The Browsing Library is hosting a magazine sale. ISU Dining is offering 99 cent fillups of tea, soda or coffee to people who bring in reusable mugs. ActivUS is having a campuswide sustainability scavenger hunt.

It’s no longer just Earth Day, it’s Earth Week at Iowa State. The student group Green Umbrella has gathered information about activities all over Ames this week and is also hosting a few of its own to spotlight green issues and sustainability.

Merry Rankin, director of sustainability and adviser to Green Umbrella, said when the group was in the planning stages for this week’s event, it was contacted by the Browsing Library in the Memorial Union and told about the regular magazine sale that they host to get rid of their old magazines.

“So they did this massive internet search for other activities and decided to collectively publicize everybody’s events for the week,” Rankin said.

The group specializes in bringing together diverse interests under one cohesive theme. It combines student representatives from green-minded and sustainable project on campus in order to pool resources and increase awareness of the individual groups, Rankin said.

“The idea that originally put it together was when we were looking at ways to leverage resources,” Rankin said. “The group has been working together since the fall of 2009.”

So far Monday, the magazines, which are selling for 25 cents a piece, are going quickly.

Jake Chenchar, sophomore in pre-advertising and employee of the Browsing Library, said since 4 p.m. they had sold about 60 magazines throughout the day.

“They do this sale twice a year, once a semester, and they make a small profit, but it’s mainly to get people in here to see the library,” Chenchar said.

For a complete list of events, go to www.livegreen.iastate.edu/docs/earthweekevents.pdf.