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!

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!

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.

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.

The GREENetwork and Sierra Student Coalition is sponsoring the following program:

Wild Utah: America’s Red Rock Wilderness

Presented by: Clayton Daughenbaugh

Conservation Organizer, Southern Utah Alliance Volunteer Chair, Sierra Club’s National Wildlands Committee

Friday, February 4, 2011

12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m.

Beckman Auditorium

Ames Library

Chefs from Epiphany Farms will speak tonight (Monday, Nov. 15) at 7 p.m. in Beckman Auditorium of The Ames Library. Epiphany Farms is an organic “farm to fork” enterprise that practices sustainable, environmentally friendly techniques.

How much do we really know about the food we eat and where it comes from?  Grab a friend and come watch the documentary, Food Inc., sponsored by the “No Impact Experiment” Committee.

www.iwu.edu/news/NoImpact.shtml

Film: FOOD INC

Wednesday, September 15 at 7:00 pm

Ames Library, Beckman Auditorium

All are welcome!

The film lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, examining costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.  We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that will not go bad — BUT we also have new strains of E. coli, widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic of diabetes among adults. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto), along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, Food Inc. reveals surprising and often shocking truths about what we eat, how it is produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.  For more information please visit www.foodincmovie.com/

Join us Saturday, September 25th at 8:00 a.m. as Professor Given Harper leads us on a bird watching walk in Bloomington’s Ewing Park. We will meet in the parking lot of Ewing Park (off of Towanda Ave.). The walk will last approximately 2 hours. Bring your field glasses and get ready to enjoy the great outdoors without leaving town!!)

(If you would like to attend, please, RSVP the Wellness office, via phone (309) 556-3334, or email jspence2@iwu.edu. If you leave a message, be sure to include your phone number and/or email address. Please call if you need directions)

The GREENetwork will meet next Friday, September 10 at 12:10 p.m. in the Henning Room.