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Beehive Collective

Monday, October 31st, 2011

holy shit

I was psyched to write this post when I saw that a beehive collective was coming to campus. Man, that is so cool.  I didn’t exactly know what a beehive collective was really but I read somewhere that bees are disappearing so I thought is probably had something to do with raising awareness of that. Plus honey might be the greatest thing ever.  We can all agree on that, right?  I don’t even feel weird when I sit in the library ferociously sucking on the packets from Burgess.

Anyway, I was wrong, The Beehive Collective is not a bee rights organization. Instead it’s an internationally political group that uses “graphical media to communicate stories of resistance to corporate globalization.” They’ll be visiting on Tuesday and bringing their new mural, which is called ‘The True Cost of Coal’. The group will present the mural, tell stories, and talk about living in Appalachia.

If you want to learn how our unbridled usage of electricity is ruining our environment and disenfranchising poor Americans go to this.

Tuesday 11/1 @ The Spa 7-9

EAC Hosts Moving Planet – Food, Music and Earth!

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

This Friday marks the official start of autumn, so those of you holding out on wearing trendy scarves that may or may not keep you warm can finally start draping them artfully around your shoulders, neck, chest, whatever I  don’t know how you do it. You should wear them to the Environmental Action Club’s Moving Planet event this Saturday from 1-3pm and celebrate the end of this rainy, dreary week. Moving Planet is an international organization designed to get us thinking beyond fossil fuels. If that wasn’t enticing enough, they’ve arranged for Skidmore DJs, food, a tree planting, a bike fix-up, and petitions to sign.

If you drive a car to this thing, you’re ridiculous.

EARTH DAY FESTIVAL 2011

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

WSPN, SEC, Lively Lucy’s and EAC are teaming up to bring you the Earth Day Festival and make sure you that your Saturday is fucking awesome. All you gotta do is show up and open your ears.

Picture this, Saturday from noon until 8pm on South Park Green you and your amigos spread out on a blanket listening to music and eating delicious food, joining hands in a celebratory dance circle of joy. It’ll be like Coachchella without any of that annoying California stuff.

What should you expect? Two stages, food, ill WSPN merchandise to show your allegiance, solar powered shit and a generally good time featuring music from Railbird, The Forms, Readnex Poetry Squad, The Tony Castles, Big Tree, Mokaad and the Flexpoints, Miniature Tigers.…AND MORE

Get ready buddy, this is going to kill your bad feelings and turn them into great feelings.

(fbook)

Anything But Clothes At Reusa-Ball

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

These people are definitely australian I can just tell

Reusa-Ball, Reusable. Get it? Get it? A pun!

Run to Getty and grab some duct tape (and prolly a pack of smokes) because tonight at 10pm in Falstaff’s EAC brings you the Reusa-Ball, which according to the facebook event is an “eco-dance-party where everyone wears reused, recycled, and second-hand clothing.” Oh Yeah!

I know that Saturday night is usually your night to peacock around in your finest wares, your Anthropologie dresses and your Urban Outfitters flannels but the Reusa-Ball is an Anything But Clothes party so you’re going to need to fashion some sort of pantsuit out of old PBR boxes or something. My freshman year, I showed up to an Anything But Clothes party wearing only D-Hall coffee cups. Get on my level.

Prizes and Plum Dandy will be awarded to the people with the most creative costumes and The Hand Me Downs are opening up for Ramses. Get silly with your willy tucked into some recyclables!

(fbook)

Lively Lucy’s and EAC Present: Beats For Beets

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

i need more allowance

Attention: This Thursday EAC and Lively Lucy’s are hosting Beats for Beets, an event at Falstaff’s that provides the perfect opportunity to talk about the late 90′s Nickelodeon television show Doug! As you may know, The Beets were Doug’s favorite band and even though the connection may seem tangential at best I can promise you that you will be able to use this event to start a conversation about the television show Doug.  Everyone already knows that talking about late 90s Nickelodeon television shows is the best way to flirt with people at Skidmore and that chatting about your mutual appreciation for cultural touchstones like Doug and Ahh! Real Monsters! is a guaranteed way to get someone to make out with you. All you need to do is show up, lean in close while one of the bands tunes their guitars and say something witty like “I can’t wait until they play Killer Tofu” and you’re golden, I promise.

