The Schedule - March 8 - 12, 2010
who, what, where, when
With
each year RCW hosts more and more events, and this year is certainly no
exception! We are preparing for our schedule for 2010 right now. Please see below for an example of the schedule from LAST YEAR's Responsible Consumption Week (2009). More details to be posted in February 2010.
| Monday, March 16 | EVENT DESCRIPTION: |
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| Bike Co-op's Bike to School Day | The AMS Bike Co-op is challenging students, staff and anyone coming out to campus to ditch their smog box, show some love for mother earth and bring their trusty steed to school. Ride past the corner of Westbrook and University where Co-op volunteers will be handing out free snacks and hot bevvies to all you hungry cyclists! Also, mechanics will be on site with basic tools to do a free checkup of your bike. |
8:00AM - 11:00AM | Corner of Westbrook & University |
| Oxfam's Uneven trade soccer game | Join us on the knoll for a rousing game of soccer that outlines the inequity present in our current global trade system. Get al ittle exercise, learn about world trade, and find out how you can make a difference every time you go to the grocery store, or buy a new shirt! | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | The Knoll |
| Governing Consumption in an Unbalanced World | Influencing consumers to act more sustainably is one of the most difficult challenges for environmental governance. Influencing enough consumers to affect global change is an even greater challenge. Why is it so difficult to govern consumer behavior? What governing strategies tend to be most effective in terms of reducing the environmental damage of consumption? What tend to be weak or ineffective? What do the answers to these questions say about the overall potential of global environmental governance to promote global sustainablity? Professor Peter Dauvergne will address these questions to discuss the degree to which the structures, organizations, policies, financing, rules and norms of environmental governance are influencing consumer choices and uses of products and services. | 1:00PM - 2:00PM | SUB 207 |
| Tuesday, March 17 | |||
| Bike Co-op's Bike Blender Smoothies & P & Y Indy |
We've been thinking ahead. We know that youv'e been inspired by Bike to School Day, and we know that you can't get enough of bike commuting. So the Bike Co-op is going to keep your thirst for thigh-powered transport quenched with their pedal-powered bike blender smoothies. They'll also be happy to help you out with bicycle safety checks and tips for maintenance. Free bike engravings will also be offered! In the afternoon sun (2:00 - 3:00pm), a Purple and Yellow bike race will be held on the North side of the SUB. Public bikes like you're never seen them used before... | 11:00AM - 3:00PM | SUB South Side Entrance |
| Consuming the earth, consuming ourselves: only 9,125 shopping days left until the end of the world | A lively talk about consumption, you and the environment from the instructor and students of Sociology 420, Sociology and the Environment. We take you through some of the social and cultural roots of consumption and ask: "What does it mean to be a 'green' consumer and does it matter? Is it being a 'responsible consumer' an endpoint, a 'copout' or just the first step down a long road of fundamental social change?" | 1:00PM - 2:00PM | SUB 215 |
| Wednesday, March 18 | |||
| Translating Thought to Action: How to Promote Positive Social Behaviour | Guests: Jeremy Frimer, Phd Candidate in Psychology (focus in moral motivation) and Dr. Charles Weineberg, UBC Sauder School of Business (focus in Marketing). For more information, click here. | 12:00PM - 1:30PM | SUB 207 |
| Ancient Forest Committee Movie Night | The Ancient Forest Committee is a group of students involved in promoting awareness of the precarious state of BC's remaining old growth temperature rainforests on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. The film being presented is about endangered old growth forests and is by Jeremy Williams, an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. He has produced and directed over fifty films on environmental, social and political issues. | 1:00PM-2:00PM | SUB 209 |
| Oxfam No Sweat Fashion Show | Since 1963, Oxfam Canada has worked to build lasting solutions to global poverty and injustice, envisioning a world where, "human beings can earn a decent living to support themselves and their families." For the last seven years, Oxfam UBC has hosted No Sweat Fashion Shows, to empower students by educating them about how their purchase power can build a sustainable world. 18 March 2009, UBC OXfam is hosting its 8th Annual No Sweat Fashion Show, and this year will feature an Ethical Snack Bar to open the event, so come early to sample delicious and sustainable treats. The fashion show will examine the good, the bad and the ugly of clothing production - and show you how you can use your purchasing power to build a sustainable world. For more informatino contact tbergen@interchange.ubc.ca. | 6:00PM-8:00PM | SUB South Side Lounge (behind Starbucks!) |
| Thursday, March 19 |
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| Vote With Your Dollar Fair | Various exhibitors will be present to showcase the latest ways to conserve energy, reduce waste, and shop ethically. There will be vendors who will showcase their socially responsible and ethically sound products and services. Think before you buy! Are you using your dollar to the max? | 9:00AM- 4:00PM | SUB Main Concourse - South End |
