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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

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

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

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

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

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

Featured Event

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

Film Screening: Chasing Ice
April 2, 2014
The third 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

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

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

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

Lecture: The Olmsted Brothers' Landscape Legacy in Holyoke
April 2, 2014
A talk by Amanda Rookey of the University of Massachusetts Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Part of the Holyoke History Room's Guest Speaker Series.
Community Room of the Holyoke Public Library
6:00 pm

Lecture- Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
April 3, 2014
by Daniel Goleman, PhD, a psychologist known internationally for his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence – Why It Can Matter More Than IQ . His new book delves into surprising findings from neuroscience labs and explains why attention is a little-noticed mental asset that makes a huge difference in how well we find our way in our personal lives, our careers, as parents and partners, and in virtually everything we do. This presentation is a benefit for The Academy at Charlemont. General Admission- Adults/$25; Seniors/$20. Tickets Can be Purchased t theAcademy of Music Box Office (Open Tuesday- Friday 3:00PM-6:00PM) or by calling 413-584-9032 ext.105 (Service fees will apply with purchase).
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Academy of Music, Northampton
7:00 pm

Featured Event

Writing and the Sciences: Fiction and Nonfiction
April 8, 2014
Acclaimed science writer Dava Sobel (Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, A More Perfect Heaven, The Planets) is the Joan Leiman Jacobson Visiting Nonfiction Writer at Smith this year. She will give her first public reading at Smith jointly with National Book Award-winning fiction writer Andrea Barrett (Ship Fever, Servants of the Map, The Air We Breathe, Archangel). After the readings, Dava and Andrea will discuss (contrast/compare) the challenges of writing literary non-fiction and fiction about science and scientists and answer questions from the audience. This is an unprecedented opportunity for students and faculty to explore ways in which science and literature link across the curriculum. Place: Date: April 8 Time: 4:30
Seelye 207
4:30 pm

Film Screening: Students and Goliath
April 9, 2014
The fourth in the EARTH'S TURN film series planned as a lead up to Earth Day. A discussion after the film will be led by Divest Smith College. 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

Events at Smith

LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment lecture
April 7, 2014
Randolph Hester, landscape architect and Professor Emeritus, UC Berkley: Lecture title TBA
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Consuming to Extinction: Africa, Asia, America and the Ivory Trade
April 10, 2014
a lecture with Stephanie Rupp, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York. Sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, East Asian Studies, African Studies, the Environmental Science and Policy program, the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS), and the Smith College Lecture Committee.
Seelye 106
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Environmental Teach-In
April 4, 2014
Amherst professors, community members, alumni and students are coming together to speak about environmental issues. Speakers will be presenting on a wide variety of issues: anything from paleoclimatology to public health. Drop by for just five minutes or stay for the whole two hours. There will be food!
Amherst College, Frost Library
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Mill River walk
April 5, 2014
Come with us! This month we'll be walking Downtown Northampton I: Paradise Pond to Old South Street. Sponsored by the Mill River Greenway Initiative, Friends of Northampton Trails and Greenways and Smith College CEEDS (Center for the Environment, Ecological Design & Sustainability) SPACE IS LIMITED! Email us at info@millrivergreenway.org to reserve your spot and get directions to the starting point!

Lecture: Evo-Devo and Darwin's Exclamation
April 7, 2014
r. Pamela Diggle is a professor and the associate department head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. Her talk is entitled “'A Great & Curious Blunder in Dame Nature': Evo-Devo and Darwin’s Exclamation." Her research interests concern the evolution of morphological diversity among plants, with particular emphasis on understanding how features of development shape the dynamics of evolutionary change.
Amherst College, Merrill Science Center, Lecture room 4
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Out of the Blue: Nantucket and the Pacific World
April 8, 2014
Edward D. Melillo, assistant professor of history and environmental studies: This lecture will chronicle the stories of David Whippy and William Cary, a pair of nineteenth-century Nantucket mariners who spent many years residing in Fiji. These two castaways were involved in the export of sea cucumbers from Fiji to China and the importation of whales' teeth to Fiji from various parts of the Pacific. The histories of Whippy, Cary, and the commodities they traded offer potent testimonials about cultural and ecological changes during the nineteenth century. They also illustrate the long-term connections that emerged among Nantucket, Fiji, and the broader ecosystems and cultures of the Pacific Ocean region during the 1800s. The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Amherst College, Pruyne Lecture Hall
4:30 pm

David Dillon Annual Memorial Lecture: David Eisen
April 8, 2014
Critical Tools for Contemporary Practice David Eisen is an architect, writer and educator with a focus on utilizing design as a tool for social transformation. As the architecture critic for the Boston Herald and Boston Phoenix his writing investigated the relationship of design innovation to broader trends in culture, politics, and the often-overlooked aspects of urban life.
UMass Gordon Hall, room 303
5:30 pm

Talk: Relevance of Extreme Events for Breeding Birds
April 9, 2014
Extreme weather, such as heat waves and drought, can have strong effects on the distribution, abundance, and persistence of many species. In this talk, Andy Allstadt will first discuss how we can quantify extreme weather events, and how these metrics may relate to ecological systems. Then, Brooke Bateman will discuss how extreme weather events and recent climate change have affected breeding bird species in the U.S.. We will use case studies to highlight how learning about past relationships can help us plan for future changes in extreme weather and climate
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UMass Morrill Science Center, room 134
3:30 pm

Lecture: The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto
April 9, 2014
with Mexican author Gustavo Esteva, a forefront figure in post-development theory. Is there a future for development? Can we follow a path endangering both the environment and the social fabric? The alternative is not going back to the stone age. We can construct a world economically feasible, socially just and ecologically sensible for buen vivir, living well.
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall, Hampshire College
5:30 pm

7 Dirty Energy Roadshow: Intersections Between Nuclear, Coal and Natural Gas Extraction
April 9, 2014
The Dirty Energy Road Show includes a power point presentation examining the parallels of coal and nuclear issues, and connects them to other forms of dirty energy and climate change. Parallels are drawn to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas as well. The presentation looks at the mining of materials, how the power plants work, waste issues, and impacts on the health of humans and ecosystems. It also shows examples of front line communities fighting back against waste dumps and other polluting facilities, as well as Mountain Justice folks fighting mountaintop removal. It includes a power point and a table with lots of free info. and items for available for a small donation like t-shirts, books, posters and DVDs.
Hampshire College, Main Lecture Hall
7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

"Hydraulic Fracturing: Reconciling Technical Practice with Public Expectations"
April 10, 2014
Physics seminar Professor John Deutch '60 of MIT. Tea/cookies will be served before the talk, at 4:15 p.m. in Merrill 204.
Amherst College, Merrill Science Center, Lecture Room 3
4:45 pm to 6:00 pm

Lecture: "Poolitics" with Gustavo Esteva
April 10, 2014
"Poolitics: The Flush Toilet and Struggles for Political Autonomy," A lecture with Gustavo Esteva, renowned post-development author Activist and community-based intellectual Gustavo Esteva of Oaxaca, Mexico will reflect on poverty, excrement and collective resistance to economic and state oppressions. The interconnection of these issues has been termed the ‘politics of shit’ and resulting theories point to alternative attitudes and techniques for ‘developing’ the global poor and realizing self-determination for marginalized groups. How do dominant attitudes about ‘shit’, the flush toilet, and alternative sanitation manifest in neo-colonial development schemes? What is the meaning of buen vivir for Mexico’s indigenous peoples and what has their struggle for autonomy looked like in an urban, contemporary setting? All are welcome.
Amherst College, Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall
7:30 pm