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What is 350?
	350 is the most important number on the planet and after a fall campaign, it's perhaps the most well known number at Bard

350 is the maximum parts per million of carbon dioxide we can have in our atmosphere to continue life as we know it.  We are at 389 ppm. 

350.org is an international effort to draw attention to the importance of 350.  By being part of 350, the Bard community will be doing our part to inform Congress that we need to reduce to 350.

Senators Boxer and Kerry just introduced climate legislation in the Senate.

International leaders will gather in Copenhagen this December.

 

Bard's month of 350 actions:  students, faculty and staff drew, wrote, photographed, designed, cycled and created their way to 350 messages to Congress. The month culminated in a Bard 350 Teach In Thursday 10/22 and International day of Action Saturday 10/24

FOLLOW the 350 BLOG:   topics: 350 Miles of Deliciousness; Eating Locally, the "Obama Shuttle", green building guru Bob Fox, the 350 Teach-In.

Bulb Planting Day 350 x 3 in 35 minutes Amy Parrella and her staff made it easy for 100 people to plant over 1,000 bulbs.  Some planted and dashed...the rest are photographed.
Village Residence Halls host 350 Pancake Marathon
Microbiologist Brooke Jude and her class isolated 350 strains of bacteria from crustaceans in the Hudson Valley see all 350 strains here
Wolff Students folded 350 Origami !
Compost Commandos	Bard students put 450 pounds of food scrap in their dorm buckets during two weeks of October!
Cyclists completed a 350 35-mile ride
Red Hook 350 Clean Up Day September 19 Thank you letter from Town Councilman Robert Mckeon
Chemist Swapan Jain and his class created a DNA double helix that is bound in the major groove by a protein.  It contains the 4 nucleotides (A,C,T,G) which are connected by hydrogen bonds made of exactly 350 cigarette butts. All of the materials used in the project were collected from campus (either abandoned, trash or recyclables)	Jain DNA JD 006
350 Staff Faculty Banner for Parents Weekend signed by 350/4=87 people:
RECYCLE YARD STAFF Material re-captured in 350 minutes Start time: 5:30 AM Finish time: 11:20 AM Elapsed minutes 350         compost 2,900 pounds commingled 581 pounds paper 282 pounds cardboard 152 pounds  TOTAL pounds 3,915
350th Shuttle Ride September 16
Locavore Week sponsored by Chartwells 60% of food served Oct. 21-25 came from within 35 miles of campus

See how faculty, staff and students share 350

Staff:

• Horticulture's Amy (Foster) Parrella will coordinate 350 (x3) bulb planting Oct. 22 12:30 at RKC - come plant a bulb!
• Julie Myers, Purchasing Director, shared stats from Staples - our green purchases saved over 350 gallons of oil equivalents last year - read more
• Health Services gave out 240 flut shots on their way to 350
• Library staff just catalogued their 350th book of the fall
• Security's Matt Moore is trying to re-register 350 cars for our GHG inventory
• Chartwells will hand out 350 bio mugs during Paper Free Week Oct. 19.
• DOSO's Bethany Nohlgren is making 350 notepads from scrap paper
• The Village Residences had a 350 pancake marathon
  

Faculty:

• Chemist Swapan Jain synthesized a DNA double helix and he and his students built a 6' x 3' reproduction on display at Campus Center and RKC this week
• Microbiologist Brooke Jude isolated 350 strains of bacteria from crustaceans in the Hudson Valley
• Literature professor Deirdre d'Albertis is bringing 350 into her class "Imagining Nature without Us"

Students:

• BERPs are going door to door getting signatures for Congress
• The Environmental Collective will hand out 350 CFLs
• attended The Age of Stupid screening and wrote letters to Cogress
• 350 students signed letters to Senator Schumer and Gillibrand. Bard CEP professor Gautum Sethi delivered them to Washington DC Oct. 8

Misc. Fun:

