resolve to be active in the UAEC

Hey UAEC Member,

Happy 2009! There is much to dig this year as a member of the University of Alabama Environmental Council, so resolve to make it to more of our weekly meetings, which are Sundays at 4 p.m. in 109 Carmichael.

We’ve revamped our website (http://www.bama.ua.edu/~uaec) complete with a Google calendar (http://www.bama.ua.edu/~uaec/aeccalendar.html) so you won’t have any excuses for not knowing what’s the happs among the environmentally enthused at The University of Alabama. You can also keep up with the UAEC by joining our Facebook group (search for “University of Alabama Environmental Council”).


Here's what you can look forward to this semester:

- Movies will be shown Thursdays in 173 Nott Hall at 9 p.m.

- Faculty speakers will be giving their spiel on the environment at UAEC meetings throughout the semester.

- The National Teach-In (http://www.nationalteachin.org/) — a day for you be enlightened about current environmental issues—will be held Feb. 5.

- We’ll be carpooling to PowerShift (http://powershift09.org), which will occur in D.C. between Feb. 27 – Mar. 2. Send an E-mail to uaec@bama.ua.edu to sign up!

- We’re crossing our fingers that April showers won’t impede on Green Week (4/13-4/18) and EarthFest (4/19).

- As always, we will be hosting Glass Recycling Drives in front of the Student Rec Center on the last Friday of every month.

Hope you’ll be joining our quest for a Greener Way for UA!

Cheers,

UAEC Officers


THINGS TO DIG THIS WEEK:

WEDNESDAY – JAN. 14
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Get on Board Day in the Ferguson Ballroom. Come sit at the University of Alabama Environmental Council’s table and invite others to join our organization.

8 p.m.: SGA Department of Environmental Concerns meeting in 204A Ferguson Center

THURSDAY – JAN. 15
9 p.m.: Screening of “Planet Earth” at 9 p.m. in 173 Nott Hall.

SUNDAY – JAN. 18
4 p.m.: UAEC Meeting in 109 Carmichael Hall.
Deadline to sign up for PowerShift 2009.



LATER THIS MONTH:

FRIDAY, JAN 30
10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Glass Recycling Drive on 5th Ave. in front of the Student Recreation Center. Drivers needed to transport glass to Birmingham. Contact Glass Recycling Coordinator Mika Carpenter: mikacarpenter@aol.com.



CONFERENCES:

JAN. 21 – 24: Southern Sustainable Agricultural Working Group (SSAWG) Conference at Chattanooga Convention Center
http://www.ssawg.org/

FEB. 13-15: Southeast Youth Activist Food Summit (YAFS) at UNC in Chapel Hill, N.C.
www.syfas.org


FEB. 27- MAR. 1: Real Food, Real Medicine Conference at UNC Friday Center.
http://www.realfoodrealmedicine.com/


FEB. 27 – MAR. 2: PowerShift 2009 in Washington, D.C. Scholarships available. Email your contact information to uaec@bama.ua.edu to sign up for the carpool.
http://powershift09.org