From April 19 to 25, Green Roots and Greenfire are putting on an Earth Week at Lawrence. On Saturday April 24, Greenfire will host an all-day event on Main Hall Green (rainsite: Campus Center) with informational booths, live music, food, crafts, and more! Then on Sunday the 25th, Ralph Nader will speak at Lawrence.

If your student organization is interested in having a booth at our event or if you are a musician or part of a music group that would like to perform, please contact us at greenfire@lawrence.edu. Click here if you'd like to donate a meal swipe for the Greenfire Earth Day lunch!

Visit the Facebook page for Greenfire's Earth Day.

Events Schedule

Monday, April 19:

• 4:30pm: Science Hall Colloquium, Science Hall 102
  Steve Miles, Supervisor, Dolores Conservation District, Cortez, Colorado
  "Taming Tamarisk in Western Colorado: a grass roots conservation effort at the headwaters of the tamarisk infestation"

Tuesday, April 20:

• 11:10am: Convocation, Memorial Chapel
  Rebecca Solnit, essayist
  "Swimming Upstream in History: Hope, Disaster, Utopia"
• 7:00pm: Povolny Lecture, Science Hall 102
  George Wyeth, Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Visiting Professor
  "Change Isn't Easy: An Inside Perspective"

Wednesday, April 21:

• 8:00pm: Warch Campus Center Cinema, film: Earth Days
• 9:30pm: Warch Campus Center, band: Morsoul

Thursday, April 22:

• 4:30pm: Wriston Auditorium, Visiting Artist, Jerilea Zempel
  "Art and the Environment"

Friday, April 23:

• 3:10pm: Science Hall Colloquium, Science Hall 102
  Tim Ehlinger, associate professor, Great Lakes Water Institute, University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
  "Ecological Risk Assessment Frameworks and Indicators for Sustainable Development in Coastal Lake Systems"

Saturday, April 24:
Greenfire Earth Day: live music, volunteering, crafts, food, & more:

• Pancake breakfast: 10:00am, Greenfire House (Sabin House)
• Gardening in Lawrence's Sustainable Garden: 9:00am - 12:00pm
• River clean-up: 11:00am, Lawrence Sustainable Garden
• Info booths, music, activities, etc: 11:30am - 4:00pm, Main Hall Green (rainsite: Warch Campus Center)
• Lunch: 12:00am - 1:00pm, Main Hall Green (rainsite: Campus Center)
• Outdoor Yoga! 4:00pm, Main Hall Green (rainsite: Campus Center)
• More live music: FATBOOK: 10:00pm, Esch-Hurvis Room of Campus Center (2nd floor)

Sunday, April 25:

• 7:30pm: Greenfire Speaker: Ralph Nader, Memorial Chapel.
  "The Great Conversion: Environmentalism over Corporatism
  University Students Did it Once (1970), Can They Do it Again?"
  Click here for more information