The News in Green
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Wittenberg’s EcoHouse Starts the New Year!
After two years in the making, the Wittenberg Eco-House starts up this year. After a couple years’ effort and no small dose of vision from past PoWER president David Donofrio (’09), the EcoHouse is a reality at Wittenberg. The house is located at 484 N. Wittenberg Ave. and is home to five forward-thinking Wittenberg Juniors: they are Joseph Fader, Ben Johnson, Zack Stewart, Drew Sykes, and current PoWER president, Isaac Wittmann. The house benefits from the savvy guidance of faculty advisor Ken Irwin, and from the encouragement and foresight of Dean Sarah Kelly and Associate Dean Dawn White from Student Development, both of whom worked with the students all last year to get this project underway.
No, the EcoHouse is not all decked out with the latest in photovoltaic panels, passive solar water heating contraptions, geothermal climate control, or indoor vermiculture composting equipment. Rather, 484 N. Wittenberg is a typical Springfield residence with one key difference: these Wittenberg Juniors living there have each signed an agreement that will guide their living habits for the coming year. The contract states that they will live an earth friendly lifestyle as both a testing ground and beacon for all Wittenberg residence.
Here’s just a sample of what Joseph, Ben, Zack, Drew, and Isaac will be up to this year:
· recording and reducing their energy consumption;
· maintaining an on-site garden and a compost bin;
· diligently recycling and avoiding the purchase of non-recyclable materials;
· purchasing organic and/or locally grown food when possible;
· pursuing carpooling options for travel needs; and
· seeking out energy efficient options whenever repairs or replacements of appliances are necessary.
The residents of the EcoHouse also have the duty of providing some educational programming for the campus, so keep your eyes out for opportunities to learn more about this group. In the meantime, if you happen to know any or all of these fine environmentalists, give them your encouragement as they set the standard this year for the future of this timely residence.
Dr. Incorvati and J.P. Jackson
Kappa Delta keeps campus composting hopes alive with its new program
In other Eco-abode news, Wittenberg senior, perennial go-getter, rugby terror, and Kappa Delta president Esther Mast is doing her part to keep organic material out of the waste stream. She and the Sisters of Kappa Delta have made arrangements with local farmers Larry Halpern and Gail Keen for picking up the sorority’s organic waste and putting it to use in some honest-to-goodness Springfield agriculture. Larry and Gail have provided the Kappa Delta house with bins that the two farmers will pick up on a regular basis, and they’ve also supplied these Wittenberg women with some sawdust on the off chance that bad smells do emerge before the full bins can be switched out with empty ones.
With people involved like Esther, who implemented the Kappa Delta recycling program last year, and Larry and Gail, who do more than anyone I’m aware of to promote sustainable practices in Springfield, this effort has all the smell of success about it.
Dr. Incorvati
Recycling Remarkably Doubles over the Last Year
It’s true. In one 12 month period, Wittenberg typically reclaims about 45,000 pounds of waste that would otherwise have been sent to the landfill, and this year, that figure was bumped pretty close to 90,000 pounds. That’s a remarkable jump. And what’s even more remarkable is that the campus managed to achieve that increase while magically continuing its daily practice of reclaiming about 10% of its total waste. (Ten percent, by the way, is better than some campuses, but a good stretch shy of where we should be. We did hit 20% at two points for the first time last semester.)
If the math isn’t adding up here, you can blame two people, the two people who were responsible for doubling our reclaimed waste, the two people who are the Green Heroes of the day.
Green Heroes Extraordinaire: Doug Lehman and Lori Judy
When our library undertook an enormous purge of some of its holdings, Director Doug Lehman and Senior Library Assistant Lori Judy confronted a problem. If we were to discharge all those periodicals that were now available through online sources, we needed to find something to do with the paper, tons of paper, that would be headed out the door. The complication here is that these periodicals were bound, and most paper recyclers just can’t handle that stuff. Waste Management can’t handle it—which is why we can’t put hardbacks in our blue bins—Rumpke can’t handle it, and the green “Paper Retrieval” bins around town can’t handle it.
Doug persistently followed up leads until he found one company, Hanna Paper Recycling out of Cincinnati, that would haul away these discharged items. It wasn’t free—and at this point Wittenberg even has to pay Waste Management to take recyclable materials off our hands—but Doug and Lori were not going to rest easy at night thinking that they had something to do with putting an enormous mountain of paper into a landfill somewhere in southern Ohio.
