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"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.

We the undersigned, senior members of the world's scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated." 11-18-1992, Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/warning.html

 

UPCOMING IPE CLASSES!

SUMMER 2009:

IPE 3913.995 "Global Warming and Energy Use" taught by Theresa Coffman
IPE 3913.996 "Sustainable Business and the Environment" taught by Jane Talkington
IPE 3913.997 "Globalization, Culture, and the Environment" taught by Dr. Bridget Love

FALL 2009:

IPE 1013.001 "Consumption and the Environment" taught by Prof. Deborah Dalton
IPE 3913.992 "Sustainable Communities" taught by Jane Talkington
IPE 3913.993 "Gardening, the Community, and the Environment" taught by Matthew Collier
IPE 3913.994 "Law and the Environment" taught by Jennifer Gray
IPE 3913.996 "Human Health, Disease, and the Environment" taught by Theresa Coffman
IPE 3913.997 "Sustainable Business and the Environment" taught by Jane Talkington
IPE 3913.998 "Nature and Culture" taught by Dr. Helen Robertson

 

Norman Sustainability Network Meeting - Sunday, May 24th!

NSN General Meeting this Sunday! The NSN is having a general membership meeting this Sunday, May 24, 3:30 pm, in the breezeway outside Native Roots Market, 132 W Main St. Refreshments will be provided.

They will talk about current and future NSN projects, elect new officers from the steering committee, and discuss and vote on revisions to their by-laws. This Sunday will be the best opportunity to become more involved with NSN or learn more about where they are going as an organization.

If you have a project that NSN might be interested in working on, there will be time for presentations. If you plan to present, please let them know ahead of time by calling Gene at 405-640-9119. See you then!


The National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program

The Campus Ecology Program was founded in 1989 and has become a leading conservation program in higher education. The program provides college campuses with resources and technical assistance for campus greening activities. OU became a Campus Ecology member in the spring of 2005. For more information about this program, please visit
http://www.nwf.org/campusEcology.

The cell phone recycling program at OU is part of the NWF Campus Ecology Program. Used cell phones may be dropped off at a drop box at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, at the IPE Resource Room in Rm. 555 Monnet Hall, or they may be mailed to IPE Program, 630 Parrington Oval, Rm. 555 Monnet Hall, Norman, OK 73019-4036.


OU Recycles!

IPE works actively with the well-established OU Recycling Program. The spring practicum, IPE 4003, has focused on helping OU improve and expand its recycling program for the past two years. We will be working with OU Recycling again this coming spring.

To find out more about OU's Recycling Program, where recycling bins are, and how to recycle, please visit http://www.physicalplant.ou.edu and click on the "Recycling and Refuse" link on the main menu on the upper left side.