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Catch Chestnut Fever and help make history!
April 25, 2014
April 26, 2014
100 years ago, 1 in 4 trees in the eastern forests was an American Chestnut. The introduction of a fungal blight in the early 1900's drove the American Chestnut to extinction, completely transforming our forests. Smith's Center for the Environment is part of a national effort to restore these trees. A seed orchard is being established at the MacLeish Field Station to produce blight resistant nuts. Join us to plant the orchard (be prepared to get dirty) and help us make history! We will meet at 1:00 pm near Chapin loading dock and will return to campus between 4:30/5 pm. RSVP to Paul Wetzel (pwetzel@smith.edu)so we can save you a seat in the van and buy enough snacks for everyone!
MacLeish Field Station
1:00 pm

Events at Smith

De-stress with the Smith Community Garden
April 23, 2014
Come plant seeds in our new raised beds! All are welcome, no experience necessary! We provide all knowledge, tools, seeds, and gloves.
Smith Community Garden
3:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Discussion with a Smith Alumna in Energy Sector
April 23, 2014
Investment banks, oil companies and private equity firms are some of the most significantly male-dominated industries in the economy. Smith alumna Sarah Wright 88' will share her experience, from building Goldman Sachs’ power trading business, to transitioning Constellation Energy from a regulated utility to the most ascendant energy merchant in the world. As an investor and manager with more than 25 years of experience in private equity, investment banking and energy companies, Wright will share her views on everything from career management, to the current day energy landscape and the financial viability of renewable energy technologies in the modern world.
Seelye 207
4:30 pm

De-stress with the Smith Community Garden
April 26, 2014
Come plant seeds in our new raised beds! All are welcome, no experience necessary! We provide all knowledge, tools, seeds, and gloves.
Smith Community Garden
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment lecture
April 28, 2014
Logan Werschky, Smith 04 Special Advisor to NYC’s Chief Analytics Officer, Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics: Pioneers in Civic Data: Breaking into the Open(Data) and other lessons on approaching a new frontier
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

ES&P capstone project presentations
April 29, 2014
Food Waste: Theo Cielos, Sydney Parkmond, Catherine Aguilar and Cathryn Evangelista. Lunch provided.
Neilson Library Browsing Room
12:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Talk: Extreme Climate Events and Species Population Dynamics
April 23, 2014
Keith Nislow, UMass Amherst, Co-Principal Investigator, Northeast Climate Science Center, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation Extreme events (floods, droughts, and fires) have a high public profile and changes in their frequency, magnitude, and duration have been linked to changes in climate. For species populations, these events are often associated with high levels of mortality and major changes in habitat, suggesting a strong influence on population dynamics.In this talk, we review some of the basic determinants of population response to extreme events, using case studies based on long-term data from natural populations in the northeastern region, and present a modeling framework for evaluating the relative impacts of changes in timing, duration, and magnitude. We also consider the potential for human responses to perceived and actual risks from climate extremes to interact with, and in some cases override the direct effects of the events themselves.
UMass, Morrill Science Center, Conference Room
3:30 pm

Fossil Fuel Free Investing: Money, Power and The Planet
April 23, 2014
StakeHolders Capital and First Congregational Church Address the pros and cons of this strategy. April 23 Forum Promises a Heated Debate With the March 31 release of the United Nations report on the sweeping impacts of climate change on humans on every continent, the impact of burning fossil fuels on our planet can no longer be ignored. How best to move energy companies away from fossil fuels, whether by divestment or through shareholder advocacy, is at the heart of the debate. Those engaged in the debate will include Alice Swift, Fossil Free Divestment Working Group of Climate Action Now – MA, Terry Mollner of StakeHolders Capital and the Boards of Calvert Social Funds and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Tom Gainey of Pax World Funds, and Anurag Sharma, Professor Business Strategy, Isenberg School of Mgmt. UMass. Andrew Bellak of StakeHolders Capital, Inc. will moderate the debate. The evening is co-hosted by StakeHolders Capital, First Church’s Earth and Investment Ministry Teams, and Pax World Funds. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. StakeHolders Capital is a full service investment management firm committed to integrating clients’ values with their investment objectives. For more information visit www.stakeholderscapital.com or call 413/306-3244. This is not specific investment advice nor an offer to buy or sell securities.
First Congregational Church, 165 Main Street, Amherst
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel: Climate change and Human Survival-- Implications of the Report of the Intergovernmental Panel
April 23, 2014
on Climate Change (IGCC)on the Social Impacts of Climate Change With: President Jonathan Lash, Hampshire College; Prof. Betsy Hartmann, Hampshire College; Prof. Michael Klare, Five College Peace & World Security Studies. Free and Open to the Public
Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall, Hampshire College
7:30 pm

