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Events at Smith

Spring Bulb Show
March 20, 2011
Today marks the last day of the Spring Bulb Show, which closes at 4 pm. A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies and tulips provides an early glimpse of spring.
Lyman Plant House
10:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Signatures of selection in natural populations adapted to chronic pollution
March 21, 2011
Please join Paulette Peckol and the Environmental Science & Policy Program for an afternoon lecture with Dr. Larissa Williams of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Williams is a Smith alumna and former ES&P student. We hope to see you there! Tea and cookies are served at 4 p.m. in the McConnell Foyer, lecture follows at 4:30 in McConnell 103.
McConnell 103
4:00 pm

Community Garden Workshop Series: Seed Starting
March 21, 2011
Come join Community Garden members for a night of seed starting. Learn the best ways to begin spring planting- from the correct soil to use, to the propagation requirements of specific crops.
Lyman Plant House
7:00 pm

Lecture: Combing Through the Trash: Philosophy Goes Rummaging
March 22, 2011
What might trash - all the discarded materials considered no longer of use - say about its former owners? What can be inferred about the one casting out his or her refuse based on what is contained in the heap? Elizabeth V. Spelman, the Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities, will explore such questions during her talk "Combing Through the Trash: Philosophy Goes Rummaging," the 53rd annual Katharine Asher Engel Lecture.
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Seelye Hall 201
5:00 pm

Information Session: School for Field Studies
March 23, 2011
Bonnie Clendenning, Smith alumna and president of the School for Field Studies, will be holding an information session about the various study abroad locations offered by SFS. As a participant in an SFS program students have the opportunity to conduct in-depth field research while at the same time working together with the host community to learn real environmental problem-solving skills. Light lunch will be served.
Wright Hall, 002, Garden Level
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Bike Mechanics Workshop: Bearing Systems
March 23, 2011
March 23, 2011
Bike Kitchen presents the final workshop of a four week long series. Come out to learn all about bearing systems including assessing, disassembling, repairing/replacing headsets and hubs. No experience necessary! Come for all or just part of the workshop! All workshops are FREE and open to students (including Five College students), faculty, and staff.
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The Bike Kitchen, Basement of Ainsworth Gym
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Student Interest: Green Team Committee Meetings
March 24, 2011
Interested in fostering sustainability at Smith? Come to a Green Team meeting to find out how you can be a part of this work! The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff and students which educates and supports the campus community in efficient use of finite natural resources. Come to a committee meeting to work on a specific project involving Transportation, Waste Reduction, Event/PR, and Dining issues.
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CEEDS, Wright Hall, Garden Level, Room 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Webinar: Water Quality Violations and Avoidance Behavior – Evidence from Bottled Water Consumption
March 25, 2011
Please join us at CEEDS for a webinar featuring Wolfram Schlenker, Department of Economics, School of International and Public Affairs, at Columbia University. This is part of The Columbia Water Center seminar series featuring speakers from Columbia University and other organizations who address a variety of water issues.
CEEDS Lounge, Wright Hall, Garden Level
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Planning for a Resilent Future: A mid-semester gallery of student work
March 23, 2011
Come see the work that Landscape Studies students of have been doing in connection with the Ward 3 community. Students have been hard at work since the last forum and are looking for additional community guidance as they move forward with their individual designs. Design topics include: Bridge Street Cemetery, Sustainable Back-yard Agriculture, A Permaculture Plan for the Entire Ward, Creative Solutions to Waste Water Treatment, Signage and Access to Local Businesses, Shaw's Motel Site, Co-housing, Bridge Street/Rt. 9, Gateway experiences throughout the Ward, Increased Connectivity throughout the Ward, Alternative Energy Production & Consumption Reduction, Embracing the Homeless Community, and Preserving Critical Ecosystems Please stop by for all or part of this gallery/open house. We look forward to seeing you there. There will be refreshments and kid-friendly activities. The event is sponsored by the Center for Community Collaboration (CCC), the Ward 3 Neighborhood Association, and Landscape Studies.

