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Film Screening: Do the Math
March 12, 2014
The first in the EARTH'S TURN film series planned as a lead up to Earth Day. A discussion after the film will be led by local community org Climate Action Now. Sponsored by CEEDS, Sustainability Reps, Green Team, Divest Smith College, SGA Sustainability Committee, Climate Action Now, 350 MA, Office of Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, with support from the SGA.
McConnell 103
6:30 pm

Events at Smith

Lecture and Lunch: The LIDAR Revolution: A new way to look at landscapes
March 13, 2014
a geosciences talk with Bob Newton. The imagery will be remarkable --- don't miss it! As usual lunch will be served at noon and the talk will start around 12:10.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:00 pm

Lunch and lecture: Engineering Meets Reality:
March 13, 2014
The Wicked Problems in Sustainable Engineering Initiative with Dr. Alexander Dale, Executive Director of Engineers for a Sustainable World Lunch will be provided, please bring your own beverage. Presented by Engineers for a Sustainable World.
Ford Hall, room 240
12:00 pm

Field Station Friday!
March 14, 2014
Join us at Macleish field station for maple sap collection. Visit the Bechtel Environmental Classroom, and explore the surroundings!
Meet at Chapin Annex parking lot
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Spring Bulb Show (March 1st - March 16th)
March 15, 2014

Smith Botanic Garden Greenhouse
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

The Global Fork, Responsible and Delicious Eating
March 12, 2014
For over 25 years, Leslie Cerier, “The Organic Gourmet” Chef has been teaching culinary nutrition and hands-on vegetarian cooking for health and vitality, writing cookbooks focusing on eating local, seasonal, organic foods that are not just good for you, but also pleasurable, delicious and good for the planet.
Mount Holyoke College, Dwight Hall, Room 101
7:00 pm

Lecture: Global Climate Governance
March 13, 2014
with Lars Blaxekjaer, PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and Visiting Pre-Doctoral Fellow at McGill University.Blaxekjaer will discuss "green growth" and global climate governance in three areas: 1) global climate governance in crisis using the Fukushima triple disaster as case, 2.)governance solutions outside the UNFCCC, particularly the emergence and spread of the green growth policy idea, and 3.) governance solutions inside the UNFCCC, particularly new groups at the COPs as discursive positioning. Sponsored by the UMASS Department of Political Science
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Machmer Hall Room e23, University of Massachusetts Amherst
1:45 pm to 3:45 pm

Lecture: City farming: Havana's Productive Urban Landscapes
March 13, 2014
With Carey Clouse, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, who teaches architecture and landscape architecture coursework at UMass Amherst with a focus on sustainable urbanism. She also practices architecture for disaster and climate resilience with her firm, Crookedworks Architecture. Her professional work and research addresses the intersection between design and sustainability, with a specific focus on food security, climate change adaptation and self-sufficiency.
105 Hills (North) 111 Thatcher Road , UMASS, Amherst
4:00 pm

Conference: Sustainability: Systems and Solutions
March 15, 2014
For more information and to register for this April 17th event, visit the web site listed below.
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UMASS Lowell Conference Center

Featured Event

The Role of Business in Promoting Sustainability
March 25, 2014
The Role of Business in Promoting Sustainability: A Conversation about Social Entrepreneurship. The Law Lecturers of the Isenberg School of Management and Sustainable UMass Present a Panel Featuring Sustainable Businesses, Benefit Corporations and B Corps: -Nathan Rothstein ‘2006, President and Co-Founder, Project Repat -Andrew Bellak, CEO, & Terry Mollner, Chairman, StakeHolders Capital -Ted Barber, Co-Founder, Prosperity Candle -Arya Shekar, Manager of Legal Strategy and Operations, Dimagi, Inc. -Jessica Manganello, Esq., New Leaf Legal -Trista Ristvedt, MBA/MPPA ‘2015, President, Net Impact UMass-Amherst
UMass Isenberg 108
7:00 pm

Events at Smith

LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment lecture
March 24, 2014
Marcus de la Fleur, Landscape architect & Principal at De la Fleur LLC, Chicago: Fix it! Resilience, Durability and Creativity
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Esther Sperber: Studio ST at 10: Design and Collaboration
March 25, 2014
Esther Sperber is the Principal of Studio ST Architects, a full-service, woman-owned, architectural firm located in Manhattan that is dedicated to exploring the embedded logic of materials and structures to generate new spatial experiences.
UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center, room 463
5:30 pm