| Food Security in the 21st Century | Guest: Dr. Judy McLean (focus in global systems nutrition and food). For more information, click here. |
10:00AM- 12:00PM | SUB 214 |
| Photo Scavenger Hunt | The Student Environmental Center is organizing a unique photo scavenger hunt that will enlighten you to find out answers to questions like: Do you know what the purple bikes on campus are? Team up with one camera and three friends for the RCW "Hunt for Sustainability" cross-campus photo scavenger hunt! Snap photos of UBC's green buildings and compost bins to gain points and win prizes. Interested? Email rcw.scavenger.hunt@gmail.com as soon as possible or come to the booth on Thursday, March 19th to get a registration form. | 10:00AM- Midnight | Pick up your information sheets at 10:00AM at the SUB South Side Entrance |
| Super Sized Stuff Swap | If you haven't run into one of SEC's monthly Stuff Swaps outside of the SUB, you've been missing out. Every month we setup a table full of FREE STUFF, and invite anyone in the community to come and trade in old unwanted items for other peopel's shiney new old stuff. You can even take items without leaving anything, butyou'll owe some stuff Karma next month. And this time because it's Responsible Consumption Week, this Stuff Swap's going to be bigger and better. You'll see. | 11:00AM- 2:00PM | SUB Main Concourse - North End |
| Consumption and Sustainability: How Big is Your Footprint? | This talk aims to highlight some of the implications of our current consumption patterns on the natural world by using the Ecological Footprint as an illustrative tool. The speaker will share some examples of sustainable consumption initiatives in the European Union, and will present a short video on BedZED, an eco-neighbourhood near London, UK, that aims to shrink residents' footprints. | 12:00 - 1:00PM | SUB 214 |
| Design's For a Sustainable World Competition | Teams from a wide variety of disciplines will be participating ni a challenge to combat poverty around the world. Take part in the most exciting and unique interdisciplinary competition on campus this year! The challenge includes researching, planning, designing, and building an appropriate solution to everyday needs of peopel all over the world. Teams will be provided with a case study in advance and will build their solution on March 19th with only a few tools and a big pile of junk at their disposal. For more information go to http://ubc.ewb.ca/dsw for details. | All day! | Outside on the south side of the SUB |
| Friday, March 20 |
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| Vote With Your Dollar Fair | Various exhibitors will be present to showcase the latest ways to conserve energy, reduce waste, and shop ethically. There will be vendors who will showcase their socially responsible and ethically sound products and services. Think before you buy! Are you using your dollar to the max? | 9:00AM- 4:00PM | SUB Main Concourse - South End |
| UBC Waste Management Booth | Stop by the UBC Waste Management booth inside the SUB and challenge yourself with an exciting interactive game of recycling basketball! Test your athletic dexterity and your sorting skills for fun and prizes! Find out more about recycling and composting at UBC, and chat with UBC Waste Management staff. Kitchen-sized compost bins and reusable market bags will also be available for purchase. Hope to see you there! | 10:00AM- 11:00AM | SUB Main Concourse - North End |
| Do you eat your salad underdressed? Salad making ideas for sustenance from the inside out! | Learn simple-yet-delicious recipes for refrigerator salad dressings while finding out which wild, local greens are safe to eat and their health benefits. This workshop also provides tips on making salads sustainable and exciting to eat. Finally, we finish off the workshop with a salad for lunch! | 12:00PM- 12:45PM | Food, Nutrition & Health Room 130 |
| Liberating Your Computer | Ifny Lacroix of Free Geek Vancouver will given an informative and interactive workshop on open source, sustainable software. Free Geek is a Vancouver-based not for profit organization specializing in ethical recycling and reuse of computers, as well as community education and empowerment. | 12:00PM - 1:00PM | SUB 216 |
| Living and Working with Meaning | In our capitalistic society, individuals are components for the operation of the treadmill of production and consumption. We consume, therefore we exist. We work very hard so that we can consume more conspicuously. We are told to compete and win. We are told that the greatest thing we can achieve is being "successful" by outcompeting others. Trapped on the treadmill or in the rat race for "success", we forget to live our lives. As soon as we realize it, some feel empty from their heart and refuse to keep living without meaning while others choose to not to acknowledge by running even faster and faster. For whoever has a hunger for meaningful life, Tom Williams of GiveMeaning will talk about living and working with meaning. | 1:00PM - 2:00PM | SUB 214 |
| Sprouts Volunteer Work Party | There will be a volunteer party hosted by Sprouts, complete with sustainable snacks. Sprouts is a non-profit venue located in the basement of the SUB that sells local, organic fruits and vegetables as well as an assortment of other earth-friendly products. | 4:00PM- 5:00PM | Sprouts (basement of SUB) |
UBC Responsible Consumption Week 2010 - March 8 - 12, 2010