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Sustainable fun at
Earthfest 2012

Annual event to
bring awareness to
the Diag
By JOEY STEINBERGER
Daily Arts Writer
Can sustainability be fun?
Is it possible to throw an eco-
friendly party big enough for
the entire Uni-
versity to
attend? The 2012
organizers EarthFest:
of EarthFestP
2012 think so. Paityfor
"(Earth- the Planet
Fest) is a pro-
gramto engage Tomorrow
and educate at10a.m.
the campus The Diag
community
on what we're
doing from a sustainability
standpoint," said Andrew Berki,
manager of the Office of Cam-
pus Sustainability.
2012 EarthFest: Party for
the Planet is an annual sustain-
ability event organized by stu-
dents and the Office of Campus
Sustainability. The event will
have food, entertainment and
giveaways. Rufus, the recycling
mascot of the University, is also
set to make an appearance.
Around 40 booths will be
constructed at EarthFest. About
half will be student groups such
as the Student Sustainability
Initiative and Environmental
Issues Commission. The rest
will be Campus Operation Units
such as Utilities for Energy
Reduction and Grounds and
Waste Management Recycling.
The booths will be divided
into four major themes: cli-
mate action, waste prevention,

healthy environments and com-
munity awareness. The themes
are based off of goals for sustain-
ability that University President
Mary Sue Coleman set last year.
In the beginning, student
involvement was limited.
According to Berki, 17 years ago,
the event was previously called
EnergryFest and was run by the
University of Michigan's Utili-
ties department.
"We really wanted to change
it from being an operations-
driven exercise to a student-
led exercise to engage students
more," he said.
The change broadened the
focus of the event from Campus
Operations to sustainability as a
whole at the University. Educa-
tion and research groups soon
joined the event, such as the
Graham Environmental Sus-
tainability Institute.
"It's been really successful
the past couple of years." Berki
said. "We've had huge partici-
pation. Students seem to love it.
Faculty and staff seem to love it.
So it's been good and we're hop-
ing for good weather."
The event aims to be zero-
waste. Free tote bags (made
from the banners used to adver-
tise the event) and GoBlue reus-
able lunch boxes will be given
away in a raffle as part of the
drive to engage students.
"We want to collect every-
thing and get it recycled and
composted," Berki said. "We're
really trying to be conscious
right down to the little details
about those kinds of things."
One of those "little details"
will be the food, which will be
handed out without plates as
part of the no-waste effort. In
addition, no plastic will be used
in the event.

"We want to be able to do
something that's not going to
create waste. So whether that's
going to be apples or cider or
doughnuts we're not sure yet.
But there will be some food."
This fall, the University
unveiled a new bicycle rental
program, Blue Bikes, that will
be at the event. The Blue Bikes
program will have more than
one rental site so students can
return the bike in different plac-
es from where they rented.
EarthFest is the one of the
biggest annual sustainability
related event on campus. The
Office of Campus Sustainability
holds other smaller events on a
more frequent basis.
"There are sustainability
town hall meetings which we
host that are open forum,"
Berki said. "There is one com-
ing up on Oct. 4. We've reached
out to many student groups to
talk about sustainability issues
(there)."
Berki hopes that Earth-
Fest will lead to more student
involvement with sustainability
issues on campus.
"We like to see a broad stu-
dent representation in (sus-
tainability) groups," Berki said.
"So not only students from the
School of Natural Resources
or the PITE program but we're
really trying to encourage stu-
dents from engineering and the
med school and all over. Stu-
dents are critical to moving the
sustainability agenda here on
campus."
Though EarthFest is primar-
ily a means to educate the cam-
pus about sustainability issues,
the organizers also want people
to have a good time.
"Sustainability is fun," Berki
said. "I enjoy it everyday."

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"Gays leap frog is coming bock. I swear,"
Raw-production doesn't
add much to Mirage'

By ANDREW ECKHOUS
Daily Arts Writer
Sometimes an album is so
powerfully melancholy that the
heartbreak is palpable. Truly,

the sadness can
be so arresting
that it drags one
by the ankles
into an inescap-
able fortress of
solitude. But
those albums
are the excep-
tion, not the
rule. Too often,

Band of
Horses
Mirage Rock
Columbia

the purveyors of sadness porn
aim for the stars and miss, a fatal
flaw that sinks Mirage Rock, the
fourth album by Band of Horses.
BoH is best known for the
band's heartfelt strain of alt-
country found in songs like "The
Funeral" and "No One's Gonna
Love You." Relying equally on
mountain-beard folk and outlaw
rock, BoH has become popular
through the authentic emotion
and energy the group pours into
its music. Not quite misan-
thropes, but definitely a little dis-

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al of the world, their music Tourist" are pleasant to listen to,
suited for an introspective and there isn't a truly offensive
under a desert sky. It's not song on the album. Unfortunate-
sy to relate to, but also has ly, the lack of bad is overshad-
of complexity that most owed by the lack of good. With
3's contemporaries simply the exception of "Dumpster
lave. World," none of the songs are
ething is different on particularly memorable. Maybe
Rock, though. Ben the folk fanatics have a different
ell's normally lush voice opinion, but Mirage Rock seems
ing its spark. Many of the to be an album of filler.
hannel NeilYoung, butthe Much of the problem lies in
'brooding version, not the the way this album was recorded.
Southern Man" personal- BoH worked with legendary pro-
th song titles like "Heart- ducer Glyn Johns, who recorded
On the 101," "Shut-In much of the album live. The
t" and "Slow Cruel Hands result is rawer for sure, but while
ne," it's abundantly clear many fans of folk believe more
mething in Bridwell's life raw always means better, the
sne wrong. However, the music also seems flatter than past
ive, dynamic atmosphere BoH albums. Gone is the spooky
sing. It feels more like a reverb vocals on "The Funeral,"
friend's post-break up rant replaced with the back-to-nature
transcendent album, albeit vocals of Mirage Rock Bridwell
'ss crying and swearing. constantly alludes to heartbreak
and disenchantment, but the lack
of force and urgency isn't likely to
nd of Horses provoke more than an "oh, that
sucks" response from listeners.
lows from Mirage Rock, while not
extraordinarilyimpressive at
illop to trot. first, has the makings of a "grow-
er" album. It has tremendouslyr-
icism and varied song structures,
and the overall folksier feel will
Never, there are also some win a lot of converts come sum-
cular tracks. "Dumpster mertime. Band of Horses have
" contains some of the few purged themselves of most of our
ut moments on the album, modern production tools, and
a minute-and-a-half of while it may not be a resounding
sly hard riffs. The double- success, the legacy of this album
banjo chords on "Shut-In is far from decided.

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