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Field Station Friday: with hobbyist remote control planes!
October 4, 2013
Join us on one of our regular trips to Smith's Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station! This Friday, Paul Voss will be joining us to demonstrate some hobbyist remote control planes. Also, hike the trails, relax outside, or explore the newly opened environmental building. Space is limited. The van leaves from the annex road between Chapin House and the Campus Center at 12:30 p.m. Friday and returns from the MacLeish Field Station to Smith College at 4:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m.- depending on the day's participants. Sign up using the link below!
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Annex Road by Chapin House
12:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Lunch discussion with Margaret Williams
October 7, 2013
Smith Alumna Margaret Williams '89 is the Managing Director of World Wildlife Fund's Arctic Program. Encompassing both the marine environment of the Bering Sea and the terrestrial landscape of Russia's Kamchatka province, Margaret's region is filled with environmental challenges. Heavy shipping traffic, offshore oil drilling, wildlife poaching, human-animal conflict and overfishing all imperil the region's sensitive ecosystem. And global warming - the cause of shrinking sea ice, rising temperatures in salmon rivers and many other ecosystem changes - is an overarching concern. Come listen to her story and ask your questions. Lunch will be provided for the first 15 people.
Campus Center 103
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Lecture: Conservation at the Top of the World: Lessons Learned from Working in Arctic Conservation
October 7, 2013
Join us for the fifth speaker in the ENV100: Notes from the Field Lecture Series with speaker Margaret Williams, managing director of the Arctic program for the World Wildlife Fund. This is free and open to the public.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Information Session for Operation Wallacea
October 9, 2013
Operation Wallacea is a not-for-profit conservation organization that takes students on biodiversity, environmental, cultural and sociological research expeditions to tropical locations around the world. Operation Wallacea runs conservation research projects worldwide with a team of academics and students can join our programs either as Research Assistants or to gather data for a thesis project. Come learn more and ask your questions.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
5:00 pm

Info Session: Duke University Marine Lab and Nicholas School of the Environment
October 10, 2013
with Dana Hunt, assistant professor of microbial ecology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. Undergraduates, come learn about the opportunity to study for a semester away at the Duke University Marine Lab. Seniors, come hear about many graduate school programs offered by the Nicholas School for the Environment. Lunch will be provided for the first 15 students.
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CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

New England Bike-Walk Summit
October 4, 2013
This is a broad-brush conference, addressing the full range of topics of interest to bike and pedestrian stakeholders. Sessions will address design, planning, engineering, advocacy, and more. Registration information, agenda and more can be found on the website below.
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11 Dorrance St,, Providence, RI

Celebration: Faith and the Environment
October 5, 2013
Join the Agape Community, a sustainable community in Hardwick, MA, in their annual celebration of St. Francis. This year's theme is Faith and the Environment, and will feature several speakers from the environmental community, including Shea Riester from 350.org, as well as a panel of local students discussing climate action. Participants is also invited to check out some of the ways members of Agape have incorporated sustainability into their daily lives- from the strawbale house and organic garden to the grease car and composting toilet. All welcome.
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Hardwick, MA
10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Looking Beyond Technological Fixes: A Sociological Perspective on Climate Change
October 7, 2013
Many popular approaches to curtailing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and thereby reducing the effect of humanity on the global climate, focus on the development and application of “green” technologies.While in principle, green technologies can help reduce GHG emissions, for a variety of reasons they often have not in many nations.Richard York will present results from analyses of cross-national time-series data which show that increases in non-fossil fuel energy sources have typically not proven to proportionately displace fossil fuel use and further, that improvements in macro-economic energy efficiency typically have been associated with rising GHG emissions.The lecture will address how changes in social, political and economic contexts may be need to make green technologies a greater help in addressing environmental problems.
Paino Lecture Hall in Beneski, Amherst College
4:00 pm

