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Fall 2021
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On-Campus Events |
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No on-campus events currently scheduled. |
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Virtual
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Fall
Virtual GSELS Projects Showcase
Offered
by Earth Ethics Institute, Kendall Campus
Featuring asynchronous virtual student project
presentations
The Global
Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies
(GSELS) Projects Showcase at Kendall Campus is
an event organized and hosted by MDC's Earth
Ethics Institute each semester. Students in
GSELS-designated classes present and share their
research projects, artwork, designs, models, and
performance pieces, all focusing on an array of
sustainability and Earth Literacy topics.
Fall 2021 GSELS
Projects are now live!
Visit the Fall
2021 Virtual GSELS Showcase Library
Guide website to
view this semester's projects created by nearly 80
students from
Kendall Campus GSELS-designated classes.
For more information,
contact Netiva Kolitz: nkolitz@mdc.edu.
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Good
Health and Well-Being
Fall
2021 Campus Learning Community and Virtual
Symposium
Offered by MDC
North and
Padrón
Campuses
November 29 - December 3
View Schedule
and
Info
The MDC North and Padrón Campuses Changemaking
Education and Social Innovation Department’s Earth
Ethics Institute and
the Institute for Civic
Engagement and Democracy collaborate
to host the Campus Learning
Community Symposium: Good
Health and Well-Being (UN SDG #3). The symposium explores
varied aspects regarding
the fostering of good-health and well-being as
foundational to building community
sustainability and resiliency.
The Campus Learning
Community features community experts, faculty
presentations, and student-led information
displays and presentations featuring
environmental sustainability, resiliency,
citizen participation in civic action and social
justice perspectives with a focus on the state
of developing health and well-being in South
Florida.
For more on the
symposium and Campus Learning Community, please
contact:
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Building Community-Based Resiliency
through Food System Collaboration and
Sustainability
Arely B. Lozano Cantú, M.A
Director of Health Access and Livability
@ Urban Health Partnerships
Arely B.
Lozano Cantú holds a strong passion for
amplifying resident voices and improving
health-empowerment and opportunities in
underserved communities. She serves as
Director of Health Access and Livability at
Urban Health Partnerships, advancing their
mission of investing in our communities by
co-designing sustainable change and
promoting equity and well-being across the
life span.
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
12:40 – 1:55 p.m.
Virtual
Join
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 865 2848 2023
Passcode: 964476
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UNA Panel Discussion
The UNSDG’s: Future-Proofing the Skill-Sets
of the Global Workforce
United
Nations Association - Miami
The panel is going to discuss the framework
of the UN Sustainable Development Goals,
their role as the most important global
framework for sustainability efforts of our
time, and how they allow us to make
collective progress. It will further address
the need to become proficient in the SDGs as
a way to future-proof the skill-sets of the
global work force.
The panel will also discuss cross-sectoral
initiatives in Miami-Dade and beyond that
improve the health and wellbeing of our
communities in-line with SDG #3, and will
consider challenges related to
sustainability, resilience and
inclusiveness. In addition, panelists will
talk about wellbeing and shifting the
measurement of progress from measuring GDP
towards "the Global Happiness Index.”
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
1:00 - 2:15pm
Virtual
Join
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 865 2848 2023
Passcode: 964476
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Mindful
Movement
Michelle
Grant-Murray, MDC Kendall Coordinator
of Dance
Join us for this
choreographed mindfulness exploration with
Michelle Grant-Murray, MDC Kendall Coordinator
of Dance.
Thursday,
December 2, 2021
11:15am - 12:30pm
Virtual
Register here.
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The Zen Tea
Ceremony and the Art of Well-Being
Prof.
Adrianne Aiko Thompson
Zen Buddhism
recognizes the extra-ordinary in the ordinary,
emphasizing the joy available through the
simplest of gestures. Could the Zen Tea Ceremony
offer insight into the connection between
well-being and sustainability?
Join Professor Aiko
for a demonstration and explanation of this
ancient tradition!
Thursday,
December 2, 2021
4 - 5:30 p.m.
Virtual
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID:
669 777 3675
Passcode:
413928
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Humanities
and Well-Being: The Power of Stories to Shape
Our Health
Dr. Julia Buss
Dr. Julia Buss (MDC
alumni) explores how the humanities can support
the science of climate change, helping to fuel
the desire to rethink health and well-being in
the Anthropocene.
Hosted by Profs. Sarah
Jacob (West) and Darrell Arnold (North)
Friday,
December 3, 2021
10 a.m.
Virtual
Join Zoom Meeting
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WE-LAB Virtual
Workshop
The Water
and Energy Learning and Behavior Program
(WE-LAB), focuses on delivering urgent
and highly relevant environmental education
about the water-energy nexus to South Florida
residents, teachers, and school children.
Through educational and interactive workshops,
the WE-LAB seeks to motivate community-wide
water-energy-saving behaviors and foster
long-term environmental stewardship through
money-saving actions. WE-LAB participants will
learn to track their water and energy use at
home and apply these new behaviors learned, in
order to take action and make improvements, as
well as learning how to properly recycle.
