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earth days in the bluegrass

Earth Days in the Blue Grass

Presented by Residence Life Sustainability and UK Greenthumb

EDBG is a promotion of sustainability, responsible global citizenship and the power of local action. Join us for a full month of workshops, community service, films, presentations, music and more!

Earth Days in the Bluegrass
Wednesday, April 1st
	Fossil Fools Day! All day, Everywhere! Make a pledge to use less energy today (and the next day and the next day…). Reducing your energy use conserves natural resources, saves YOU money, and curbs global warming. So turn off the lights, switch to more energy efficient appliances and light bulbs, walk or bike, and start being conscious of your energy footprint. Email us your pledge for a chance to win a FREE Earthdays in the Bluegrass T–shirt! Resliferecycling@lsv.uky.edu.
Thursday, April 2nd
	FLOW (For the Love of Water) Film Screening 7pm Worsham Theater, UK Student Center Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. EDBG Film series is co-sponsored by the Late Night Film Series http://www.flowthefilm.com/
	Mountaintop Removal Film Screening 7pm Young Auditorium, W.T. Young Library http://www.hawriverfilms.com/id2.html
Friday, April 3rd
	Kentucky's Birds of Prey 6pm Center Theater, UK Student Center Raptors, or birds of prey, are majestic creatures and important members of Kentucky eco-systems. Raptor Rehab (www.raptorrehab.org) will be on campus with at least 5 of these incredible birds. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see these owls, falcons, eagles and hawks face-to-face. FREE!
	The Host Film Screening 10pm Worsham Theater, UK Student Center After toxic waste is dumped into the Han River in Seoul, Korea a mutant squid monster suddenly emerges six years later from water and begins massacring people on the side of the river. A young teenager, Park Hyun-seo, is grabbed by the monster and carried away under the water. Believing she is still alive somewhere, they escape a military quarantine and desperately search for her while the monster surely lurks somewhere close by. An absolutely ridiculous and funny film. In Korean with English Subtitles. EDBG Film series is co-sponsored by the Late Night Film Series http://www.hostmovie.com/
Monday, April 6th
	Gardening at the Gaines Center 5-7pm Backyard of the Commonwealth House, UK Gaines Center 232 E. Maxwell St. Want to learn more about growing food in your own backyard? This progressive series of Monday evening workshops is designed to do just that. You will get hands-on experience preparing and planting an urban garden and receive expert advice from local community gardening gurus, Seedleaf. Gardening at the Gaines Center is a collaborative, community-building partnership between EDBG, The Gaines Center for the Humanities, Seedleaf, and the College of Agriculture.
Tuesday, April 7th
	UK Greenthumb Meeting 6:30pm CSI, UK Student Center Join KY's largest student environmental club!
	The Elegant Solution: Addressing Climate Change, Economic Recession and Unemployment 6:30-7:20 p.m. Oswald Auditorium (OB 230), BCTC Cooper Campus The new Obama Administration is behind the cross-hairs, domestically and internationally. It's challenged to fix the broken economy, get people back to work and rein in our emissions of greenhouse gasses. How can America possibly manage to do all three? Many experts say that doing all three is the only way to solve any of them. In this presentation Sarah Lynn Cunningham will show how addressing climate change would create jobs that cannot be exported and that will help to stabilize the domestic and international economy. Come learn about your role. The Bluegrass Community and Technical College Lecture Series is sponsored by the BCTC Peace and Justice Coalition.
Wednesday, April 8th
	The Beehive Collective presents: THE TRUE COST OF COAL 7pm Room 230 UK Student Center The Beehive collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, art-activist collective that has gained international attention for their collaboratively produced graphics campaigns focused on globalization and militarization. Their mission is to cross-pollinate the grassroots through the use of imagery. Learn more about about the 'hive on their website www.beehivecollective.org.
Thursday, April 9th
	Evening with the Mountain Keepers 6pm-10pm Student Center Grand Ballroom The Evening celebrates the way that public writing and grassroots community action work together to ensure a healthy, participatory democracy. Learn about Appalachia's endangered culture and its uneasy relationship with coal, and experience how journalists, poets, speakers, artists, and musicians use creative activism to make their voices heard. http://www.uky.edu/~afma222/MountainKeepers.htm.
	Worm Composting Workshop 6–8 pm UK Arboretum Learn how to turn kitchen waste into rich compost for your plants - using worms! Amanda Gumbert will demonstrate the construction of a simple worm bin for indoor composting. Worm bin kits will be given away as door prizes to lucky participants. Pre-registration required by calling 859-257-9339. Cost is $2.
