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Leaders for Environmental Awareness & Protection |
Events & Activities:Following are some of the events and activities happening in and around UC that LEAP is organizing and / or supporting. Feb 27 - March 1, 2009: Power Shift '09:LEAP organized the travel to Power Shift '09 for a group of interested UC students from Feb 27 - March 1. To learn more about Power Shift visit http://www.powershift09.org/ Saturday, Feb 28: Go Green NightCincinnati Cyclones vs. Elmira Jackals
Feb 27 - March 1, 2009: Power Shift '09, Washington DCLEAP is organizing the travel to Power Shift '09 for a group of interested UC students from Feb 27 - March 1. To learn more about Power Shift visit http://www.powershift09.org/ Sunday, Nov 23, 2008: Group Trip to watch "Grand Canyon Adventure"As a thank you for supporting the Grand Canyon Adventure in our Water Conservation event, the Omnimax Theatre has given us some free tickets to go see the film. Please RSVP if you would like to go. Tickets are availabe on a first come first serve basis. We will be going as a group to view the film on Sunday, 23rd Nov at 6:00 pm IN PLACE OF OUR GENERAL MEETING. Contact Brigitte Cronier or one of the LEAP officers for more information. Discounted tickets for the movie (valid till Feb '09) are also available. Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008: LEAP's Water Conservation Promotion EventWater; use it wisely! Come join LEAP to learn about the Global Water Crisis! Co-sponsored by the Cincinnati Museum Center, this event will focus on water conservation. We will also be promoting the new Omnimax presentation “Grand Canyon Adventure”. When: 11-2 PM on Wednesday November 12 Where: TUC Atrium For more information please contact: leapuc@gmail.com ***Discounted tickets for “Grand Canyon Adventure” will be available during this event*** Posters from the event [pdf]:Event Pictures:
Click above to see event pictures in Picasa. Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008: Campus Sustainability DaySee flyer here. 12:00 PM - Student group showcase, TUC Atrium Join students, student groups, faculty, staff and administration to celebrate Campus Sustainability Day VI next Wednesday, October 22 from 12-3:30pm in the TUC Atrium and MainStreet Cinema! A student groups showcase will begin at 12pm in the TUC Atrium featuring student groups and initiatives from Students for Ecological Design (SED), Leaders for Environmental Awareness and Protection (LEAP), Environmental Law Society, Urban Justice League, Student Government, and more. Following the student groups showcase, at 1pm a speakers forum will feature the kick-off of the Housing Conservation Challenge and recognition of Siddall Hall and their pilot recycling program; a representative of the Civic Garden Center and Keep Cincinnati Beautiful; Dan Oerther, Director for the Center for Sustainable Urban Engineering; Mary Beth McGrew, University Architect. At 1:30pm Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune will address the atrium and discuss Cincinnati, Hamilton County and University efforts on environmental and sustainability issues. After the student groups showcase and speakers forum, at 2-3:30pm in the MainStreet Cinema there will be a live national webcast from the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP): Climate Realities, Challenges and Progess in Higher Education, MainStreet Cinema . You can find more information about SCUP and the webcast here: http://www.scup.org/ . Web home for the event: http://www.uc.edu/af/sustainability/Campus_Sustainability_Day.html Insterested in LEAP? Come to our regular meetings. Have questions? contact us. |
