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Keep warm while keeping the planet cool.

On Thursday, February 17, join Canadians across the country in turning down your thermostat by 3 degrees, and throw on a fun, quirky sweater to show your support for the planet.

Join us at UBC where student led initiatives are turning down the heat in the Student Union Building, Koerner Library, in first year student residences and in Place Vanier Dining Hall!  Look out for fun, wacky, cheezy and silly sweaters at these locations!!

What you can do:

1. Turn down your thermostat by 3 degrees at home on February 17. If you are able to control a thermostat in your department/office, turn it down by 3 degrees.

2. Wear a wacky sweater to work. Encourage your department members and networks to do the same. Dig out that loud, clashing sweater from your closet. Have a laugh with your colleagues and peers.

3. Pledge your commitment to Sweater Day by February 17 and get entered in a draw to win prizes!

4. Get Sweatered on Facebook.

5. Continue to support climate action at home and at UBC.

The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, Pacific Wild, Sierra Club BC and the international League of Conservation Photographers present spOILed: From the Tar Sands to the Great Bear Rainforest.

Please join us for an evening of photography, film and multimedia presentations by world renowned conservationists, adventurers, film-makers and photographers such as Ian McAlister, Tom Peschak, Garth Lenz, Norm Hann and Fran…k Wolf. Doors open at 6:30.

This screening is part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door.

Books, films and photographs will all be for sale/ auction and there are lots of prizes to be won!

Advanced tickets are available online at www.vimff.org, and at the Centennial Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, tel (604) 984-4484, and at the Mountain Equipment Co-op stores in Vancouver and North Vancouver.

Thanks to SaltSpring Island Cheese, Gulf Island Brewing, Sitka Surfboards and many others for supporting this night!

Check it on Wordle http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3156396/Sustainabilityreps

All neighbourhoods can be vibrant and safe places to live. One way to strengthen neighbourhoods is to build on the interests of residents. The UTown@UBC Community Grants program, a pilot community building initiative, offers grants of up to $1,000 to students living in Acadia Park and other student residences for proposals that contribute to building community on campus and support the vision of UTown@UBC – an integrated, sustainable community where people live, work and learn.

The funding deadline is February 25, 2011 – the funding team is still waiting to receive applications and hope that residence students apply soon with their ideas!

For complete funding criteria and to download an application visit: http://www.planning.ubc.ca/communitybuilding/articles424.php