So they made the arrangements, the books were pulled from the shelves, they were loaded into large carts (see attached photographs, please see the attached photographs), and were hauled away in a series of shipments through the summer. A huge task. And one that requires thanks in many directions. Judy in particular would like to give kudos to the students who helped her with the task. That’s Megan Clark (’10), Molly Shuman (’10), and Aric Stano (’10) Their work added to 21.6 tons of recycling to Wittenberg’s tally, about the same amount by weight that the campus as a whole reclaims in a year’s time. By one estimate, the efforts of these Wittenbergers saved about 367 trees.
Dr. Incorvati
Lou Laux Kicks off a Brown Bag Lunch Series at the Co-op
To keep the community spirit going at 721 N. Fountain, the Co-op House will host lunchtime gatherings on select Fridays through the semester. Professor Emeritus Lou Laux will inaugurate the series on September 11th, 12:00-1:30, with a discussion about heirloom gardening and related topics. Laux, who taught in Wittenberg’s Biology Department for 32 years, is an ecologist, a pioneer in sustainable living, and a lively conversationalist, so the first gathering will be a memorable one. And the rest of the schedule is pretty rich as well:
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Dr. Incovati
Wittenberg in the Running for an Environmentally Literacy Grant
Thanks to the work of Ruth Hoff, who represents our campus among the schools in the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE), Wittenberg was included among four schools in a grant proposal aimed at promoting environmental literacy on area campuses. The grant monies would come from the Ohio EPA and would expand an innovative program out of Ohio University called the Kanawha Project. This program provides faculty with the tools and strategies needed to expand students’ awareness of their surroundings. You can find out more about the program at http://www.ohio.edu/envstu/kanawha_main.cfm. Thanks to Ruth for getting Wittenberg a prominent place in the mix. More news on this effort as it becomes available.
Dr. Incorvati
Former Sustainability Assistant Chris Banas (’09) Takes His Experience to Oregon State
Last Fall, Chris Banas was one of the first two students hired to work with our Campus Sustainability Office and was pivotal in conducting a couple different waste audits on campus, a recycling competition between our residence halls (conducted by our student conservation club, PoWER), and an electricity metering exhibition in Hollenbeck Hall last Spring. This year, he’s building on his environmental know-how by taking an AmeriCorps position with the Oregon State University Extension Service.
So far, Chris has been digging into a couple projects. One has him working with young people around Salem in an effort to recover a spot that once served as a dump for a nearby mill. The other involves a program in which community members register their fruit trees to make them available for public harvesting. The bounty from this effort helps fill the shelves at area food banks with local produce. Before the year is out, Chris will also help coordinate an international environmental effort which will culminate with a summit in Thailand next summer. More details to come on that one.
Dr. Incorvati
Campus Sustainability Assistants grow to 9
Last fall, thanks to some indispensible help from Debbie DeWitt in the Business Office, we were able to put students to work improving the environmental life of the campus. The program started with two people that semester (Chris Banas among them), expanded to three in the Spring (Matt Wickiser and J. P. Jackson joined Chris), and the plan was to have four on the job this Spring. Be assured that, in these lean times, the expanding workforce had nothing to do with a growing budget. No. We just found it better to have more hands working fewer hours in any given week.
And the trend of growth in the sustainability staff continues thanks in very large part to some energetic students who have offered to help the Campus Sustainability Office with or without pay. As a result, the program has expanded to nine assistants this year. They are Carl Coburn (’11), Lacey Davidson (‘12), Barbara Hartley (’10), J. P. Jackson (’10), Shae Miller (’12), Katie Minter (’12), Chris Tabler (’11), Matt Wickiser (’10), and Parker Wright (’12). A huge thanks to them for giving their time to the improvement of the campus.
Dr. R. Incovati
Green Heroes of the Day
Wittenberg sophomore Kelsey Swindler gets our gratitude for spending her summer volunteering for Energize Clinton County (or ECC), a nationally recognized effort to revitalize a struggling community by promoting green business opportunities. And revitalization is needed after Wilmington’s major employer, DHL, up and left town earlier this year. This summer, the ECC effort gained attention by being designated the nation’s first Green Enterprise Zone, a distinction that marks the town’s legislative efforts to promote green investment. (You can learn more about this accomplishment and about ECC more generally at its recently updated website, www.energizecc.com.) Kelsey—who in her off hours also interned in the office of Wilmington Mayor, David Raizk, and worked in the greenhouse run by her parents—brings her experience back to campus this Fall as the Student Senate Liaison to Sustainability Initiatives and as the co-chair of the President’s Sustainability Task Force.
