Focus the Nation Schedule

Monday-Friday Jan. 28-Feb. 1

• Student voting online all week
• "Earth Friendly" menu offerings by Aramark in the cafeteria  
• Calculate your carbon footprint and Consumer Consequences on campus computers

Wednesday Jan. 30

Day Program:  9am to 2pm

• [Green Vendors] environmentally friendly products and services will be in the GCC mall area. Come see the hybrid cars!
• A hydrogen car will be on display in the mall (owned by Fountain Hills HS Research Club and run by Paul McElligott, Chemistry adjunct faculty)
• CO2: Ocean Acidification demonstration - STEM Club & Biology Student Activity Table, in the Student Union
• Voter registration table: one inside the Student Union and one on the mall

Evening Program starts at 5pm

• 5pm Performances by: African Drumming Ensemble & Brazilian Drumming Ensemble
• Food/refreshments served at 5:30 pm (eco conscious/environmentally friendly)
• The 2% Solution national webcast begins at 6:00 pm in SU-104
• Discussion will follow
• Voter registration table: inside the Student Union; 5-8 PM

Thursday Jan. 31

Day Program:  9am-2pm

• Guest speakers in SU-104
  • 9:05 - 9:40am  "Arizona Climate Change Action Plan" 
    presented by Kurt Maurer, Office of Policy, Planning and Operations, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality 
  • 10:05 - 10:40am  "How Global Warming Hits Home in the Southwest ... and What You Can Do About It"
    presented by Dr. Melanie Lenart, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), University of Arizona
  • 11:05  - 11:40am  "Climate System Overview and Urban Climate
    presented by Dr. Nancy J. Selover, State Climate Office, ASU
  • 12:05 - 12:40pm "Building Green: Bringing Sustainability to Glendale Community College North"
    presented by Chris Ledwith, Carl Price, Sabrina Russo, Ken Anderson  RNL Architectural Design
• CO2: Ocean Acidification demonstration - STEM Club & Biology Student Activity Table, in the Student Union
• Everything Green - green pledge cards, green tips, green pins - High Tech Center Table, central mall
• Voter registration table: one inside the Student Union and one on the mall
• Green Vendors with environmentally friendly products and services will be in the GCC mall area. Come see the hybrid cars!

Evening Program

• Panel Discussion: Focus the Nation on Climate Change: The Challenge and Opportunity Aheadin SU-104. Community leaders, City officials, Administration, Faculty, Grounds management, and Students will participate in a community dialogue.  Questions from the audience will be allowed and the public is welcome and encouraged to attend. 
  • 5:00 pm Performance of Gypsy Jazz by: Lotchmo Drom, a special sub-group of GCC's guitar ensemble
  • 5:30 pm appetizers will be served.
  • 6:00 pm GCC's President Dr. Green will give the opening introductions to begin the panel discussion
  • Panelists include but are not limited to:
    • Bobby Bryant, Mayor of Buckeye (confirmed)
    • Erik Magnuson, Environment Arizona (confirmed)
    • Chuck Jeffery, Acting Vice President of Administrative Services and Planning, GCC (confirmed)
    • Jackie Thrasher, District 10 representative (confirmed)
    • Doug Kukino, Glendale - Environmental Resources Director, City of Glendale  (confirmed)
  • Moderated by Mary Harris, Meteorologist and GCC Physics faculty

• Event covered by The Arizona Republic and The Glendale Star
• Voter registration table: inside the Student Union; 5-8 PM

Friday Feb. 1

• 9:00am to noon:  Faculty speakers in SU-104
  • 9:05  "Climate Change 101" 
    presented by Mary Harris, Meteorologist and GCC Physics faculty
  • 9:30   "Geological Evidence for Climate Change" 
    presented by Gary Calderone, GCC Geology faculty
  • 10:05  "Microbiology and Climate Change: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" 
    presented by Jeff Pommerville, GCC Biology faculty
  • 10:30  "Threats to Biodiversity and the Implications of its Loss" 
    presented by Erik Gergus, GCC Biology faculty
  • 11:05  "Why change is desirable, even if Global Warming isn't primarily human induced", "Environmental Ethics" & "We're all in this together: The Law & Order of Climate Change"
    presented by Steve Kadel, GCC Geology faculty; Jeanne Saint-Amour, GCC Philosophy/Religious Studies faculty, and Robert Reavis, GCC Biology faculty
• Voter registration table: inside the Student Union; 9AM-Noon

• Noon: "Roundtable Discussion and Action Plans".Open conversation to launch more "Green Efforts" on campus.  All students, employees & faculty invited.  - bring your own lunch, or cafeteria offers sustainable potato bar
• 2-4pm: "An Inconvenient Truth" STEM Club sponsored movie in SU-104