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Events at Smith

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

UMASS Permaculture Interest Group: Meetings and Workdays
March 29, 2012
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
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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

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

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

Featured Event

Film Premier: Valley of the Forgotten featuring John Cain Carter
April 7, 2012
Valley of the Forgotten is a documentary feature that shows the conflict for land in a very secluded area of the state of Mato Grosso,Brazil where violence and fire stand for the interests of opponent groups: Indians evicted from tehri homeland, squatters trying to get a piece of land to make a living, land grabbers illegally invading properties, the Landless Workers Movement waiting for government decisions, and the ranchers fighting to hold on to their property. Reception to follow the film. This event is free and open to the public. Handicap accessible.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
5:30 pm

Events at Smith

Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series
April 9, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Ann Whiston Spirn titled, "Reading the Landscape." Ann Whiston Spirn is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT. This is part of the Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series 2012.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 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

Five College Energy Series: Natural Gas
April 9, 2012
This series of events was designed to create an intellectual exchange on energy matters both between the Five Colleges themselves and between the Five Colleges and the Pioneer Valley community. Each panel includes professors from the colleges and local speakers to educate town and gown. The series was organized by students from Smith and the Five Colleges inspired by the course GOV 250 "Global Resource Politics". Questions? Contact thelke@smith.edu
Mount Holyoke College, Room TBD
7:30 pm

Vermiculture workshop!
April 10, 2012
At the workshop you will learn how to compost with worms and create your own D.I.Y. vermicomposting bucket to take home, FOR FREE! Join us to make your own vermi roomie bucket! Visit Bit.ly/GoWorms to register. Sponsored by Friends of UMASS Permaculture.
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UMASS Commonwealth Room (A.K.A. Earthfoods).
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Featured Event

Smith Women in the Environment Panel
April 13, 2012
Four women currently working in environment and policy fields return to Smith to dicuss their career paths and offer advice to students interested in an environmental career. This year features: Kate Barnes '01 Program Associate with the MacArthur Foundation in Conservation and Sustainable Development Merrill Baker '03 PhD Candidate at University of California, Berkeley researching conservation in Madagascar Meagan Rossi '06 Working at WorkSpaces NYC, LLC an independent commercial furniture dealership Rowan Van Ness '08 Coming of Age Coordinator for First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist.
Campus Center 103
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Presentation of the Minor: Landscape Studies
April 11, 2012
Join us to hear about the exciting possibilities within the Landscape Studies Program! Pizza lunch will be provided.
Green Box room 202
12:00 pm

Community Garden Spring Workshop: Bugs and Blights
April 11, 2012
Join the Community Garden group for their Spring Workshop Series. This event will focus on Bugs and Blights.
Wright Hall - CEEDS
7:00 pm

Five College Energy Series: Oil
April 11, 2012
This series of events was designed to create an intellectual exchange on energy matters both between the Five Colleges themselves and between the Five Colleges and the Pioneer Valley community. Each panel includes professors from the colleges and local speakers to educate town and gown. The series was inspired by the course GOV 250 "Global Resource Politics" and organized by students from Smith and the Five Colleges. Questions? Contact thelke@smith.edu
Smith College, Carroll Room
7:30 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Merrill Baker
April 12, 2012
Join us for a lecture by alumna Merrill Baker. Merrill is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the College of Natural Resources focusing her research on women's perspectives of and participation in resource management and how gender influences patterns of marine resource use. This presentation explores various issues and is applicable to a wide range of interests, from ES&P to anthro/gender studies/sociology disciplines.
Dewey Common Room
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Interested in Public Health? Visit with April Opoliner '03, M.P.H.
April 13, 2012
April Opoliner '03 is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. Before attending HSPH, April studied neuroscience at Smith and received her MPH from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She has also worked on neurological clinical trials at Massachusetts General Hospital. April's research interests are in psychiatric epidemiology and global health. This is part of the prehealth lunch bag series at Smith.
McConnell Foyer/Mc103
12:10 pm to 1:00 pm

Hidden Risk: Mercury in Terrestrial Ecosystems of the Northeast
April 13, 2012
Part of the Mercury, The Environment, and Public health lecture series. David Evers, Executive Director, Biodiversity Research Institute Preceded by light refreshments and followed by dinner for attendees. This lecture series is funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
McConnell 103
4:30 pm

Foraging Walk with Local Plant Expert: Mira Nussbaum
April 14, 2012
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! This event will happen rain or shine!
Wright Hall, CEEDS
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Tables on Sustainability
April 16, 2012
Part of Earth Week at Smith College
Chapin Lawn
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series
April 16, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Heidi Gilpin, topic TBA. Heidi Gilpin is the Associate Professor of European Studies at Smith College. This is part of the Landscape Studies Program Spring Lecture Series 2012.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Tables on Sustainability
April 17, 2012

Chapin Lawn
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Ervin Zube Lecture Series
April 12, 2012
Please join us for a lecture by Niall Kirkwood titled, "Brownfields 2016: Rethinking the Post-Industrial Landscape (Again)". Niall Kirkwood is a professor of Landscape Architecture and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. This is part of the Ervin Zube Spring Lecture Series 2012.
Procopio Room, 105 Hills North, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm

Five College Energy Series: Nuclear Energy
April 17, 2012
This series of events was designed to create an intellectual exchange on energy matters both between the Five Colleges themselves and between the Five Colleges and the Pioneer Valley community. Each panel includes professors from the colleges and local speakers to educate town and gown. The series was organized by students from Smith and the Five Colleges and inspired by the course GOV 250 "Global Resource Politics". Questions? Contact thelke@smith.edu
Amherst College, Pruyne Lecture Hall