A group of students at the University of Northern British Columbia is organizing the University’s first-ever Green Day, which will be held on Thursday, March 20.

In advance of the event, students have been conducting a UNBC waste audit, analyzing the contents of garbage collected from throughout the campus over last week. The garbage was sorted and weighed on Saturday, March 15, at the I.K. Barber Enhanced Forestry Lab on campus. The results of the audit will be presented during Green Day.

Other Green Day events:

• Public presentation on bioenergy opportunities in northern BC, featuring Janice Larson, the Director of Bioenergy and the Renewable Energy Branch of the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources. Her talk will begin at 10:30am in the Bentley Centre.
• Panel presentation on Prince George Air Quality, featuring UNBC professor Peter Jackson, Melissa Winfield-Lesk of the Prince George Air Quality Implementation Committee, PACHA member Betty Bekkering, and city councilor Debora Munoz. The panel presentation will begin at noon in the Bentley Centre.
• A display of green science fair projects from Prince George elementary school children.
• An environmental trivia challenge in the Winter Garden at 2:30pm.
• A series of bands and performers in the Winter Garden, starting at 10:30am.
• More than a dozen displays and exhibits on topics related to green research and academic programs, green employers and industry, green living, environmental arts and culture, and student activities.

UNBC has a range of environmental programs and research that is unique in Canada. In fact, the proportion of students in environmental programs is about 20-times the national average.

Contact:
Rob van Adrichem, Director of Media and Public Relations, UNBC – 250.960.5622

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Above: UNBC students Nadia Nowak, Danielle Smyth, and Chris Konchalski climb the mountain of garbage bags collected from one week at UNBC.

 

Above: Students sort through the contents of garbage collected on campus as part of a university waste audit.