Monday in Detail

Lots of events to kick off the week. Have questions about sustainability for Professor Lore, or maybe the Chancellor? Post them here! Even if you cannot attend, we'll be sure to find answers.

Monday

*Sustainable Food: 50 Mile Meal and a Movie (King Corn screening)
When: October 19, 2009, 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Monday
Where: Environmental Interpretive Center (EIC) Auditorium
Contact E-Mail: kpepin@umd.umich.edu

When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically traveled at least 1500 miles from farm to plate. Our meal will include ONLY foods grown within a 50 mile radius of UM-D.
Join the University of Michigan-Dearborn and the EverGreen Team for a strolling dinner - a 50 mile meal, and the "King Corn" the first movie in a series of films focused on our sustainable
food supply.

Students $10.00
Faculty and Staff: $15.00
Donations Accepted

All profits will be added to the Sustainable Seeds micro-loan fund!

*Sustainable Seeds (Microloan award)
When: October 19, 2009, 05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Monday
Where: Environmental Interpretive Center Exhibit Area
Contact E-Mail: kpepin@umd.umich.edu

Students have the opportunity to apply for a micro loan to develop and apply a sustainable
initiative on UM-D's campus. These micro-loans are very small loans (Under $500) designed to spur entrepreneurship in a sustainable manner. How can you make a difference in your campus
environment?

What is sustainability? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
It covers a wide range of topics, but essentially, we honor the triple bottom line of sustainability: people, planet, and profit.

*Sustainable Food Talk "The Environmental Crisis on your plate"
When: October 19, 2009, 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Monday
Where: Kochoff Hall B in the University Center
Contact E-mail: tnbrowni@umd.umich.edu

A talk on sustainable food presented by Professor Lordes Lore of Henry Ford Community College brought to you by the Environmental Interpretive Center and the Student Environmental Association.

This event may be considered for extra credit by your professor.

Synopsis:

Look at food from a viewpoint that you might not have considered before: Not in terms of calories or grams of carbs but how what we eat, not only affects our health in surprising ways, but the world as we now know it, and future generations. Did you know that our food choices unwittingly support certain food production practices and multibillion [yes, Billion] dollar corporations ?

The Environmental Crisis on Your Plate will provide an overview of how our food system contributes to global warming, discuss how this food system affects us personally, and what we can do to provoke change & improve it.