Sustainability Sustainability @ Villanova April 2014

Earth Day Celebration

Tuesday, April 22nd

11:00am-2:00pm, Connelly Center

Sustainability Fair and Farmers Market 12:30pm & 1:30pm, Meet at the Oreo

Campus Sustainability Tour 5:00pm, Connelly Cinema

Keynote: Dean Carlson, “From Wall Street to Wyebrook Farms”

Wednesday, April 23rd

8:30am-10:00am, Falvey Speaker Corner

Panel: Sustainable Agriculture

Saturday, April 26th

9:00am-1:00pm, Philly Urban Creators and SHARE

Earth Day of Service (New this Year) 1:00pm-4:00pm, Connelly Circle

Earth Day BBQ (New this Year)

Free T-Shirt Tie Dye

New this Year!

To sign up for the

Earth Day of Service or

Earth Day BBQ,

email Allen Landis

alandis2@villanova.edu

Good things come to those who wait…

Check out our new

Villanova Sustainability website

www.villanova.edu/sustainability

Are you?

Athletic EcoRep

If you are an athlete interested in making your team more sustainable consider

signing up for the Athletic EcoReps.

Students on any varsity or intermural sport can apply. Applications are now available. Deadline for applications are April 16th.

Events Bird Collisions: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How to Prevent Them

April 7th, 12:00pm-1:00pm

Villanova Law School room 201

Dr. James Hansen, “Tenant Farming to White House Arrests: A Scientific Per-spective on the Unfolding Climate Crisis”

April 10th, 7:30pm

West Chester University

Philly Farm & Food Fest

April 13th, 11:00am-4:00pm

Philly Conference Center, Tickets are on sale now

Story of Stuff Discussion

April 14th, 6:00pm-7:00pm

Corr Hall, Peace and Justice Lounge

St. Francis Pledge Signing by Father Peter

April 15th, 4:00pm- 5:00pm

Connelly Center, Presidents Lounge

Pitch Day

April 24th, 5:00pm-7:00pm

Connelly Center, Villanova Room (Full Schedule)

Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren’t We?

April 24th& 25th, All Day

The New School, NYC

17th Annual CRC Stream Cleanup

May 3rd, 9:00am-11:30am

Chester, Ridley, and Crum Creeks

Earth Day Celebration

April 22nd– 26th

Villanova University

Bird Collisions: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How to Prevent Them Monday, April 7 12:00 – 1:00 ROOM CHANGED TO ROOM 201 Villanova Law School Join us for a talk addressing the problem of bird collisions given by Christine Sheppard, Ph.D.,* Bird Collisions Campaign Manager with the American Bird Conservancy. Birds are potent cultural symbols, play fundamental roles in ecosystems and habitat regeneration and are important natural controls for insects. Hundreds of millions are killed yearly by colliding with glass in the U.S. alone. Birds cannot see glass, flying towards reflections of clouds, sky and vegetation or colliding with glass as they fly towards real habitat seen through glass. Birds collide with glass on structures of every size, from shacks to skyscrapers. Advances in technology are increasing use of glass curtain walls and other large glass features, increasing mortality. Building lighting poses another threat, confusing night flying migrants, particularly if weather systems reduce visibility and force birds to fly low. Light pollution in general attracts them into developed areas. It takes several days for birds to find enough food to continue their journey. As they forage by day through cities, residential areas or industrial zones, they face constant threats from glass. There are many ways to make existing glass safer for birds. This is extremely important, because addressing only new construction will not decrease the toll from glass already in the built environment. Retrofit strategies range from temporary to long term, inexpensive to costly, highly visible to subtle. Sponsored by the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Villanova Law Sustainability Committee. *Christine Sheppard earned her B.A. and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Working with Dr. Tom Cade, who used captive breeding to restore the Peregrine Falcon to the eastern US, developed her interest in captive propagation as a tool to save endangered species. This led her to the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Bronx Zoo, where she started as curatorial intern, in 1978, and ended as Curator and Chair of the Ornithology Department. Zoos deal not only with issues of their buildings causing mortality of wild birds. Glass exhibit walls, windows and handrails bring bird collision problems inside and curators have a vested interest in finding ways to make glass safe for birds. Interest in the issue led to Dr. Sheppard to join the board of the Bird-safe Glass Foundation as science advisor, in 2007. She is also conducting basic research into quantifying the effectiveness of different materials and patterns in preventing bird collisions. In 2009, she moved to the American Bird Conservancy as Collisions Program Manager. Dr. Sheppard has extensive experience speaking to both professional and public audiences. She helped create San Francisco’s Standards for Bird-safe Buildings and was part of the team that developed USGBC’s LEED Pilot Credit 55: Reducing Bird Mortality

