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Info Session: Bard College Center for Environmental Policy
November 21, 2013
MAKE AN IMPACT WITH A CAREER IN SUSTAINABILITY Join Molly Williams, a fellow Smithie and the Assistant Director of Admission at Bard, to learn more about Bard's Graduate Programs in Sustainability! They offer Master of Science degrees in environmental policy and in climate science and policy AND an MBA in sustainability.
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CEEDS, Wright 005
12:00 pm

Events at Smith

Lecture: Plastic in Our Oceans: How Bad is it?
November 18, 2013
Join us for the final speaker in the ENV100: Notes from the Field Lecture Series with speaker Erik Zettler. Mr Zettler is a professor of Oceanography and the associate dean for institutional relations and research at the Sea Education Association. Free and open to the public.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Climate Justice Evening
November 19, 2013
An opportunity to share your relationship to the environment, whatever your connection is: farming, the effects of natural disasters, sustainability, climate change, or something else. Listen to the stories of other members of the Smith and Pioneer Valley communities. This event is open to the public and free. Refreshments will be provided.
Campus Center TV lounge
7:00 pm

Smith Food Recovery Network interest meeting
November 19, 2013
Fight Waste. Feed People. Put our food to use. Interesting in working to help cut down food waste on the Smith campus? Join the movement. Come to the Smith Food Recovery Network interest meeting.
CCC, Wright Hall, Basement.
7:00 pm

Time management and study strategies
November 20, 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

Global Salon at CEEDS
November 21, 2013
Finding a Safe Place to Squat: Inadequate Sanitation Infrastructure as a Major Engineering, Social, and Health Problem for Children in Developing Countries with special guest Clair Null ('01).
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CEEDS- Wright Hall 005
4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Why Aren't More Women in Science?
November 19, 2013
We will examine the differences among the sciences and the assumptions people often make to answer this broad and complex question. Does society actively or passively discourage women from pursuing careers in science? Can bias and discrimination explain the difference? Are there biological differences in ability, personality, or career preferences? Anecdotal explanations abound, but I will present some of the more compelling evidence that supports or refutes the various arguments you have likely heard, and discuss what we do at Mount Holyoke to encourage the participation of women in the physical sciences.
UMass, Hasbrouck 138
4:00 pm

Lecture and book-signing by Alan Weisman, author of "The World Without Us"
November 21, 2013
Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us, traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Books will be available for purchase. The event is free and open to the public.
Mount Holyoke College, Hooker Auditorium, Clapp Laboratory
7:00 pm

Divestment Documentary Screening
November 21, 2013
Students & Goliath is a short documentary about fossil fuel divestment and the ongoing student led climate justice movement.
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst College.
7:30 pm

Events at Smith

Teaching Circle: Sustainable Food
November 22, 2013
Join students, faculty, and staff in an informal discussion about articles, events, and ideas related to sustainable food. Lunch provided. Contact Joanne Benkley (jbenkley at smith.edu) for the reading material and to RSVP for lunch.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm

Food for Thought: Expanding Northampton Local Food
November 22, 2013
ENX 301 students will give a presentation of their final capstone project: synthesizing four surveys of Northampton's food system, which were conducted under the direction of Keep Farming Northampton. Consumers, restaurants, institutions, and farmers were surveyed in an effort to determine the specific barriers faced by each of these groups. Students will present their analysis of the surveys and make recommendations for increasing the use of local foods within the Northampton area.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
1:15 pm to 3:00 pm

Featured Event

Green Orgs Meet 'n Greet Potluck
December 2, 2013
Hosted by the SGA Sustainability Committee: You are invited to a Meet 'n Greet Potluck with all of the green organizations and other affiliated groups on campus! This potluck will take place in Chase Dining Hall, Conference Room B at 5:30 PM on Monday, December 2nd. We'd like to invite not only leaders but all members of each org who would like to attend. For too long have we all worked separately to accomplish similar initiatives on campus. Our goal is to bring all the like-minded people focused on sustainability at Smith together to share ideas and resources! Everyone who attends will get a free ticket to enter a raffle to win a prize!!
Chase Dining Hall, Conference Room B
5:30 pm

Events at Smith

Coral Ed-Ventures Program Exhibit and Open House
December 3, 2013
Stop in to see artwork, posters, and other items from the 2013 Coral Reef Ed-Ventures Program. Come by to learn more about this marine education and research program, which takes place each summer on the island of Ambergris Caye in Belize! Past student participants and faculty leaders will host an open house Tuesday, Dec. 3 from 4-5:30 p.m.
Campus Center's Nolan Art Lounge
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Lecture: Legitimate Coercion: The Key to the Universe
December 5, 2013
This lecture will be by Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Mansbridge will argue that human beings need the formal coercion of government to solve the problems created by "free access" goods. These goods are ubiquitous and are particularly salient in matters of climate change. A participant collective action exercise will be part of the lecture. Free and open to the public.
Seelye 106
4:30 pm

Lecture: Space as Metaphor -- Sky: A Useful Foil
December 5, 2013
In her art practice, Sharon Harper, professor of visual arts and visual and environmental studies, Harvard University, takes a group of cameras and experiments with them to find ways to engage a particular space and transform it into metaphor. Her work seeks modes of 'knowing' embedded in photographic language and looks for ways human consciousness is connected through technology to our broader surroundings. On Thursday, December 5 at 5pm in the Neilson Browsing Room, she will discuss her work as a way to perceive, process and generate meaning in response to particular sites. Presented by the Kahn Institute 2013-2014 long-term project Placing Space, organized by Suzan Edwards (Astronomy) and Cornelia Pearsall (English Language & Literature). Free and open to the public.
Neilson Browsing Room
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Bizarre Food Fair
December 4, 2013
Students present research on “bizarre” foods & practices from around the globe. Our explorations take us around the world and into our own back yard. We examine heritage foods such as squirrel, gator, honey pot ants, and balut. What challenges do people face in preserving their food cultures? Is entomophagy (eating bugs) a sustainable alternative to factory farming? We explore facts about chocolate and bubble gum that might surprise you. What can anthropological research do to end exploitation of children who produce 90% of the world's chocolate? We consider what motivates competitive eaters to eat - 7 sticks of butter in 5 minutes and 69 hot dogs + buns in 10 minutes. What does an anthropological examination of buffets and competitive eating reveal about our own cultures? Presesnted by UMass Anthropology and the Commonwealth Honors College Dr. Sonya Atalay and Students in ANTHRO 256H ‘Bizarre Foods’.
UMASS Amherst, Commonwealth Honors College Rm. 160 (Next to Roots Café)
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm