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Group fitness leaders from Campus Recreation will lead a “Dance ‘Til You Drop” event on Thursday night from 7-10 p.m. in the Erny Outdoor Court in the Independence Blue Cross Student Recreation Center.

The event will include three hours of Zumba and hip-hop sessions. Signups for the event will occur at the IBC on Thursday. This event is free and open to all.

Bike Temple will host a bike ride to the new Pier 53 park on the Delaware Waterfront on Saturday morning.

The purpose of the ride is to enjoy the views and educate riders about the location’s unique history regarding Philadelphia’s immigrant population. Riders will depart at 10:15 a.m. from the Bell Tower. No registration is required, but attendees must bring their own bikes and helmets. This event is free and open to all.

LoveLovingLove, Inc. is developing an Earthship in West Philadelphia. The vacant lot at 675 N. 41st St. will host a house built completely from recycled materials that generates its own electricity from renewable energy sources, runs its own water collected from cisterns on the roof and filters to pump through the building, grows its own food sources, stabilizes its internal climate by thermal mass and manages its own sewage to use for food production with toilets flushed by undrinkable used water collected from the building’s showers and sinks. LoveLovingLove, Inc. is trying to heal impoverished communities with holistic health education. Members will be speaking about this project on Thursday from 7-8 p.m. at the Rad Dish Café in Ritter Hall as part of Spring 2015 Campus Sustainability Week.

Students and faculty members from the Boyer College of Music and Dance will perform from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday in the concert series “Heart and Soul: Hoagy Carmichael” with music from John Johnson in the Great American Songwriter Series.

The performance will take place in the Paley Library Lecture Hall on the ground floor. This event is free and open to all. Boyer recital credit is given to all attendees.

College of Liberal Arts alumni and students will host the OWLTalks Virtual Networking event on Wednesday from 7-8 p.m.

OWLTalks is a fast-paced 60-minute online networking session where students and alumni are connected for several rounds of 10-minute, text-based chats.  This free event offers CLA students a rare opportunity to discuss their futures with people who have landed careers in their desired field. Temple students and recent graduates can receive help from alumni with career exploration, professional development and networking skills from any place with an Internet connection.

The fifth annual Kelch Lecture will present the “Father of Environmental Justice,” Dr. Robert D. Bullard.

Bullard has documented that healthy places and healthy people are highly correlated. Bullard believes that a zip code is the most important indicator of an individual’s health and that reducing environmental disparities should be a national priority. His lecture, “Building Just and Sustainable Communities for All: Why Sustainability Matters,” will take place in the Walk Auditorium in Ritter Hall on Wednesday from 6-7:30 p.m. Registration is required and a book signing will follow the event.