Seating is reserved and tickets ($5.00 each) may be purchased by phone (610-436-2266), at the SSI Box Office in West Chester University’s Sykes Student Union, or online at (http://tickets.wcupa.edu/). Please Note: There are no longer spaces available for the VIP Reception, but please join us for the Keynote! Location details below.

Dr. Hansen is the leading authority in the field of climate science and has contributed significantly to the public debates about climate change and the responsibilities of science. He served as Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is an Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. His numerous awards include a Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, Annual Heinz Award in the Environment, and a Sophie Award. In 2006 he was listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. Dr. Hansen’s talk will encompass his research on climate change.

Climate Change Demands We Change. Why Aren't We? Thursday and Friday, April 24 and 25, 2014 FREE, 31st Social Research conference at The New School, NYC For more information and to register, please visit www.newschool.edu/cps/climate-change No issue is more urgent than climate change, yet governments, corporations, and the public seem reluctant to change. This conference poses the question, what is slowing or stopping us from making the changes mandated by climate change? This conference will examine the psychological factors, money and politics, and infrastructures that impede change as well as the difficult choices that must be made to foster urban resilience in the face of climate change. Keynote address: Frances Beinecke, President of the National Resources Defense Council, at 6pm, April 24. Other speakers include Robert Inglis, former Senator, Founder of the Energy and Enterprise Initiative; Guy Nordenson, structural engineer and adviser to MoMA's Rising Currents show; Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University; Elke Weber, Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University; and Paul Stern, Director of the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change at the National Academies of Science.

We invite you to join CRC and your community on

Saturday, May 3, 2014, 9:00 am to 11:30 am to clean up the Chester, Ridley, and Crum Creeks.

Continue the fun at our free picnic for volunteers from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm at

Ridley Creek State Park, Pavilion 17

Annual CRC Streams Cleanup!

17

Chester Operations

and clean up the streams at our th

Volunteers are encouraged to register online and receive a free streams cleanup t-shirt a www.crcwatersheds.org/resources/view/308 or contact the coordinator of the stream site you wish to clean or CRC at 610-359-1440.

Our 2014 Sponsors

Aston Township Concord Township Edgmont Township Marple Township Media Borough

Middletown Township Nether Providence Township Newton Township Ridley Park Borough

Ridley Township Springfield Township Swarthmore Borough Thornbury Township Delco

Upper Providence Township Willistown Township Chester County Water Resources Authority Central Delaware County Authority Delaware County Conservation District

In 2013 our cleanup volunteers collected over 22,300 pounds of trash from our streams among 27 sites. We have plenty more work to do and we need your help. The complete streams cleanup list can be viewed on our website at www.crcwatersheds.org/resources/view/307. Please join us! Your streams need you.

Sierra Club of SE PA Sporting Gentleman

Stantec

West Goshen Lions Club Willistown Conservation Trust

Hatch Mott MacDonald Seltzer and Associates

Wade in

Site Location

#340 State Road and Crum Creek Road

Ease – Easy

Site Coordinator

Chris Townend 610-506-2507

chris.townend@villanova.edu