Whatcom Community College Joins Over 1000 Other Colleges and Universities to Celebrate "Focus the Nation (on Sustainability) Week"

Some event highlights:

The Elephants in Our Living Room: Why Energy Decline and Climate Change Force Us to Plan for Sustainability by John Rawlins
1/28 11:30-1:30 PM Heiner Center, Room 209

FILM FESTIVAL 1/29 10:00-4:30 PM Heiner Center Theater
Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the 1/29 10:00-11:00 AM Heiner Center Theater
The Ecological Footprint: Accounting for a Small Planet 1/29 11:30-12:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
The End of Suburbia 1/29 12:30-2:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
Global Warming: The Signs and Science 1/29 2:00-3:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
Seattle: The Future is Now 1/29 3:30-4:30 PM Heiner Center Theater

Webcast: The 2% Solution - Join Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins and green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting. Our goal is 10,000 screenings—and a change in the course of history. 1/30 4:45-6:30 PM Heiner Center, Rooms 208 & 209

Sustainable Living in Bellingham By Mayor Dan Pike
1/30 7:00 PM Heiner Center Theater

An Inconvenient Truth, Slide Presentation by Scott Slaba
1/31 1:00-2:00 PM Syre Student Center Auditorium

An Inconvenient Truth, Film and Post-film Discussion
1/31 7:00-10:00 PM Syre Student Center Auditorium

More info: Whatcom Community College will participate in the nationwide celebration Focus the Nation Week, an unprecedented teach-in on global warming solutions and sustainability. Numerous events have been scheduled for the week of January 28th through February 1st, including educational and awareness raising presentations, a film festival, an interactive webcast, and a speech and Q&A session by newly elected Mayor, Dan Pike. All events are open and free to the public.

Focus the Nation is a national teach-in engaging millions of students and citizens with political leaders and decision makers about Global Warming Solutions. More than just that one day, Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America is an extraordinary educational initiative, involving over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, faith groups, civic organizations and businesses. Focus the Nation is a catalyzing force helping shift the national conversation about global warming towards a determination to face this challenge.

For additional information about Focus the Nation, please visit http://www.focusthenation.org. Download the attachment for a full schedule of events at WCC. Details regarding these local events and activities can be referred to Courtenay Chadwell-Gatz, co-chair of Whatcom Community College’s Sustainability Committee, at (360) 676-2170, ext. 3426. See email link below

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