Happenings include holidays; Agriculture Industry Day; International Coffee Hour; final clean-up at Big Muddy IMC; Rice and Spice; Conflict and Negotiation presentation; Farmer's Market; Vigil for Peace; numerous events for Fuller Dome Transformation Initiative; numerous events for Earth Day at SIUC Student Center.

Happenings include holidays; International Coffee Hour; Japanese theme at Rice and Spice; progressive films at Kleinau; Farmer's Market; Vigil for Peace; Church Women United's Hunger Sale; Gaia House Interfaith Center's Spring Groundkeeping Party; Habitat for Humanity; Shawnee National Forest workday; Giant City Sings of Spring; John Muir returns to speak of the forest. News includes Hedonic Treadmill; Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine; plastic bag use plummets; renewable energy expands; Starbucks rejects recycling; Obama rejects mountaintop removal.

Happenings include holidays; International Coffee Hour; Thai cuisine at Rice and Spice; Food, Inc. film showing at Longbranch; Higher Roads to Peace interdisciplinary symposium at SIUC; Church Women United's World Hunger Sale; Illinois Wildlife Action Plan presentation. In lieu of news, we mostly celebrated a belated April Fool's Day with a mix of environmental jokes, facts, and words of wisdom.