Environmental Semester March Events

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Wednesday, March 11 Richard White, Environmental Historian
Lecture: "Thinking with Nature: Walt Disney & the Natural World"

4 pm, Clements Library

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Wednesday, March 11 - Donna Landry
Professor of English, Wayne State University

Lecture: "Hardley Hedge-Rows"? Field Sports, Natural History, Picturesque Theory, and Poetry as Competing discourses in Eighteenth-Century British Ecology

12:00 Noon
3222 Angell Hall


Thursday, March 12 Environmental Career Fair - Michigan Union Ballroom, 10 am - 2 pm

Thursday, March 12 Forum on Environmental Technology

Amory Lovins

Lecture - 3:30 pm, Auditorium B, Angell Hall

Reception - Immediately Following Lecture

Panel Discussion - 7:00 pm, Auditorium B, Angell Hall

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Thursday, March 12 Films: "The Man Who Planted Trees"

"The Lorax"

"Anima Mundi" - Natural Science Auditorium, 7 pm.

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Thursday, March 19 Teach-In
Harvey Wasserman, Greenpeace's Sr. Advisor

8:00 pm

1210 Chemistry Building


Friday, March 20 Student Rally for the Environment

Featured Guest: Lanna Pollack, Dir. of MI Environmental Council

Noon - 1:00 pm

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE PENDELTON ROOM AT THE MICHIGAN UNION INSTEAD OF THE DIAG DUE TO POOR WEATHER CONDITIONS

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Friday, March 20 Energy Fair

Noon - 4:00 pm

Pendelton Room - Michigan Union

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Friday, March 20 Environmental Learning Fund Speaker Series

James Teeri (UM Biological Station & Matthaei Botanical Gardens
1-2:00 pm, Michigan Union Wolverine Room

Jon Young (wilderness Awareness School)
7:00-10:00 pm, Michigan Union Pond room


Saturday, March 21 Arbfest

10:00 am - Markley

Free bagels, OJ, t-shirts and fun. Hear poetry in the Arboretum by Professor Tillinghast, learn about nature with leaders from Outdoor Adventures, hear an acapella group, play games, and clean up the Arb.


Saturday, March 21 Environmental Learning Fund Speaker Series

Loraine Fox Davis

2:00-5:00 pm, Michigan League Koessler Room
Informal Spring Equinox gathering to follow!


Monday, March 23 Judith Helfand

Lecture & Documentary about DES

7:00 pm, Location: Hillel


Tuesday-Wednesday, March 24-25 Orion Society's Forgotten Language Tour -
Writers include:
Alison Hawthorne Deming, Arizon, poet and essayist
William Kittredge, Montana, writer of fiction, autobiography, essays
Stephanie Mills , Michigan, essayist and environmental activist
Pattiann Rogers, Colorado, poet
Scott Russel Sander, Indiana, essayist and writer of fiction
Annick Smith, Montana, writer and filmmaker

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Thursday, March 26 Film: "Walkabout" - Natural Science Auditorium, 7 pm

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Friday - Sunday, March 27-29 Ecosystem Management Seminar

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Monday, March 30 Ralph Nader

7:00 pm, Michigan Theatre

Sponsored by Serve Week & UAC


Tuesday, March 31-
Thursday, April 2
Patrick Dougherty
Resident Installation Artist

Sapling collection and hauling to site. Volunteers needed! Email sapling@umich.edu or call 734.764.5123


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