SATURDAY, APRIL 17th

Ecolympics
April 17th - April 24th
The Ecolympics are a fun, participatory series of events geared towards the themes of sustainability, reduction of the human footprint on the environment and education about biodiversity and the current crisis in biodiversity loss.

If you haven't already signed up, please visit
http://www.bu.edu/core/ecolympics/

MONDAY, APRIL 19th

Meatless Monday
Lunch, all dining halls
All dining halls will be serving vegetarian lunch.

Vegetarian Cooking Demonstration with Dining Services and CORE
4:30 pm at FitRec

Planet Earth Screening
7pm in KCB, rm 106

TUESDAY, APRIL 20th

Food Miles Maps
Dinner, dining halls
Posters will be displayed in all the dining halls illustrating the distances that our food travels, and the CO2 expended.  

Bike Workshop
5 - 6pm, GSU rm 310
Thinking of biking in boston? Come to BU bikes' free on-hour bike workshop given by Education Director of Massbike Shane Jordan to learn the basics of how to get started!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21st

Recycling Cafe
10 - 1pm , GSU
Come bring your recyclables, electronics, ink cartridges, batteries, lightbulbs and brita filters to the recycling cafe. Also bring your own travel mug and get free coffee!

Earth Centered Worship
11am at Marsh Chapel
Earth justice themed worship, preaching and music!

Community Lunch and Trash Audit
12 pm in Oxnam Room, STH Basement
Eco-friendly food and challenges for the STH pledge toward ecological discipleship.

SEDGreen Screening of the film Earth 2100
3 - 5pm, School of Education Auditorium, Room 130

Bike Workshop
5 - 6pm, GSU rm 310
Thinking of biking in boston? Come to BU bikes' free on-hour bike workshop given by Education Director of Massbike Shane Jordan to learn the basics of how to get started!

Composting in the Dining Halls
5 - 7pm, all dining halls

Cracking Jokes, Not Yolks: A vegan-friendly comedy show
7 - 8pm in BU Central
An Earth Week Comedy Show @BU Central featuring Tim “the reverend” McIntire with opening acts by Rob Crean and Sarah Heggan. How does this relate to Earth Week? All performers are vegan, which means they each help sustain our earth by conserving over 60% more water than a diet that regularly includes meat. 

Leadership Campaign Earth Eve Sleep Out
Wednesday night to Thursday morning, Boston Common
Join hundreds of people to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day on April 22nd by joining the call to Repower Massachusetts with 100% Clean Electricity by 2020. Register http://www.theleadershipcampaign.org/participate/register/  

THURSDAY, APRIL 22nd

Earth Day Celebration on GSU Plaza
11 - 3pm on GSU Plaza (rain location GSU Link)
Environmental groups from Boston University and the Boston area will gather on GSU plaza to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day alongside Dining Services and sustainability@BU. There will be free local, fair trade and organic food, demos, giveaways, bike-powered smoothies, seed-planting, water taste testing, music and lots of fun! 

Participating Groups:
Sustainability@BU, BU Recycling, Dining Services, Environmental Student Organization, Slow Foods, BU Bikes, Compostability, BU Vegetarian Society, MassPIRG, Ecoolympics, Outing Club, Organic Gardening Collective, NetImpact Undergraduate Chapter, BU Student Alliance for Progressive Change, Boston Vegetarian Association, Urban Adventours, Save That Stuff, Gazelle, Andrea DeLeon, Newton North Greengineers, and Zip Car

Dining Services Chowder Cook-Off
11 - 3pm on GSU Plaza
Dining services will be hosting a chowder cook-off on GSU Plaza.

Local & Fair Trade Food Tastings
11 - 3pm on GSU Plaza
Hood will provide ice cream samples, Cabot Farm will have a cheese tasting and there will be a representative from Ward's Berry Farm. Also, Slow Foods will be making Fair Trade Banana splits (with Ben & Jerry's ice cream!).

Goodwill, not landfill
11 - 3pm on GSU Plaza
Stop by the GSU plaza to donate items you no longer use and check out the room display. Purchasing gently used items saves landfills from over-population, and helps reduce CO2 emissions as factories are not producing new things. Last year BU diverted 6.75 tons of reusable stuff. Let's double that in 2010.

For a list of what objects to bring and what not to bring, please visit Sustainability@BU

Free Store
11 - 3pm on GSU Plaza
The Women’s Resource Center will be hosting a free clothes swap during the Earth Day festivities. Bring clothes, take clothes! All clothes left over will be donated to Goodwill. 

Gazelle
11 - 3pm on GSU Plaza
Gazelle is the nation's largest reCommerce company. Gazelle will be buying old electronics such as cell phones, mp3 players, laptops. So make sure to bring your old gadgets to Earth Day and earn some money!

Recycling Raffle
11 - 3pm on GSU Plaza
BU Recycling will be collecting all sorts of recyclables: bottles, cans, plastics, electronics, batteries, cell phones, light bulbs. and brita filters. Give a recyclable, get a raffle ticket!  

Barefoot Soccer Tourney
11 - 3pm on BU Beach
A barefoot 3 on 3 tournament at the BU Beach, same day sign ups, and a juggling contest! 

Earth West Campus Block Party
10 - 4pm, West of the BU Bridge
CFA: Logo Contest Entries Displayed, SVA Printmaking Demonstration
BU Bands: Presentation at 3pm in conjunction with the Logo Contest Winner Announcement CGS: "Reuse" Your Blood Drive and Recycling Table
Health Services: "Reduce" Your Risk of STDS (Part of STD Awareness Month)
Agganis Arena: Tennis Tournament Ticket Give Away and Tennis Ball Challenge
BU Bikes: Bike Safety Checks from an EMS Mechanic
Red Cross: Disaster Relief Information Booth
Starbucks, Chipotle and Panera: Free Food & Drink
BHOP: Gift Certificate Raffle for Two Pizzas
The block party will also feature outdoor recycling bins and a Carbonrally Sign-Up Table.

Keep Local Farms @ BU Medical Center
10 - 2pm, Menino Pavilion lobby, 850 Harrison Ave.
BMC will become the first hospital in Massachusetts to join an effort called Keep Local Farms, designed to help local farmers through this tough economy.  There will be a press conference with the state’s agriculture commissioner, BMC CEO Kate Walsh, and local farmers followed by samples of farmer’s products. Vendors include Garelick Farms, Cabot Cheese, Grafton Village Cheese, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Stonyfield Farms, Newman’s Own and Ben & Jerry’s. BMC will donate 10 cents from every single-serve (bottle) purchase of milk to Keep Local Farms.  

FRIDAY, APRIL 23rd

Soul Purpose Symposium
3 - 6pm, CAS Rm. 314

Students from the Boston area are invited to attend this free, inspiring environmental activism workshop with local musician-activist group Melodeego.

Earth Justice Student Forum
5 - 7pm, Oxnam Room, STH Basement

Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore will host this event, involving dialog with and presentations by various student communities at the STH. How can we work together with and among diverse groups to foster earth justice? Potluck dinner 
Clips from the film Renewal will also be shown, demonstrating faith communities working for ecological healing and justice.

Melodeego Concert
Doors open @8:30 at BU Central

Soul 'n roll to celebrate the end of Earth Week!