Community Meditation on Deep connection and honoring our relationship with Earth
April 24, 2014
A special meditation in celebration of Earth Week.
Hampshire College, Spiritual Life Center, Donut 5
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Voices from the Fossil Fuel Resistance
April 24, 2014
A panel discussion about the experiences of Crystal Lameman (from Beaver Lake Cree First Nation) and Yudith Nieto (from Houston, Texas)organizing against tar sands infrastructure.
Unitarian Universalist Church, 121 N Pleasant St., Amherst
8:00 pm

Conference- Designing for Success: Ecological Restoration in Times of Change
April 25, 2014
April 26, 2014
At this conference, we will discuss many aspects of ecological restoration in times of change, with the general theme of designing for success, including a broad range of ecological restoration projects from small isolated sites to broad regional landscapes. TOPICS • Coastal restoration & management • Human ecology & ecosystem services • River restoration • Freshwater wetland restoration • Native, invasive, and rare plants • Field trips to a restoration sites with prescribed burning, dam removal, and riverbank stabilization • and more!
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Hampshire College

Mill River Walk
April 26, 2014
Join us! This week we'll be exploring River’s End: Spring Paddle in the Floodplain Forest, Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary. 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!

Events at Smith

Nature's Temples: Understanding and Honoring Old-Growth Forests
April 30, 2014
Presented by Joan Maloof for the Spring Bulb Show, Professor Emeritus at Salisbury University and Founder of the Old-Growth Forests Network to preserve, protect and promote the country's few remaining stands of old-growth forest. She is the author of several books on forests, their ecology, their conservation, and their importance to humanity, including Nature's Temple: The Complex World of Old-Growth Forests (2016).
Conference Center
12:00 am

De-stress with the Smith Community Garden
May 3, 2014
Come plant fruit and nut trees and shrubs in our planned permaculture plot & seeds and seedlings in our new raised beds. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Plants provided by Help Yourself!, a local non-profit that plants orchards and gardens in public spaces in the Pioneer Valley, providing free food for all to harvest. (commongreen.weebly.com) Event is on, rain or shine!
Smith Community Garden
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: "Global Warming and Political Intimidation" by Distinguished Prof. Raymond Bradley
May 5, 2014
Global warming is the number one environmental issue of our time, yet some prominent politicians have refused to accept scientific evidence of human responsibility and have opposed any legislation or international agreement that would limit greenhouse emissions. A few have gone even further and have tried to destroy the reputations of scientists researching climate change by deliberately undermining the credibility of their research. In this lecture Prof. Raymond Bradley, Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will speak about the inside story from the front lines of the debate, published in his recent book “Global Warming and Political Intimidation”, describing the tactics that those in power have used to intimidate him and his colleagues as part of a larger pattern of governmental suppression of scientific information; politics at the expense of empirically based discourse.
UMass Amherst, Merrill Science Center, 4
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: Learning from American Environmental History
May 8, 2014
by University of Massachusetts, Amherst, history professor David Glassberg. Studying environmental history offers middle and high school students insights into the ways that past generations of Americans imagined and shaped the land, as well as helps students to understand the roots of the current environmental crises that they are inheriting.
the Collaborative for Educational Services (97 Hawley St, Northampton, MA)
4:30 pm

Mill River Walk
May 10, 2014
Come with us! This month we'll be walking Downtown Northampton II: Old South Street to Hockanum Road. 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!