This
event will be held twice, join us on one of the
days below!
Tuesday, November 2,
2021
11:15am - 12:15pm
Zoom Meeting ID:
831 9207 5170
Passcode: 752660
Registration Link
Wednesday,
November 3, 2021
10:00 - 10:50am
Zoom Meeting ID:
890 2555 4503
Passcode: 040460
Registration Link
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Global
Sustainability & Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS)
Student Info Sessions
Learn how
you can become a 21st-century engaged citizen!
Monday, Nov. 1
10-10:30 a.m.
Zoom Meeting ID:
880 9896 1933
Tuesday, Nov. 2
3-3:30 p.m.
Zoom Meeting ID:
880 9896 1933
Wednesday, Nov 3
12-12:30 p.m.
Zoom Meeting ID:
880 9896 1933
Thursday, Nov. 4
1-1:30 p.m.
Zoom Meeting ID:
880 9896 1933
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Impermanence in
Art: Artists in the Anthropocene with Kohl King,
MFA
Humanities Edge
Critical Thinking Sessions
Presented by the
West Campus YES! Club
Glocal activist,
educator and artist Kohl King, MFA will showcase
artists who work with the idea of
impermanence either through materials which will
fade or through various kinds of refuse
materials, highlighting the large issue of human
consumption or through temporary or ephemeral
acts such as performance. During this
presentation we can all explore the question of
whether artists ought to be a voice for the
Anthropocene and if so, how do we reconcile the
obligation to address sustainability issues with
the desire and need for artistic freedom?
Tuesday, November
2, 2021
11:15am - 12:30pm
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://mdc-edu.zoom.us/j/88939729141
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Animal
Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF) Guest
Lecture by James Wildman
Offered by Professor
Albert Lenel of Padrón
Campus
Professor Albert Lenel invites MDC faculty,
staff and students to attend a guest lecture by
James Wildman of the Animal
Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF).
Friday, November 5, 2021
7 -
9am
Meeting Link
Friday, November
5, 2021
9:30 - 11:30am
Meeting Link
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Climate Change:
An Interview with the Consul General of Germany
in Miami, the Honorable Andreas Siegel
Offered by
North Campus
As part of the Building
Global Leaders, International Environmental
Series and in
collaboration with the Center
for the Advancement of Language and Culture
Studies in
the World Languages department, Consul General
Siegel will be discussing the Climate Summit
that took place in April and the Transatlantic
Climate Bridge Conference that took place in
July. In addition, he will also be analyzing the
transitioning of Germany to decarbonize energy
supply by switching to renewable sources to
leave nuclear and fossil energy behind.
Tuesday, November 9,
2021
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Location: MDC
North Campus, Blackboard Collaborate
Participant Link: www.mdc.edu/livestream
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Coral Reef
Restoration: A Success Story
Sponsored
by the Hialeah Campus YES! Club
Coral Restoration Foundation™ (CRF) is the
largest reef restoration organization in the
world. Headquartered in Key Largo, Florida, they
were founded in response to the widespread loss
of the dominant coral species on Florida's Coral
Reef.
They have been working to turn the tide for this
critical ecosystem since 2007. Florida's Coral
Reef now hosts just two percent of the
populations of the once-dominant staghorn and
elkhorn coral that it had in the 1970s.
Coral Restoration Foundation has developed a
method for "farming" and "outplanting" colonies
of staghorn and elkhorn. To date, they
have restored more than 17,500 square meters of
Florida's Coral Reef. With this presentation,
students will learn about the CRF efforts to
restore coral reefs in South Florida and what we
can do to help.
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
10 - 10:50 AM
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 873 8711 5438
Passcode: 0grYtG
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Empty Bowls
- Kendall Campus
Hosted by the
Kendall Campus Sustainability Committee
Empty Bowls is a fundraising
event hosted by the Kendall Campus
Sustainability Committee that benefits the
Kendall Campus Food Pantry. Hand-made ceramic
bowls, mugs, tumblers and cups created by
Professor Ray Morales and his students may be
purchased by direct donations to the food
pantry. Click
here for more information!
Wednesday,
November 17, 2021
11am - 1pm
Kendall Campus
Building 2 Breezeway
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We are
Speaking but No One is Listening:
A Frank Conversation
About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the
Climate Crisis
Join us for a
virtual
mini-symposium in support of the COP26
United Nations Climate Change Conference,
brought to you by students from Miami Dade
College and students from University of St.
Andrews and University of Exeter in the United
Kingdom.
Friday,
November 19, 2021
10am - 12:30pm EST
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Virtual,
register at:
https://tinyurl.com/StudentSymposium2021
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Earth
Ethics Institute •
An Earth Literacy Resource Center Serving MDC Administrators, Faculty,
Staff, and Students, as well as the South Florida Community
Miami Dade College
• 300 N.E. 2nd Avenue, Room 1201,
Miami, FL 33132-2204
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