Experienced biomimicry educators will share the challenges and solutions they’ve discovered in their classrooms. New and old alike will glean new insights, materials, and support from the education staff at The Biomimicry Institute. We'll also have open space sessions and workshop around the sessions that are most important to you. If you are bringing biomimicry into your classroom or would like to know more about how to integrate biomimicry into your learning materials, please consider attending our annual meeting

You guessed it!.. "No Impact Man" is here, showing us ways to save the day... and ways that don't save the day and only serve to attract fruit flies....

This documentary looks into one family's try at living no impact for a year. Discussion afterward to stir it up!

Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Wed, Nov 17, 2010; 7:30 pm
Film is free with Museum admission (CWRU ID = free admission)

Targeted outcomes are new collaborations and insights that help us move our institutions forward in achieving sustainable campuses, educating our students and promoting productive research. Targeted participants are faculty, staff, administrators and students from all Northwest Ohio colleges and universities with interests in sustainability.

The conference is organized around three themes:
1. University and student initiatives
2. Sustainability pedagogy: Sustainability in the classroom
3. Sustainability research”

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/envp/pages/2010_conference.html

Where: Squire Valleevue Farm
When: Saturday, September 25
Time: 2 to 7 p.m.

The menu will include vegetarian chili, apples, apple cider, hotdogs and fresh salads made with farm produce.

Cost: The event is free for students and guests. Food will be free for students with a Case ID. Guests will be charged a $3 fee for food and drinks. Proceeds from the event will benefit the USG Student Sustainability Council.

Activities will include hayrides, small bonfires to cook s'mores, a tall grass maze, music, dancing, planting in the new high tunnel hoop house, fresh food cooking demonstrations, dressing up like a farmer, cookie decorating, and planting your own herbs.

The event is sponsored by the University Farm Administration, Office of Student Affairs, Alumni Office, Campus Services and Bon Appétit. Special thanks to the USG Student Sustainability Council, farm staff and Office of Student Affairs for organizing our first "annual" event.

Want to Learn More? http://studentaffairs.case.edu/farm/food/
The purpose of the Farm Food Program is to grow food at the University Farm to supply locally grown and fresh vegetables to the campus dining rooms. The goals of this initiative are to provide new educational opportunities to faculty and students, study local food production in a sustainable way using mostly organic methods, and deliver fresh food and herbs to the campus — and eventually to the area surrounding the farm.

The program includes a full schedule of workshops, field trips, presentations, a boat float, and a film screening!

Registration for the symposium is only $15/person and includes one field trip of your choice.

For more information please contact organizer Cathi Lehn at clehn@cmnh.org or visit:
http://www.cmnh.org/site/conservation/conservationsymposium.aspx

Case Western Reserve University will erect a wind turbine on campus, part of a $6 million effort to boost the region as a research hub and parts supplier for the fast-growing, wind power industry.

Cleveland's design-review officials on Thursday approved erecting the 12-story turbine just west of Adelbert Road, on the school's southern campus.

Read more... http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2010/07/case_western_reserve_universit_1.html

East Coast Bon Appétit Fellow Carolina Fojo will host “The Story Behind the Food,” a presentation about some of the most pressing food issues that affect both Bon Appétit as a food service company and us as consumers. The conversation will center around tough social, humane, and environmental issues within the food industry: how a cheeseburger contributes to climate change; what tomatoes have to do with slavery; how poultry production can threaten our health; and most of all, what we can do about all of it.

Best of all, FREE Sustainable hors d’oeuvres will be served!

For ticket sales go to: http://www.ecowatch.org/greengala.htm

Moderated by:
Holly Harlan, Founder, Entrepreneurs for Sustainability

Science faculty from Northeast Ohio colleges and universities specializing in fields of science relevant to the environmental sustainability industry – from biology to geomorphology to environmental studies to chemistry – are invited to have a timely and informative discussion about current products, services, trends and work force needs at environmental sustainability companies.

Our students are already looking for experiences in how to apply sustainability and gain experiences that help them successful members of the green collar work force upon graduation. Those that don’t will unavoidably be expected to understand the basic principles of sustainability and how it impacts their organization’s triple bottom line of people, profits, and environmental impact.

Local business and science leaders with a vested interest in a work force well-versed in environmental sustainability would like to share with you what they see at work every day and discuss what they look for in the talent they hire.

Beatley promotes green urbanism, a creative urban planning and design strategy that brings nature back into city neighborhoods, supports locally produced renewable energy and encourages growing food close to urban communities. He will present examples of innovative green projects and policies adapted by cities in Europe and North America that could be implemented in Northeast Ohio.

After the lecture, meet Dr. Beatley during a book-signing session.

Registration for members: $8 for adults /$7 for students and seniors.
Registration for nonmembers: $10 for adults / $9 for students and seniors

For more information please call (216) 231-1177 or 800-317-9155, ext. 3279

Featured Panelists:
-- Linda Robson
University Sustainability Coordinator
-- Dorr Dearborn
Professor and Chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department, School of Medicine
-- Bev Saylor
Associate Professor of Geology, College of Arts and Sciences
-- Gary Murphy
Professor of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management
-- Trevor Allen
Physics student, Student Sustainability Council

Date: Friday, October 23, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Inamori Center, Crawford Hall
Cost: Free

To register and for more info, please call 1(800) 360-5308 or email contact-cas@cwru.edu

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Amasa Stone Chapel • 10940 Euclid Ave.
Registration: Free and open to the public, registration required.

To register go to http://artsci.case.edu/bakernord/events/archive/humanities_week_keynote_speaker_2009.php

This event, organized by an interdisciplinary group of faculty and the Sustainability Office, invites you to dedicate your class sessions, Wednesday Oct 21 or Thursday Oct 22, to address issues related to sustainability, such as climate change, social justice, advanced energy, emerging economies, "green" technologies, or society's relationship with the environment. Get creative! Use exercises or guest speakers to raise student's awareness about sustainability or their carbon footprint. Let your classes know how sustainability is shaping current topics in your discipline or how your field is involved in finding solutions to climate change or other sustainability issues.

For more information, contact the university's sustainability coordinator, Linda.Robson@case.edu

In 2009, he will sail Lake Erie on a raft made of bottles called The COLA-HOGA!

Build and float YOUR OWN plastic boat in The Great Lake Erie Boat Float! The Boat Float will be held on Saturday, October 3rd at the Lower Edgewater State Park Beach. The boat launch is scheduled for 9 a.m.

Don't want to sail in the lake? Then create your own tabletop boat for the Mini-Boat Float-illa. Registration is also required for the Float-illa.

Registration information can be found at lakeerieboatfloat.org

Questions? Contact Cathi Lehn, Conservation Program Coordinator for Biodiversity Alliance:
Phone: (216) 707-2826 or Email: clehn@cbgarden.org