Events

10-19 through 10-23 (see below for complete listing of events)
Campus Sustainability Week
Help show Northeastern’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint during the University’s first Campus Sustainability Week.

CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY WEEK EVENT LISTINGS

10-20 through 10-22
Get Educated!
Informational tables manned by companies like NStar, Phillips Electronics, and greenpromotions.com, as well as student-run environmental groups. Learn about green products used by Northeastern and new ways of saving energy. Give-aways!
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Curry Student Center, main floor and indoor quad

10-19
Installation of Permeable Asphalt Bases
Come see the installation of a series of permeable asphalt bases on campus. The bases, to be installed around trees, will help mitigate storm-water runoff, a major environmental issue in urban areas. Learn what they are and how they work.
All day (rain date 10/20)
Forsyth Street

Sustainability Program Information Table
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Curry Center main floor

Sustainability Forum
Come hear about the challenges we face when it comes to keeping our region’s water clean from keynote speaker Joshua Das of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. You’ll also hear from representatives of the four main Sustainability Committees on campus about the very latest green initiatives on campus.
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Curry Student Center, indoor quad

10-20
Bike Safety Information Table
Learn how to safely make bike-riding part of your green lifestyle. Tips and tricks from Northeastern’s Office of Public Safety.
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Snell Library Quad

Documentary screening: Blue Gold: World Water Wars
This critically acclaimed documentary follows examples of people around the world fighting for their basic right to water—from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. The film proposes that a line is crossed as water becomes a commodity and asks, “Will we survive?”
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
108 Snell Engineering

Live Music: Recycled Percussion
Come see this New Hampshire-based band perform both original and cover songs using recycled objects such as ladders, pots, pans, and 50-gallon drums as musical instruments. The band recently placed third on the reality show series America's Got Talent. MTV called it “entertainment at its highest level,” and the Today Show declares the act “amazing.”
9 p.m. – 10 p.m. (doors open at 8:00 p.m.—priority seating for those coming from the Blue Gold: World Water Wars documentary screening)
Blackman Auditorium

10-21
Bike Safety Information Table
Learn how to safely make bike-riding part of your green lifestyle. Tips and tricks from Northeastern’s Office of Public Safety.
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
West Village, between B and C

Green Business Panel/ Networking Event
Sponsored by the Co-op and Experiential Learning Office, this event gives you the opportunity to hear from and meet managers and executives from leading “green” companies. Speakers include Ed Costa, environmental compliance program manager at Hewlett Packard; Dean Cycon, CEO and founder of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee; Martin Wolf, director of product sustainability and authenticity at Seventh Generation; and Steve Young, senior vice president of Wainwright Bank. The program will be moderated by Jennifer Cole, professor of environmental science at Northeastern.
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Cabral Center

Keynote Speaker: Howard Lyman
Hear the real story behind the cattle and dairy industry from the highly original, entertaining, and informative vegan cowboy, Howard Lyman. Author of Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won’t Eat Meat and No More Bull: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy—Our Diet, Lyman brings the issue of the dangers of eating meat to the light like never before.
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Raytheon

10-22
Bike Safety Information Table
Learn how to safely make bike-riding part of your green lifestyle. Tips and tricks from Northeastern’s Office of Public Safety.
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Snell Library Quad

Low Carbon Diet Lunch
Eat with purpose! Stetson and International Village dining halls will be serving a variety of low-carbon-diet vegetarian and vegan meals during regular lunch hours.
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Stetson and International Village dining halls

Art and Sustainability Reception and Exhibit
This exhibition showcases visual art that deals with the theme of environmental sustatinability. Curated by local artist Kalman Gacs, the show features work from a variety of mediums and points of view.
3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Outside Gallery360 and Curry Indoor Quad

Green Chemistry/Toxics Use Reduction Panel
Learn about ways you can reduce your use of toxic chemicals in your everyday life. Panelists include Dr. Dan Faber, professor of sociology and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative; Dr. Ken Geiser, professor of work environment, codirector of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, and coauthor of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act; Martin Wolf, director of product sustainability and authenticity at Seventh Generation; and Dr. Emily Reichart, director of applications research at the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Neenah Estella Luna, a lecturer in the Northeastern University Law, Policy, and Society Program.
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
108 Snell Engineering

10-23
Sustainability Week Closing Event: Melodeego
Join us for a musical performance by Melodeego, a Boston-area band active in climate change. This highly original band melds classic soul music with the drive and pace of rock in a genre it calls “Soul and Roll.”
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
AfterHours

Sustainability Program Information Table
1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Curry Center main floor