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:

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High School Environmental Studies Day
February 27, 2009

Photos from the 2008 High School Environmental Studies Day:

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