Exciting events for Fall 2009!

If you are checking out our blog to see what we've been up to, you'll notice we are working extremely hard to get the club back on it's feet, including making some extensive and exciting plans for the fall semester. We hope to have a monthly movie showing, hold a series of events dedicated to having an eco-friendly Christmas, and make several trips to the Kansas City Farmer's market among other things! Check out our calendar of events below and feel free to e-mail us if you are interested in joining, have any questions or want to take part in anything we will be doing. Ucmenviroclub@gmail.com

Tentative schedule of events for Fall 2009
August:
Aug. 3-4: Jack’s Fork Stream Clean-up Will include: camping, water quality monitoring, fishing, and canoeing.
Aug. 18-21 OR Aug. 24-28: Week of Welcome Involvement Fair Will include: visual presentations, pictures of summer activities, list of events, hand-outs, collecting interested students contact information and handing out our own.
Aug. (towards end, possibly week of welcome): Garbage Island movie showing Will include: door prizes, organic snacks, short presentation, movie showing

September:
Sept. (second or third Saturday): River Market in Kansas City Will include: Trip to Kansas City, Farmer’s market, crafts, exotic cuisine
Sept. (warm Saturday): Stream Clean-up Will include: cleaning local stream, possibly home-made pizza afterwards
Sept. (evening during week): Movie showing

October:
Oct. (beginning): Begin Serve the ‘Burg planning Will include: involving other student organizations, SGA, and local volunteer organizations and businesses.
Oct. 10 OR 17: River Market in Kansas City
Oct. (evening during week): Movie showing

November:
Nov. (beginning): Beginning of the event series, tentatively named, “Eco-friendly Christmas” Will include: Eco-fabrics fashion show, cosmetics making, and a movie showing
Nov. (evening during week): What Would Jesus Buy movie showing. Will include: Door prizes, short presentation, organic holiday snacks.

December:
Environmental Club Social! Food, fun and whatever else.