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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

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

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

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

Events Off Campus

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

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

Events at Smith

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

ES&P Lunchbag: Student internship presentations
November 2, 2011
Please join us as students present on their summer internship experiences at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)offices and labs around the country. Topics include: Fisheries Oceanography of the Northeast U.S. Shelf Ecosystem; Reducing Risk to Human Health from Harmful Algal Bloom Biotoxins in Puget Sound; and Rescuing Scientific Data from Historical Logbooks. Lunch provided.
Bass Hall 102
12:15 pm

Trail Building at the MacLeish Field Station
November 2, 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

Events Off Campus

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

The African Millennium Villages: An Integrated Effort to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
November 3, 2011
An afternoon with Pedro Sanchez and Cheryl Palm, co-directors of the Millennium Villages Project, at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Presentation on achieving the goals for the 80 African Millennium Villages in Sub-Saharan Africa. The village sites range from slash-and-burn in rainforest margins to pastoralism in deserts and represent different situations of population density, soils, climate, water access, disease complexes and burdens, environmental degradation, market access, education levels, cultures, religions, and gender issues.
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Stirn Auditorium, Amherst College
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans
November 7, 2011
Captain Charles Moore will speak on his newest book Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans. The speech will be followed by a Q&A session and a book signing with Odyssey Bookshop. Captain Charles Moore is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, a seafaring environmental researcher and an internationally recognized pollution expert and activist. In 1997, while he was skipper of the Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita, Moore discovered two million square miles of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean. In his book, he recounts returning to the site multiple times in the following years, collecting samples and exploring the area.
Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
7:30 pm

FAST TALK ABOUT FOOD: Lightning Talks and Networking
November 9, 2011
Showcasing the work of the Pioneer Valley higher education community on food, agriculture and food systems. WHAT'S THE PURPOSE? To create a stronger network of those involved in one of the Valley¹s premier sectors - higher education - and involved in a variety of food-related topics. We hope to build a stronger community of interest which gives rise to new opportunities for learning, research and action. A series of five-minute presentations Facilitated networking experience A simple meal of local origins will be served at 5:30PM Transportation available: Contact Sarah Loomis (sloomis@smith.edu) 413-585-3352 Sponsored by PVGrows and its Higher Education Working Group, with support from the UMass Center for Agriculture. For more information about PVGrows visit: http://www.pvgrows.net
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Smith Vocational & Agricultural High School, Northampton
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth
November 10, 2011
The Miller Worley Center for the Environment presents James Gustave Speth, one of the founding leaders of the environmental movement in the United States. He will deliver the the lecture, "American Prospect: Decline and Rebirth," which is part of the International Environmental Governance lecture series. Speth is the cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a former chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality under President Jimmy Carter, and founder of the World Resources Institute. This event is free and open to the public
Gamble Auditorium, Art Building, Mount Holyoke College
7:30 pm