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Cider Pressing!
October 15, 2011
Get into the autumn spirit by participating in a cider pressing! Come learn about making your own cider and the importance of local foods. This is a fun and informal event for everyone. Stop by anytime between 9 and 2pm to get in on the action. Cider donuts and of course, cider, will be provided.
Chapin Green By the Botanic Garden
9:30 am to 2:00 pm

Events at Smith

Craft to Reduce Your Waste: Napkin Embroidery
October 13, 2011
Reusable napkins are a simple and effective way to considerably reduce our waste. Come join students from the Environmental Science and Policy Program and embroider your very own cloth napkin to store in your house cubby. Lunch and all supplies (napkins, embroidery thread, etc.) are provided on a first come first serve basis. Don't know how to embroider? Don't worry, we will teach you!
CEEDS, garden-level, Wright Hall
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

ENV100 Lecture Series: William Sobczak
October 17, 2011
Join us for an afternoon with Associate Professor at the College of the Holy Cross, William Sobczak as he speaks on the, "Role of Freshwater Ecosystems in the Global Carbon Cycle and Changing Artic." Part of the ongoing ENV100 course lecture series.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Committee on Sustainability Meeting
October 18, 2011
The Committee on Sustainability is concerned with the best long-term use of finite natural resources and the college's impact on the local, regional and global environment. It meets regularly during the academic year. Meetings are open to all members of the Smith community.
Wright Hall 002
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

27th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy
October 17, 2011
October 18, 2011
The Annual Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy has become the preeminent national conference in this important environmental area. The conference attracts 600-800 attendees annually which includes a wide variety of representation from state and federal agencies, military, Industry (including railroad, petroleum, transportation, and utilities), the environmental engineering and consulting community, and academia. Join us for our 27th year of exciting sessions, workshops, and exhibits. Follow the link below for more details on how to attend.
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UMASS Amherst
8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Food Security and Human Rights Conference
October 18, 2011
The University of Connecticut is the only university in the US with a UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights. Next week, the Chair will be hosting a conference on food security and human rights. The conference is one day and free to the public.
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University of Connecticut
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Life in a Platinum Green Building
October 18, 2011
Please come join us for a presentation by Louis Capozzi, Facilities Engineer as he discusses some of the benefits of LEEDS certified buildings.
UMASS Amherst, Cape Cod Lounge
4:00 pm

Film screening:
October 18, 2011
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for our Time Aldo Leopold (author of Sand County Almanac), is widely regarded as an environmental ethicist, nature writer, and a key figure in the conservation movement. This brand new documentary will have a debut screening at UMass next week, introduced by the movie's co-producer (Steve Dunsky) and Leopold's biographer (Curt Meine).
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131 Marcus Hall (Engineering quadrangle),UMASS, Amherst
5:30 pm

Featured Event

Presentation of the ES&P Majors and Minors
October 20, 2011
Come join us for the annual presentation of the ES&P Majors and Minors. This is a great event for students who are exploring majoring in ES&P.
Bass 102
12:00 pm

FOOD DAY! Farmer's Market
October 24, 2011
Join us for a food festival and market showcasing local farmers and food producers, with many ready-to-eat items available for purchase. Sponsored by the Smith College SGA, Alumnae Association, Environmental Science and Policy Program , Center for Work and Life, and Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability.
Chapin Lawn
11:30 am to 1:30 pm

FOOD DAY! Lecture: Sustainable Food Systems
October 24, 2011
Tom Wessels, ecology professor at Antioch New England, will speak about “Foundational Principles of Sustainability” and how the principles are related to the food system. Sponsored by the Smith College SGA, Alumnae Association, Environmental Science and Policy Program , Center for Work and Life, and Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
4:30 pm

FOOD DAYS! Panel and Discussion
October 25, 2011
Topic: Women Involved in Change Advocacy for the New England Food System. Panelists include Jenny Nelson, agriculture policy advisor, Office of Senator Bernard Sanders (Vt.); Jodi Lew-Smith ‘89, research director for High Mowing Seeds; Kelly Coleman, program director for Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA); and Cris Coffin, New England director of American Farmland Trust. Sponsored by the Smith College SGA, Alumnae Association, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Center for Work and Life, and Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Info Table: Environment America
October 19, 2011
October 20, 2011
Stop by to get more information about Environment America's exciting fellows program from Program Advocate and Smith alumna Jessica O'Hare.
Campus Center lower level
11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Information Session: Environment America
October 19, 2011
Come hear about Environment America's exciting fellows program from Program Advocate and Smith alumna Jessica O'Hare.
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Smith Campus Ctr Rm 003
5:00 pm

Community Garden Family Fall Work Party!
October 22, 2011
The Smith Community Garden is having their family fall work party! Come help harvest the last of the fall produce, and prepare the garden for the winter. There will be tasty snacks, and friendly faces! Families are welcome (and encouraged) to come! Get ready to get in the dirt, & help prep the garden for the fast approaching winter. Come one, come all, to the sweet harvests of fall!
Smith Community Garden, Between Lamont and Northrop Gillett
12:00 am