How Women Become Political
October 7, 2013
Celebrate the 175th anniversary of the first address to a legislature by a woman in the United States! This political forum will feature prominent women political leaders including: feminist activist and author Gloria Steinem; U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren; and former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey. This free and public event is co-hosted by Simmons College and sponsored by Tufts' Grimke Event Committee. For more information or to RSVP, visit
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John Hancock Hall in Boston
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Toxic-Free Future
October 8, 2013
Olga Speranskaya, co-chair of IPEN, a global network of organizations to eliminate toxic chemicals, on health and and environmental justice for chemical safety.
Gamble Auditorium, Art Building, Mount Holyoke
7:00 pm

Biology Lecture/Talk
October 9, 2013
Dana E. Hunt, Ph.D. Microbiology at the Bacterial Scale: Spatial and Temporal Patchiness in Marine Microbial Ecology Sponsor Mount Holyoke Biological Sciences Department
Mount Holyoke College, Cleveland L2
4:15 pm to 6:00 pm

Conversation with No Impact Man
October 9, 2013
Sustainability activist Colin Beavan will take part in a discussion moderated by Steve Goodwin, the Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at UMass Amherst, talking about his book No Impact Man and the experiences, benefits and challenges associated with sustainable low impact living. Book Signing to follow discussion.
UMass Amherst Student Union Ballroom
7:30 pm

Exhibition: Post-oil City - The History Of The Urban Future
October 10, 2013
An Exhibition presented by UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Curated by the Institute for Cultural Relations with support from Goethe Institut Boston
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Gateway City Arts, 92-114 Race Street, Holyoke, MA

"Is There an America Beyond Capitalism?"
October 10, 2013
Gar Alperovitz is the author of: What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution; co-founder of Democracy Collaborative; and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland
Third Floor Conference Room, Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
4:00 pm

Lecture: Regional Disparity: A New Approach. Can Money Buy Happiness in Your Community?
October 10, 2013
Lecutre by Jun Koo. Jun Koo is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Korea University. He is also the Director of the Center for Methodology and Data Analysis at the Institute of Government, Korea University. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining Korea University, he taught at the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. His main research interests include innovation, entrepreneurship, and industry clusters in the context of regional development. His most recent work focuses on regional development and disparity from a happiness perspective. Contrary to existing economic approaches, he aims to develop a new approach based on measuring happiness and the quality of life in analyzing and evaluating regional development issues. This is a part of the Ervin Zube Lecture Series sponsored by the UMASS Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Light refreshments will be served.
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UMASS Amherst, Procopio Room, 105 Hill North.
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Featured Event

Fall Break Backpacking Trip: 10/12-10/14/13
October 12, 2013
Have fun and meet new people while hiking along the Long Trail in Vermont. Sponsored by the Smith College Outdoor Adventure Program. Register by emailing smithoutdoors@smith.edu
Vermont Long Trail!

Conference: Southern New England American Planning Association
October 17, 2013
Conference details are not fully available. For updates, like us on facebook (Southern New England APA Conference http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-New-England-APA-Conference/156354794425192?ref=hl or follow us on Twitter (@SNEAPA). As the major southern New England planning professional development event of the year, we welcome the fresh perspectives that students of the profession and related fields can provide. The conference provides a number of opportunities to encourage student participation.
Worcester, Massachusetts at the DCU Center

Events at Smith

Speaking and presentation tips
October 16, 2013
Sponsored by the Jacobsen Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning. No registration required. Bring a grab-n-go lunch. Treats provided.
Jacobsen Center, Seelye 307
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Information Session for Operation Wallacea
October 16, 2013
Operation Wallacea is a not-for-profit conservation organization that takes students on biodiversity, environmental, cultural and sociological research expeditions to tropical locations around the world. Operation Wallacea runs conservation research projects worldwide with a team of academics and students can join our programs either as Research Assistants or to gather data for a thesis project. Come learn more and ask your questions.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
5:00 pm