• Laurie N will sort through 350 emails
• 350 EXERCISE - MAPS how far are you walking at Bard?  biking to a farm?
• Members of The Cycling Team will bike 35 miles this weekend.
• Frankie is doing 350 jumping jacks.
• Sheila pledges to continue exercising 35 minutes 3x/week
• Laurie will bike 350 miles
• Michele will walk 35 miles
• Phillip will do some 350 sprints on his ergometer

Explain 350: Here is a simplified flyer and a detailed flyer to post in your residence hall to help explain 350

WRITE A LETTER

Send a letter to your Senators before Break!  Use one of these (Schumer, Gillibrand) or make your own.  Information is from the Union of Concerned Scientists who have a Climate 2030 - A National Blueprint for the a Clean Energy Economy

Click here for an example letter to Senator Schumer inviting him to come to campus for the 350 Teach-In.  Write your own version for Senator Schumer or Gillibrand, or Congressman Murphy today.  Campus mail it to Laurie Husted and Bard will pay the postage!

DOOR TO DOOR

BERPs:  Click here for a paper you can carry door to door in your residence hall to get people aware about 350!

From the National Teach-In:  This fall, a few US Senators will determine the fate of the earth.  Should the Senate fail to pass global warming legislation it will no longer be possible to hold global warming to the low end of 4 degrees F.

Click here for a petition  directed at US Senators.  Get signatures, make a copy and mail it to Congress (or BERD).

PC 350 Guide:  EZ350, Step it Up350 and Extreme 350

350 Logos in a Word Doc for you to cut and paste.

Follow the Bard 350 Event on Facebook - email 350@bard.edu to be invited or try this link:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124429101574&ref=mf

how can you share 350?

Planetary Boundaries article	350 is a tool to launch a planetary conversation.
	The inner green shading represents the proposed safe operating space for nine planetary systems. The red wedges represent an estimate of the current position for each variable. The boundaries in three systems (rate of biodiversity loss, climate change and human interference with the nitrogen cycle), have already been exceeded.

President Bostein's Pledge for Climate Neutrality

Bard has promised to go climate neutral by signing the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment.  We completed our inventory our greenhouse gas emissions and hope to enter a performance contract to implement campus wide energy upgrades. To help guide the process, we have formed a Climate Commission comprised of Jim Brudvig, Mark Halsey, Laurie Husted, Kevin Parker, Mara Ranville, Taun Toay and student Spencer Lawrence.  Simon's Rock Director of Physical Plant, Steve Carignan, joins the Commission as of the summer of 2009.

Bard College PCNA 1-30-09

Bard GHG Inventory Mgmt Plan 010709

Bard faculty joined community leaders, students from the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (BCEP) and undergraduate students at a workshop:

Stabilization Wedge Game (Carbon Mitigation Initiative)

7-9pm Thursday, 2/5. 

Using 1B ton carbon reduction 'wedges'  teams representing all disciplines decided how to stabilize the climate. 

Participation is by faculty invitation.  If you would like to join a team, email the faculty member.

Participating Faculty:

Other Teach-In events: 

2/5 - 2pm-4pm: Campus Center Lobby: Hypermiling is difficult to get right without some feedback. Learn from our own Stewart Dean how to use the Scan Gauge to improve your mileage. Also - hear why diesel cars might trump hybrids.

2/5 - 4pm-7pm: Campus Center Lobby: Sharing a ride one day a week can save 1000 miles and $500 in driving costs. Visit /CleanAir NY/ and learn more about NuRide. Let the sun shine – hear about solar technologies from the /Solar Energy Consortium/

National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Fellows confront global warming on their campuses and help to educate and engage the campus community on global warming impacts and solutions. $2000 toward an undergraduate project.

http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/fellowships/

FOCUS the NATION 2008 was a national teach-in at over 1,600 institutions of learning. Government, educational institutions, faith groups, civic organizations and businesses will collaboratively engage in an interdisciplinary discussion about “Global Warming Solutions for America."

See the panels sessions at http://www.redhookconcerns.com/focus/focus.html

SCHEDULE (Word document

Panel sessions (Word document)