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Featured Event
Focus the Nation: Activism, Stewardship, Community
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Chapin Auditorium, Mary Woolley Hall
Focus the Nation M&C Kick-off:
"Sustaining Community: It Starts Here."
This will be an evening of music, storytelling, and community, with performances by Erica Wheeler, community viewing of the nationwide webcast,
"The 2% Solution," and storytelling by Marge Bruchac. (refreshments)
January 31, 2008
Focus the Nation National Teach-in
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Chapin Auditorium, Mary Woolley Hall
Focus the Nation Lunch Panel:
"Political, Personal, Powerful: Activism for Climate Change"
Students and alumnae, Danielle Connor FP '06 of Clean Water Action and Maya Winfrey of Co-Op Power, will talk about their activism on climate change, and a report-back from the students who attended the PowerShift gathering in the Washington, DC, area in November. (lunch served)
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
New York Room, Mary Woolley Hall
Focus the Nation Stewardship Panel:
"Focus the Campus"
Staff will talk about MHC's climate protection goals and other elements
of our on-campus environmental stewardship. This panel will orient MHC
toward a spring-semester Focus the Campus initiative to reinvigorate
campus efforts around energy conservation and recycling. (refreshments)
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Chapin Auditorium, Mary Woolley Hall
Focus the Nation Panel:
"No Degrees of Separation: MHC Speaks Out on Global Warming"
MHC faculty, staff, alumnae present a kaleidoscope dialogue that turns from
history to politics to economics to chemistry... to show us climate
change from many angles
What is Focus the Nation?
Focus the Nation is organizing 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. Focus the Nation will culminate January 31st, 2008 in simultaneous educational symposia held across the country. Our intent is to move America beyond fatalism to a determination to face up to this civilizational challenge, the challenge of our generation.
Focus the Nation will stream a free, live, interactive webcast called The 2% SOLUTION. Join Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins and green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting.
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