Earth Day was celebrated at Bristol Community College on April 22, 2008, with a series of events planned to bring attention to environmental concerns of a local and world-wide nature. Students and children from the John E. Boyd Child Care Center helped to pick up litter around campus following a flag ceremony in front of the Commonwealth Center. Richard Heinberg, author of the best-selling book, Peak Oil and Peak Everything, addressed the campus community at noon and then participated in an Earth birthday party outside the library. The day ended at 3:00 p.m. with a groundbreaking for the new BCC farm on the south end of campus where students will plant and tend a vegetable garden designed to illustrate organic farming. Click here for the Herald New article about the event. Click here to see BCC Earth Day activities in 2006. For further information, contact the Fall River Water Watch project at Bristol Community College or contact Sociology Professor Nancy Lee Wood at 508-678-2811, Ext.2043.

(Top row, left and right) BCC student Elizabeth Rodrigues and campus chaplain and Dominican Sister Cynthia Bauer help to pick up trash around the campus. (Top row, center) MassPIRG campus organizer Kavitha Giridhar and intern Lynsey Pellerin look over the bags of collected trash in front of the Commonwealth Center. (Middle row, left) BCC science professor James Pelletier talks about the importance of environmental health prior to an Earth Day flag-raising as Sister Bauer looks on. [photos by Kavitha Giridhar] (Middle row, right) Child care worker Melinda Machado leads children from the John E. Boyd Children's Center on a walk around campus to collect trash. (Bottom row, left and center) Internationally known author Richard Heinberg addresses students on how life will change as oil becomes increasingly expensive and alternative energy sources play a larger role. (Bottom row, right) BCC professor Nancy Lee Wood applauds BCC President John Sbrega as he breaks ground on the new BCC farm at the south end of campus.