{"id":1674,"date":"2012-04-09T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2012-04-09T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T14:46:52","slug":"announcing-ecofest-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/04\/09\/announcing-ecofest-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Ecofest 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Ecofest (formerly the Ecolympics) is about to begin!<\/p>\n<p>Ecofest is a week-long series of events to raise awareness about the human footprint on the environment and the consequent species loss. Here are five reasons why you should sign up and participate:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You will have a chance to save our corner of the living universe.<\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t, we will all die.<\/li>\n<li>You will have a chance to win an awesomely cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eco-sphere.com\/\">Ecosphere<\/a>; copies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/tv\/planet-earth\/\">Planet Earth<\/a> DVD set; artistic prints of endangered and extinct species; and other great eco-prizes.<\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t, the biosphere will collapse and we will all die.<\/li>\n<li>You will have a chance to set a shining example for the rest of the world.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Events include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ecofest\/events\/\"><strong>personal challenges<\/strong><\/a> for faculty and students from April 15-22, and public events such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4\/8 and 4\/9, 7pm: \u201c<strong>Call of Life,\u201d<\/strong> a film about present mass extinction with discussion and pizza @Rich Hall (4\/8) and the Core House (4\/9).<\/li>\n<li>4\/16, 7pm: \u201c<strong>Eco-Slam<\/strong>,\u201d an environmentally themed poetry slam and open mic with former national slam champion Regie Gibson @BU Central.<\/li>\n<li>4\/18, noon: \u201c<strong>What is Ethology?,\u201d<\/strong> a lunchtime seminar presented by BU Biology faculty member Fred Wasserman @STH 406 (Classics Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue), RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:core@bu.edu\">core@bu.edu<\/a> to reserve a box lunch!<\/li>\n<li>4\/19, 6pm: \u201c<strong>Saving the Elephants, Saving Ourselves<\/strong>,\u201d a multimedia lecture presented by artist\/musician Miranda Loud from Naturestage @KCB 101 (565 Commonwealth Ave).<\/li>\n<li>4\/24, 7pm: \u201c<strong>What We Talk About When We Talk About Food<\/strong>,\u201d a seminar by Williams College faculty and founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Darra Goldstein, @ Barrister&#8217;s Hall, BU Law School (765 Commonwealth Avenue).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sign up beginning Monday April 9 @ <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/ecofest\">http:\/\/bu.edu\/ecofest<\/a>, and tune into <a href=\"http:\/\/econowblog.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/econowblog.blogspot.com<\/a> for ongoing news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Ecofest (formerly the Ecolympics) is about to begin! Ecofest is a week-long series of events to raise awareness about the human footprint on the environment and the consequent species loss. Here are five reasons why you should sign up and participate: You will have a chance to save our corner of the living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,477],"tags":[5889,7792],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}