Lecture: Biochar and farm-scale production
March 24, 2011
Come listen to Peter Hirst of New England Biochar as part of the Climate,Energy, Biochar, and Agriculture seminar series. The seminar series is being held by the Center for Agriculture and the department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences at UMass Amherst with the cooperation of the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative and the New England Small Farm Institute in Belchertown.
UMASS Amherst, 318 Stockbridge Hall
4:00 pm

Lecture: Rising to the occasion: Waterfront design as if life depended on it
March 24, 2011
Noted landscape architect and ecological restorationist, Marcha Johnson, will present as part of UMASS Amherst's Ervin Zube Lecture Series, which exists to engage the academic community with exciting issues in landscape architecture and design.
UMASS-Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm

Lecture: Just Getting Warmed Up: Recent and Future Changes on the Icy Continent
March 24, 2011
Eric Steig of the University of Washington and Director at the Quaternary Research Center will be presenting. This talk is a part of the Five College Geology Lecture Series.
Hampshire College, Red Barn
7:00 pm

Film: Yes Men Fix the World
March 28, 2011
Troublemaking duo Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, posing as their industrious alter-egos, expose the people profiting from Hurricane Katrina, the faces behind the environmental disaster in Bhopal, and other shocking events.
Dewey Common Room
7:00 pm

Student Interest: Green Team Meeting
March 31, 2011
Green Team is the action arm of the Smith College Committee on Sustainability. We are a coalition of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to implementing sustainable initiatives at Smith. If you want to be part of Smith’s green story, we welcome you to join us for lunch every other Thursday!
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Campus Center 102
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Global Salon Breakfast: Neoliberalism and India’s Farm Crisis
April 1, 2011
Global Salon: an opportunity for the Smith community to gather to discuss global issues and meet with special guests from around the world. Sponsored by the Global Studies Center together with South Asia Concentration, Center for Community Collaboration, CEEDS and Global South Studies.
The Global Studies Center, Wright Hall first floor.
8:30 am

Events at Smith

Lecture: Glenn Prickett, Toward a Green Economy
March 30, 2011
Please join us for a lecture with Glenn Prickett, the visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellow. His lecture will review the key challenges of sustainable global growth in the coming decades, describe the big gains needed in resource productivity and ecological restoration, and describe the role of NGOs like The Nature Conservancy in encouraging this transition.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Foraging Walk with Local Plant Expert: Mira Nussbaum
March 31, 2011
Meet at CEEDS in Wright Hall to take a leisurely foraging stroll around the campus grounds. Then return to CEEDS for tea, a cooking demonstration, and sampling of your harvest. Dress for the weather. There will be snacks! (Rain date is April 14th).
Wright Hall, CEEDS
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Webinar: Innovations in Delivering Safe Water to the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP)
April 1, 2011
Please join us at CEEDS for a webinar featuring Marc Manara, of the Acumen Fund. This is part of The Columbia Water Center seminar series featuring speakers from Columbia University and other organizations who address a variety of water issues.
CEEDS Lounge, Wright Hall, Garden Level
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

Events Off Campus

To Bear or Not to Bear? ( Other Existential Questions): The Ecological
March 28, 2011
and Ethical Implications of Childbearing- A lecture by environmentalist and feminist writer Stephanie Mills. In addition to talking about her personal decision to refrain from childbearing, Stephanie Mills will be incorporating into her lecture her thoughts on bioregionalism, the strengthening of local economies, and her experience as a feminist and environmentalist writer. Treats from the Black Sheep will be served!
Pruyne Lecture Hall of Fayerweather, Amherst College
4:30 pm

