Get Involved
What is one thing everyone on the planet has in common? We all
need fresh clean water! What do
Matt Damon,
Jay Z, and
Bill Gates have in common? They're
doing something about it!
Are you a professor looking for a different angle to take in your courses? What greater inspiration to offer a class than that which sustains all life? Maybe you're Pace staff looking for ways to better conserve water around the campus or a student organization considering starting your own campaign on water issues.
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Use a water issue for your class research paper or thesis
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Propose and showcase a water-themed art project
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Research & experiment on water quality inside and outside the lab
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Examine how pollution contributes to public health problems
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Host a movie-watching event for a water documentary
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Scrutinize how we put water to use, personally and industrially
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Observe how water relates to justice, to rights and human conflict
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Create a business proposal that promotes technology to eliminate water pollution
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Fundraise or conduct outreach for a charity that builds wells or microloans for community water projects
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Compete to reduce water waste in the dorms and local communities
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Discuss water’s role in history, religion, and philosophy
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Learn how others in your field are doing something about water
Perhaps you're already working on water issues. Whether inside or outside of the classroom, we want to hear about it!
Get in touch with Pace Academy to tell us your story to be included on our website or get advice on how to be part of Pace's water awareness campaign.
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Latest News
The .007% Campaign aims to educate and engage the Pace Community. As part of this ongoing effort, we're writing about water in our daily lives, as well as some of the most pressing water issues of our time.
As the .007% Campaign winds down and the 2013 academic year ends, we encourage fans to continue reading up on the latest water news, as well as many of today's most pressing environmental issues, at Pace Academy's EarthDesk blog.
More on Water
"Water, water, every where," as the old poem goes. It has been the subject of literature and poetry, a source of physical and spiritual healing, a thriving business, the basis of conflict, and a catalyst for technological innovation.
There are many perspectives by which one can analyze water.
Here are just a few.
Photos are from the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica.
Chemistry
Water is the key ingredient to much of life here on Earth. We base measurements off of it, use it to generate power, cool things down with it, clean and dissolve with it, and even blast things with it.
Learn more...
Access
If you imagine it's not easy to equally distribute 0.007% of the Earth's water to 7 billion people, you wouldn't be wrong. There are almost a billion people without access to clean drinking water.
Learn more...
Pollution
The Clean Water Act serves to regulate water pollutants and encourages citizen input in the protection of our nation's waterways. While the 40 year-old law has helped prevent environmental catastrophe, it has failed to stop water pollution, its stated goal.
Learn more...
Economics
There is a direct of link between wealth (or lack thereof) and access to clean water. It is the world's poor that suffer the most due to poor infrastructure, environmental abuses, and social injustice, among other things. Learn more...
Progress
Judging the progress of water quality and access is not straightforward. Successful projects in developing communities are under threat of losing funding and lack of community involvement (which leads to a 50% failure rate of water projects).
Learn more...
Links
Take your interest further! These are just a few of the many organizations, blogs, and news sources dedicated to water.
Contacts
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The .007% Campaign is an initiative of
Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies
with support from
GreenPace Sustainability Committee
Around Campus
Upcoming Events
Walk for World Water
The Walk for World Water will educate students about the people across the world, largely women and children, who must walk for hours just to reach clean water each day. Details coming soon.
Clean Water Act Mock Legislative Hearing
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, Pace Academy will conduct a mock legislative hearing. Teams representing the undergraduate disciplines of the university will present a set of proposed amendments designed to further the Act’s mission to: end water pollution domestically and globally; protect human and environmental health; produce an educated and involved public; and spur research, development and marketing of advanced technologies, methods and practices.
Participating Courses & Organizations
If you, your class, club, or office are taking action on water - writing to your legislators, hosting movies, or learning & discussing the issues - tell us!
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Nature and Culture (ENV110)
Prof. Tracy Basile's course will take a special look at how much water is used in the production of different forms of energy including coal, natural gas (fracking), nuclear, wind and solar.
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Spaceship Earth: Issues of Sustainability (BIO170)
Students in Dr. Hoegler's course will analyze text and media information relevant to ecological issues shaping national and international perspectives. They will also evaluate environmental problems and use collaborative learning to explore creative solutions.
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Sustainable Living in Our World (ENV235 - Fall)
Dr. Mausner's class will cover water use and wastewater management as related to psychological theories of attitude and behavior change, with possible field trips to wastewater treatment facilities.
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History of the American Environment (HIS297M - Fall)
Prof. Marley Bauce's course will spend time on the topic of oceans, highlighting industrial pollution, the public health implications of methylmercury in fish, and threats to biodiversity through overfishing. Prof. Bauce's ENV201 Animals and Society courses will also touch upon the usage and pollution of water in relation to agriculture.
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Nature Exposed (INT198G - Fall)
Students will be shooting photos of subjects related to a water theme and developing a poster which they will relate to an interesting fact or statement about water. Posters will be hung around campus to promote water awareness. This course is co-taught by Angelo Spillo and Carla Shapiro.
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Exploring our Environment (INT197XA - Fall)
Combining environmental issues and communications, classes will be dedicated to discussions of water pollution, overfishing, distribution, water as a shared resource and other related topics. Students will also give presentations on global water issues. This course is co-taught by Angelo Spillo and Sue Maxam.
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Principles of Leadership: Mobilizing Bold Environmental Action (INT299D - Spring)
Students in this interdisciplinary course will be visiting the Omega Institute’s Living Building with Eco Machine, which utilizes a natural process for wastewater treatment on-site. They will also have the opportunity to examine stormwater management in the Pace-PLV Master Plan as a team project. This class will be co-taught by Dr. Claudia Mausner and Dr. Lisa Bardill Moscaritolo.
This NYC student organization will highlight the connections between water use and pollution and the dietary choices we make every day. The group is spearheaded by Michael Hartmann and AliReza Vaziri.
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Environmental University Day
On October 3rd, 170 high school students will visit Pace for the annual Environmental University Day. This year, the EU students will explore different aspects of water through special-guest presentation and hands-on field studies.
Pace Law School is highly regarded as one of the top places to study environmental law. Water is just one field of many taught by the expert faculty. Courses directly related to water being held this fall include Water Resources Law and Environmental Skills: Clean Water Act, and many more courses feature water issues as a prominent subject.
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GreenPace Student Subcommittee
The group representing student interests in the larger GreenPace committee has agreed to keep water at the top of their agenda this year as they work together to help make Pace University more sustainable.
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Dyson's Top 10 Picks of the Week
Dyson College featured the campaign as their #6 pick of the week in mid-September!
A special thanks to the Pace Pulse which featured our .007% Campaign announcement on their blog.
This PLV student club's theme of the month for October is Water Conservation. Get involved in fun activities and check out their meetings: Tuesdays at 9PM in the Environmental Center.
