The Expo’s FREE-4-All

Don’t throw it away! Give it away!

In the tradition of Ecology Action Center’s semi-annual FREE-4-ALL, Wellness will be creating an opportunity to give away your unwanted stuff and to take what you like — FOR FREE!

Here are the rules:

FREE-4-ALL Household Items Giveaway

Please Bring: – Knick-knacks, lamps, vases, paintings, prints, etc. Items must be clean and in good condition.

– No large furniture

Men’s & Women’s Clothing

– Adult men & women’s clothing only

– Clothes must be clean and in good shape

And for the Kids! FREE-4-ALL Toy Giveaway!

– Toys must be in good shape (all parts and pieces, etc.) and clean.

Please bring gently used items that deserve a second life to the IWU Wellness Office by April 5. Contact us with questions or if you need help with pick up, ext. 3334 or wellness@iwu.edu.

Donated items will be available at the Illinois Sustainable Living & Wellness Expo on Saturday, April 9, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Shirk Center

Trashed – the Movie

Come see the film Trashed on Wednesday, March 9, in CNS C102 at 7 p.m. Find out what actually happens to what you put in the garbage.

Sponsored by the GREENetwork and Recyclemania!

Meat-Free Monday!

Join Vegetarian, Vegan, Victorious! (VVV) in their campaign for a Meat-Free Monday!

We are asking students, faculty, and staff to voluntarily opt out of meat ONE day a week!

Every time you eat a meal free of animal products, you save 2.5 lbs. of greenhouse gas emissions, 24 square feet of land, and 133 gallons of water. If you eat three meatless meals a day, that totals a massive savings of 2,737.5 lbs. of greenhouse gas, 26,280 square feet of land and 145,635 gallons of water per year, plus more.

Just ONE day of meat-free meals can make a huge difference!

Visit our Facebook group for more information on how one meat-free day helps the planet and other schools/countries that are participating:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_205837426098787#!

Jmeyer2@iwu.edu or Daniel at dcochran@iwu.edu for more information on the campaign or VVV.

Are you addicted to plastic?

How often do you use plastic materials a day? Come find out the dirty truth behind the production and lifespan of plastic.

Addicted to Plastic, the movie

CNS C102 on Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m.

Sponsored by the GREENetwork and Recyclemania!

Utne Reader “Visionary” Sandra Steingraber ’81 Publishes New Book

A new book by Sandra Steingraber ’81, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis, will be published by Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, in March.

Steingraber was named among “25 visionaries who are changing your world” by Utne Reader in 2010.

Steingraber visited campus in October to speak about the new documentary Living Downstream, titled after her celebrated 1997 book.

Troubled Waters Documentary

Thursday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. in CNS C101

The Environmental Studies Program and John Wesley Powell Chapter of the Audubon Society will present Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story, a documentary that explores the unintended consequences of commercial agriculture and urban runoff on the health of the Mississippi River and the “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico.

The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session led by Terra Brockman of The Land Connection, a local organization dedicated to sustainable agriculture.

Environmental Studies Film Series

The film “Milagro Beanfield War” will be shown on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. in Beckman Auditorium, The Ames Library. The event is free and open to the public.

Future films scheduled in the series include

“A River Runs Through It” on Tuesday, March 8,

and “Climbing Redwood Giants” on Tuesday, April 5,

both at 7 p.m. in Beckman Auditorium.

Composting Program Begins

In conjunction with a community composting initiative spearheaded by Illinois State University, Sodexho has begun composting food waste from Bertholf Commons in the Memorial Center. In its first week of the program beginning Jan. 24, an average of 500 pounds a day from the student dining room and Sodexho kitchen were diverted from landfills to a composting site at the ISU farm.

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Alumnus Promotes Sustainability in Higher Ed and Urban Environments

Michael Bryson ’90, associate professor of humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago and Schaumburg, published an essay about the genesis of Roosevelt’s new program in Sustainability Studies in 2010 and the importance of sustainability in higher education in the Roosevelt Review (pp. 31-36).

Bryson is a contributing writer to the Sustainability Studies at Roosevelt University blog, which provides news and commentary about a broad range of urban environmental issues throughout the Chicago region.