Past Programs Fall 2004                                      Past Programs Spring 2005
 

The Wolfson Debate Team proudly co-sponsors a celebration and recruitment event for the Earth Ethics Spring Speech Contest and other Speech-related activities.  An interactive activity (and snacks) prompts a personal examination of our campus community and local empowerment resources.  Using colored markers and pens, students are encouraged to draw symbols on large displays of bioregional and campus maps to mark significant places of environmental, educational, and community meaning.  Information on the Earth Ethics Spring Speech Contest, joining MDC Debate, and support offered by the Communication Arts Center will be available to students. 

Video Viewing (35 min.)

“Global Brain” by Peter Russell

A moving presentation which explores the theory that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being.  It suggests we stand at the threshold of a major leap in evolution, as significant as the emergence of life itself, and that it is only through such a shift in consciousness that we will be able to successfully manage the global crisis now facing us.

Group Discussion Questions

1)     What did the philosopher Alan Watts refer to when he coined the term “the skin encapsulated ego”? What are the environmental consequences of so many individuals having “skin encapsulated ego”?

Peter Russell

Local
Harvest Day
MDC Kendall Campus
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
12 Noon

Produce from local organic farms will be on display and organic foods will be for sale
- taste the difference!

For More Information please contact
Annette Zimmerman Wells at awells@mdc.edu

From Stardust to
South Florida: 
Remembering Who We Are

Thursday, February 3rd,
11:15 am  - 12:10 pm
North Campus - MJ Taylor Lounge

Tuesday, February 8th,
9:50 am - 11:05 am
InterAmerican Campus - Room 401

Miriam Therese MacGillis
is a Catholic Dominican Sister and
Co-founder of Genesis Farm,
an Earth Literacy Center in
northwestern New Jersey.
Genesis Farm offers programs exploring
the Universe as a new transforming context for our lives and culture.
Sister Miriam is a founding member
of the Earth Ethics Institute.

This seminar is open to all who wish to attend

Please register with Janie Adams, 7-7119 or jadams1@mdc.edu

by February 1 if you are attending or bringing students.

Celebrating Our Land
with Voice
Honoring the Endangered Species of
South Florida and Atlantic Waters

Featuring
Carolyn McDade
Songwriter/Activist 

Thursday, February 10, 2005
7 – 8:30 pm
Center Gallery
Refreshments Served

Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
300 NE 2^nd Avenue, Downtown Miami

Please RSVP by February 4, 2005
305-237-7119 or jadams1@mdc.edu

Wednesday,
February 23^rd, 2005 at 4:15 pm

MDC, Kendall Campus -Room 4203

Director of one of the largest animal rights organization in the world,  Ms. Newkirk has spoken internationally on animal rights issues, from the steps of the Canadian Parliament to the streets of New Delhi, India, where she spent her childhood. She is the author of several books including Save the Animals! 101 Easy Things You Can Do; and Free the Animals!, as well as numerous articles on the social implications of our treatment of animals in our homes, slaughterhouses, circuses, and laboratories. Her most recent book is Making Kind Choices: Everyday ways to enhance your life through Earth and Animal Friendly Living.  

Wednesday,
March 2, 11 am - 1 pm

MDC, Wolfson Campus -
Student Life Pation

Discusses

The Basics of Vegetarian Cooking

Including a presentation on
The New Food Pyramid 

Demonstration, Lecture, Lunch*

*Must attend lecture for ticket to lunch

Women’s History Month Celebrates

Anne Sullivan,
Everglades
Poet-in-Residence

 And Invites You to a Screening of
The Everglades Past and Present
A Documentary about
Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s efforts to preserve the Everglades

Friday, March 11, 2005
10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Room 3208-09

Presented by
Florida Center for the Literary Arts
co-sponsored by Earth Ethics Institute

Women's Bodies,Women's Wisdom

Lunch and Video Discussion and Get-Together for Women 

Wednesday, March 9, 2005
MDC Wolfson Campus, Room 2106
12 Noon - 1:30 pm
 
Enjoy a Delicious Lunch
Talk about Issues Concerning Active Women Today

The video we will look at is   The Mind Body Connection

Nature Informing Art:
A Lecture by Susan Banks
Wednesday, April 4, 2005
Center Gallery 9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
MDC Wolfson, 3rd Floor

Susan Banks is an artist and professor at New World School of the Arts

Please RSVP - 305-237-3796

Earth Ethics Institute and the
Environmental Center at
MDC Kendall Campus host
High School Students for

Environmental Immersion Day
 

In Celebration of
National Poetry Month
In Anticipation of Earth Day

Poetry Inspired by Nature
co-sponsored by
Florida Center for the Literary Arts,
One Book One Community
Friday, April 8, 2005
Center Gallery 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
MDC Wolfson, 3rd Floor

Students in English Composition classes Celebrate the Earth by reading and writing
poems inspired by nature.

EEI Challenge Grants
Award Celebration
 

MDC Wolfson Gallery
12 Noon- 1 p.m.

E-Fellows, Speech and Photography Challenge Grant Award Winners announced and certificates presented

Lunch Reception

2004-2005 Student Challenge Grant Winners

Sustainable Interior Design Challenge
2004-2005 WINNERS

Sustainable Urban Design Challenge
2004-2005 WINNERS

Sustainable POD Design Challenge
2004-2005 WINNERS

Betsy Hilbert Writing Challenge
2004-2005 WINNER

EEI Speech Contest-Wolfson Campus  2004-2005 WINNERS

College Prep Writing Challenge
North Campus
2004-2005 WINNERS

In Anticipation of Earth Day

Michael Singer

Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 7 pm
MDC Wolfson Campus, Room 2106

A LECTURE ON SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Michael Singer is the winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, his work opened new possibilities for outdoor and indoor sculpture, contributing to the definition of site specific art and the development of public places. His most recent work has been instrumental in transforming public art, architecture, landscape and planning projects into successful models for urban and ecological renewal.  In 1993, The New York Times chose Singer's design of a massive waste recycling and transfer station in Phoenix as one of the top eight design events of the year. Since that time, he has completed several innovative and inspiring projects.
 

March 2005

MDC Wolfson Campus
MDC Kendall Campus

Projects by MDC Architecture Students
under the direction of Professor Lyle Culver

 

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