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BY DANTE FUOCO

In print | Published October 22, 2009

Today

Green roof tour

There will be a tour of David Kemp dorm’s green roof today from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the tour will meet at the Scott Arboretum offices. It will be cancelled in the event of inclement weather.

With plants and drainage systems, green roofs not only help make buildings more energy-efficient but also manage storm-water runoff.

Kemp’s green roof was added as a final touch to the dormitory in August 2008, after the dorm had just been built. In addition to Kemp’s green roof, there are two other green roofs on campus: one atop a shed by Papazian and one atop Alice Paul dorm, Kemp’s sister dorm.

Saturday

Job Search Presentation

Three Swarthmore alumni will be holding “Jumpstart Your Job Search,” an interactive session aimed at helping students with job searches for the upcoming year. The event will last from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will be held in Science Center 199. Interested students need to sign up ahead of time either at Parrish 135 or online at the Career Services web site.

Today-Saturday

350 Week of Climate Action

Today, Keith McHenry will discuss his 30 years of experience with Food Not Bombs, which he co-founded. The talk will be in Hicks Mural Room from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Food Not Bombs aims to promote peace and end hunger, poverty and war by providing vegan and vegetarian meals to hungry people across the world.

Tomorrow, there will be a 350 Variety Show in Science Center 101 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. It will feature Vibrations, Essence of Soul, Sixteen Feet, Vertigo, Grapevine, Mixed Company, and Silbia Han and the Sunshine Boys. Earthlust will have face painting before the show in celebration of the 350 campaign, which aims to inspire the world to take action against global warming. The number 350 represents the amount of carbon in parts per million that scientists have set as a safe limit to have in the atmosphere.

Saturday marks 350’s international day of action. Students from the college will head to Penn State for the two-day Power Shift Regional Summit. The college’s Good Food Project will lead a workshop. The summit aims to promote environmental activism through lectures, panels, training and workshops.

Also on Saturday, the Swarthmore Co-op will have a local food festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Attendants can meet local food producers and growers, watch grilling demonstrations, eat an authentic barbeque dinner and taste local foods from the region.

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