Transcript Guest Speaker, David Schimel, 2007 Nobel Peace

• Certification of Appreciation from UN as
well as from the Mongolian government
• Invited Dr. David Schimel, Nobel Peace
Laureate, as a guest speaker at Northfield
Mount Hermon School
• Raising awareness of desertification and
deforestation around the world
• Planting trees in Mongolia, in which desertification
has become a disquieting environmental problem
• Fundraising activities
• Cooperate with NMH Eco Leaders to organize
environmental awareness programs/ workshops
• Work closely with NMH Sustainability Committee
to promote environmental-friendly school policies and
activities
• Hold annual Green Cup Challenge, which was
started by Northfield Mount Hermon School
Trees of Hope invited
David Schimel, a recipient
of the 2007 Nobel Peace
Prize for his work on
climate change, to speak
at all-school meeting on
Wednesday, 04/21/2010 .
• David Schimel, CEO of National Ecological
Observatory Network (NEON) and the senior
scientist from the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR), was one of the
recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for
his work on the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change Report.
• Schimel earned his PhD at Colorado State
University and joined the Colorado-based NCAR
in 1992. According to his biography on the NEON,
Inc. website, Schimel served as a senior
terrestrial scientist in NCAR’s Climate and Global
Dynamics Division for 16 years, and was founding
co-director of the Max-Planck Institute for
Biogeochemistry. He was appointed CEO of NEON
in November 2006. He is also the editor-in-chief
of Ecological Applications for the Ecological
Society of America.
• Dr. Schimel talked about NEON, which is a
proposed national observatory that will use 20
stations across the United States to collect
accurate, precise, and easily comparable
climate and ecology data. Unlike previous
networks, NEON will focus both the causes
and effects of ecological change and how the
two are linked. The sensor arrays and
numerous facilities are expected to take five
years to complete and are expected to last at
least 30 years.
• The winners for the
recycled creation
contest were
announced at all-school
meeting on Monday.
They are:
• 1st place: LiChen Pan,
Sravani Lanka
2nd place: Emil Mehta, Haleny Hinds,
Andrew Stewart
3rd place: Byron Chacon
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vApBwxhSkAI
&feature=player_embedded
• GreenCup Challenge, started by NMH, was
created in an effort to sustain clean environment
at boarding schools. This year, 213 schools,
including three in Canada and Australia, have
joined the challenge. Dinner in the dark was
held successfully in Alumni Hall last week. NMH
continues to have inter-dorm competitions
to see which house can reduce the most energy.
• Small dorms (Rikert, Shea, Mackinnon, and
Cottages) and large dorms(Crossley, Wallace,
Hayden, and Tron) will be competing
against other dorms in the same category
throughout this February. Results of the first
week are now posted on NMH Green Blog and
SWIS.
Final Tally __March 1st, 2010
• 11.9% reduction from the dorms over the
4 weeks
• 3.5% reduction for the whole
community
• Large dorms : Tron with greatest reduction
(11.8%)
Small dorms : C2 with greatest reduction
(30%)
Green Fashion Show
• NMH’s 1st Green Clothing Swap and Fashion
Show tookplace on Friday, January 28 in Alumni
Hall. Dorms sponsor models (and win potential
intramural points), while students create designer
teams for re-used and non-fabric outfits in
three categories: casual wear, haute
couture/fancy fashion, or wildcard (anything
goes, as long as it’s appropriate).
• Related Video Clip
We're kicking off Greencup 2008, on January 30th
with NO lights on in the dining hall. Basically, we'r
e having a dinner in the dark. There will be
glowsticks handed out at the door and a showing
of a movie. This dinner is one of NMH's first steps
down the path to WINNING GREENCUP 08. And is
also in recognition of Focus the Nation. Focus the
nation is a day acknowledged nation-wide to rais
e awarenessof, and collaborate for solutions to gl
obal warming. Green cup shirts will also be sold a
t dinner.
Sustainable Synergy
• February 12th, 2010
• Sustainable Synergy NMH is the newly created
sustainability publication at NMH. It is
written and produced by the NMH Eco Leaders
and Trees of Hope in an effort to keep the
community updated on sustainability projects
around campus and contemporary environmental
issues that occur both locally and globally. There
are only a few hard copies around campus, so
look for Sustainable Syngergy.
• At Creative Craft on Friday, 8-9 pm, in Blake
atrium, students participated in the Green Cup
Structure Challenge. Competitors must build a
structure within the allotted time using ONLY
recycled materials. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
place structures were determined by a
distinguished panel of judges.
The winner of the Green Structure Challenge was
LICHEN PAN!!!
Green on Facebook
• Visit the Facebook page for NMH Goes
Green and watch the videos, follow the
links, or check out the events!!!
• http://www.facebook.com/pages/NMHGoesGreen/183482278616?ref=ts#!/pages/N
MH-GoesGreen/183482278616?sk=photos
Haha! It’s
me and
Sam
Students formed the
number 350 after
Wantman State of the
World speaker, Kurt
Hoelting, spoke to
students at Northfield
Mount Hermon, October
10, 2010
Here we
are
again!!