Through the SEE Your World theme, we want to engage students and the college community in exploration of the social, economic, and environmental issues in their community and in the world. For more information and for a list of learning outcomes related to the theme go to the SEE Your World webpage.
Monday, January 28, A Performance by Alix Olson, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, PAC
Alix Olson is an internationally touring folk poet and progressive queer artist-activist who uses spoken word to encourage independent thought. Her grassroots struggle against intolerance is entertaining and poignant. For more information contact Donna Thompson, 480.857.5534.
Wednesday, January 30, Focus the Nation: Climate Change Solutions I
8:25 am-2 pm, Teach-ins, World Café
6.30 pm-8:00 pm, Making Climate Change a National Priority: A Forum with Your Political Leaders with Vice Mayors, City Managers, AZ Corporate Commissioners from Gilbert, Chandler, Queen Creek & Superstition Vistas
Focus the Nation is a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America-creating a dialogue at over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses, and directly engaging millions of students and citizens with the nation's decision-makers. Join CGCC faculty and local political leaders as they engage students in discussion about the future of the earth.
For more information contact Pushpa Ramakrishna, 480.732.7219.
Thursday, January 31, Focus the Nation: Climate Change Solutions II
8:25 am-2 pm, Teach-ins, World Café
5:00 pm-7:00 pm, Film presented by H.E.A.T
For more information contact Pushpa Ramakrishna, 480.732.7219.
Throughout February culminating in March, Plastic Water Bottles Sculpture, Library Rotunda
Phoenix found-object artist Joe Willie Smith will work with students to create a sculpture made out of plastic bottles in the library rotunda. Students will have the opportunity to write on or put things inside of the bottles as a part of an activity related to their curricula.
For more details or to arrange for your class to work with the artist to build the sculpture, contact Chris Schnick, 480-732-7186.
Monday, February 4, The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, 6:00-7:30 pm, PAC
The Comptroller General of the United States David Walker and National Field Director of the Concord Coalition Harry Zeeve, will explain in plain terms why budget analysts of diverse perspectives are increasingly alarmed by the nation's long-term fiscal outlook. Presenters will propose solutions which include reform in the areas of health care, budget controls, Social Security, and the tax code. For more information contact Marybeth Mason, 480.732.7093.
Tuesday, February 5, Kevin Danaher: Building the Green Economy, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, PAC
In Building the Green Economy, co-author Kevin Danaher helps show how community groups, families, and individual citizens take action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Kevin Danher will inspire audience members as he shares success stories from the grassroots: new models for production and consumption. For more information contact Paul Petrequin, 480.857.5256.
Tuesday, February 12, Healthcare Forum, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, C110
How can we reform healthcare? Slated panelists include the CEO of Banner Health and a physician. For more information contact Noel Morelos, 480.857.5194.
Thursday-Saturday, February 15 (ASU Polytechnic) and 16 (Pecos Campus, A155), Vagina Monologues
Performances of stories raising awareness about violence against women.
For more information contact Lori Girshick, 480.857.5536.
Saturday, February 16, San Tan Pride: Clean-up Day, 7:00 am-12:30 pm
By picking up trash along roadways in the Queen Creek area, students will see firsthand the types and volume of consumer waste that get improperly discarded. They will also have the opportunity to observe the collection of large-appliance and hazardous wastes, and they will learn about the inception of the clean up day in response to the improper disposal of waste in the open desert.
Contact Heather Horn, 480.857.5193, for more information.
Tuesday, February 19, Scotty Moore of the Discovery Channel Show, Bone Detectives, 11:15 am-12:30 pm, SC140-144
Scotty Moore of the Discovery Channel Show, Bone Detectives, will be speaking to an environmental Ethics Class on. Mr. Moore will talk about how societies in the past dealt with issues of sustainability, using examples from the Maya, the Pacific Islands, and the Hohokam (local culture). For more information e-mail Darien Ripple: darien.ripple@cgcmail.maricopa.edu. This event is free an open to the public.
Wednesday, February 20, Dumpster Dive, 8:30 am-3:00 pm
A faculty, staff and student waste audit to raise awareness about what we throw away at CGCC and to help increase recycling and reduce waste. For more information contact Paul Petrequin, 480.857.5256.
Thursday, February 21, Looking at our Consumption: A Panel Discussion, 2:00-3:15 pm, SC140-144
Why do we consume and what are the effects of US Consumption patterns? Join a Geology Instructor, a History Instructor and a Psychology Instructor in a look at our consumption.
