UNC-Chapel Hill Celebrating Earth Week 2017

Campus Updates – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Earth Week, April 17-22, is UNC-Chapel Hill’s annual celebration to demonstrate support for environmental protection and a time to look forward to continuing progress in sustainability at Carolina. Campus departments, student groups and other organizations are hosting an event-packed week. Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to learn about sustainable initiatives on campus, attend talks, connect with our community-based food systems, shop at a farmer’s market, celebrate new campus gardens, and top it off with the annual Science Expo on Saturday.
Last fall Carolina launched the Three Zeros initiative that defines our ambitious goals to move the campus toward water neutrality, zero waste, and greenhouse gas neutrality. The University is a gold-level, charter participant in the AASHE STARS program, a national measurement of University progress toward a wide range of sustainability goals. The campus sustainability dashboard illustrates how our campus is performing in different areas across campus.
Earth Week Calendar
The Center for Sustainable Enterprise Hosts A Career with ImpactTuesday, April 18, 12:30 p.m., Koury AuditoriumFeaturing keynote speaker Rye Barcott ‘01, Managing Partner and Cofounder of Double Time Capital. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact cse@unc.edu.
NSF Day at UNC-Chapel HillWednesday, April 19, 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m., Rizzo Center, 150 DuBose Home Lane, Chapel HillThe National Science Foundation (NSF) and UNC-Chapel Hill host a day-long workshop to  provide background on the NSF and insight and instruction on how to compete for NSF funding for science, engineering and education research. NSF representatives will be on hand to answer questions and to host discipline- and program-specific breakout sessions to personally engage in discussions with attendees.
Environmental Humanities Luncheon with Ann and Bland SimpsonThursday, April 20, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., 3202 Murray/Venable HallJoin UNC-Chapel Hill Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing and author Bland Simpson for a discussion, “Many Waters: Exploring Eastern North Carolina’s Sound Country.” RSVP ...

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