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Events at Smith 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 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
http://www.facebook.com/events/348269078553307/ 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
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
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Events at Smith 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
UMASS Permaculture Interest Group: Meetings and Workdays March 30, 2012 April 1, 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
http://www.facebook.com/events/348269078553307/ 7:00 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
Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series April 2, 2012 Please join us for a lecture by Janet Milne titled, "The Law's Treasures and Traps." Janet Milne is Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Tax Policy Institute at the Vermont Law School. This is part of the Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series 2012. McConnell 103 2:40 pm to 4:00 pm
Economic Impacts of Hypoxia on Fisheries April 2, 2012 Dr. Martin D. Smith
The Dan & Bunny Gabel Associate Professor
of Environmental Economics at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Co-sponsored by the Smith College Biological Sciences Department, Environmental Science & Policy Program,
Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability, and the Five College Coastal & Marine Sciences Program.
Reception in McConnell Foyer at 4:00PM McConnell 103 4:00 pm
Events Off Campus Lecture: Human and Natural History of the Meadows April 4, 2012 Naturalist (and Smith alumna) Laurie Sanders will present an illustrated talk about the Meadows section of Northampton. Integrating art, science, and human history, her talk will focus on the role that the Meadows played in the settlement of the city and art in America. The natural history of the Meadows will also be included, as well as the changes that have taken place in this expansive landscape. Free and open to the public. Coolidge Museum at Forbes Library, Northampton 6:30 pm
Innovators in Sustainability: Margaret Connors April 4, 2012 The second lecture in this semester's "President's Alumni Speaker Series" which will bring Hampshire College alums involved in different aspects of sustainability back to campus so that students can see what it "means" to actually do this type of work. This talk is by Margaret Connors, co-founder of City Growers, an urban food desert project in Boston. (FPH is a 2 min walk from the bus stop and you can park anywhere on campus.) Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall, Hampshire College 7:00 pm
Ervin Zube Lecture Series April 5, 2012 Please join us for a lecture by Mark Dawson in which he will speak about his most recent works. Mark Dawson works for Sasaki Associates, Inc. in Watertown, MA. This is part of the Ervin Zube Spring Lecture Series 2012.
Procopio Room, 105 Hills North, UMass Amherst 4:00 pm
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