Freemarket now open during the Farmer’s Market, Business Class to develop plan for Rideshare
This past Saturday marked the first of many Saturdays to come where the freemarket will be open alongside the Wolfville Farmer’s Market. In its first Saturday morning stint, the Freemarket entertained a host of marketgoers including kids and adults alike. This could have been due to The Athenaeum’s recent article on the opening of the market, which according to inside sources has fielded more views on the The Ath’s website than any other article from the issue.
In other news, a group in Edith Calahan’s Business Strategies class has been assigned to undertake the role of assisting the AES develop Acadia Rideshare to its fullest potential. In the initial meeting, members of the group expressed concern over liability issues, aesthetics, functionality and target markets. In the coming months we hope to gather user input to improve the site on all of these fronts.
Instrumental Potluck
| February 22, 2009 | ||
| 5:30 pm |
Let’s all get together over food and instruments and share stories of winter-break adventures! Bring an instrument (voice counts!) and a dish, and perhaps a song you’d like to play or learn to play. Everyone welcome!
Meeting Tomorrow
- -Potlucks, colossal musical gettogethers and other social events
- -Speakers/workshops
- -Keji/morton centre/maple shack/eagle festival/martock/adventure ski trip
- -Relay for life
Acadia Surpases 3,000 Acts of Green
Starting officially last Thursday, Acadia challenged Dalhousie University to a race on OneMillionActsOfGreen.com to see who could get as many acts of green as students first (3,000 for Acadia, 16,000 for Dal). ”The challenge is to ourselves as much as eachother,” said Sustainability Projects Coordinator Jodie Noiles in a joint press release with Dalhousie.
Dal surpassed their mark of 16,000 acts first Friday evening, but Acadia wasn’t far behind. At last tally, the Acadia group has 3,933 acts of green from 136 users, and Dalhousie 18,989 from 476 users. Scaled to the number of students at each university, this means Acadia has 1.311 acts per student while Dalhousie is slightly behind at 1.187 acts per student. The challenge continues…
Sustainable Campuses Conference
| January 30, 2009 | to | February 1, 2009 |
Four of our members will be attending the Sustainable Campuses Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland. This conference connects sustainability leaders from universities around the maritimes to talk about campus sustainability. Visit the Sustainable Campuses website here!
Kevin Strawbridge on Laser-measured air quality, KCIC Auditorium
| January 19, 2009 | ||
| 4:30 pm |
Environment Canada partners with Acadia University as a new lidar network rolls out across the country. Acadia University will provide a critical link in the chain of lidars across Canada. The remote sensing technique of lidar, similar to radar, except one uses light waves instead of radio waves and is therefore sensitive to the small particles that are present in the atmosphere. Lidar provides vertically-profiled information with high temporal resolution making it well-suited for understanding the optical and transport characteristics of aerosol layers aloft. Lidar has the ability to detect the complex vertical structure of the atmosphere and can therefore identify the existence and extent of aerosols that have undergone long-range transport with the aid of “back-trajectory” information. Environment Canada along with other university, federal and provincial partners is beginning a new initiative to locate a network of lidars, dubbed CORALNet (Canadian Operational Research Aerosol Lidar Network - www.coralnet.ca ), at strategic places across Canada to study and monitor the impact of aerosols on air quality on local, regional and national scales. The major advantage of a network of lidars is that routine measurements quite often capture “events” that are very often interesting for which one would have never had the foresight or insight to turn the lidar ON! Some initial results from recently deployed CORALNet sites will be presented along with discussions of Acadia’s important role within the CORALNet framework.
AES/SO Meeting in the Michner Lounge
| January 22, 2009 | ||
| 5:30 pm |
Come to the AES/SO meeting on Thursday at 5:30 in the Michner Lounge to talk about the calendar that Amy and I have made up for the AES this semester using the ideas from last meeting.
First AES/SO Meeting
| January 15, 2009 | ||
| 5:30 pm |
Come to the first Enviro Society/Sustainability Office meeting to discuss our plans for the semester. 5:30pm in the Michener Lounge in the SUB…be there!
Relay for Life News
The AES/SO are putting together a Relay for Life team this year with a (surprise) environmental theme. In the meetings we had some support for this, so we’ve signed up the team online, and now it’s YOUR turn to sign up as well. The Relay for Life is alot of fun, and in the past there have been some pretty sweet costume/base camp setups. This year, however, we are going to shatter any previous attempts at costume/base-camp glory with a to-be-planed costume/base camp idea. For details…come to meetings!
To sign up for the Team Environment! team, visit our group page on cancer.ca and click on the ’sign up for this team’ link.
Freemarket opens today! First meeting…also today!
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here: the opening of the freemarket! Starting today in the Enviro Office in the SUB (room 508…just up the stairs from the info desk on ‘mezzanine west’) from 2:30 to 5 we will be offering clothing, art supplies, school supplies and more…all for free! Hot mulled cider will also be served…come to learn more about the freemarket, the environmental society, or just to warm up on a cold day. everybody wins! This event will also be kicking off our One Million Acts of Green challenge with DAL, is currently on the front page of the OMAG website! Get adding those acts of green, and join the Acadia University Group to count yours for Acadia.
Also, the other moment you’ve all been waiting for…the first second-semester meeting of the Environmental Society and Sustainability office! This is happening at 5:30 in the Michner Lounge, and Amy and I have devised a super-rockin‘ meeting to plan what we’re doing for the semester. Come check it out!
That’s all, stay warm!
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