This week, the Monterey Institute will hold its first annual Earth Week event on campus. Earth Week’s mission is to catalyze the MIIS community to be the sustainable solution, and its vision is to actively educate the MIIS community to cultivate environmental leadership, innovation, and cultural change.
The 9-day long celebration will consist of debates, presentations, workshops, and activities all focused on different environmental problems. Each day centers around its own theme, check out the detailed lineup.
Featured Event
Day 3- Tuesday, April 16: FOOD
12:00-1pm: Panel (Irvine Auditorium)
“A grass-fed cattle rancher, a local fishmonger and a vegan walk into a restaurant…: Who Has the Biggest Environmental Footprint?”
Alan Lovewell (Local Catch Monterey), Mark Shelley (sustainable cattle rancher), and Jason Scorse (IEP Program Chair and vegan) discuss eating sustainably.
1:00-2pm: Panel (Irvine Auditorium)
“Food Justice Internationally and Locally”
Approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food is lost or wasted every year. Meanwhile, there are 925 million people going hungry. Eric Holt-Gimenez of Food First, Lindsay Coate of Ag Against Hunger, and Kaley Grimland of El Mercado Popular discuss Food Systems here and abroad.
4pm: Tour and tasting tables at Whole Foods
4pm: Harvesting in the Garden
5pm-7pm: Vegan Cook off and Sustainable Potluck in OGT garden
Enter your dish in the cook-off and win an awesome prize
Sign up for the delicious potuck
Featured Event
Day 6- Friday, April 19: WATER
9am-12pm: Get to Know Your Watershed Hike at Carmel River/Garland Park. Sign up here.
12-2pm: MIIS River Discussion on Samson Patio
5pm: Keynote Speaker Michele Messina, a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene expert with over 13 years of experience working with UN agencies, CARE, & OXFAM, will talk about the global water crisis and how institutions are coming together to solve it.
6pm: Tierra de Agua Premiere, followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.
7:30pm: Reception in McCone Atrium at