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Turning Your Grand Plans Into Reality: The Pedal People Present
March 13, 2012
Do you have the next "big idea"? Are you full of passion and enthusiasm but don't quite know how to put your ideas into action? Join us for the first in CEEDS' workshop series called "Turning Your Grand Plans Into Reality." Northampton's own Pedal People will be speaking on the ins and outs of their cooperatively run business. Participants are invited to bring their own ideas to get input and discuss ways of moving their projects along. This could be anything from how to start your own business to how you help organize your community around an event. Snacks will be provided.
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CEEDS, Wright Hall
4:15 pm to 5:30 pm

Events at Smith

Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series
March 12, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Don Kroodsma titled, "The Singing Life of Birds." Don Kroodsma is a Professor Emeritus in the Biology Department at UMASS-Amherst. This is part of the Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series 2012.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Activist Nina Robinson: Five College Social Justice Policy Practitioner in Residence
March 11, 2012
Five College Social Justice Policy Practitioner in Residence, Nina Robinson will be visiting March 4th through March 18th. A Detroit labor and environmental justice activist gone global, she's been both applauded at and banned from the United Nations Climate Change Convention. Come out this March to meet her. March 6th: Opening Networking Lunch 12 pm at Gordon Hall, UMASS March 8th: Teach-In: Race and the Environment 4:30pm at Kendade Hall, MHC March 11th: ASK for Social Justice Conference 9:30am at Adele Simmons Hall, Hampshire
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Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series
March 26, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Dean Flower titled, "Inscribing the Oxbow: Local Landscape as Text." Dean Flower is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College. This is part of the Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series 2012.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

UMASS Permaculture Interest Group: Meetings and Workdays
March 27, 2012
March 29, 2012
March 30, 2012
UMASS Permaculture Meetings will be held this semester on Tuesdays at 7pm in the UMass Campus Center Workdays: Three upcoming workdays will all be held at the Franklin Permaculture Garden at the following times: Thursday March 29th 12pm-5pm Friday March 30th 8:30am-12pm Sunday April 1st 1pm-5pm
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7:00 pm

Community Garden Spring Workshop Series: Jam Making
March 28, 2012
Join the Community Garden group for a jam making workshop. All are welcome!
Wright Hall, CEEDS
7:00 pm

Mercury as an Indoor Air Pollutant
March 30, 2012
Part of the Mercury, The Environment, and Public health lecture series. Donna Riley, Associate Professor of Engineering, Smith College Preceded by light refreshments and followed by dinner for attendees. This lecture series is funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ford Hall, 240
4:30 pm

Foraging Walk with Mira Nussbaum
March 31, 2012
This event has been canceled because of the threat of inclement weather. It has been re-scheduled for Saturday, April 14th! We hope you can join us then...

Community Garden Spring Workshop Series: Soil
March 31, 2012
Come join the Smith Community Garden group for a workshop on soil. All are welcome!
Smith Community Garden
12:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Tovar Cerulli author of "The Minful Carnivore" Discussion and Book Signing
March 28, 2012
Tovar Cerulli, author of The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance (and ES&P lunch bag speaker this past Fall) will be at Food for Thought in Amherst this coming Wednesday for a discussion and book signing. The book is published by Pegasus Books and distributed by W. W. Norton. It can be purchased through local bookstores or online. For purchase links, more info, and details on upcoming events around New England, please visit his website: www.tovarcerulli.com/book.
Food for Thought in Amherst
6:30 pm

Ervin Zube Lecture Series
March 29, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by the returning Regional Planning Alumni Panel. They will speak about current projects and job opportunities. This is part of the Ervin Zube Spring Lecture Series 2012.
Procopio Room, 105 Hills North, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm

Film Screening: Mother Nature's Child: Growing Outdoors in the Media Age
March 29, 2012
Mother Nature's Child: Growing Outdoors in the Media Age explores nature's powerful role in children's health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. The film marks a moment in time when a living generation can still recall childhoods of free play outdoors; this will not be true for most children growing up today. The effects of "nature deficit disorder" are now being noted across the country in epidemics of child obesity, attention disorders, and depression. Mother Nature's Child asks the questions: Why do children need unstructured time outside? What is the place of risk-taking in healthy child development? How is play a form of learning? Why are teachers resistant to taking students outside? How can city kids connect with nature? What does it mean to educate the 'whole' child? Director Camilla Rockwell began her work in film with filmmaker Ken Burns, working on nine of his PBS programs and series. In 1999, she established Fuzzy Slippers Productions to produce films on creativity and the arts, healing and well-being. Discussion: After the film we will have the opportunity to go deeper into the themes of the movie in small group discussions lead by local leaders in outdoor education and childhood development: Liz Austin Ed.D, psychologist specializing in parent education Colleen Kelley, educator for 28 years at The Hitchcock Center Ginny Sullivan, author of Lens on Outdoor Learning Aaron Kropf, Physics Teacher and leader of the Outdoor Survival Program at Amherst Regional High School Ruthie Ireland, teacher at Arcadia Nature Pre-school. Admission is free.
Northeast Regional Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 300 Westgate Center Drive, Hadley 01035
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

2012 EarthScope Speaker Series Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Lucy Flesch
March 29, 2012
Dr. Lucy Flesch of Purdue University will present as the 2012 EarthScope Speaker. Her talk is titled, "Integration of Plate Boundary Observatory and USArray Data to Quantify the Forces Driving Deformation in the Western United States." Sponsored by the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts. Pizza and conversation with Dr. Flesch: 6:00 PM Rm. 254 University of Massachusetts
Rm. 254, Geosciences Department, UMASS
7:30 pm

HOT: Living Through the Next 50 years on Earth
March 29, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Mark Hertsgaard, author of "Hot: Living Through the Next 50 years on Earth" and Environmental Correspondent of The Nation. Free and Open to the Public Sponsored by: Five College Program in Sustainability Studies Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies
Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Hall, East Lecture Hall
7:30 pm