Lecture: Kert Davies, "The BP Gulf Oil Disaster: One year later, what have we learned?"
March 28, 2011
Please join us for an evening with Kert Davies, Research Director for Greenpeace USA. One year after the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the assessment of ecological damage continues, the compensation of victims is controversial and the prosecution of culprits has just begun. Greenpeace was on the ground in the Gulf Coast region several days after the blowout happened and maintained a field presence for six months, doing media outreach, taking water samples for analysis, working with local environmental groups, hosting independent scientists and submitting Freedom of Information and Public Records Act requests. What happens now? Has the country learned anything from this unprecedented environmental disaster? What is the influence of the oil industry on Congress and the federal government? What about offshore drilling in the Arctic? Will it happen again? This event is a part of the Five College Sustainability Studies Seminar Series. It is cosponsored with Five College Coastal and Marine Science Program, Smith College Center for Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability (CEEDS), and Hampshire College.
Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
7:30 pm

Project Presentation: Jewish Heart for America
March 30, 2011
Come learn about projects which bring sustainable Israeli technologies to rural African villages. The presentation will be given by Rachel Ishofsky, Associate Executive Director of Jewish Heart for Africa. This event is FREE and Open to the Public. Project Sol uses Israeli solar energy systems to power African schools, medical clinics, orphanages and solar powered water pumping systems. Project Agro uses innovative Israeli agricultural technologies such as drip irrigation to make agriculture possible in regions of drought, providing food for villages and promoting economic growth.
MHC, Kendade Hall, Room 305
7:30 pm

Lecture: Biochar, agriculture, and soil amendment
March 31, 2011
Come listen to Wade Elmer of the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station and Ted Wysocki present as part of the Climate, Energy, Biochar, and Agriculture seminar series. The seminar series is being held by the Center for Agriculture and the department of plant, soil and insect sciences at UMass Amherst with the cooperation of the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative and the New England Small Farm Institute in Belchertown.
UMASS Amherst, 318 Stockbridge Hall
4:00 pm

UMASS Alumni Panel: Topics in Regional Planning
March 31, 2011
UMASS Amherst's Ervin Zube Lecture Series presents an afternoon panel with alumni of the Regional Planning department. Alumni will present on current projects and speak about job opportunities in the field.
UMASS Amherst- Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm

Symposium: Water in 2050: The Infrastructure to Get There
April 1, 2011
Water: Systems, Science and Society will host its second annual symposium on Tufts' Medford campus.The theme for the 2011 Symposium is Water in 2050: The Infrastructure to Get There. Students, academics, and professionals from the public, private, and non-governmental sectors will explore critical and emerging infrastructure challenges facing future water needs.
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Tufts University- Medford Campus
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Talk: CEEDS "Office Hours" - with Leslie King, Department of Sociology
April 7, 2011
Come join the inaugural session of "Office Hours." A wide-ranging hour-long conversation with Environmental Fellow Leslie King. Moderated by Greg White, Department of Government. Professor King will discuss her academic background, her current research, and her views on environmental studies at Smith and beyond.
CEEDS, Garden Level, Wright Hall
12:00 pm

Events at Smith

Lecture: Francis Bronet
April 4, 2011
The Landscape Studies Spring 2011 Lecture Series welcomes Francis Bronet, AIA, Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon. Dean Bronet's lecture is titled "Boundary Crossing-journeys Across Architecture, Engineering, Humanities and Performance." All are welcome.
Seelye 201
2:40 pm

Community Garden Workshop Series: Garden Art
April 4, 2011
Enjoy making art? Like gardening? Get your creative streak on by coming to the Community Garden's workshop which teaches unique ways of combining art and gardening.
CEEDS, Garden Level of Wright Hall
7:00 pm

Lecture: Transportation and the Future
April 5, 2011
Please join us for an evening with Ellen Brennan-Galvin ('68). Dr. Brennan-Galvin is a Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University, where she teaches courses on “Cities and Sustainability in the Developing World” and “Transportation and the Urban Future.” Over the years, Dr. Brennan-Galvin has conducted research on urbanization and urban environmental issues and is the author of more than a dozen case studies on mega-cities published by the United Nations. One of the major focuses of her work has been on relationships between environmental degradation and human health.
Seelye 106
5:00 pm

