Catawba College Center For The Environment

2009 Events

For Businesses and Communities:
Tackling Air Quality and Climate Change Issues

Question and Answer with Stephen Doig

Tackling Air Quality & Climate Change Issues through a Low-Carbon Electrical System: Implications for Businesses and Communities, presented by the Rocky Mountain Institute and its Energy and Resources Team. Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. in the Center for Environment Building. Free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Alarming Study of Industrial Chemicals, Pollutants in Our Bodies
is Subject of Center for Environment Presentation

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An unsettling study about industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides in humans will be the focus of a talk at the Center for the Environment at Catawba College in February.

Ken Cook, president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group in Washington, will talk about the research and its implications Thursday, Feb. 19, in a presentation called “Ten Americans.” The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Center for the Environment building on the Catawba campus. The presentation is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Individuals may contact Amanda Lanier at allanier@catawba.edu or 704.637.4727.

2008 Events

Ugly Bug Ball

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Green Restoration & Renovation
Simple Living’s Wanda Urbanska and green building consultant Jennifer Pippin spoke on “Green Restoration and Renovation” Oct. 22. (Read Full Release)

Lester Brown to Speak
The Center for the Environment at Catawba College will host a special presentation Nov. 10 by the founder and president of Earth Policy Institute. Lester Brown, called “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” by the Washington Post, will speak at 7 p.m. in Omwake-Dearborn Chapel on the Catawba campus. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Special seating is available for Friends of the Center. To register, call 704.637.4295. (Read Full Release)

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