The University of Winnipeg

News

Campus

Grass Routes

check out the schedule

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.