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Author Hodding Carter
Visits MDC North Campus
Everglades Restoration: A Talk
Thursday,
November 11, 2004
MJ Taylor Lounge
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
W.
Hodding Carter, an epicure of adventure, has spent his life seeking new
physical and mental challenges. A native of Greenville, Mississippi,
Carter attended Kenyon College and spent two years in Kenya with the
Peace Corps. His highly acclaimed pieces for Esquire, M Magazine,
Outside, and other national publications have taken him to Burma, to
Wales, and into the thick of the Louisiana Oyster Eating Contest (in
which he placed second). He is also the author of the book Westward
Whoa: In the Wake of Lewis and Clark and A Viking Voyage : In
Which an Unlikely Crew of Adventurers Attempts an Epic Journey tothe New
World. He currently lives in Maine with his wife and three
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Diane Thiel Visits
3 MDC Campuses
Thursday,
November 11, 2004
MDC IntraAmerican 9:45 am - 10:45 am
Room 401
Wolfson Campus 11:30 am - 12: 30 pm
Room 3415
Kendall Campus 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Room 2144
Author
of
The White Horse, Diane Thiel discusses her experiences in the
Chocó rainforest .
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Visit Bee Heaven
Organic Farm
19000 S.W. 264th
Street- Redlands
Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 9 am
Farm
tour and organic growing practices discussed by Margie Pikarski, founder
of Redland Organics, a Community Supported Agriculture Group.
Facilitated by Annette Zimmerman Wells,
Core Faculty, Earth Ethics Institute
Those interested must contact
Annette Zimmerman Wells at
awells@mdc.edu
Pictures from the 11/13/2004 Bee Heaven farm trip
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Green Architect Bruno Stagno Visits MDC Wolfson
Thursday,
November 18, 2004 at 7 pm
MDC Wolfson Campus, Room 2106
Bruno
Stagno
is a Chilean born architect practicing in Costa Rica. As the
founding director of the Institute for Tropical Architecture, author of
An Architect in the Tropics and co- author of Tropical
Architecture: Critical Regionalism in the Age of Globalization,
Bruno focuses his practice on the communion of building with nature,
juxtaposing tradition and innovation. His work embodies the principles
of critical regionalism n a time where globalization is the dominant
force.
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Farm Day
Students from MDC
visited Bee Heaven Farm
In November and had a Great Day
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After learning about
Community Supported Agriculture at Bee Heaven Organic Farm,
Students planted onions, weeded arugala and ate a great lunch
including a salad of freshly picked greens and a delicious bowl of
homemade black bean soup. |
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
Lunch and Video Discussion Get-Together for Women
Thursday, December 2, 2004
MDC Wolfson Campus
12:30 pm - 2 pm
Enjoy a
Delicious Lunch
Talk
about Issues
Concerning Working Women Today
The first video we will look is
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Choices
In “Women’s Bodies, Women’s
Choices,”
Dr. Northrup outlines how women can make empowered
choices as they work with their health care professional to achieve
optimum psychological health and physical well being.
Limited to 15 participants
RSVP for Room Location
305-237-7119 or
jadams1@mdc.edu
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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 • t: 305-237-3796 • f: 305-237-7724 |