For more information contact Paul Petrequin, 480.857.5256.
Tuesday, February 26, Landfills, Zero Waste and Environmental Activism, 10:00 am-11:00 am and 11:30 am-12:30 pm, SC140-144
Sally Teets, a former Midwest Organizer for the Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, Inc. who has worked to help communities stop landfills, and Marlene Rayner of the Sierra Club, Zero Waste Committee, who worked with Green Delaware to get the state thinking about increasing recycling, reduction, reuse and the concept of extended producer responsibility, will share stories about their work as activists to stop proposed landfills to help pursue a zero waste policy. For more information contact Heather Horn, 480.857.5193, or Chris Schnick, 480-732-7186.
Wednesday, February 27, Chandler's Garbage with Councilmember Bob Caccamo, 10:00 am-11:00 am, SC140-144
Chandler Councilmember Bob Caccamo will take us from can to disposal for the garbage and recyclables that residents and businesses produce and dispose of. He will talk about issues facing Chandler related to garbage and the citizens' role in these issues. And he will address the future of solid waste disposal in Chandler. There will be a question and answer period.
For more information contact Chris Schnick, 480-732-7186.
Wednesday, February 27, Biomass, Biofuels & Energy Independence, 8:00 pm-9:00 pm, SC140-144
CGCC Biology Instructor Donovan Waugh will share his knowledge of processing cellulosic biomass to produce biofuels, an alternative to fossil fuels and a potential key to energy independency. He will also propose how a biomass / biofuel infrastructure in the U.S. and around the globe can drive the economic engine of rural economies,
For more information contact Chris Schnick, 480-732-7186.
Thursday, February 28, Local Food Fair, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, Outside of the Pavillion
For more information contact Nancy Short, 480.732.7227, or Chris Schnick, 480-732-7186.
Friday-Saturday, February 29, March 1, Into the Streets, 8:00 am-1:00 pm, begins in the Pavilion, Service-learning events.
Contact Heather Horn, 480.857.5193, or Teri Moser, 480.857.5120, for more information.
Tuesday, March 4, Elizabeth Royte: Keynote on Garbage Land, 2:00 pm-3:15 pm and 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, PAC
Elizabeth Royte became curious about how much trash she produced and where it went so quantified her garbage, began composting and followed her trash and recyclables.
By showing us what really happens to the things we've "disposed of," Royte reminds us that our decisions about consumption and waste have a very real impact - and that unless we change, the garbage we create will always be with us: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we consume. Contact Chris Schnick, 480-732-7186., for more information.
Wednesday, March 26, Poverty 101, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
A poverty simulation where citizens with limited resources need to acquire food.
Contact Heather Horn, 480.857.5193, or Teri Moser, 480.857.5120, for more information.
Thursday, March 27, Saul Williams, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm, Performance in PAC
Saul Williams is a poet and musician who addresses issues of race and war in his work.
For more information contact Bill Mullaney, 480.732.7274.
Monday, March 31, Generations Prom, 5:30 pm-9:00 pm
CGCC students and the elderly dance and interact.
Contact Heather Horn, 480.857.5193, or Teri Moser, 480.857.5120, for more information.
Thursday, April 3, Hunger Banquet, evening
A poverty simulation: world resources and the extreme poor, poor and middle class.
Contact Heather Horn, 480.857.5193, or Teri Moser, 480.857.5120, for more information.
Wednesday, April 9, Construction Materials, Waste and Sustainable Practices, 7pm, SC140
Architects from Architekton, the builders from Caliente Construction, a sustainability consultant from Ecological Environments and construction waste consultants from Site Plus will discuss the problem of construction waste and sustainable strategies for managing construction waste. They will also discuss sustainable construction materials and approaches.
Wednesday, April 9, Poverty 101, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm
A poverty simulation where citizens with limited resources need to acquire food.
Contact Heather Horn, 480.857.5193, or Teri Moser, 480.857.5120, for more information.
Thursday, April 10, Maricopa Sustainability Day
Student showcase, speakers corner, performances, demonstrations and more.
For more information contact Pushpa Ramakrishna, 480.732.7219.
Tuesday, April 15, A Conversation with Tom Horne, 12:45 pm-1:55 pm, SC 140-144
A conversation with Tom Horne, Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction, about current education issues in Arizona.
For more information contact Noel Morelos, 480.857.5194.
Wednesday, April 23, Diversity Event: Identity and Privilege, 12:40-1:55
Contact Caryl Terrell-Bamiro, 480.732.7134, for more information.
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