Two other Wittenberg students, Ashley Bowers (‘11) and Katie Nemeth (’10), warrant recognition for their work in environmentally oriented internships closer to home. Through opportunities made available through the Center for Civic and Urban Engagement’s expanded internship program, these two enterprising Wittenbergers found some ways to apply ideas similar to those used by ECC in our own stomping ground. Under the guidance of Andy Scholl, they investigated options that could put federal dollars to work in low-income neighborhoods, promoting energy efficiency in the process, and they laid the groundwork for future environmental initiatives that can link the campus with the broader community.
Dr. Incorvati
Wittenbergers Tour Water Treatment Facility
The anti-bottled-water push is alive and well at Wittenberg, and why not? The effort got a boost over the summer from a slew of negative media stories about water bottles, from a campus reading group that discussed the book Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, by Elizabeth Royte, (http://www.bottlemania.net) and from a field trip to Springfield's Water Treatment Facility attended by more than 30 students, staff, and faculty. The upshot of all this is a campus community where more people are aware of the problems most associated with those plastic water bottles, such as:
On top of all that, Springfielders live right on top of their own plentiful source of pristine water. If you’d like to know more about our remarkable aquifer, our abundant water supply (this town is apparently called “Springfield” for good reason), and the minimal treatment needed to make our water ready for the tap, just ask around until you find one of those colleagues who made the trip to our treatment plant.
Springfield Water Finds New Channels at Wittenberg
The drive to curtail the presence of bottled water on our campus recently enjoyed some big moments, and there are also some ongoing efforts that can be invigorated with some campus support.
· Commencement 2009 Goes Bottleless. This year, the people planning our graduation ceremonies, in particular John Marr and Brandee Bates, worked to give the snub to plastic bottles by making large coolers of Springfield water available and encouraging faculty and staff to bring their own bottles.
· Incoming Students Take Home Wittenberg Water Bottles from Pre-Orientation. Every year, our first-year students get a keepsake to mark their summer visit to the campus, and this time around Miguel Martinez-Saenz sent a huge message about local water sources and Wittenberg’s values by tapping that gift into the campus’s green effort. When you see a bottle with a red “W” on it, you’re probably looking at a member of the class of 2013, and you can thank Professor Miguel Martienz-Saenz for this fine marriage of campus spirit and local water.
· New Student Days Provides Springfield Water. And if the water bottles didn’t do the job, the planners of New Student Days made sure that plenty of Springfield tap was on hand to refresh the movers. No water bottles were offered this year, thanks to Mark deVilbiss and his crew.
· Spiffy New Water Bottles Soon to be Available at the Wittenberg Food Co-op. If you feel left out because you don’t happen to be a member of the class of 2013, you have a remedy. While you can’t get the same bottle that these select students received, you can get a brand new stainless-steel water bottle with the clever message “Springfield Water . . . I bottle my own!” along with a Green Wittenberg logo. Stop by the Co-op House this Friday between 4:00 and 6:00 for its grand opening (more on that soon), and one can be yours for a modest $10.
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STAND Heads off to Mountain Justice Program for a Second Year
STAND President Megan Hentges found a passion for mountains during last year’s Mountain Justice Program which brought this Wittenberg junior to Appalachian country in order to see firsthand the effects of mountaintop removal. Fired with her passion for this issue, she brought back to our campus some useful information—as well as some pretty snappy bluegrass musicians—and now she’s recruited a posse of twelve students who will make the spring break trip to the Mountain Justice program this year. Contact Megan (s10.mhentges@wittenberg.edu) if you’re interested in learning more about this program or about the mountaintop removal method of getting coal. (www.mjsb.org)
Ohio EPA Director Addresses Global Warming
The Political Science Department continues its “Affairs of the State” colloquium series with a talk by Chris Korleski this Thursday, February 5, at 4:00 p.m. in Bayley Auditorium. Korleski has headed up the Ohio EPA since his appointment by Governor Ted Strickland in 2007, and before taking that position, he worked for the state Attorney General’s office and served as counsel to the EPA. His talk at Wittenberg, entitled “Global Warming: Science or Religion,” covers a subject particularly relevant for a state which, according to the Public Utilities Commission, relies on coal for 86% of its electricity.