Webinar: Climate and Energy Policy
April 6, 2011
Come view the webinar of New England Faculty Colloquium: Climate Change, Policy, and Energy Solutions presenting a lecture with William Moomaw. William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he is the founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, the Tufts Climate Initiative and co-founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute. He works to translate science and technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools.
CEEDS, Wright Hall, Garden Level, 005
2:30 pm

Student Interest: Green Team Committee Meetings
April 7, 2011
Interested in fostering sustainability at Smith? Come to a Green Team meeting to find out how you can be a part of this work! The Green Team is a coalition of faculty, staff and students which educates and supports the campus community in efficient use of finite natural resources. Come to a committee meeting to work on a specific project involving Transportation, Waste Reduction, Event/PR, and Dining issues.
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CEEDS, Wright Hall, Garden Level, Room 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Webinar: Water for a Crowded World: Lessons from the Northeast Corridor
April 8, 2011
Please join us at CEEDS for a webinar featuring Charlie Vorosmarty, Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the City University of New York's Environmental Crossroads Initiative, CCNY. This is part of The Columbia Water Center seminar series featuring speakers from Columbia University and other organizations who address a variety of water issues.
CEEDS Lounge, Wright Hall, Garden Level
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm

LED Candle Making
April 8, 2011
Smith-to-do invites you to come make a LED candle to light up your room. Come personalize your own eco moon jar. Friday, April 8, in Campus Center 103/104 from 9-11 p.m. Free.
Campus Center 103/104
9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Lecture: Roger Swain, Horticulturist
April 9, 2011
Roger Swain, a noted figure in horticulture known for hosting the PBS show "The Victory Garden," will be giving a lecture speaking to the challenges and rewards of community gardening. He will address both specific issues pertaining to gardening in New England as well as the benefits of community gardening on a local and national scale.
Seelye 106
1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: Climate and Energy Policy
April 6, 2011
New England Faculty Colloquium: Climate Change, Policy, and Energy Solutions presents a lecture with William Moomaw. William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he is the founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, the Tufts Climate Initiative and co-founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute. He works to translate science and technology into policy terms using interdisciplinary tools.
UMASS Amherst, Engineering Lab II, Rm 115

Conference: Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center
April 7, 2011
Please come and join UMASS Amherst for Water 2011- an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, regulartory experts, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss the latest water research; network and develop collaborations; and stregthen the connection between research, education, and policy. Richard M. Vogel, Ph.D. at Tufts University, will be giving the keynote lecture titled, Water Resources Planning in a Changing World.
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UMASS Amherst- Campus Center
8:15 am to 5:00 pm

Lecture: Water Resources Planning in a Changing World
April 7, 2011
Come listen to a lecture with Richard Vogel, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Water: Systems, Science and Society Graduate Program at Tufts University. Professor Vogel's primary expertise is in the areas of hydrology and water resource engineering with emphasis on hydrologic, hydraulic and statistical methods for analyzing water resource systems. His current research program focuses upon the areas of watershed modeling and management, water quality, regional hydrology, environmental statistics and the new field of hydromorphology. This is a part of the TEI Environmental Lecture Series.
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Campus Center Auditorium
9:30 am

Lecture: Charles Birnbaum of the Cultural Landscape Foundation to present
April 7, 2011
Charles Birnbaum of the Cultural Landscape Foundation will speak as part of UMASS Amherst's Ervin Zube Lecture Series, which exists to engage the academic community by presenting on exciting topics in the fields of Landscape Architecture and Design. Smith College Landscape Studies Program, the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Five Colleges Architecture Program co-sponsored this event.
UMASS Amherst- Procopio Romm, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm

Lecture: Water for Food, Water for Life: Adapting to a Warming, Water-Stressed World
April 7, 2011
Sandra Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and lectures, writes, and consults on international water issues. In 2010 she was appointed Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society, where she is lead water expert for the Society's freshwater initiative. Postel is the author of several acclaimed books, including Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? and Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity.
Mount Holyoke College, Hooker Auditorium, Clapp Laboratory
7:30 pm