Meeting: Engineers for a Sustainable World
October 17, 2013
Passionate about sustainability? Interested in working on innovative projects? Engineers for a Sustainable World invites you to our Think Tank meetings for informal discussion and brainstorming. Meet the board, participate in insightful conversation with your fellow peers, learn about upcoming ESW events and projects, and engage in real sustainable change. All you need to bring is an open mind and your own lunch. All majors welcome!
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Structural Transformation and the Role of Natural Resources in Africa
October 11, 2013
Emerging economies, such as Brazil, China, India among others, have been more successful than most African countries in that endeavor, achieving impressive reductions in poverty for more than two decades. How are they different from Africa? At this lecture, speakers Abebe Shimeles and Henri-Bernard Soulignac-Lecompte will discuss underlying reasons behind this question and how structural transformation and natural resource play a role in influencing emerging economies.
Gordon Hall, UMass Amherst
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

2013 North American Biochar Symposium
October 13, 2013
October 14, 2013
October 15, 2013
October 16, 2013
If you have heard about carbon negativity, ecosystem restoration, sustainable benefits for agriculture or any of the other benefits of biochar and are curious to learn from and network with international experts, THIS is the conference you've been waiting for! Registration is LIVE and the early bird discount has been extended to August 31st!
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Film: More Than Honey
October 15, 2013
Amherst Cinema is pleased to partner with Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)to screen this film that explores the vital relationship between humans and bees and addresses the mysterious, drastic decline of honeybee colonies around the world. A panel discussion by CISA’s own Local Hero members Dan Conlon of Warm Colors Apiary and Ben Clark of Clarkdale Fruit Farms follows, and will be moderated by Phil Korman, CISA’s Executive Director. Tickets at the Amherst Cinema box office, or online. Regular admission. Trailer:
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Amherst Cinema
7:00 pm

Cultivating the City: Infrastructures of Abundance in Urban Brazil
October 16, 2013
Jacques Abelman '96 will present current research-in-progress into connected urban foodscapes based on indigenous species in Brazil. His current research on urban agriculture and landscape infrastructures in rapidly developing Brazilian cities is done in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre.
Pruyne Auditorium Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College
4:30 pm

Featured Event

Field Station Friday: Apple Picking!
October 18, 2013
Join us this Friday to pick apples at the newly fruiting apple orchard at Smith's Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station! In addition, hike the trails, relax outside, or explore the newly opened environmental building. Space is limited. The van leaves from the annex road between Chapin House and the Campus Center at 12:30 p.m. Friday and returns from the MacLeish Field Station to Smith College at 4:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m.- depending on the day's participants. Sign up using the link below!
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Annex Road by Chapin House
12:30 pm to 4:30 pm

Conference: Southern New England American Planning Association
October 18, 2013
Conference details are not fully available. For updates, like us on facebook (Southern New England APA Conference http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-New-England-APA-Conference/156354794425192?ref=hl or follow us on Twitter (@SNEAPA). As the major southern New England planning professional development event of the year, we welcome the fresh perspectives that students of the profession and related fields can provide. The conference provides a number of opportunities to encourage student participation.
Worcester, Massachusetts at the DCU Center

Events at Smith

Presentation: How I spent my Summer; Smithies at NOAA
October 18, 2013
Each spring, the Environmental Science and Policy Program connects students to summer internships with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Join us for lunch and hear from fellow Smithies about their experiences this past summer in NOAA labs and offices around the country - and get information about how you might apply for next summer. Lunch provided.
Bass Hall 102
12:00 pm

Graduate School Info Session (Chatham University)
October 21, 2013
Come learn about the School of Sustainability and the Environment at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. David M. Hassenzahl,the Dean of the school, will be here to discuss the Master of Arts in Food Studies, Master of Sustainability, and the Executive Master of Sustainable Leadership.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Lecture: Costco's Evolving Sourcing Practices
October 21, 2013
Join us for the sixth speaker in the ENV100: Notes from the Field Lecture Series with speaker Sheri Flies. Sheri is the assistant general merchandise manager of corporate foods at Costco, and her lecture will discuss how market based solutions address poverty and malnutrition. This is free and open to the public.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