Compost Pilot Underway with Some Generous Support from Clark County Waste Management
Earlier this semester, three campus rental properties were selected to be part of a pilot program which supplies those residences with a brand new compost bin. The bins were supplied to Wittenberg by Clark County Waste Management care of their Waste Reduction Grant program which, as the name implies, supports educators in their efforts to reduce waste in our community schools. (More information about this and other programs is available at http://www.32trash.org/school_support.htm.) The bins were delivered by our Physical Plant staff, and now the residents of the selected properties will begin separating organic waste from their trash stream. They’ll also begin informing the Recycling Program of any complications that crop up. If all goes well, we’ll look at adding new properties to the compost program each year.
Ecohouse Option Generates Significant Student Interest
The student environmentalist group PoWER held an interest meeting for students thinking about living in the University’s first Ecohouse which is scheduled to come online in the fall of this year. The interest was certainly there: 7 groups of potential residents, each consisting of 5 willing students, were on hand to put their names in the running. The selection process and the planning for the house continues apace as you read this, and much thanks goes Senior David Donofrio, Dean of Students Sarah Kelly, and Associate Dean Dawn White for their roles in bringing the idea this far.
Green Events Mark the Beginning of 2009
A pre-semester Writing and Speaking Workshop and the FDB’s Faculty Retreat shared the distinction of being Green Events. The workshop organizers worked with Sodexho, taking advantage of its new catering Green Guide (available at http://www4.wittenberg.edu/administration/dining/catering.html); the organizers also produced publicity on paper with at least 30% recycled content and provided van transportation to a downtown restaurant for lunch. The Faculty Retreat raised the Green Event bar a bit higher with a low-waste breakfast supplied by volunteers from the Wittenberg Food Co-op; the retreat planners also asked the Recycling Program Coordinator to provide a recycling quiz as well as recycling and composting options throughout the day; and they opted for aluminum cans in place of plastic bottles. To learn more about how to qualify for Green Event status, visit the Green Wittenberg website at www.wittenberg.edu/green.
Student Senate Takes an Aggressive Green Stance
Student Senate’s commitment to environmental issues has been strong since the inception of the campus-wide recycling program in the spring of 2008. Student leaders made a significant financial contribution of $20,000 that helped spread blue recycling bins around campus and also helped support the additional personnel that would be needed to handle the collection, hauling, and unloading of our sorted waste. This year, Senate President John Duraj has extended that commitment by appointing two students to promote both the recycling and the purchase of local and organic foods through Wittenberg’s Food Co-op
Senior Political Science and French major Elise Willer is already serving a key position as a liaison between the Senate, the Recycling Program, and PoWER, the student group who is taking on the task of recycling education on campus this year. Elise is also responsible for designing new signs to mark the transition to single-stream recycling and has been pivotal in getting the Green Wittenberg logo printed on organic and recycled cotton shirts.
Sophomore Dan Whonsetler is taking on the task of making the coop more student friendly. In addition to providing some product ideas that appeal to the 22-and-under set, he has also helped out with the physical labor involved in the coop’s most recent—and busiest ever—distribution.
PoWER Lobbies for the Campus Climate Challenge and an Eco-House at Wittenberg
This fall, PoWER has a few major initiatives on its agenda, one of which is to get Wittenberg University signed onto the Campus Climate Challenge, a national program in which colleges agree to make deliberate steps toward reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Key among those steps is the development of a plan, including a timetable with specific benchmarks, for achieving carbon neutrality. Other measures include the promotion of public transportation, the reduction of waste, and a commitment to pursue energy generated from renewable sources.
Also on their agenda is the establishment of an eco-house on campus. PoWER’s plan for this themed housing arrangement involves taking one of the university’s current off-campus residences and reserving it for students who would be interested in making a personal commitment to adopt environmentally friendly living habits. According to PoWER Prime Minister David Donofrio, the house need not be equipped to solar water heaters, photovoltaic panels, and geothermal heating and cooling in order for the project to get off the ground. In fact, he sees the house itself as a potential project for the residents who would research and participate in the gradual greening of the building from year to year.
If you are interested in either of these projects, please contact David Donofrio at s09.ddonofrio@wittenberg.edu.
STAND Brings Mountain-Top Removal Concerns to Campus
While some college students spent their spring break in 2008 on the beach in Cancun, members of STAND traveled to Virginia to participate in a program called Mountain Justice. The program brought STAND members up close with the effects of mountain-top removal and immersed them in the Appalachian culture that feels the most direct impact of this and other damaging mining efforts. This fall STAND will not only continue its work on this issue, but it will also bring a piece of that Appalachian culture to Wittenberg’s campus.