	Koyaanisqatsi Film Screening 10pm Worsham Theater This movie was designed to have no plot. Driven by a visual concert of images set to the haunting music of composer Phillip Glass, there is a central idea behind the movie, and according to the director it is this: The greatest event in the history of mankind has occurred recently, and has been largely missed by both the media and academia. A deeper shift in human affairs has occurred: Humanity no longer exists in the natural world, we are no longer connected to it. Koyaanisqatsi: life out of balance; crazy life; life in turmoil; life disintegrating; a state of life that calls for another way of living. EDBG Film series is co-sponsored by the Late Night Film Series. http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/films/koyaanisqatsi.php
Friday, April 10th
	Car-Free Day Everywhere, all day! Take the car–free pledge and liberate yourself from the combustion engine for a day of fresh air and exercise so you can spend your gas money on something fun! Email us your pledge to be car–free for a chance to a FREE Earthdays in the Bluegrass T–shirt. resliferecycling@lsv.uky.edu.
Saturday, April 11th
	Reforest the Bluegrass 9am-2pm Shillito Park Join hundreds of Lexington Volunteers for our annual tree planting extravaganza! More than 5000 trees will be planted. To sign-up or learn more call John Saylor, Program Coordinator at 425-2820 http://rtb.eventbrite.com/
Monday, April 13th
	Gardening at the Gaines Center 5-6pm Backyard of the Commonwealth House, UK Gaines Center 232 E. Maxwell St. Want to learn more about growing food in your own backyard? This progressive series of Monday evening workshops is designed to do just that. You will get hands-on experience preparing and planting an urban garden and receive expert advice from local community gardening gurus, Seedleaf. Gardening at the Gaines Center is a collaborative, community-building partnership between EDBG, The Gaines Center for the Humanities, Seedleaf, and the College of Agriculture.
	Will Allen Workshop 6pm Auditorium of the Downtown Public Library Will Allen is an urban farmer who is transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations. He is also the co-founder of Growing Power. The motivation behind his efforts is the recognition that the unhealthy diets of low-income, urban populations, and such related health problems as obesity and diabetes, largely are attributable to limited access to safe and affordable fresh fruits and vegetables. Mr. Allen will speak about his efforts and the importance of similar efforts in our community! Free and open to the public. Sponsored by The Gaines Center for the Humanities.
Tuesday, April 14th
	UK Greenthumb Meeting 6:30pm CSI, UK Student Center Join KY's largest student environmental club!
Wednesday, April 15th
	Tour of Matthew's Garden with Dr. Jim Krupa 12pm Matthew's Garden UK Campus, Corner of Washington and Limestone Join UK Biologist Jim Krupa on a lunch-time tour of this hidden campus gem to learn about local plants and see a gorgeous display of spring wildflowers. Matthew's garden is quite possibility the most diverse half acre of land in the Bluegrass!
	Bike Maintenance Clinic 5-7pm North Campus Courtyard Sponsored by Wildcat Wheels Bicycle Library. Learn about the simple tools and techniques that will keep your mighty steed rolling smoothly. FREE FLAT TIRE REPAIR! Hosted by the Wildcat Wheels Bicycle Library. www.wildcatwheels.org.
	Fair Trade Chocolate: The Sweet Taste of Justice 6:30-7:45 p.m. Oswald Auditorium (OB 230), BCTC Cooper Campus Fair trade: A system of trade aimed at equitable treatment of farmers and workers worldwide. Its basic goals include fair wages, safe work environments and self-sufficiency for workers, cultural awareness, and consumer education. In the spring of 2008, Kim Browning traveled to the Dominican Republic on an Equal Exchange sponsored trip to meet cocoa farmers and their families who participate in fair trade. Kim will share her amazing experience in the hope that it will help you better understand the importance of supporting fair trade. The Bluegrass Community and Technical College Lecture Series is sponsored by the BCTC Peace and Justice Coalition.
	The Edible Garden: Cool Season Crops 6:30–8pm UK Arboretum Join us for a hands-on program about early seasonal favorites like lettuce, broccoli, & peas. Pre-registration required by calling 859-257-9339. Free (donations accepted)
Thursday, April 16th
	Energy Conservation: Not a Moment to Lose President of Greenworks, Inc. and organizer of the Bluegrass Green Expo, Ben Perry will introduce his audience to green initiatives. Drawing from his years of work with Appalachia-Science in the Public Interest and the Green Expo (first hosted in 2004), Mr. Perry will highlight some of the rising stars on the energy conservation horizon, offer practical suggestions for reducing one's energy use, and illustrate how, in the process, we can save money. The Bluegrass Community and Technical College Lecture Series is sponsored by the BCTC Peace and Justice Coalition.
	Chill-out: A Nationwide Webcast 8:30pm Center for Student Involvement, Student Center Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming is America's leading competition and awards program recognizing college and university innovation to solve global warming. The contest is sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program. More info available at http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/chillout/index.cfm.
