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Wednesday, April 1 - Saturday, April 18	Patrick Dougherty - Installation Artist Northwest corner of the Diag - Central Campus Sapling Collection: Day 2 Patrick Dougherty Slide Talk and Reception. April 1, 4:00 pm, Art & Architecture Building, Room 2104 Sponsored by the School of Art & Design and the UM Arts Coordinator Click here for more information
Thursday, April 2	Dr. Eric Martinot, Sr. Scientist at the Stockholm Environmental Institute in Boston. Lecture: "Investments in Energy Efficiency Renewable Energy in Russia: Transaction Barriers and the Need for Market Intermediation in a Post-Soviet Economy" 4:00 pm, 2024 Dana Building Sponsored by CREES & SNRE
Thursday, April 2	Patrick Dougherty - Installation Artist Sapling Collection: Day 3 Volunteers needed to assist the artist. Email sapling@umich.edu or call 734.764.5123.
Friday evening & Saturday, April 3-4	Forum on Environmental Education - Residential College. Speakers: Susan Jacobson, David Orr, David Robertson
Saturday, April 4	Hands on the Planet Kickoff Auditorium B, Angell Hall 11:00am - 2:00 pm More details forthcoming!
Monday, April 6- Saturday, April 18	Patrick Dougherty - Construction of Sapling Sculpture Northwest Corner of Diag near Angell Hall Volunteers needed to assist the artist. Email sapling@umich.edu or call 734.764.5123.
Thursday, April 9	Patrick Dougherty - Installation Artist On-Site Kick-Off 11:00 am Corner State and N. University (near Angell Hall)
Monday, April 13- Friday, April 17	Patrick Dougherty - Construction Week 2 of Sapling Sculpture Northwest Corner of Diag near Angell Hall Volunteers needed to assist the artist. Email sapling@umich.edu or call 734.764.5123.
Monday-Friday, April 13-17	Earth Week Mon, April 13th - Environmental Justice Day Tues, April 14th - Waste Reduction Day Wed, April 15th - Corporate Responsibility Day Thurs, April 16th - Global Climate Change Day Fri, April 17th - Rainforest Day
Monday April 13	Environmental Justice Day 12 noon - 2 pm, Diag Earth Week Kick-Off, Steel Drum Band 2 pm - 3:30 pm, Room 1040 Dana Building Al Gedicks - author of "The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multi-National Corporations"
Tuesday April 14	Waste Reduction Day 12 noon - 4 pm, Diag Trashing the Diag - the waste of the UM Community Composting Lessons 8 pm, Hillel Movie: Visions of Eden - A film on Jewish Environmental Perspectives
Tuesday, April 14	Lunch with Patrick Dougherty - 12:00 noon E. Quad Dining Hall/Residential college UM students are welcome to attend. If you do not have a meal card but would like to inquire about attending, email Mike Shriberg or Ann Savageau.
Wednesday April 15	Greening of Corporations 12 noon - 4 pm, Diag Anti-Nike Demonstration & Information 4 pm - 5:30 pm, Room 126, East Quad Movie: Delta Force - A film on the war that Shell Oil has waged on the Ogoni people of Nigeria 8 pm - 10 pm, Room 1046 Dana Building Kevin Sweeny of Patagonia, Inc. on greening the textile industry
Wednesday, April 15	Dinner with Patrick Dougherty - 5:30 pm Alice Lloyd Dining Hall/Lloyd Hall Scholars Program UM students are welcome to attend. If you do not have a meal card but would like to inquire about attending, email Mike Shriberg or Ann Savageau.
Thursday April 16	Global Climate Change Day 12 noon - 4 pm, Diag Green Poetry Reading Climate Change Campaign 5 - 6 pm, Meet at the UM Diag Critical Mass Bike Ride 5 - 7 pm, Michigan Union, Room TBA Protecting Our Children's Health: The Failure of State Environmental Policy 7 - 9 pm, TBA Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange: "50 years is Enough - IMF and World Bank" 10 - 11 pm, Diag Candlelight Vigil for Endangered Species
Friday April 17	Rainforest Action Day 12 noon - 4 pm, Diag The Sounds of the Rainforest - activism to save the rainforests Rainforest Education 12 - 4 pm, Back of Dana Building Matthaei Botanical Gardens - bus leaves every hour at 10 past to gardens for tour of Tropics Room
Saturday, April 18	"M-FEST: A Party for the Planet" - Palmer Field POSTPONED DUE TO POOR WEATHER - LOOK FOR M-FEST DURING THE FALL SEMESTER, 1998
Tuesday, April 21	Patrick Dougherty - Installation Artist Dedication of sculpture on site 4:00 PM Northwest Corner of Diag near Angell Hall
Tuesday, April 21 - May 2	"Perspectives of an Intersecting Environment" Atrium Gallery of the Pierpont Commons An Exhibit by the digital photography class taught by Ann Blackwell at the School of Art & Design.
Friday, April 24	"Perspectives of an Intersecting Environment" Atrium Gallery of the Pierpont Commons Reception, 6 pm, Piano Lounge next to Atrium An Exhibit by the digital photography class taught by Ann Blackwell at the School of Art & Design.