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Events at Smith Green Team Meeting! September 30, 2010 The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff and students dedicated to fostering sustainability at Smith by educating and supporting the campus community in efficient use of finite natural resources, attaining the greatest possible efficiencies and preventing pollution. All are welcome to join the team or come to a meeting to propose your ideas to the group. More... Campus Center 102 12:00 pm Tulane City Center: Projects and Progress 2005-2010 September 30, 2010 Scott Bernhard, Associate Professor at Tulane's School of Architecture, will be giving a talk about his school's role in rebuilding New Orleans. As director of their outreach program, Tulane City Center, Professor Bernhard has played a key role in a number of reconstruction efforts since Hurricane Katrina. The talk will focus on addressing social, economic, and technical challenges through a combination of design and civic engagement. A related exhibit about the work produced by the Center will also be on display in the Jannotta Gallery in Hillyer Hall (Brown Fine Arts Complex) from October 1st until October 14th. Sponsored by the Smith College Lecture Committee, the Department of Art, the Picker Engineering Program, and the Center for Community Collaboration (CCC). Stoddard G2 7:00 pm Operation WALLACEA - summer research expeditions: Info Session: September 30, 2010 Come to this information session to find out how to join a biodiversity research program this summer. OpWall has 21 research programs in 10 countries with over 100 research topics suitable for theses or special studies. Opportunities include working in field DNA labs, on research ships, in the rainforest canopy and more. Bring your own lunch. More... Bass Hall 102 12:00 pm to 12:50 pm Operation WALLACEA research program- Information Session October 5, 2010 Come to this information session to find out how to join a biodiversity research program this summer. OpWall has 21 research programs in 10 countries with over 100 research topics suitable for theses or special studies. Opportunities include working in field DNA labs, on research ships, in the rainforest canopy and more. Bring your own lunch. More... Bass Hall room 102 12:00 pm Events Off Campus GreenBuildings Open House October 2, 2010 Make your plans now to join us this weekend for the annual Green Buildings Open House (GBOH). It is the largest sustainable energy event in the Northeastern USA! Hosted by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, part of the ASES National Solar Tour. More... All over the Northeast...sites searchable by location or specific features North Quabbin 12th Annual Garlic and Arts Festival October 2, 2010 October 3, 2010 Two days of peace, love, and garlic! Visit the website (below) for the full schedule. More... Forsters Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange, MA 10:00 am to 5:00 pm		Events at Smith Brownbag: Getting Started with a Career in Environmental Leadership October 7, 2010 Over the coming decades, your generation must rewire the world with clean energy, redesign every city on earth, and reimagine the global food system�all in the service of building a just and sustainable future. Join the Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy to explore environmental grad school options in general, and in particular, the innovative Bard Masters Degree options in Environmental Policy and, our new MS degree in Climate Science and Policy. Bard�s programs feature integrated interdisciplinary study of science, law, policy and economics, and an extended 4-6 month internship. We offer joint degrees with the Peace Corps, Pace Law School, and Bard MAT. Bring your own lunch. Bass Hall 102 12:00 pm Events Off Campus Anna Lappe: Diet for a Hot Planet October 6, 2010 Anna Lapp� will read from and sign Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. Our government and the food industry are willfully ignoring the issue rather than addressing it. Lapp� helps readers understand that food can be a powerful starting point for solutions to global environmental problems. More... Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College 7:30 pm Landscape and Urbanism NOT Landscape Urbanism: A 40 year Perspective October 7, 2010 A lecture by Alistair Macintosh, Principal, Sasaki Associates. The fourth in the Ervin Zube Series. More... UMass, Amherst, Procopio Room, 105 Hills North 4:00 pm		Events at Smith Green Team Meeting! October 14, 2010 The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff and students dedicated to fostering sustainability at Smith by educating and supporting the campus community in efficient use of finite natural resources, attaining the greatest possible efficiencies and preventing pollution. All are welcome to join the team or come to a meeting to propose your ideas to the group. More... Campus Center 102 12:00 pm Building Sustainable Futures: Empowering Rural Zambian Communities Brick By Brick October 15, 2010 Erinn McGurn '94, Founder and Executive Director of SCALEAfrica, will discuss her work building sustainable primary schools in rural Zambia. With a focus on active community participation and the use of local resources, both natural and human, SCALE seeks to empower students, particularly girls, as a means of eradicating poverty and the serious public health issues that plague sub-Saharan Africa. Sponsored by the Department of Art, First Year Programs, and the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design & Sustainability (CEEDS). Food will be provided. Neilson Library Browsing Room 12:00 pm Events Off Campus Climate Change on Svalbard's Icy Margins October 13, 2010 A lecture by UMass Professor Julie Brigham-Grette about climate-change research being undertaken by American students in the northernmost reaches of Norway. Brigham-Grette is co-director of the NSF-sponsored REU, a geoscientific field immersion experience for undergraduates on the arctic island of Svalbard. The highly competitive program, which accepts only six Americans per year, focuses on understanding how high-latitude glaciers, melt-water streams, and sedimentation in lakes and fjords respond to changing climate. Her presentation, "Arctic Research Immersion at Svalbard's Icy Margins," will highlight the 2009 field season there. More... Goessman Room 20, University of Massachusetts Amherst 4:30 pm Interfaith Environmental Coalition gathering October 13, 2010 Environmental disasters due to climate change are here on our planet to stay, and yet the world�s religions have not yet worked together in a coordinated effort to slow down the changes. With some eighty percent of all people claiming a religious affiliation, we think the time has come to work together to this end. We envision one or two members of every faith congregation coming together to make plans for various events that address the issue of climate change. We would like to invite interested persons to join us. First Congregational Church at 165 Main Street in Amherst. 7:00 pm 5K for Farmland October 17, 2010 Run a 5K in support of preserving farmland. All registration fees for the race go to The Kestrel Trust. More... Hadley's historic farming area in the Great Meadow 10:00 am Why Our Political Institutions and Leaders Won't Protect Us from Climate Change, and October 18, 2010 How We Can Make Them, a lecture by Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists and UMass Amherst alum. Free and open to the public. Please join us.Please join us for this important lecture. It is free and open to the public. More... Student Union Ballroom, Student Union, UMASS, Amherst 1:15 pm