SEA Semester Info Session
October 22, 2013
Looking for an adventure? Interested in field research and hands-on learning? Study abroad with SEA Semester! SEA Semester offers semester and summer field programs in marine and environmental studies for students of all majors. Elizabeth Dorr, SEA Semester Admissions Counselor and alumna, will be on campus, so please stop by to learn more, pick up materials, and ask any questions you might have!
Lower level Campus Center
11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Time management and study strategies
October 23, 2013
Sponsored by the Jacbosen Center for Writing, Teaching and Learning. Ne registration required. Brign a grab-n-go lunch. Treats provided.
Jacobsen Center, Seelye 307
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Ice Cream Social: Williams-Mystic the Maritime Studies Program
October 23, 2013
Live on the coast and study marine policy, marine science, maritime history, and literature of the sea. Swim and surf in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico, explore tide pools, have behind-the-scenes access to Mystic Seaport Museum, work in a blacksmith shop, conduct original research, talk to fishermen and Congressmen, and even canoe to class. Enjoy ice cream and find out from students who have already done the program how you can explore the world- explore the ocean for a semester with Williams-Mystic.
Campus Center 205
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Gleaning Field Trip with Rachel's Table
October 20, 2013
What is gleaning? The definition of gleaning is the gathering of grain or produce left after harvest. The practice of gleaning dates back to the biblical tradition of leaving the corners of the fields for those in need to harvest. In the past it was common practice for those in need to collect from the corners of fields to feed themselves. Gleaning is a great way to make use of food that would otherwise go to waste. Farmers often grow more than they can sell in order to ensure that they will have enough for their customers. There is also often excess produce that farmers cannot sell because it is slightly imperfect in appearance, but perfectly edible. Rachel’s Table salvages food from stores and bakeries too in order to make use of as much food as possible to feed those in need. By doing so, they are making use of an already existing resource and thereby helping the environment. Rachel’s Table helps to address the issues of food scarcity in the greater Springfield area by supplying food to over 40 shelters and food pantries. To take part in this gleaning opportunity, email jbenkley@smith.edu. Space is limited. The van will depart from the Chapin Annex Road at 1:30 and return before 5:00.
1:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Free Screening of King Corn with Director Aaron Woolf
October 21, 2013
Film director Aaron Woolf will make a rare LIVE appearance at Amherst Cinema at a special FREE screening of his hit documentary King Corn, a humorous and informative look at the prevalence of corn in the American food chain.King Corn follows two friends on their journey through the agricultural industry, from corn fields to final consumption. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they discover raises troubling questions about how we eat - and how we farm.
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Amherst Cinema
7:30 pm

Building Sustainable Leaders: Green Jobs Panel
October 23, 2013
Interested in a sustainability career? Renewable energy, green communities, urban farming, social justice? Keynote speaker: KEVIN DOYLE, Workforce leader for New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC) Institute. Panelists include: ELAINE STRUNK, Manager for Sustainability Engagement, Harvard, University Office for Sustainability; RUBY MADDOX, (UMass Amherst Alum), Assistant Director for the Miller Worley Center for the Environment, Mount Holyoke College; KERI FITZPATRICK (UMass Amherst Alum), Regional Environmental Manager, Schnitzer Steel; STEPHANIE CICCARELLO, Sustainability Coordinator, Town of Amherst
Earth Foods Cafe, Student Union, UMASS Amherst
3:30 pm

Travels of a Rubber Duck: Science and Policy on Chemicals in Global Manufacturing
October 24, 2013
Dr. Ann Blake will talk about what research science is telling us about the human health and environmental impacts of ubiquitous exposure to chemicals in products as well as the latest developments in global and local regulation around chemicals. She will also discuss the interplay between science, regulation, policy and global economic drivers to cheaper materials and labor, and current efforts to shift us from a 'take-make-waste' model for the global economy to the Triple Bottom Line of people, planet, and prosperity.
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Mount Holyoke College, Kendade 305
4:30 pm