STAND has arranged for the group Here’s to the Long Haul to stop in Springfield for a concert and a presentation on mountain-top removal. The group’s music has been described as bluegrass, traditional folk music, and contemporary Americana, but they describe their sound as “mountain resistance music.” In fact, this Tennessee band has its roots in the Mountain Justice Program where two of its members met and started playing together.
The group will bring its distinctive brand of music and its political commentary to campus on October 24th when they’ll play at Wally’s at 9:00 p.m.. Wittenberg’s own Stuffed Possum and Cornbread will also offer its rendition of Appalachian music for a song or two.
Waste Audit Underway
No question about it. Our recycling numbers could be better. But where are the real problems? Do we recycle better in the academic buildings than we do in the residence halls? What’s the main recyclable material that’s winding up in the trash can? Is it newspaper or plastic? Glass or aluminum? And what percentage of material in the trash receptacles might actually go into the blue bins?
These are the questions that the campus’s two Sustainability Assistants, Chris Banas (’09) and Megan Shaughnessy (’12), will be tackling in the coming weeks as they undertake a waste audit of the campus. To test out the process, the students along with Recycling Program Coordinator Dr. Rick Incorvati and Environmental Studies Program Director Dr. Andrew Scholl, conducted a trial audit of the trash and recycling produced in Hollenbeck during a 24-hour period.
Preliminary findings show that this academic building generally recycles more effectively than the university’s overall average: about 34% of the total waste in the building found its way into a recycling bin, which is just over the rate of 32% the EPA assigns to the average household and about three times Wittenberg’s campus average which is a bit shy of 10%. The audit also found that the recycling effort has plenty of room for growth since as much as 76% of the material in the Hollenbeck total waste stream could have been recycled. The auditors were also surprised by the amount of paper towels—about 12 pounds worth—that passes through that waste stream in a single day.
Future audits encompassing additional buildings will provide a lot of immensely helpful information for improving our campus recycling efforts, but the task will be enormous. Those interested in assisting in this milestone project should contact Chris Banas (s09.cbanas@wittenberg.edu) or Megan Shaughnessy (s12.mshaughnessy@wittenberg.edu).
Wittenberg’s Recycling Program Goes Single Stream
After one semester of sorting our recycling material into two bins—paper in one, and glass, aluminum, and plastic in the other—Wittenberg is shifting to a
single stream collection process. There are good reasons to go with multiple stream, especially if a community generates enough waste in paper to justify a separate hauler for that material. We’re not there—nor, for that matter, is a vanguard campus like Oberlin which uses single stream recycling.
The single stream approach has two key advantages for our campus. One is that recycling becomes easier. No need to track down the right bin for your recycling needs now since any blue bin will do the job. The other advantage is that Wittenberg is now able to place a blue recycling bin next to every major indoor trash can on campus. Up until this point, we did not have enough bins to provide that kind availability. In a few weeks, we should be able to tell whether shift to a single stream has produced a bump in our recycling numbers (i.e. the amount of material reclaimed).
To help make the transition to this approach, Student Senate and PoWER have generated new signs to post on and near the bins.
The News in Springfield
City of Springfield Moves Closer to Contracting with Waste Haulers
The current practice for handling residential waste in Springfield is a matter of individual choice with each household determining who picks up the trash cans and recycling bins put out by the road. There are certainly advantages to this system, particularly for the smaller haulers in our community who are at a disadvantage when bidding for contracts alongside larger companies--companies with newer equipment and economies of scale on their side. But the disadvantages of are also significant.
One might think that putting the four haulers in our area—H. W. Mann, Rumpke, Waste Management, and Vince—in competition with each other would lead to cheaper rates for consumers. But according to a feasibility study conducted by Debra Shaw, Director of Clark County Waste Management District, and Jim Scora, of GT Environmental, Springfielders are actually paying more than they would under a system in which haulers were contracted to exclusively handle particular areas of town. The average monthly payment for waste hauling in our community is $20.20, while citizens in towns with contracted services pay around $14.80.
The other disadvantage from an environmental perspective is that we currently have not one but four gas-guzzling refuse trucks crawling down our avenues each collection day, and we can often add four more vehicles for picking up the recycling. To complicate matters further, some haulers, particularly the smaller ones, have little incentive to recycle since the cost of sending around a second truck does not offset the savings reaped by reducing waste destined for the landfill. (Haulers pay two charges to the waste collection companies, a higher one for waste and a lower one for recyclables.) Creating a situation in which one hauler is responsible for a whole neighborhood would likely make the collection of recycling more feasible for more haulers.