Friday, April 17th
	Wall-E Film Screening 10pm Worsham Theater After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, a robot named Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek Search Robot named Eve and falls in love. Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home. Meanwhile, Wall-E chases Eve across the galaxy. EDBG Film series is co-sponsored by the Late Night Film Series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E.
Saturday, April 18th
	Spring Bird Walk (all ages) 8 a.m. UK Arboretum Bring your binoculars and join us for an early morning walk in search of colorful spring migrating birds. Meet at the Visitor Center. Pre-registration required by calling 859-257-9339. Cost is $1.
	Wildflower Walk 10 a.m. UK Arboretum Come search for spring ephemeral wildflowers on the Walk Across Kentucky. Pre-registration required by calling 859-257-9339. Cost is $1.
	Adopt-a-highway KY 1973 1pm UK Student Center Parking Lot Carpool with members of UK Greenthumb, the state's largest student environmental club, to clean up a gorgeous stretch of this bluegrass byway. For more information, and to arrange carpooling, contact Matt Kramer at matthew.kramer@uky.edu
	Middle Earth Celebration Good Foods Co-op
Sunday, April 19th
	Bike the Bluegrass 1pm-4pm Wildcat Wheels Campus Bike Shop (Basement of Blazer Hall near corner of MLK and Euclid Ave.) Easy 20 mile ride through the heart of bluegrass horse country. All skill levels welcome. Helmets strongly recommended. Don't have a bike but still want to ride? Contact the Wildcat Wheels Bicycle Library (wildcatwheels@gmail.com or www.wildcatwheels.org) and reserve one! This is a great way to see some of our state's most spectacular horse farms and get more comfortable riding your bike as a form of transportation. The tour will be led by experienced local cyclists and followed by a support vehicle in case of emergencies.
Monday, April 20th
	Gardening at the Gaines Center 5-7pm Backyard of the Commonwealth House, UK Gaines Center 232 E. Maxwell St. Want to learn more about growing food in your own backyard? This progressive series of Monday evening workshops is designed to do just that. You will get hands-on experience preparing and planting an urban garden and receive expert advice from local community gardening gurus, Seedleaf. Gardening at the Gaines Center is a collaborative, community-building partnership between EDBG, The Gaines Center for the Humanities, Seedleaf, and the College of Agriculture.
Tuesday, April 21st
	Eat Something Local Day! All Day Everywhere! Local food is thousands of miles fresher. Eating local foods promotes a cleaner environment, a healthier economy, and helps sustain a way of life for Kentucky's many family farms. Make a difference by tasting the difference and eat something local today! Learn more about local food at www.kyproud.com/. Lexington's farmers Market is a great place to buy local agricultural projects (www.lexingtonfarmersmarket.com/)! Email us your pledge to eat more local food for a chance to win a FREE Earthdays in the Bluegrass T–shirt! Resliferecycling@lsv.uky.edu.
	UK Greenthumb Meeting 6:30pm CSI, UK Student Center Join KY's largest student environmental club!
Wednesday, April 22nd
	Earth Day Fair! 10am–3pm Student Center Patio and Free Speech Area Join us for activities, prizes, live music, and local food while meeting campus and community organizations that are making the bluegrass a better place to live. Do–it–yourself activities include: book making, tie–dying t–shirts (bring your own shirt or get one from us) and more! For more information contact Sarah Wightman at sarah.wightman@uky.edu
	EarthDay Concert 6-10 pm Memorial Hall Amphitheater Come out and celebrate this big blue and green ball we call home in Lexington's premier outdoor music venue. The music line-up includes: Downtown County Band, High Water Marks, and Big Fresh. There will also be readings by Kentucky's Poet Laureate, Jane Gentry Vance and Bianca Spriggs. Concert is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Chuck Clenney at chuck.clenney@gmail.com.
	Sacred Earth, Sacred Community: A Celebration of Earth Day 2009 6:30-7:45 p.m. Oswald Auditorium (OB 230), BCTC Cooper Campus On Earth Day, join community leader Jim Embry, as we remind ourselves of the sacred relationships between human beings and the entire Earth Community that are woven into a web of interconnectedness and interdependence. The human people, the air people, the water people, the plant people, the animal people, the rock people - we are all related in a sacred dance and symphony. The sustainability movement allows us the opportunity to restore our sacred connections with Mother Earth and all of her children while enhancing the manifestation of our own deeper humanity. The Bluegrass Community and Technical College Lecture Series is sponsored by the BCTC Peace and Justice Coalition.
	"Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America" plus Q&A with film director, Jeff Barrie 12 PM, The Kentucky Theater (free) Follow filmmaker Jeff Barrie on a search for solutions to the most urgent environmental problems of our day: mountain top removal, global warming, childhood asthma and mercury contamination. The answers are easier than you think and the solution can save you money! Come to this exciting event and you will: discover a new vision for American energy usage, learn how to dramatically reduce your energy bills, and find out how to use power from the wind and the sun.
