Happening TONIGHT!!!

Open Meeting for those interested in developing Sustainability in the RISD Curriculum

The Sustainability in the Curriculum task force of the Strategic Planning Sustainability group invites faculty, students, and staff to a meeting to be held this Wednesday, 7 April – 6:00 pm in Market House conference room

This open invitation meeting is intended to provide an opportunity for RISD faculty, students, and staff to discuss current efforts and future objectives to develop curricular programming in sustainability at RISD.

The sustainability working group is co-chaired by Dawn Barrett and Jack Silva; with members: Charlie Cannon, Alan Cantara, Peter Dean, Boback Firoozbakht, James Hall, Pamela Harrington, Kalya O’Donoghue, Pierre St-Germain, Kirchin Weston, and Damien White. The Sustainability in the Curriculum Group is chaired by Dawn Barrett, with Charlie Cannon, Peter Dean, Pamela Harrington, Kalya O’Donoghue, Kirchin Weston, and Damien White. RSVP dbarrett@risd.edu Want to participate? Email info@respond-design.org and ask!

TONIGHT
Just a friendly reminder from your Respond|Design crew!

MONDAY March 8:
First General Meeting ::: 6PM ::: ID Building Gallery
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We will discus upcoming events, planning and your interests. Please bring any ideas for events you may have… ooh and don’t forget to bring a friend. And yes, we will give you something to eat from Nice Slice.

Things we are planning/brainstorming so far:
- RISD ::: NERD NIGHT ‘10 vol.2 & 3
- Spring Break Habitat for Humanity
- An “Iron Chef” style make-anything-challenge with a secret material (in partnership with Second Life)
- A month long exhibit on sustainability along with a series of lectures and discussions.

BE PART OF THE SOLUTION!… Respond|Design

RISD DEMO GARDEN MEETING

Friday, February 26th
Nature Lab, 11:45 a.m.

The RISD Demo Garden Club (RDGC) will host it’s first EVER open meeting! Come share your ideas and get involved in our exciting spring calendar.

Questions? Contact Devon Miller at dmiller01@g.risd.edu.

The RISD Demo Garden is screening a movie about current food production in the United States. You can’t miss it.

Food, Inc.
When? 7 pm, Wednesday, Feb 3
Where? Tap Room

(Food, Inc. appropriate) snacks provided

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s
food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been
hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s
regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now
controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of
consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of
workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the
perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes
that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful
bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans
annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among
children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food
Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food:
An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs
like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin,
Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we
eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we
are going from here.

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Seed Bomb Workshop
It may be winter but you can always (guerrilla) garden!

Join the RISD Demo Garden as we kick off our ‘How To’ Workshop series
with 2 hours of DIY seed bomb making. It’s an easy, fun way to
green up Providence. Whatever you make is yours to keep.

When? 5-7 pm Thursday, February 4
Where? Nature Lab

Light snacks and drinks will be provided to satisfy guerrilla appetites.

Hosts: [RESPOND|DESIGN]
Emily Sara Wilson (MFA/GD ‘11)
Gunther Chanange (MID ‘11)

What: Social Hour, (11/16) at 6.30pm

Where: www.3steeplestreet.com/
*** Burger with side & beer only $9.95

Why: Because we have heard your peers speak of sustainability, social justice, and environmental issue and it is up to us to discuss how we are going to facilitate those changes. Other things we will be discussing: Programming, Committees, and Initiatives.

Where are you hanging out? R|D wants to be accessible to everyone and is willing to travel- to different cafe’s and bars that is. Suggest their next meeting place at your favorite dive.

FRIDAY, 30 October 11:30
Cable Car 204 S Main St
Please join us this Friday for our first general meeting where we’ll begin to plan activities, committees & programming for the rest of the year. Tell us what you want to see happen!
ID’s Charlie Cannon will launch “It’s in the bag” a campus wide competition utilizing plastic bags as a raw material for products.