First Year Reading Experience

No Impact Film Festival 2011

No Impact Man

“No Impact USC” Film Festival

No Impact Carolina Week

No Impact Man

The year-long, campus-wide “No Impact Carolina Experiment” continues in November with No Impact Carolina Week, an experiment in ways of living a happier life that will result in a healthier earth. This is not a program to tell people about how they’re destroying the environment.

Timothy Mousseau, “Chernobyl Wildlife Tell Unexpected Story of Mutation and Population Decline”

Timothy Mousseau Chernobyl Wildlife Mutation Population Decline

Dr. Timothy Mousseau, a Professor in USC's Department of Biological Sciences is an international expert on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster.  On Monday, September 19, Professor Mousseau spoke at the Green Quad Learning Center before the Columbia Sierra Club on the impact of radioactive contaminants on Chernobyl.

A New We: Ecological Communities and Ecovillages in Europe

A New We -- Movie Poster

Sustainable Carolina presents a special showing of “A New We:  Ecological Communities and Ecovillages in Europe”, a documentary film offering hope and inspiration for the future by examining the recent growth of planed sustainable communities in Europe.  Participants can learn the principles and experiences that shape people living in contemporary intentiona

Stomp to the Stadium

Stomp To The Stadium Move Planet Day

In honor of Moving the Planet Day, Sustainable Carolina is hosting Stomp to the Stadium on September 24.  This is a fun new initiative to promote green values and healthy living. Bring your parents and meet at the Green Quad learning center at 5:30 PM to start the walk to Williams-Brice Stadium for the Vanderbilt football game

Take Your Summer Reading to the Next Level


This year's First Year Reading Experience is No Impact Man.  No Impact Man explores one man's attempt to put his lifestyle in congruence with his value system.  It is an interesting and difficult journey, but one that, if he succeeds, will allow him to live a simpler but richer life. 

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