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FSU to Focus on Sustainability and Climate Awareness at Virtual Focus Frostburg

 FSU will again be focusing on sustainability and climate awareness during the upcoming Focus Frostburg event, an annual day of learning, with virtual programs, workshops and films premiering on Monday, April 19, at 5 p.m. The programs are free and open to the public. All programs can be found on the Focus Frostburg YouTube channel at https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCWRE8oJhI9oduNheVYSPeVg. Films can be found at https://vimeopro.com/bullfrogfilms/frostburg-state-u-environmental-week (password: 3W@F5U).

FSU also invites everyone to participate in this year’s Reduce, Reuse, Recycle poster contest, which highlights the talent and creativity of students in ART 207 Graphic Design. To help communicate environmental awareness for FSU’s celebration of Earth Week, students designed posters for this contest. To view and vote for student-created environmental posters, visit www.facebook.com/frostburglglg. People can vote on Facebook by visiting FSU’s LGLG Facebook page at www.facebook.com/frostburglglg. Voting ends at midnight on Wednesday, April 21. Winners will be announced on Thursday, April 22, Earth Day.

In-person events open to the campus community are as follows:

Tree Campus USA Arbor Day Celebration, Tuesday, April 20, FSU Clock Tower, noon. FSU remains committed to its affiliation with Tree Campus USA, an Arbor Day Foundation program, which honors colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit conservation and education organization that has helped campuses throughout the country plant thousands of trees.

Discover Sustainability Studies Session 1, Lacey Day and Sydney Sholly, Wednesday, April 21, near the Clock Tower, 1 p.m. Day and Sholly will promote the Sustainability Studies minor from the perspective of current students. They will discuss recent courses that have been offered, courses they have taken, and the interdisciplinary and easy-to-complete nature of the minor.

Discover Sustainability Studies Pop Up Sessions, sustainability students, throughout the week. Look for students in SUST 455 presenting displays on Campus Safety, FSU’s Period Poverty, Campus Green Cuisine, formation of an FSU Trail’s Committee, Ecobricks and more.

Highlighting Campus Sustainability Efforts, throughout the week. Learn about sustainability efforts on the FSU campus. Look for displays near Campus Dining locations.

Virtual programs and workshops are as follows:

“Climate Strike.” This event features FSU students Will Coburn, Laurel Plitnik, Ariyana Ward, Max Hancock, Ismerai Reyes and Reginald Morton III. Join students around the world as everyone is called to strike in the name of addressing global climate change.

“Weirdly Unsustainable.” From an underground fire that burned for a century to a short-lived herd of wild goats, FSU Professor Andy Duncan’s research into Weird Western Maryland has uncovered some local examples of how not to treat the Earth.

“Let’s Build a Better Earth.” Join 10-year-old community member, Myles Thomas, as he shares his thoughts on pollution, climate change and his generation’s uncertain future.

“Effect of COVID-19 on Local Volunteer Fire Departments.” Volunteer fire departments have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Day will discuss the issues these departments are facing and the ways that students and community members can help.

“Three Futures for Trumpet and Orchestra.” Learn how musician Jacob Dallager is using his musical ability to respond to concerns of climate change. This session features a performance by the artist.

“The Environment and the Active Body.” This presentation by Dr. Martin Barrett will address the factors that satisfy and/or constrain the physiological needs of the physically active body, recognize the interdependence of personal and environmental factors that serve to provide the active body with physical activity opportunities and identify the ways in which the active body is also a pro-environmental body.

“Greening the Playing Fields” This session by Barrett will begin by establishing the green waves of environmentalism in elite-level college and professional sport before providing a forum for attendees to discuss the duty of sport organizations to become (operationally) more sustainable and the opportunity sport organizations have to inspire sustainable behaviors among their fans.

“From Cynic to Optimist: Envisioning a Positive Future.” This presentation by Dr. Kara Rogers Thomas uses the framework proposed in the book, “The Future We Choose” by Chritiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, to focus on positive progress and achievable environmental goals.

“Water Bottle Planter.” Tiffany Sherrick and student members of the Sustainability Awareness Society will show how to make a flower planter using a water bottle.

“Creating a Sustainable Bioplastic From Natural Materials.” The polymers in everyday plastic items can be made using natural materials. In this presentation, Sophia Staggers and student members of the American Chemical Society will show how to make a bioplastic using cornstarch and glycerin.

“Blockchain Technology and Sustainability.” Blockchain is a distributed, immutable, transparent and trustworthy database, shared by a community. In this presentation, Yiming Zhuang will discuss blockchain technology and how it could benefit the achievement of sustainability.

The film festival will consist of the following:

“Awake, a Dream From Standing Rock” tells the story of the massive peaceful resistance led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to the Dakota Access Pipeline through their land and underneath the Missouri River.

In “How to Let Go of the World,” filmmaker Josh Fox travels to 12 countries on six continents to investigate climate change and uncover the answer to a difficult and fundamental question: what is it that climate change can’t destroy?

“Cooked,” from award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, reveals the ways in which class, race and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster.

In “No Fear No Favor,” African communities on the front lines of the poaching crisis fight to protect their wildlife for future generations.

“From Seed To Seed” follows a group of Canadian organic farmers over the course of one growing season as they adopt agroecological growing techniques to create sustainable and resilient food and farming systems.

For info, contact Thomas at krogersthomas@frostburg.edu or visit www.frostburg.edu/lglg/focus-frostburg.php.

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