Grass Routes – our second annual, week-long celebration of the skills, creativity and community required for a more sustainable planet – continues today.
For the full schedule, see http://sustainability.uwinnipeg.ca, and all week don’t forget to fill out our sustainability survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UWSustainability.
Today’s Events:Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Environmental Ethics & Hope Panel Discussion
11:30-am-12:30pm
Infobooth/Gallery 1C03
What ideas, principles, and thoughts should inform our ethical relationship with the earth? Can we sustain the hope we need to continue to apply these principles? Panelists are Mark Burch and Sandra Tomsons (see www.theuwsa.ca for bios).
Eco-Friendly House Tour
1:00-2:00pm
Meet at the InfoBooth
Imagine if your master’s thesis was to build the most efficient, environmentally friendly home possible? That’s exactly what our tour guide, Anna, did. Come and see what an eco-friendly house can look like!
Waterlife
7:00pm
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Cinema Politica and EcoPIA present Waterlife, a film about water issues and the great lakes. Eva Pip (Biology Department Faculty member) will lead a discussion after the film.