Student Activities
Our Natural Environment (O.N.E.), Belmont's Environmental Club, provides interaction with students across campus who are interested in environmental issues. Activities include river clean-ups, exotic plant removals, Earth Day awareness events, nature hikes, and environmentally-focused guest speakers.
Spring 2009 O.N.E. Club meetings:
- January 26 10:00 HSB 209 O.N.E. Club meeting
- February 23 10:00 HSB 209 O.N.E. Club meeting
- March 23 10:00 HSB 209 O.N.E. Club meeting
- April 20 10:00 HSB 209 O.N.E. Club meeting
O.N.E. Club convocation events Spring 2009:
- February 6 10:00 a.m. LCVA 117 Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Gilligan Topic: From the Laboratory to the Legislature: A Transdisciplinary View of Climate Change
- March 27 10:00 a.m. HSB408 Speaker: Dr. Dodd Galbreath, Executive Director of Lipscomb University's Institute for Sustainable Practice Topic: Water, Land and Faith
- April 2 7- 8:30 p.m. HSB408 Planet Earth: Cave Ecology Dr. Panvini, Department of Biology, will lead a discussion on the geology and ecology of caves, animal adaptations to cave habitats, and cave conservation.
- April 7 7 - 8:30 p.m. HSB408 Planet Earth: Saving Species View the episode "Saving Species" from the BBC's Planet Earth series. Dr. Niedzwiecki will lead a post movie discussion.
- April 20 10:00 a.m. HSB408 Speaker: Scott Davis, Director of the Tennessee Chapter of the Nature Conservancy Topic: Free Market Approaches to Conservation
- April 22 10:00 a.m. HSB408 Dr. Panvini, Coordinator of the Environmental Studies Program, and students in ENV1110 will present a variety of choices for energy plans for the T.V.A.
- April 23 7 - 8:00 p.m. HSB408 Speaker: Ben Lowe, author of Green Revolution and co-coordinator of the grassroots network, Renewal: Students Caring for Creation Topic: Dispatches from the Creation Care Movement
- April 24 10:00 a.m. HSB408 Topic: Recycle - Why and How Get all of your recycling questions answered!
- April 27 7 - 8:30 p.m. HSB408 Kilowatt Ours Film Screening -- This movie explores how our electricity usage is related to mountaintop removal for coal and what we can do to reduce electricity usage.
Fourth Annual Environmental Studies Lecture
March 24, 2009
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Neely Dining Room
Speaker: Dr. Peter Kareiva, Chief Scientist at the Nature Conservancy
Lecture topic: Making Conservation Work for People
*Opening reception in Frist Lecture Hall, 4th Floor Gordon Inman Center 5:30 - 6:45 p.m.
Article from The Tennesseean http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090324/NEWS01/90324063/1006/NEWS01
EARTH WEEK 2009
April 20-24
Sponsored by Our Natural Environment (O.N.E.) Club and the School of Sciences
Photos from Earth Week 2008:

High School Environmental Studies Day
February 27, 2009
Photos from the 2008 High School Environmental Studies Day:



Dr. Panvini and students from her BIO 3030 General Ecology class took a trip to Hardins Cave


