{"id":480,"date":"2016-04-15T18:40:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science\/?p=480"},"modified":"2016-04-22T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T13:23:46","slug":"taking-care-mother-earth-earth-day-events-spc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/taking-care-mother-earth-earth-day-events-spc\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking care of Mother Earth; Earth Day events around SPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go green with these Earth Day events all week around St. Petersburg College. From Tarpon Springs to the Allstate Center, students will be pitching in to leave the Tampa Bay area a little better than they found it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/tsc\/?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">Tarpon Springs Campus<\/a> Environmental Science Club will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/events\/?id=18824&amp;dt=4%2F18%2F2016&amp;utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">host guest speaker Aaron Metz of the Climate Reality Project<\/a> on Monday, April 18, at 9:30 a.m. in EP-451.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/downtown\/?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">SPC Downtown<\/a> Environmental Society is performing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/events\/?id=18804&amp;dt=4%2F18%2F2016&amp;utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">block cleanup<\/a> on April 18. Meet your neighbors, and make the neighborhood a better place from 11:15 a.m. &#8211; 12:15 p.m., starting out from the lobby.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/events\/?id=18842&amp;dt=4%2F19%2F2016&amp;utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Fest<\/a> takes place on the Tarpon Springs Campus in the courtyard from 11 a.m. &#8211; 2 p.m. on April 19, with snacks and information for students.<\/li>\n<li>SPC Health Education Center is giving away reusable SPC lunch bags and a free smoothie to students in the lobby on April 20 from 11:30 am until 1 pm.<\/li>\n<li>SPC Downtown hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/events\/?id=18807&amp;dt=4%2F20%2F2016&amp;utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">a discussion on wildfires<\/a> on April 20 from 12:30 &#8211; 1:30 p.m. in DC-210.<\/li>\n<li>Tarpon Springs will hold a campus cleanup on April 21, starting in the multipurpose field from 12:30 &#8211; 2 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>The Environmental Society of SPC Downtown will hold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/events\/?id=18811&amp;dt=4%2F21%2F2016&amp;utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">a discussion on water issues<\/a> on April 21 from 12:30 &#8211; 2 pm in DC-210.<\/li>\n<li>Students and faculty are invited to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/events\/?id=18803&amp;dt=4%2F22%2F2016&amp;utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">campus beautification project<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/Allstate\/?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">Allstate Center<\/a> on April 22 on the south patio from 11:30 a.m. &#8211; 1 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>The Environmental Science Club of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/se\/?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole Campus<\/a> will hold their annual natural habitat park clean up from 10 a.m. &#8211; noon on April 23. The club will be planting bee friendly, native plants and cleaning up in and around the park.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/clw\/?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">Clearwater Campus<\/a> will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SPCClearwater\/photos\/a.587576097929498.1073741825.115756751778104\/1107350679285368\/?type=3&amp;theater&amp;utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">showcase sustainable technology, including four Tesla electric cars<\/a>, from 11 a.m. &#8211; 1 p.m. on April 23. The first 200 students will receive a free boxed lunch courtesy of the Engineering Club and the Natural Sciences Department.<\/li>\n<li>The SPC Underwater Research Society will be <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science\/reef-monitoring-pier-cleanup\/?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">clearing debris that has built up under Pier 60<\/a> on May 21\u00a0with the help of the Science Adventurers Club. Last year, the club removed hundreds of pounds of rope from beneath the pier. From 9 a.m. &#8211; noon at Pier 60, 1 Causeway Blvd., Clearwater Beach. Event is free and open to the public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get involved with environmental science-related clubs on Tarpon Springs, Seminole and Downtown campuses. Visit your campus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/student-life-contacts\/?utm_source=Social\" target=\"_blank\">Student Life and Leadership<\/a> office to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/04\/earth-day.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/04\/earth-day.jpg\" alt=\"earth-day\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/04\/earth-day.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/04\/earth-day-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/04\/earth-day-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/04\/earth-day-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go green with these Earth Day events all week around St. Petersburg College. From Tarpon Springs to the Allstate Center, students will be pitching in to leave the Tampa Bay area a little better than they found it. The Tarpon Springs Campus Environmental Science Club will host guest speaker Aaron Metz of the Climate Reality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/taking-care-mother-earth-earth-day-events-spc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taking care of Mother Earth; Earth Day events around SPC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-science-technology","category-marine-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/science-mathematics-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}