Thursday, April 23rd
	Tour of UK's coal-fired heat plant and Delta Room 12pm Front Steps of Peterson Service Building (Between Limestone and Upper in front of Taylor Education) UK burns more than 40,000 tons of coal a year to generate heat and steam on campus. There will be a 30 min tour of the coal-fired heat plant followed by a brief tour of the Delta Control Room, the central power control center for campus. Come see how we use coal and discuss the impacts of our energy choices.
	King Corn Film Screening 7pm Worsham Theater, UK Student Center King Corn is a feature documentary about two lighthearted friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis plant and grow a small plot of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. EDBG Film series is co-sponsored by the Late Night Film Series. http://www.kingcorn.net/
Friday, April 24th
	Share the Road! Group Bicycle Ride 5:30 pm Woodland Park Bicycling is by far the best way to get around our campus and our community. It's a CLEANER, HEALTHIER, CHEAPER, and FASTER way to travel. However, it can be scary and intimidating to get back on a bike if you haven't been on one in years. Riding in traffic can be stressful stuff too. This ride will begin with a discussion of local bicycling ordinances and will be a great opportunity to gain confidence riding your bicycle on the street. Helmets strongly recommended! The ride will conclude at the UK Student Center for a screening of the bike documentary Still We Ride. Film begins at 7pm in the Worsham Theater.
	Still We Ride Film Screening 7pm Worsham Theater, UK Student Center Still We Ride is a documentary that captures the joyous atmosphere of an August 27th 2004 Critical Mass bike ride in New York City, three days before the Republican National Convention, before the arrests of riders began and the chaos that followed. It recounts how this ride first started in San Francisco over 10 years ago and chronicles the police crackdown and resulting court battles in New York over the last twelve months. The movie takes on issues of civil liberties, surveillance, the power of mainstream media, and the benefits of alternative means of transportation. EDBG Film series is co-sponsored by the Late Night Film Series. http://www.stillweridethemovie.com/
Saturday, April 25th
	ARBOR DAY (all ages) 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the UK ARBORETUM Free Wide variety of activities for people of all ages.
	Campus and Community Partnerships for Sustainability (CCPS) Western KY University (www.greencampusky.org) This Conference was started in 2006 to foster partnerships between Kentucky colleges and universities and their local communities to work together towards a sustainable future. Registration required $20 for students and $60 all others. A vanpool will be leaving from UK's campus bright and early Saturday morning and returning to Lexington Saturday night. Please contact Shane Tedder at dstedd0@uky.edu if you would like to ride down on Saturday.
Monday, April 27th
	Gardening at the Gaines Center 5-7pm Backyard of the Commonwealth House, UK Gaines Center 232 E. Maxwell St. Want to learn more about growing food in your own backyard? This progressive series of Monday evening workshops is designed to do just that. You will get hands-on experience preparing and planting an urban garden and receive expert advice from local community gardening gurus, Seedleaf. Gardening at the Gaines Center is a collaborative, community-building partnership between EDBG, The Gaines Center for the Humanities, Seedleaf, and the College of Agriculture.
Tuesday, April 28th
	UK Greenthumb Meeting 6:30pm CSI, UK Student Center Join KY's largest student environmental club!
	Vegetative Propagation Workshop 6–8:30 p.m. UK Arboretum Native Plants Curator Jim Lempke will show you how to propagate trees, shrubs, & perennial native plants through cuttings, divisions, & other vegetative techniques. Pre-registration required by calling 859-257-9339. $10 (Members $8)
Wednesday, April 29th
	Campus Clean-up 5-7pm Stoll Field Join other UK student in a campus clean-up effort. All participants will receive a free Earthdays in the Bluegrass T-shirt.
Thursday, April 30th
	Tour UK's Organic Farm and Sustainable Agriculture Program! 3:45pm-6pm Meet outside Mellow Mushroom at 3:45 pm sharp! This is a great opportunity to check out the fascinating work that UK is doing with regard to Sustainable Agriculture and to learn more about how you can become a part of a sustainable food system for the bluegrass region. As a bonus, we have arranged free transportation via Lexington's Public Transportation System, Lextran. Local, organic food and free public transportation! How cool is that? Due to bus schedules please arrive promptly at 3:45.
	Sustainable Lexington 3-4 PM Room 230 of the Student Center at UKx Cheryl Taylor, the Lexington-Fayette County Urban Government's Commissioner of Environmental Quality, will describe the city's current and future sustainability efforts including waste collection, environmental compliance, and city recycling services. Come learn how our local government is greening up. Free and open to all. Co-sponsored by the Forestry Graduate Student Association.