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Tim Flannery
Climate Change 101
Wednesday, June 21
MDC Wolfson
Room 2106,
1-3 pm
Awarding 1.5
hours of Professional Development for faculty
Scientist
Tim Flannery,
director of the
South Australian Museum,
will give
a brief history of climate from the last ice age and will clarify
current and future conditions of climate change. Flannery, an Australian
biologist, paleontologist and author, who says he had been skeptical of
theories of global warming in the past, will look at the history of
Earth's weather to compare it to the climate changes we are observing
today that are linked to carbon dioxide emissions as well as those being
modeled by computers for tomorrow. He will point out the differences,
link current climate change to green house gas emissions, and help us
reflect on the consequences. In addition he will call on us to begin to
reformulate how we operate in our personal lives, our professions and in
how we educate in our specific disciplines.
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Interview with Tim
Flannery on NPR Fresh Air:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5293273
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John Seed
Reconnecting to Earth
Overcoming Obstacles to
Action
In the Classroom
Monday, May 14 - Wolfson
Campus
Tuesday, May 15 - Kendall Campus
Wednesday, May 16 - North Campus
A Workshop for
MDC Faculty, Staff
Tuesday, May 15, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Fairchild Tropical Garden
Awarding 6.5
hours of Professional Development for faculty
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http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/johnseed.htm
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In
this workshop, we will share processes that teach us how to
recognize the current plight of the natural world as well as the
personal despair created by understanding that plight. In addition,
we will explore the social conditioning that keeps us from realizing
that humans are deeply embedded in the natural world systems and
that these systems are global and interconnected. We will learn that
the result of recognizing the place of the humans in the natural
world allows us to develop empowerment exercises to turn despair
into action within our disciplines, vocations and professions. As we
experience these processes as a group, we will develop a deepening
sense of community which will also empower us.
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Robin Hill
Child of the Sun
A Slide Show of
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Florida Southern College
"Nature is my
manifestation of God. I go to Nature every day for inspiration in
the day's work. I follow in building the principles which Nature has
used in its domain."
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Thursday, April 27, 2006
MDC Wolfson Campus 7 p.m.,
Room 7128
cosponsored by
The Architecture Club -AIA Miami
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Pfeiffer Chapel

Danforth Chapel
Photos by Robin Hill
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Earth Ethics Institute at MDC,
Arts and Philosophy Department and
Women's History Month Committee
Invite you to
attend
Alison Nordström
Mother Nature: Women Photographers
and Environmental Thought
Thursday, March 30, 2006
MDC Wolfson Campus
Center Gallery - 7 p.m.
Photo Challenge Grant 2006 |

Alison Nordstrom is Curator of
Photographs at George Eastman House, the oldest and largest museum
of photography in the United States. |
Jennifer Monson
Contemporary Dance
meets Environmental Activism

Monday,
March 20, 2006 - Advanced Jazz Dance Class
with Professor Diane Brownholtz - Wolfson Campus
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Earth Ethics Institute and
Women's History Month Committee
Invite you to
attend
Katy Sorenson
Pursue Your Professional Passion
Wednesday, March 15,
2006
MDC North Campus 11 a.m.
MJ Taylor Lounge
Making Difficult Decisions Today
that Positively Impact Tomorrow
Wednesday, March 22
MDC Kendall Campus 11 a.m.
K-413 |

Katy
Sorenson is Miami-Dade County Commissioner representing District
8 since 1994
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In Celebration of Women's History Month
Women's Bodies,
Women's Wisdom Lunch
Your Diet, Your Health
Dr.
Northrup’s 10–step program emphasizes that eating healthy, high
quality food — with dessert thrown in now and then — is one of the
easiest and most powerful ways to create health on a daily basis.
Christiane
Northrup, M.D, obstetrician/gynecologist, is an
empowering, internationally known visionary in
women’s health and wellness. As a practicing
physician for over twenty years and former assistant
clinical professor of ob/gyn at Maine Medical
Center, Dr. Northrup is a leading proponent of
medicine and healing that acknowledge the unity of
the mind and body, as well as the powerful role of
the human spirit in creating health. |
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Wednesday, March 8, MDC
Wolfson Campus, Room 2106-12 noon till 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 23, MDC InterAmerican Campus, Room 3103 12:30 p.m.-2
p.m.
rsvp:
Janie 305-237-7119 or
jadams1@mdc.edu
Sponsored by
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Environmental Photojournalism
a
lecture and slide presentation by
Tim Chapman
Miami Herald
Photographer - Friday, February 17, 2006
MDC Wolfson Campus - 11 am in Room 3305
Photo Challenge Grant 2006
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Tropical Green: Green Building in Tropical Zones
A two-day conference
exploring how to build sustainably in Miami,
South Florida, and similar climates
Organized by
Earth Ethics Institute * Architecture Club - AIA Miami
US Green Building Council South Florida Chapter * American
Society of Interior Designers
Florida Chapter of The American Planning Association * Metropolis
Magazine
Zyscovich Inc.
Speakers Include