The City Commission is continuing to look at the shift to contracted haulers and is considering ways in which contracts might be distributed across the area so as to sustain the range of haulers Springfield currently supports. Details from this story were found in Diane Selden’s Springfield News Sun article “Commissioners Tackling Trash."
The News in Ohio
Ohio Ratifies Great Lakes Compact
After a good deal of wrangling, the Ohio legislature recently ratified the Great Lakes Compact, an agreement that will give each of the states that border the Great Lakes more control over the use of the water. The future of the lakes, which hold about 20% of all of the fresh water on the globe, had become a significant concern of environmentalists, and in December of 2005 those concerns moved the governors of eight border states and two Canadian provinces to establish some guidelines the use of that natural resource. This summer, Ohio became the final state to ratify the compact, thus sealing the deal and restricting efforts to divert this desirable fresh water.
In the weeks leading up to this approval, Wittenberg students played a role in the legislative process by participating in the Ohio Environmental Council’s lobbying effort. On Earth Day, April 22nd of 2008, the group traveled to the Columbus State House, spent the morning being briefed on the finer points of this and other legislation, and then devoted the afternoon to visits with senators, representatives, and their advisors. A few members of this group were also lucky enough to be in the House chamber when our state representatives passed a significant energy bill, one establishing benchmarks for renewable energy sources in Ohio.
For more information on the Great Lakes Compact, see the fact sheet provided by the Ohio Environmental Council.
Upcoming events
Brown Bag Co-op Lunch Series
Date Topic
Wittenberg Co-op Important Dates
Ordering opens Ordering Deadline : Distribution
| September 4 | September 11 | October 30 |
| November 2 | November 6 | November 23 |
All the distributions will be in the Hollenbeck atrium. Announcements will continue to go out by email for the upcoming ordering and distribution dates, and you can also visit the How it Works page of this site for more details on the co-op's ordering, payment, and distribution protocols.
Past events
August 28th: 4-6Pm
Wittenberg Food Co-op Set for Grand Opening
The Co-op invites the campus community to the official unveiling of its new home at 721 N. Fountain (adjacent to the Center for Civic and Urban Engagement). In addition to having a distribution of its pre-ordered food, the organizers have arranged for a few samples of its goods, some fresh vegetables for sale from local farmers, and some grand fiddle music supplied by Wittenberg’s own Stuffed Possum and Cornbread. Show your support of the Co-op by kicking off your weekend at their new digs.
March 23rd- March 27th: Battle of the Bins
Whichever residence hall recycles the most wins!
Sponsored by P.O.W.E.R.
March 31st: Ohio Environmental Council Lobby Day
Students visit the state house in Columbus to learn about environmental issues facing Ohio and engage with state politicians on them.
Sponsored by Faculty across departments.
Columbus Ohio
8:30 Am to 6:00pm
March 16th- March 22nd: P.O.W.E.R. Week
Monday: WHAT'S Energize Clinton County?
Documentary on Clinton County OH's problems and how they are trying to revitalize the community with environmentally friendly "green collar" jobs.
8:00-9:00 pm, Bayley Auditorium
Tuesday: GREEN CDR DAY!
Come eat vegetarian food and watch "Planet Earth" all day in the CDR.
Wednesday: UNPLUGGED SOCIAL!
Play board games, hear acoustic and accapella music, and learn how much fun you can have without electricity.
9:30-11:00 pm, Ness Auditorium
Thursday: ELISA YOUNG!
Wittenberg will be hosting a speaker from Meigs County OH to speak about the coal plant crisis in her area. Sponsored by: STAND, Sociology Club, Women's Studies, Global Studies, Geography, Environmental Studies, and Geology
It's at Ness Auditorium @ 7:30pm
Friday: FACTS ABOUT ECC!
Stop by the plant sale table during meals and pick up a fact card with information about how you can influence politicians to help save Clinton County.
During Lunch and Dinner, Student Center
Saturday: POWER CAMPUS CLEANUP!
Wake up early to help PoWER make Wittenberg a cleaner place!
Meet at 9:00 am, Wally Witt
Sunday: BATTLE OF THE BINS KICK OFF!
Get excited for this week-long recycling battle between the residence halls! There will be an awareness parade and a kick off ceremony to follow in the CDR.
Meet at Fountain at 11:30 am to parade to the CDR.