Green Expo - Environmental Sustainability
This is a call for abstracts for a poster session to be
held at the Going Green Tampa Bay Expo that will be held at the Sun Dome
on Saturday, April 12th, 2008. The website for the expo can be seen
here: www.goinggreentampabay.com If you have any questions on the
poster session, please contact rbrinkmn@cas.usf.edu There will be cash
awards for student presentations and we encourage faculty participation
as well.
The University of South Florida, the Hillsborough City-County Planning
Commission, and Tampa's Urban Charrette are developing a series of green
events for April 2008 under the "Going Green Tampa Bay" umbrella.
Activities will occur on the USF campus and in downtown Tampa, and will
include workshops, lectures, competitions, movies, and an extensive
Green Expo. At USF, events will be hosted by the various colleges
throughout the Tampa campus under the name "Sustain-A-Bull" and will go
from April 7th to April 11th and end with a Green Expo in the USF Sun
Dome on Saturday, April 12th. The Green Expo will showcase vendors,
invited speakers, workshops, student poster sessions, and student lead
competitions that raise awareness and encourage action toward a more
sustainable Tampa Bay. The planning committee is targeting 150 booths
with alternative energy, recycled materials, and green products of all
kinds and has an exciting lineup of workshops that will provide tools
for people to go green in Tampa Bay. The Expo coincides with the USF
Botanical Gardens Spring sale and shuttle service will be provided to
transport patrons between the two locations. All events at USF are free
and open to the public.
You may be aware that the College of Business has hosted an annual
business sustainability symposium in April for the past two years. The
EXPO evolved out of those events. We are networking extensively with the
business community and we have attracted some high level sponsors and
partners.
Many of you incorporate sustainability principles in your classes,
student projects and research. Please take this opportunity to highlight
your work by submitting a poster. Doing so will facilitate cross
discipline collaboration and your work will be viewed by the community
at large.