The Environmental Sustainability Alliance has partnered with the Student Entertainment Board to bring Myth Busters star Adam Savage to Pullman.
The ESA and SEB is hosting this Earth Day event April 21 at Beasley Coliseum. Doors for the venue will open at 1:30 p.m. where there will be a variety of booths around Beasley and doors for the Adam Savage portion of the event will open at 2:30 p.m.
ESA chair Stephen Fawcett said this event will feature many different organizations and clubs from WSU and the community that will be showcasing their booths, with a talk and moderated Q and A session with Savage as well.
“The goal of this event is to promote student involvement, environmental education and action,” Fawcett said.
Savage is coming to talk about the importance of STEM education as well as to bust the myths surrounding climate change, so it will be an important talk, but people will also be given the chance to meet him as well, he said. The event is free to the public.
SEB advertised this event to the surrounding school systems and to the community, so everyone is welcome, Fawcett said. There will be free plants provided by ESA as well as free local and catered food and beverages.
He said he came up with the original idea for an Earth Day event, and started the planning around five months ago, originally seeing if Bill Nye could come give a talk but later decided on Adam Savage. The idea for the event was ESA’s doing, but SEB really stepped up for the advertising and coordinating portion of the event planning.
“The event itself is bigger than Adam. We are having 20-something organizations tabling and the goal is for people to roam around and see volunteer and donation opportunities as well as just to support them,” said Logan Jones, SEB speakers programming director.
Jones said SEB uses a website resource that helps them get in contact with more high-profile celebrities, which SEB used in order to get in contact with Savage.
“The majority of Adam Savage’s portion of the event is a Q and A. People will have the chance to ask him questions and he will answer, so yeah it’s pretty cool and we’re excited,” Jones said.