William McDonough
Rick Fedrizzi
Greg Kiss
Katy Sorenson

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Guy Battle
Michael Singer
Bernadette Hutton

Ken Yeang
Kim Shinn
Sheila Rose
Robert Kobet
Thursday and Friday, February
9, 10, 2006
Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
300 NE 2nd Ave, Downtown Miami
This conference
is free to MDC employees.
cahernhe@mdc.edu
Approved for 18 hours of Professional Development Credit
for all MDC Faculty
- Conference Objectives, CTD Registration #365545.
and Information about Metropolis Free Registration for MDC Employees
METROPOLIS MDC REGISTRATION
CTD REGISTRATION
Reference #365545
For more information about the conference at
Metropolis website
Schedule
Speakers Biographies
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The Home Planet
A
Slide Presentation Accompanied by Quotes from Members of the
Association of Space Explorers, a Multi-national Group of Astronauts
and Cosmonauts.
Reflection and
Discussion Facilitated by
Miriam MacGillis
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
MDC Kendall Campus
12:40 p.m. in Room K-413
View spectacular images of Earth from space and
hear the comments of space explorers on their experiences, their
common realization of the camaraderie of all of Earth's citizens and
of the fact that the Earth is fragile and too precious to be wasted.
"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or
fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we
were aware of only one Earth," says a Saudi Arabian |

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Dr. Padron
signs the
Talloires Declaration,
a ten-point
action plan committing MDC to environmental literacy
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Miriam MacGillis
From Stardust to South Florida:
Remembering Who We Are
Tuesday,
January 31st
MDC Kendall Campus, Room K413 beginning at 11:15 a.m.
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. |

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Living Mindfully:
Lighten Your Ecological Footprint
Facilitated by
Joyce
DiBenedetto-Colton
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Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton |
Monday, January 30, 2006 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
MDC Medical Campus, Room 2116
For Faculty Registration CTD
Reference # 369497
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On Ice
photograph exhibition
and lecture by
Diane Cook and
Len Jenshel
Lecture
Thursday, January
19, 2006
Center Gallery - 7 p.m.
Exhibit Opening -
5 p.m.
January 19 - March 17, 2006
Francis Wolfson Gallery,
MDC Wolfson, Building 1, 5th Floor |

© Diane Cook

© Len Jenshel
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Plant a Thousand Gardens Project -
In Conjunction with Slow Food Miami and Three Sisters Farm
EEI Organic Gardens in the
Community
Plant an
Organic Garden at Home
Planting
can begin as early as October and as late as January and harvesting
will start 70-100 days after you plant and continue for 5-6 months
Purchase an 8’Ring Garden Kit including
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Soil
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Pre-cut trellis
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Drip irrigation tube
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Healthy Plants
The list of vegetables includes, but not limited to, broccoli,
pole beans and bush beans, purple, yellow and green, various
lettuces, collard and mustard greens, Genovese basil, Thia
basil, tomatoes, red cherry, sungold, cherokee purple, black
from tula, matts wild cherry, trophy, angora and others. we also
have papaya, which can be planted now and will produce in about
7 months.
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Fertilizer
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Delivery- can be delivered on
weekends
(All of these materials are included
in the kit with price for the kit ranging from $125-$500 depending
on your soil and installation requirements.)
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You
only need 10’ in diameter
for an 8’ Ring Garden
and harvest is usually 100 pounds
of tomatoes, as well as herbs,
and lettuce, marigolds
and nasturtiums.
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