ENV Lecture Series: Yoosun Park
October 24, 2011
Please join us for an afternoon discussion with Yoosun Park, Associate Professor of Smith College School for Social Work. Professor Park will give a talk titled, "Food, Immigration, and Acculturation: dietary preferences and factors in post-immigration dietary shifts among Hispanic immigrants." This is part of the Fall ENV100 Lecture Series.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Information table: Sea Education Association
October 25, 2011
Spend a semester at SEA! Stop by to learn about Smith approved Sea Education Association programs in Woods Hole and around the world. Let the ocean be your classroom.
Campus Center lower-level
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Info Session: Sea Education Association
October 25, 2011
Learn more about the Smith approved Sea Education Association semester-at-sea programs, the application process, and scholarships. SEA Semester is a 12-week undergraduate study abroad program based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, that combines academic study on shore with a sailing research voyage at sea. A $5,000 scholarship is available EACH semester for one Five College student!
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Bass Hall 203
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

27th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy
October 19, 2011
October 20, 2011
The Annual Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy has become the preeminent national conference in this important environmental area. The conference attracts 600-800 attendees annually which includes a wide variety of representation from state and federal agencies, military, Industry (including railroad, petroleum, transportation, and utilities), the environmental engineering and consulting community, and academia. Join us for our 27th year of exciting sessions, workshops, and exhibits. Follow the link below for more details on how to attend.
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UMASS Amherst
8:00 am to 4:30 pm

5K For Farmland
October 23, 2011
Come out for the 3rd Annual 5K for Farmland and Farmer's Market Festival to benefit the Kestrel Land Trust. Register at kestreltrust.org. A fast, flat route past scenic farmland on Hadley's West Street Common.
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Hadley, West Street Common
10:00 am

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FOOD DAYS! Panel and Discussion
October 26, 2011
Topic: Smith Dining Services and Locally Grown Food Sponsored by Smith College SGA, Alumnae Association, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Center for Work and Life, and Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
12:00 pm

Events at Smith

Trail Building at the MacLeish Field Station
October 26, 2011
Learn sustainable trail building techniques, erosion control and more! Scott Johnson will be driving up to Whately for trail building every Wednesday afternoon until Thanksgiving break. Meet at the boathouse at 3pm. Return by 5/6pm. Dress for the woods and weather conditions of the day. We'll be going rain or shine. Any questions-contact Scott Johnson: sjohnson@smith.edu or ext. 3445
Trip leaves from the boathouse
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

ES&P Film Series: Blue Vinyl, The World's First Toxic Comedy
October 27, 2011
Come curl up with popcorn and snacks for the screening of the award winning documentary Blue Vinyl. Follow one woman's quest for an environmentally sound cladding for her parents' house in Merrick, Long Island, New York.
CEEDS, Wright Hall
4:15 pm

Chinampas, Milpas, and Modern Agriculture
October 27, 2011
Ecological and Cultural Perspectives on 500 years of Indigenous Agricultural Practices in the Valle de México, a lecture by Maxine Ewankow. Seelye Hall, 106. Sponsored by the Smith College Botanic Garden's Curricular Enhancement Program, the Louise de Bevers Spetnagel Endowment Fund, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5:00 pm

Dive into San Pedro Belize Opening Reception
October 27, 2011
Coral Reef Ed-Ventures invites you to a photo essay and documentary exhibit in the Campus Center Nolen Arts Lounge, featuring work created by youth of San Pedro. Come and join us for the opening reception and an interactive snack! Photos on display from October 27th to November 2nd.
Noen Arts Lounge, Campus Center
7:00 pm

Presentation of the 5 College Coastal & Marine Science Cert.
November 1, 2011
Want to know about the Five College Coastal & Marine Sciences (FCCMS)Certificate Program and how it differs from the Marine Science & Policy Minor at Smith? Come to the presentation of the Certificate! Lunch will be provided. Representatives from both (FCCMS)and Smith's Marine Science and Policy programs will be available to answer questions.
Bass 102
12:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Farm and Food Entrepreneurship in the Pioneer Valley
October 27, 2011
Are you interested in learning more about the role entrepreneurs play in a healthy food system? Looking to Network with people in all areas of food production- from farm and food policy makers, to distributors, activists and eaters? Come out to Greenfield Community College for the Fall Forum: Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are. Register on line at www.pvgrows.net.
Greenfield Community College
9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Bountiful City
October 27, 2011
Part of the Zube lecture series. Speaker Laura J. Lawson looks at the role and sustainability of community gardens in American cities. Professor Laura Lawson is the new Chair for the Landscape Architecture Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Lawson is the recent winner of the 2010 Great Places Book Award, as well as the College of Fine and Applied Arts Award of Excellence for Service, for her leadership of ESLARP. Lawson is a popular professor who has provided encouragement and enthusiasm to Landscape Architecture students for the past eight years.
UMass Amherst Procopio Room Hills, 105
4:00 pm

Book reading with author Frances Moore Lappe
October 27, 2011
In EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want, Frances Moore Lappé — author of the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet — confronts the accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our dependence upon fossil fuels, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather its our faulty way of thinking about these environmental crises.
Mount Holyoke Art Building, Gamble Auditorium
7:30 pm

Lecture: Jean Carroon- Sustainable Preservation
October 28, 2011
Please join us for an afternoon with architect, Jean Carroon who will speak on Sustainable Preservation. This lecture is co-sponsored by historic preservation.
UMASS-Amherst Cape Cod Lounge
12:00 pm