Updated at 8:01 a.m., Tuesday, March 6, 2007
HPU club to host 'Green Campus Project' event
Advertiser Staff
A Hawai'i Pacific University club will kick off its Green Campus Project — an effort to provide and maintain HI-5 recycling bins in campus buildings — with an event set for 6 p.m. Friday on upper Fort Street Mall.Organized by the university's Proud to Be Pinoy Club, the event will feature an 8 p.m. screening of "An Inconvenient Truth," presented by HPU in collaboration with the Honolulu Culture and Arts District, Fort Street Business Improvement District and Paradise Cinema.
The event will also offer environmentally themed games, activities, exhibits, and three local Filipino entertainers: international stage performer and CEO of Honolulu Broadway Babies Kristian Lei; Randy Valencia of the Night Shade Band; and HPU travel industry management senior Joey Monforte. Joni B. Redick, president and founder of Filipino American Multi Ethnic Society, will serve as emcee. HPU assistant professor of management Michelle Alarcon-Catt and director of the Green Campus project and will host the event.
In the Academy Award-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," former Vice President Al Gore asks audiences to act "boldly, quickly, and wisely" in the fight to save the environment from global climate change.
This free event is open to the public. Those attending are encouraged to bring blankets, low-back chairs, or other appropriate seating options.
Hawai'i Pacific University is the state's largest private university with more than 8,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. HPU is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, the Council on Social Work Education, and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.
