Concordia Celebrates Earth Week

Apr 19, 2010

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
RACHEL WARD, rlward@cord.edu
AMY KELLY, Media Relations director
(218) 299-3642

CONCORDIA CELEBRATES EARTH WEEK

    Concordia College will celebrate earth week with a number of events. The week officially begins with a news conference featuring the mayors of Moorhead and Fargo at 10:30 a.m., Monday, April 19 in the Birkeland Alumni Lounge.
   
Here is the schedule of events:

o Monday, April 19
   News Conference with Moorhead/Fargo mayors
   10:30 a.m., Birkeland Alumni Lounge
          
      Sustainable Fashion Show with Social Justice   
   8 p.m., Centrum, Knutson Campus Center
  
o Tuesday, April 20
   Tuesday Trivia Night                    
   10 p.m. The Maize, Knutson Campus Center
  
o Wednesday, April 21
   Seattle Group Presentation           
   7 p.m., Jones Science Center 212

o Thursday, April 22
   Campus Chapel Service                   
   9:50 a.m. Centrum, Knutson Campus Center
  
    Sustainability Fair           
   9:40 a.m.-10:30 a.m., Atrium, Knutson Campus Center
      11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.
      4:30 p.m.-7 p.m.
     
      Restoring Eden Presentation           
      7 p.m.    Jones Science Center 212
     
o Saturday, April 24
Groundbreaking Ceremony for Organic Garden   
11 a.m., Soccer Fields

About Key Events:
      The Sustainable Fashion Show, with all clothing in the show from second-hand stores, encourages the audience to use clothes already in existence and to think about the cost of resources to make clothing, especially clothing shipped across oceans. Students will be checking shirt tags as people arrive, marking on a map where their clothes came from and presenting their findings of this global issue at the end of the show.
      Concordia students who participated in a Justice Journey spring break trip to Seattle, Wash., found that Washington campuses tend to be more aware of environmental issues and live more sustainably. At the Seattle Presentation they’ll present their findings along with students who visited other Minnesota colleges to find out what steps they have taken to become more sustainable.
      The Sustainability Fair will have tables set up in the Atrium during high-traffic times with information about becoming more sustainable at Concordia. They will be hosted by student groups and MinnKota Recycling.
      The founder of Restoring Eden, a grassroots Christian organization committed to making the Earth Greener, with a focus on why this is important from a Christian perspective, will speak Thursday night with a question and answer session at the end of the presentation.
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