Saturday, March 29
UM turns out the lights for Earth Hour
The University of Miami will join the cities of Miami, Coral Gables, and cities around the world by participating in Earth Hour, a worldwide effort to raise awareness of global warming. This voluntary initiative asks businesses, communities, and individuals to take simple steps to reduce energy consumption on an ongoing basis by shutting off lights for one hour, starting at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 29. UM buildings that will go dark include the BankUnited Center and the Clinical Research Building. The University community can also participate in this voluntary effort by visiting www.earthhour.org.
Saturday, October 6
Green Leaders of Tomorrow
The South Florida US Green Building Council & City of Miami Office of Sustainable Initiatives
Cordially invites to:
Green Leaders of Tomorrow
An Environmental Awareness Presentation
On Sustainability Practices in South Florida
Saturday October 6, 2007
5 to 8 p.m.
City Hall
3500 Pan American Drive
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
For more information, please visit http://www.umgreen.com
Tuesday, September 4
Biodiesel launch
At 9 a.m. Parking and Transportation Services is conducting a feasibility study on the use of Biodiesel in the Hurry Cane fleet. The plan calls for Biodiesel, a clean-burning mixture of traditional diesel with fuel taken from products like corn and soybeans, to be used in a number of the shuttles with the possibility of its use in the entire fleet. Biodiesel fuel is environmentally friendly, curbing pollution and limiting the greenhouse effect.
Wednesday, April 18
Green Is the New Black
Muscoe Martin, AIA, LEED AP on "Green Is the New Black." Sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council South Florida Chapter and the School of Architecture. Open to the public. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. at the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, Glasgow Hall, on the Coral Gables campus.
Wednesday, April 11
“Environmental Modernism.”
The School of Architecture presents a lecture by architect Max Strang, winner of the 2003 Miami Chapter of the American Institute of Architects Young Architect of the Year award, whose work has been featured in Architecture, Architectural Record, and Ocean Drive magazines. The lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center, Glasgow Hall, on the Coral Gables campus and is free and open to the public. For more information, call 305-284-5002 or e-mail cwhite@miami.edu. This lecture is endorsed by the American Institute of Architects, Miami Chapter.
Wednesday, April 11
Nine SOA Students Are Emerging Green Builders
The U.S. Green Building Council South Florida Chapter has announced the winners of 10 student Emerging Green Building Scholarship Awards for the upcoming LEED-NC workshop on April 11. Of the 10 students, nine are from the School of Architecture at UM. Also of the three young professionals, one is a UM grad. The UM students who won are Erine Stamesa, Ada Silverio, Derek Sommers, Jessica Calek, Brian Lemmerman, Colin Tinsley, Melissa Shalloway, Charles Michael Arnspiger, and Fiorella Bazan. The young professional winner is Melissa Estape (BARCH '06). For more information on the workshop, you can email workshop@usgbc.org.
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| Images courtesy of Dorothy Hall and Janet Chien, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Ron Beck, EROS Data Center Acknowledgements to Richard S. Williams, Jr., U.S. Geological Survey, and Oddur Sigurdsson, National Energy Authority, Iceland |
Wednesday, March 28
Lecture: Earth's Dynamic Ice: The Meltdown
One of the world’s most renowned glaciologists will speak at this year’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Bader Lecture at 4 p.m. in the school auditorium on the Rosenstiel campus. Richard S. Williams Jr., senior research geologist from the U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Science Center, will discuss “Earth’s Dynamic Ice: The Meltdown” at this free lecture geared toward academics and oceanography enthusiasts. For more information, click here.
Over the past two decades, Williams has been using state-of-the-art airborne and satellite sensing technology to study glaciers around the world. His research and that of his colleagues has taken on new importance as the Earth's climate warms and its ice sheets melt. Melting of the Earth's ice will influence climate and accelerate global sea-level rise that will strongly impact low-lying coastal regions and islands. In his Bader Lecture, Williams will review Earth's dynamic ice, the current global meltdown, including the surprisingly rapid disappearance of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and the societal and economic consequences for humans, particularly those who live along low-lying coastal regions including Florida, the Bahamas, and other Caribbean islands.
Thursday, March 22
Film Screening: One Water
An ongoing modern multimedia collaborative project that began in 2002 with the School of Communication, the College of Engineering, and the Frost School of Music, this motion picture uncovers the worldwide crisis of the condition of potable water. The screening, which occurs on World Water Day, will show the non-verbal version filmed in high definition at 8:30 p.m. at the School of Communication, Common Ground Courtyard, on the Coral Gables campus. For more information, visit www.onewater.org, call 305-284-6748, or e-mail mrubi@miami.edu.
Wednesday, February 28
Former Vice President Al Gore at University Lecture Series
A distinguished guest for the University Lecture Series, Gore presented "An Inconvenient Truth," a multimedia version of his bestselling book and Academy Award winning documentary on global warming. Since the 2000 election, Gore has rechanneled his energy to focus on saving the planet from irrevocable change. He urgently delivers the stirring truth of what he calls our "planetary emergency." This event, which will be at 6:30 p.m. at the BankUnited Center on the Coral Gables campus, is open to the University community only.
Sunday-Tuesday, February 25-27
Free Screenings: An Inconvenient Truth
The School of Communication will be presenting screenings of Al Gore's Academy Award-nominated documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which are open to the public and will be held in the Bill Cosford Cinema on the Coral Gables campus. Screening times are Sunday, February 25; Monday, February 26; and Tuesday, February 27 at 7 p.m. Seating is on a space available basis.
For more information, visit www.com.miami.edu.
Friday-Saturday, February 23-24
Tenth Annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) Florida Regional Competition
This Jeopardy-like competition is designed to increase knowledge of the oceans among high school students, their teachers, and parents, as well as to raise the visibility and public understanding of the national investment in ocean-related research. It will be held at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science auditorium and the MAST Academy.
Thursday, February 22
Rainforest Conservation, New Jungle Medicine, and the South Beach Diet
This lecture will be presented by Mark Plotkin, ethnobotanist and president of the Amazon Conservation Team (www.amazonteam.org). It will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the School of Law Library, fourth-floor faculty meeting room. Reception to follow.
Wednesday, February 21
Sea Secrets Lecture
Roger Hanlon, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, will discuss “Nature's Greatest Color Change Artist: The Octopus.” The lecture will be held in at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science auditorium at 6:15 p.m.; it will be preceded with a reception at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 14
Environmental Ethics/Global Health Issues Panel
This panel will be moderated by Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts Harvey Ruvin, and panelists will include: Kenneth Goodman, co-director of the UM Ethics Programs; John Beier, professor of epidemiology and public health; and Lora Fleming, professor of epidemiology and public health and marine biology and oceans and human health. The event will be held at 5 p.m. in the Whitten University Center, Ballroom D on the Coral Gables campus.
Monday, February 12
School of Architecture Lecture
Kristina Trotta, of the U.S. Green Building Council, South Florida Chapter, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center in Glasgow Hall on the Coral Gables campus.