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Warming is Earth Day theme at Ventura College
Ventura College students have developed a lesson plan of their own for Tuesday.
Global Warming 101: Ventura College Earth Day 2007, is set 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the campus quad and the Fireside Lounge.
Organized by students in Gwendolyn Alley's English1A and Elzbet Diaz de Leon's Biology 10 classes, the event is free and open to the community.
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More from CommunitiesActivities will include:
n Showings in the Fireside Lounge of Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," in rotation with "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
n Information on The Carbon Diet and how to lose 5,000 pounds in 30 days.
n Displays of forms of alternative transportation, from vehicles to bicycles.
n Family fun including "Clothesline Capers" and an origami action project to protect whales.
n Global music by disc jockey HiLo.
n Poetry by Gauvin, Gwendolyn Alley and Ryan Gillenwater, who will also serve as host.
Organizers of the event have chosen the clothesline as the symbol of personal carbon footprint reduction, said Diaz de Leon. "It is low-tech, inexpensive and simple to use."
Participants will select an item of clothing from a hamper of donations from area thrift stores, and then, with provided fabric markers, can write a pledge of how or why they will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions this spring. The clothes can then be hung on a community clothesline.
Alley wants to make the Earth Day program an annual tradition.
"My students are concerned about the environment, and particularly global warming, and they're excited about making this event happen at Ventura College on a school day so other students will learn."
Public transportation to the event is encouraged; parking on campus is $1.
For more information, call 654-6400.
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