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Focus the Nation www.focusthenation.org
Thursday, January 31, 12 – 9 pm
Free and open to the public.
12 pm - Campus Dining Room 3
Artwork Display from the Saint Rose community
Film: An Inconvenient Truth
12 pm - Campus Dining Room 4
A Student’s volunteer experience in New Orleans after
Hurricane Katrina. Pam Towers, Grad Student
12 pm - Lally School
of Education Touhey Forum
Webcast:The 2% Solution
Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider;
sustainability expert Hunter Lovins; and green jobs pioneer Van
Jones discuss global warming solutions.
1 pm - Campus Dining Room 3
Artwork Display from the Saint Rose community
Film: An Inconvenient Truth (in progress)
1 pm - Campus Dining Room 4
Panel discussion: “Local Green Businesses”
Katie Centanni – Honest Weight Food Coop
David Hess – RPI professor
Nancy Gold – Tough Traveler
1 pm - Lally School
of Education Touhey Forum
Cherished Tradition or Environmental Disregard?
An open forum on the annual Halloween toilet-papering
of the Saint Rose campus!
2 pm - Campus Dining Room 3
Artwork Display from the Saint Rose community
Film: An Inconvenient Truth
2 pm - Campus Dining Room 4
Local Foods & Environment
Christopher Kemnah – Otter Hook Farms
2 pm - Lally School
of Education Touhey Forum
Sustainable Practices:
Candice Redden – St Rose RA
3 pm - Campus
Dining Room 3
Artwork Display from the Saint Rose community
Film: An Inconvenient Truth (in progress)
3 pm - Campus
Dining Room 4
A Discussion of the Scientific Basics of Climate Change
Jacqueline Smith, Assistant Professor of Geology,
The College of Saint Rose
3 pm - Lally School
of Education Touhey Forum
Idea Forum: An open exchange of green ideas among
students. Led by The Environment Club and Professor
Paul Benzing
4 pm - Campus Dining Room 3
Artwork Display from the Saint Rose community
Film: An Inconvenient Truth
4 pm - Lally School
of Education Touhey Forum
Wind Power!
Daniel W. Bernadette, P.E.,
Chief Engineer, AWS Truewind, LLC
4:45 - 5:30 pm - Lally
School of Education Touhey Forum
Keynote Session
Mark Lowery
Bureau of Programs and Partnerships
Office of Climate Change
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Interested in Service
Trips? Florida? New Orleans? Mississippi? Arkansas?
Contact the Community Service Office if you are willing to give
up a week in January and/or March when classes are NOT in session.
communityservice@strose.edu
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities:
Big Brothers and Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region is part of a national
mentoring program that unites local volunteers with children in the
community. BBBS is the largest one-on-one mentoring program available
in the Capital District. Affectionately called "Bigs" and
"Littles," these pairs build relationships with each other
by taking part in agency activities, taking small trips into the community,
and just spending time together.
At St. Rose, we provide a site-based program where students can
meet with their "Littles" right on campus during the school
year. We meet about five times a semester, or roughly once or twice
a month, on Saturday afternoons. If you would like to become a mentor,
please contact Krystle Dalton at daltonk054@strose.edu
or visit www.bbbscr.org
for more information.
Habitat For Humnaity
Habitat for Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty
housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter
a matter of conscience and action.
Habitat has built more than 225,000 houses around the world, providing
more than 1 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe,
decent, affordable shelter. Through volunteer labor and donations
of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple,
decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families.
Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed
with affordable loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments
are used to build still more Habitat houses.
Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment
and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of
hours of their own labor — sweat equity — into building
their Habitat house and the houses of others.
Through our affiliate at Saint Rose we hope to help with the cause
of affordable housing. Builds are currently on Saturday 9:30-1:30pm;
we also assist the ReStore of Habitat for Humanity. Habitat ReStores
are retail outlets where quality used and surplus building materials
are sold at a fraction of normal prices. Proceeds from ReStores
help local affiliates fund the construction of Habitat houses within
the community.9am-1pm. If you have any questions contact habitat@strose.edu.
West Hill Community Center After School Program
This is a program for elementary school students in the West Hill
area. It provides a safe place for the students to complete homework
assignments, enhance their reading level, and participate in recreational
activities. A meal is also provided. St. Rose students provide assistance
at the program on Tuesdays and Thursdays by helping with homework,
reading, and supervision. The shuttle leaves Lally Lot at 3:00 and
returns by 5:30.
Urban Launch
The 2007 Urban Launch: 57 freshmen. 12 student leaders. A 3-day
community service and learning immersion in and around the City
of Albany, right before classes began. Participating agencies were
Saint Anne's Institute for Girls, Big Brother Big Sisters
of the Capital Region, The Albany Damien Center, Capital
District Habitat for Humanity, The Albany Pine Bush Preserve,
The Homeless Action Committee, The Charles Lwanga House,
The Mercy House. Special thanks to NY State Senator Neil
Breslin for his presentation during the tour of the State Capital.
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