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Library Environmental Series - Spring Semester 2013
Free and open to the public.
FREE parking is available in stadium lot 62E on Red Cedar Road after 6:00pm. The Main Library is wheelchair accessible via the north entrance. Persons with disabilities may request accommodations by calling Birdie Beckwith at 517.884.6454 one week before an event. Requests received after that time will be met when possible.
Rethinking the Packaging of the Products You Buy - Is There Hope to Reduce Waste?
Wednesday February 13
12:10-12:50pm
Reference Instruction Room - First floor, next to the Reference Desk
Presented by Susan Selke, MSU School of Packaging
Tired of injuring yourself opening hard plastic packaging? Are companies really sincere about moving to less-wasteful and "environmentally-conscious" packaging? Or is it just a marketing tool? What makes packages sustainable - that they're biodegradable? Biobased? Reusable? We'll discuss these and related issues.
Beal Garden Tour: Plants to get Butterflies into your Yard
Thursday, April 18
12:10 pm-12:50 pm
Tours begin near the pond, in the southeast corner of the Beal Garden
Join Peter Carrington, the assistant curator of the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden for an exploration of some of the many plants which bring butterflies into your backyard. There are plants that feed adults and ones that support their caterpillars as larval food plants. Some of these make dynamic landscape plants in addition to your standard plantings.