What is Environmental Racism: A PopDev Community Workshop
March 25, 2014
This interactive session will be an introduction to environmental racism and will include discussion around themes like specific case studies in the US, government versus community responses to environmental degradation, and environmental justice as an intersectional social justice movement that centers around the experiences of people of color. Bring your questions and an open mind as we explore and create various definitions of environmental racism and talk about our role as activists and allies. This workshop will be led by students Jessa Orluk, Justine Gonzalez-Berg, and PopDev Environmental & Reproductive Justice Fellow Senti Sojwal. Since we want to create a good learning space, please only come if you are able to stay for at least half of the workshop. Thank you. Dinner will be provided.
Hampshire College Library, 3rd floor
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Featured Event

Film Screening: Carbon Nation
March 26, 2014
The second in the EARTH'S TURN film series planned as a lead up to Earth Day. A discussion after the film will be led by the Smith College Green Team. Sponsored by CEEDS, Sustainability Reps, Green Team, Divest Smith College, SGA Sustainability Committee, Climate Action Now, 350 MA, Office of Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, with support from the SGA.
Seelye 106
6:30 pm

Sugar Shack Saturday!
March 29, 2014
Sign up for an outing to a local sugar shack to see how maple syrup is made and enjoy a delicious New England pancake breakfast. Please RSVP to Sara Kirk, Administrative Assistant, CEEDS (skirk@smith.edu) to secure your spot. Space is limited! Vans will leave the annex road between Chapin House and the Campus Center at 9 a.m. and return around lunch time.
Chapin House Annex road
9:00 pm

Non violence Civil Disobedience Training
March 29, 2014
This will be a day long workshop offered for anyone (staff, students, and faculty all welcome) who would like to learn some strategies for making social change using non violent strategies. This training will have a particular focus on upcoming actions involving the environment, but it is appropriate for a wide range of interests and open to all. Smith Student Orgs focusing on environmental policy both on and off campus might find this of particular use. Please register here at the link below, or for more information and questions contact mcantwel@smith.edu Light breakfast and lunch will be offered
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Campus Center
10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Anthropogenic Fire History Preserved in the Peats of Devonshire Marsh, Bermuda
March 27, 2014
with geosciences lunchtime speaker Bruce Rueger from Colby College. Lunch served at noon (food & drinks provided) Talk begins at 12:10. All welcome.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:00 pm

LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment lecture
March 31, 2014
Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Anthropology, Smith College: The Agricultural Landscape as intangible heritage, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love the destruction of archaeological sites (sort of).
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: Nature + Culture: Explorations in Landscape Architecture
March 26, 2014
by landscape architect Eric Kramer '93. Kramer's visit is sponsored by the Amherst College Programs in Architectural Studies and in European Studies, and by the Department of Art and the History of Art. All are welcome. Eric Kramer, ASLA, is a landscape architect and a principal with Reed Hilderbrand, the landscape architecture firm based in Cambridge, MA, which received the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects’ Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the highest award the ASLA bestows upon a landscape architecture firm in recognition of distinguished work that influences the profession. Eric Kramer is committed to augmenting and sharing the design knowledge Reed Hilderbrand has built through his engagement in research, collaboration, and teaching. Eric’s advocacy for sustainable practices as a foundation of design expression has brought him before national audiences as a lecturer and panelist, as well as into the classroom: He also teaches landscape design studios and landscape history and theory at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Connecticut College. Eric Kramer’s most visible projects include Boston's Central Wharf Plaza; a decade-long engagement with The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts; and a new civic landscape at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City. Eric is a 1993 graduate of Amherst College, and was recognized as one of its Thomas J. Watson Fellows. After completing his Master in Landscape Architecture at Harvard, he journeyed to Europe and Japan under the auspices of the prestigious Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, to study the relationships between literature and historic gardens and landscapes.
Fayerweather 113, Amherst College
5:00 pm

5 College Eco Forum
March 27, 2014
Let's get all the student sustainability workers in one room and learn about what we are all up to. This is a chance to network, brainstorm, and strengthen the green vibe between the 5 colleges. MHC Eco-Reps will bring some locally made snacks and we think that everyone else should bring something yummy to share, too.
Umass Physical Plant 360 Campus Center Way
7:00 pm

Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future
April 1, 2014
Alan Weisman, best-selling author of The World Without Us, will speak on his new book, Countdown: Our last Best Hope for a Future. http://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Last-Best-Future-Earth/dp/0316097756
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne
4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

The Daffodil Lecture on Sustainability and the Environment:
April 1, 2014
"A Glimpse into the Dark: the Ocean's Hidden Crisis" Presented by Isla Castaneda, Assistant Professor, Commonwealth Honors College Professor in Geosciences. The global oceans face an uncertain future due to increasing environmental threats from human activities. While underwater devastation remains largely concealed, the impacts of overfishing, pollution, acidification and climate change are readily noticeable even in the ocean’s most inaccessible regions. It is estimated that we have explored less than 5% of the global ocean yet anthropogenic environmental degradation is causing widespread loss of marine biodiversity, with largely unknown consequences.
Campus Center Auditorium (UMass Amherst)
6:30 pm