The School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS) in the College of Arts & Sciences is inaugurating its first Environmental Film Series from January to April during of the spring 2012 semester.
The film series will feature a total of four documentaries, each with a theme closely related to the school. The film screenings will be followed by brief talks and a question and answer session with FIU faculty that are experts in their field.
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FIU has a great educational resource at MMC; the FIU Nature Preserve. It is an 11-acre habitat mimicking natural South Florida landscapes. Hundreds of students help out each semester, some for class credit, and some because they just want to. If you are able to give a couple hours, we need volunteers to help remove exotic and invasive plants, clear trails, plant native plants, and put up educational signage. Service days are set up every week and are open to everyone! You will learn about the Nature Preserve and the plants and animals living in it.
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Give and GoGreen is a waste reduction and charity donation program tied into end of the semester housing move-out. Students will have the opportunity to donate unwanted items to the Miami Rescue Mission instead of throwing them out. Last year over 3,000 pounds of clothes, shoes, books, and school supplies were donated.
Bins will be placed in the lobby of each housing building on April 23rd and will be there until April 30th for students to drop items off.
On April 10, Xavier Cortada, director and artist-in-residence of FIU’s College of Architecture + The Arts Office of Engaged Creativity, took his Native Flags project to 336 Miami-Dade Public Schools. Native Flags is a participatory eco-art project that consists of planting a native tree and a project flag on school grounds.
Photo: Mercedes Vargas, FIU student and intern in the Office of University Sustainability, presents a Sweetwater Elementary fifth grader with a native tree and flag. Photo by Gemma Carrillo
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