Salamanders & Turtles & Frogs – Oh, My!
 Put on your rubber boots and join us on the 189-acre Catawba Ecological Preserve for a Creepy Crawly Walk at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9. We'll walk through the trails and wetlands in search of salamanders, turtles and frogs.
Jill Varkas and Connor Coleman will lead the hike, which is free and open to all ages. The Catawba College Center for the Environment and the LandTrust for Central North Carolina are co-sponsoring the event.
Reservations are required: Call 704-637-4294 or email centerforenv@catawba.edu.
Sustainable Community Leadership Institute Begins
The Catawba Center for the Environment's Sustainable Community Leadership Institute will begin its planning year Oct. 4 with a three-day retreat for selected leaders in North Carolina. These individuals will, among other things, assess some of the issues the state faces.
The Institute's purpose is to create a network of leaders and community action groups that will be able to transform communities in sustainable ways.
Noted leaders in the state and the region have agreed to serve as advisors to the Institute: Katy Ansardi, executive director of Sustainable North Carolina; Philip Blumenthal, president of the Blumenthal Foundation; William Holman, executive director of the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund; Dyke Messinger, president of Power Curbers Inc.; Edward Norvell, legal counsel for the Conservation Trust for North Carolina; Linda Rimer, N.C. and S.C. liaison for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Larry Shirley, director of the N.C. Office of Energy; and Wanda Urbanska, president of the Simple Living TV Network.
For more on the Institute, visit www.centerfortheenvironment.org.
Recent Graduate Praises Center for Opportunities It Offers Students
 The Center for the Environment's work to advance sustainability in the region has brought multiple benefits to Catawba students. Recent graduate Jay Johnson knows that the opportunities the Center provided played a big part in his landing a position with an international environmental company.
Johnson is now a research associate with Cherokee Investment Partners, a Raleigh-based corporation that specializes in the acquisition, remediation and sustainable redevelopment of brownfields. He is researching green products that can be incorporated into the National Homebuilder Mainstream Greenhome, one of three projects selected by the U.S. Green Building Council to showcase when the council releases its LEED for New Homes program in 2007.
"Because I got involved in the Center's projects and had contact with people in the green building industry, I'm now working on an exciting project," Johnson says. "Who knows where this will lead me?"
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Leave your ties and heels at home and come to the Ugly Bug Ball on Saturday evening, Oct. 7.