown!!!
Saving our planet, protecting our home, becoming aware and engaged citizens for a more sustainable tomorrow is not just something we should be focused on one day a year, or one week a year, but everyday. With that in mind (and given the popularity of our Earth Week programming), for 2011 Earth Week is but a part of our spring Sustainability Series!!!
Calendar of Events: Sustainability Series | Earth Week
EARTH WEEK 2011: Finding Balance
April 16th - April 22nd, 2011
The key to saving our planet is simply to find a way to live in harmony with it. That means finding a balance in what we take from the Earth and what we give back to it. It is not about abstinence or extremes, it is about harmony and symbiosis. It is about FINDING THE BALANCE, in ourselves, our lives, and our society.
SUNY Fredonia's Earth Week series is intended to provide activities and educational events to raise awareness of the breadth of sustainability issues facing our society and provide the tools necessary to reduce our negative impact upon our home.
WHAT CAN I DO? |
simple steps to save the planet |
SUNY Fredonia has had a history of celebrating Earth Day since its origins in 1970. In 2008, we greatly expanded and institutionalized this celebration as Earth Week, primarily as a voice to the then newly created Sustainability Committee. Now in its 4th year, the Earth Week series has become one of the largest and most prominent annual events on the SUNY Fredonia campus. While our first two Earth Week series of events were very successful, we took our community engagement and educational outreach activities to a whole new level with Earth Week 2010 through our collaboration with the SUNY FACE (Fredonia Academic Community Engagement) Center.