In addition to all this make out hoopla, Beats For Beats will also feature delicious snacks donated by Chipotle, The Bread Basket, and Uncommon Grounds, as well as delicious music donated by Honey, Jon Wan+ Zoe Brecher, Houseboat, and Dan Papson & the Purple Crayons. All this stuff is great.

The Student Garden will also be selling their highly fashionable canvas bags and raffling off gift certificates to the Saratoga Farmers Market.

8pm @ Falstaff’s
(fbook)

EAC Presents: Truck Farm Screening

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

EAC will be screening the movie Truck Farm tonight at 8pm in Davis. Truck Farm is a movie about a farm that is on a truck and not, interestingly enough, a magical farm that grows trucks.

n.b : F&M Bagels, featured prominently in the background of this trailer, is a wonderful bagel store in Red Hook, Brooklyn with very good bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches.

Composting! Composting! Composting!

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

The Northwoods Composting project started this month and now the EAC is thinking about composting the food waste from the Dining Hall? Impressive.

Pay attention to this stuff because after college everyone in your Willamsburg loft building is going to be super into composting their organic coffee grounds and you’re not going to want to feel left behind.

On Campus: Food Not Bombs’ Keith McHenry

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

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EAC president Laura Fralich’11 writes in to tell us about an event with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry happening Wednesday:

Author, artisist and Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry will demonstrate how to prepare solar baked goods and give a presentation about the history, principles and Food Not Bombs global campaign for the change we knead now! Volunteers recover, prepare and share vegan meals and groceries in nearly 1,000 communities, feeding the hungry, supporting nonviolent direct actions in resistance to the global economic, political and environmental crisis while implementing a foundation for a sustainable future. Tax payers have spent trillions to bail out the banks and fund wars for corporate domination, now it’s time to bail out our communities.
Food Not Bombs started in 1980 when eight college-aged activists dressed as generals and started holding bake sales pretending to buy a bomber. Thirty years later Food Not Bombs organized a two month long vigil outside the White House baking bread in a solar oven to build popular support for a conversion from a carbon based war economy to a sustainable solar future.

There will be a Solar baking demonstration on Case Patio from 11am-5pm and at 8pmMcHenry will give a talk in Gannett. (fbook)

10/10/10 Events

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

The EAC and Skidmore Cycling Clubs are co-sponsoring an event this Sunday as a part of a 10/10/10, global day of action to reduce emissions and cut carbon footprints. Dan Raudonis ’13 writes in:

We’d like to invite the Skidmore community to join us in sending a message to our local, state, and government officials about our concern for healthier transportation and more sustainable lifestyles. As part of this, we are organizing two activities during the day.
12:00 pm – We’d like to invite students to join the EAC in putting the Skidmore garden to rest for the season.
1:00 pm – We’d like to get as many people as possible to join us in walking/cycling into town to demonstrate our support for healthier and more sustainable transportation. We’ll start gathering at Case Green around 1:00 and will leave at 1:30. We will stop by the garden to pick up the workers before continuing down Broadway and eventually ending in Congress Park. There we will hold a rally with several speakers.

The bike ride down into Congress Park should be like a good ol’ fashioned Critical Mass Ride and probably more fun than you usually have on a Sunday afternoon.  BIKES NOT BOMBS!!!

More information on thefacebook.

Hunger Strike Calls For Fast Action On Climate

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
this probably isnt true

this probably isnt true

Members of EAC and any other interested parties are invited to fast on December 9th, the opening day of the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations, to raise awareness about the need for effective climate justice. Students will be gathering in the D-Hall Atrium “during meal times” to call legislators and talk to other students. For more information and a quick rant check thefacebook.

Wednesday Dec. 9th @ The Atrium
11am-3pm
5pm-7pm