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Issue date: 4/22/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Peter Strong OSU Student Sustainability Initiative Coordinator Andrea Norris, right, hands a bag of popcorn to freshman Rebecca Noble in the quad Monday at the group's Earth Week Kickoff event. The corn was popped using electricity provided by a heliotropic solar trailer built by two OSU students in 2007.

This Earth Week, those on campus will have the opportunity to learn about Earth and sustainability thanks to daily booths offering information in the MU Quad.

Today, for Earth Day, over 50 organizations will be setting up booths and tables in the quad to commemorate the occasion. They will also be there to teach passers-by about sustainability, what they can do to help and how to become more efficient in their daily lives.

Each day in Earth Week will have its own theme. Monday's theme was waste, and students at the booth provided information about composting and recycling and how to properly deal with waste in safe and efficient ways.

Today's theme is community, Wednesday's is food, Thursday's is environmental justice and Friday's theme will be the arts.

All topics will relate to their intrinsic value to the third rock from the sun.

Other events scheduled to venerate Earth Day include the Earth Day Hoo Haa, which will take place on the organic student-run farm near Trysting Tree Golf Club from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free, and free food will be provided. Free transportation to the farm from the OSU bookstore will depart every 20 minutes.

Matt Pennington, a junior in natural resources, stood by the sustainability booth from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the quad on Monday, hoping to get people excited about Earth Week and informing them about the upcoming events.

Sharing the same tent as Pennington on Monday was ASOSU presidential hopeful and task force director Ryan Mann. He was equipped with voter registration cards, clipboards and pens, aiming to get as many people on campus registered to vote as possible before the April 29 deadline.

This service provides students with an easy and quick way to register to vote in the May 20 primary without having to mail their registration cards in themselves.

Candice Ruud, senior reporter

news@dailybarometer.com, 737-2231

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