The Schedule

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With each year RCW hosts more and more events, and this year is certainly no exception!  New this year are RCW in Residence with the Residence Sustainability Coordinators, the “Hunt for Sustainability” Photo Scavenger Hunt (with big prizes to be won!), and the Tupperware Lottery.  For more details on events, click on the particular day.

 



 

THURSDAY March 13

>> RCW in Residence: "Energy Café 2:  double the energy, double the fun!", 7pm in Place Vanier Commonsblock - Shrum Lounge. 

 

SUNDAY March 16

>> RCW in Residence: "Totem Movie Night".  Totem Park Commonsblock.  Short films by UBC students @ 6pm, “An Inconvenient Truth” @ 8pm.


MONDAY March 17

>> RCW in Residence: “Swap it Like it’s Hot” Stuff Swap in all Totem and Vanier house lounges. 


>> Tupperware Lottery, Monday to Wednesday from 12 - 1:30pm at select AMS food outlets


>> UBC Improv Show: “Sustainability!  A show for laughter and thinly-veiled moralizing”, the Norm Theatre @ 12pm


>> Keynote Address: “Two solitudes: Exploring the Interface Between Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability”, 1:30pm at location BUCH A204
Speaker: Dr. Nola-Kate Seymoar, UBC faculty member and President and CEO of International Centre for Sustainable Cities.


>> RCW in Residence: "BIKE 101 workshop".  4 - 6pm on the front lawn of Totem Park. 


TUESDAY March 18

>> Workshop: “Co-operative Economics: understanding economic democracy”.  11am in SUB 207

 


>> Panel Discussion “The Role of Institutions in Shaping a Sustainable World”, 1 - 3pm at location Wood 5


>>
“Return of the Scorchers” Movie Night.  In the Bike Co-op @ 7:30pm. 




 

WEDNESDAY March 19

>> Vote With Your Dollar Fair SUB Main Concourse, 9am - 4pm


>> “Hunt for Sustainability” Photo Scavenger Hunt, 10am - 4pm around UBC campus. 


>> Sprouts and Friends of the Farm: Farmers Market.  11am - 4pm, in front of Bernoulli’s Bagels. 


>> Common Energy “Get Evolved” Art and Film Festival promotions, 11am - 3pm in front of Bernoulli's Bagels. 


>> Oxfam “
No Sweat” Fashion Show, 11:30am in the SUB South Foyer (old AMS tutoring space)

 


>> Compost basketball with UBC Waste Management, SUB South Plaza, 1 - 2pm. 


>> Free Bike Checkups and Smoothies.  Outside of Bike Co-op, 1 - 4pm. 


>> Workshop: Sustainability Ambassadors “Commodity-chain”.  1:30pm in SUB 207.


THURSDAY March 20

>> Vote With Your Dollar Fair SUB Main Concourse, 9am - 4pm


>> Show-and-tell recycled art display by the Sustainability Ambassadors.  9am - 4pm in front of Bernoulli’s Bagels.


>> Workshop: “Connecting local consumer actions with overseas impacts on extreme poverty”, by UBC Engineers Without Borders.  At 11am in SUB 207.


>> Sprouts and Friends of the Farm: Farmers Market.  11am - 4pm, in front of Bernoulli’s Bagels. 


>> Green Building Tour:  Life Sciences Centre at 3pm.


>>
Wrap Up Party!  4 - 6pm in Sprouts.


>> Common Energy “Get Evolved” Film and Art Festival.  6 - 8pm in Ladha Centre (location tentative)

 



 




UBC Responsible Consumption Week 2009 - March 16 - 20, 2009