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Learn more! Join us on Wednesdays from 2:00 – 2:50 in Room P-32.  It only takes an hour a week to explore the world beyond the campus.  Check out the upcoming seminars and connected occasions below.
You can also view these archived seminars:      Fall 2008 | Spring 2008 | Fall 2007.

Seminar Schedule for Spring Semester 2009
Wednesdays, 2:00 – 2:50 pm in Room P-32

• January 28th   Kelley Hudson Macisaac, Palomar Facilities Manager and Glen Carels, LPA, CCD Architect - "How to Build a College of the Future Through Sustainable Integrated Design "  Learning Outcomes You Will Gain from Attending this Seminar: Participants will be able to define the difference between 'green' and 'sustainable' and the case study projects will demonstrate how building with nature and not against it is the secret to building a sustainable environment that enhances the higher education experience.  view archive
  

• February 4th (Cancelled) "Film: An Inconvenient Truth"  

• February 11th  "Film: An Inconvenient Truth Part I"  Learning Outcomes You Will Gain: This film will help you better understand the facts surrounding global warming and to draw your own conclusions. archive not available
  
  

• February 18th  "Film: An Inconvenient Truth Part II"  Learning Outcomes You Will Gain: This film will help you better understand the facts surrounding global warming and to draw your own conclusions.   archive not available
  

• February 25th  Students from the Palomar Environmental Student Organization (ESO) willl make presentations that incorporate an element of Cradle to Cradle Design and tie to theme "Big Green Lies"    Learning Outcomes You Will Gain from Attending this Seminar: The seminar will improve our awareness and understanding of the “Cradle to Cradle” model and “Big Green Lies”  view archive
  
  
• March 4th  Katy French, Palomar Library Faculty - "Am I really saving the planet? How to become an informed citizen." Learning Outcomes You Will Gain from Attending this Seminar: The ability to critically evaluate the credibility of information presented about the environment and sustainable living.  view archive
  
  
• March 11th  Wing Cheung, Palomar Earth Sciences Faculty - "Overpopulation: Myth or Reality?"  Learning Outcomes You Will Gain from Attending this Seminar: This presentation will disseminate facts about population growth, and help students analyze our demographic future.  view archive
  
  
• March 18th  Sharon Reynolds, Palomar English Faculty - "Beyond the Science: Saving Nature Through the Literary Arts"
  Meeting the environmental challenge for sustainable living demands more than scientific evidence; it requires a shift in both the individual and collective imaginations that can be facilitated through the literary arts. Learning Outcomes: This discussion of selected literature will promote critical connections between merely surviving in environmentally challenging times and embracing an aesthetic desire to live in community with the natural world. view archive
  
  
• March 25th - Spring Break - No Seminar
  
  
• April 1st   Mary Jane Najor, Ph.D., Dept. of Behavioral Sciences and Green Business Owner: Oasis Frozen Yogurt and, KariLyn Merlos, R.E.H.S., San Diego County Department of Environmental Health  - "Being a Green Business in San Diego County. "  If not currently, then soon you will be either an employee or business owner. As such, by the decisions and choices you make, you have the ability to affect the way your business impacts the environment. This seminar addresses specific ways companies can be green businesses. Learning Outcomes: The ability to identify specific choices employees and business owners can make to reduce corporate impacts on the environment. view archive
  
  
• April 8th  Teresa Laughlin, Palomar Economics Faculty  - "The Economics of Environmental Disruption. Political Economy Days." This seminar will investigate the economic issues of environmental disruption. We will discuss externalities, the common pool problem, the optimal level of pollution, and market solutions to pollution. In addition, using economic theory, we will examine the various solutions to global warming and externalities. Learning outcome: Students will evaluate the issues surrounding environmental disruption and proposed solutions.  view archive

• April 15th  Mary Cassoni, Palomar Business Faculty  - "Save the World -- Buy More Stuff.   A discussion of “Green” as a megatrend in marketing.  From promises to operate more environmentally aware to claims of using only “natural” ingredients, being Green is the latest buzz in marketing and business. What is green marketing, who’s doing it, and is it right for your business? These and other topics related to going green in business will all be discussed in this lecture/discussion. Learning Outcome: After attending this seminar, you will understand the benefits and pitfalls of “going green” claims. You’ll be able to implement some new ideas for marketing your product or service to take advantage of the green megatrend in business.
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• April 22nd  Pat Lupica, Palomar Business Faculty - "Globalization-Crises or Just Change?"  From a global business environment perspective - We will explore challenges and drivers, analyze what is meant by sustainable living, and offer at least one approach to reduce risk associated with doing business in today’s global marketplace.   Learning Outcome:  After attending this seminar, you will understand sustainable living and a way to reduce your risk in today's market.  view archive 

• April 29th  Craig Forney, Palomar Behavioral Sciences Faculty -  "Religions, Religion, and the Environment"   This session investigates the influence of religion and religions on the environment. We will examine how religion, particularly Christianity, contributes to environmental problems and solutions. This exploration also focuses on the diversity of religions related to the environment and aspires to learn from the study of religion for understanding of environmentalism as a movement.  Learning Outcomes:  (1) After attending this seminar,  you will develop an understanding of how religions contribute to both problems and solution related to the environment. (2) You will have an increased awareness to the diversity and adaptability of a religious tradition in relations with the environment. view archive

• May 6th  Marty Furch, Palomar ESL Faculty - "Language Death: The Threat of Extinction of Our World Languages"  Consider this: Of the approximate 6,000 languages spoken on the planet today, it is estimated that 3,000 or half of these will disappear over the next 30 years. This seminar will explain the socio-political and environmental policies and issues affecting the alarming rate of disintegration of our world’s diverse languages and cultures. The discussion will also explore why we should be concerned about language death and what we might do to keep languages alive. Learning Outcomes: Connect certain socio-political policies with disappearing vs. healthy languages and  Formulate some realistic solutions to preserve endangered languages. view archive
  

*Not all programs will be available via webcast and/or archive.