Flyers

=**Flyer to Student Clubs** = Attention BMCC Student Clubs,

Does your Club have a Sustainability element or does your Club do anything to promote practices that are sustainable? Whether it be in business or economics, entertainment, health, food, social, or environmental justice? If so, the n**BMCC’s Council for Sustainability would like to invite you to participate in the first Annual Sustainability Fair**. The Sustainability Fair will take place on **Monday, May 7th from 9-5 in Richard Harris Terrance**. Your student organization will be asked to set up a table and demonstrate to students and other people visiting the Fair, how your Club relates to either the ideas behind sustainability or the practical applications for sustainable practices. Your Club should feel free to recruit interested students for your Club and to participate in the rest of the Fair as well. If you feel that you fit the requirements and you want to participate, contact Cynthia Wiseman cwiseman@bmcc.cuny.edu or __ sustainablity.bmcc@gmail.com __

Tables and lunch will be provided.

=**Flyer to C-STEP Student Researchers **= Attention C-STEP student researchers, BMCC is proud to sponsor it's 1st ever Sustainability Fair!

In order to promote sustainability in all its aspects we would like you to consider submitting your research to the Fair to widen the scope of what sustainability can mean, in it's applications and realization for the sciences. Our campus is in a unique position within CUNY, with its close proximity to the Hudson River and it's eminent installation of a 30kilowatt solar panel system on its huge rooftop, not only for biological and marine sciences, but also for energy and engineering innovations. The Fair will take place on **Monday May 7th from 9-5 ** in the **Richard Harris Terrance **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">. All entries will be rewarded by a **<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">free metro card and a reusable stainless steel bottle **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If you are interested in participating in the Fair you will be asked to set up your poster and any other research material and spend a portion of the day engaging fair goers in your research and how it is relevant to the ideas, practices, and implications of sustainability.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Please contact Cynthia Wiseman at cwiseman@bmcc.cuny.edu or Lisa Bloodgood at sustainability.bmcc@gmail.com <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Tables and lunch will be provided. = = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**Vendors** = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Attached is the form BMCC is requiring you to fill out and complete before the event.We will also need you to provide a Certificate of Insurance and a letter stating that you will "hold BMCC harmless in case anyone gets sick from your products."

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">E<span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">ach vendor needs to submit the following: 1) Certificate of Insurance (your own creation)2) Letter holding us harmless in case someone gets food poisoning.3.) Vendor Form <span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">These all should be submitted as an electronic .pdf file or hard copy midweek, next week.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Monday, May 7th <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">9am - 12pm is set up. Please try to arrive at the latest by 11:30 so there is no last minute confusion. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">12-1 will be our keynote speakers and awards ceremony. We are currently waiting to hear back from Council member Margaret Chin and Sustainable CUNY. Administration and faculty will also address the group. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">1-5 the "Fair" itself will take place...this is where you will do your thing and we all collectively champion the sustainability movement and engage as many students and faculty as possible. We want coalitions to be built relationships to be forged and a greater understanding of what sustainability means to us as individuals and as pieces to a larger picture. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Sustainability must be rooted in social, economic, and environmental issues in order for it to be affective...we're trying to share those ideas.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Bring whatever you feel is relevant to the movement, the event and the demographic. Feel free to recruit volunteers and solicit for employees. Students are eager to figure out their place in the future world economy, could it be with a organization like yours?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Also important: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">Procedure for entering the building is: <span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">1) enter through the Main and southern most lobby, 199 chambers street unless you have baggage, large materials, etc. in which case, <span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">2) enter through loading dock area on West Street next to parking lot -- take the elevator up to 3rd floor and cross over to South bldg via overpass and then take the elevator down to level 2 and Richard Harris Terrace is on your right. <span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">3) If you want to come in this way, please respond with your time of arrival so we may notify security. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">I hope this answers any remaining questions and please call me if I've left anything out. I look forward to the event and to working with you. There is still space for a few more organizations so if you know of any that would be interested in participating please spread the word...let us both know!