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Project Native's 5th annual environmental Film Festival
March 15, 2015
10:00am DamNation - 53 minutes; 11:30am Plastic Paradise - 57 minutes; 1:00pm The Starfish Throwers - 82 minutes; 2:50pm Resistance - 72 minutes; 4:30pm Groundswell Rising - 71 minutes. This festival is free and open to the public, and would not be possible without funding from the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation and official sponsors: Berkshire Coop Market, GoodWorks Insurance, Kenver Ltd., and Bobbie Hallig.
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Tower Theaters, South Hadley, MA

Featured Event

Lecture: Plant Conservation and Climate Change
March 23, 2015
Jesse Bellemare, assistant professor of biological sciences and CEEDS fellow, will present 'Plant Conservation and Climate Change: Insights from Biogeography, Ecological Experimentation and Horticulture." Part of the Spring 2015 Mary Elizabeth Dickason King M.D. Annual Lecture Series in the Life Sciences in Memory of Professor Howard Parshley. Coffee, tea and light snacks will be served at 4 p.m.; talk to begin at 4:30 p.m. Open to the public.
McConnell 103
4:30 pm

Events at Smith

Lecture: Cultivating Novel Urban Ecosystems to Build Resilience Capacity
March 23, 2015
with Jack Ahern, Landscape Architecture, UMass-Amherst. Sponsored by the Mitia Sawhill Lecture Fund, this lecture is part of the LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment series and is free and open to the public.
Weinstein Auditorium
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Creatures Who Create: Should We Bring Back Lost Species?
March 24, 2015
with Bruce Jennings, Director of the Bioethics Center for Humans and Nature. Human activities now fundamentally shape the world we live in, and advances in biotechnology enable humans to manipulate the conditions of life in unprecedented ways. This talk will address what is "natural" and what is "artificial," asking, what should humans accommodate and what should we enhance? Jennings will explore the relationship between humans and nature through the lens of "de-extinction," or bringing back extinct species through genetic engineering. Do science and technology teach us to see ourselves as trustees of a fragile web of life or instead as engineers of a world that serves only human interests and needs? For more information, visit
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Seelye 201
5:00 pm

Food Recovery Network
March 25, 2015
Help us collect leftover dining hall food to donate to people who need it! We recover food twice a week and donate it to a local shelter in Holyoke. We meet Wednesdays & Sundays at 6:45p.m. in the lower level Campus Center (by the colored couches). Join Us! Questions? Email Allison and/or Pam: acwu at smith.edu or pmatcho at smith.edu
Campus Center lower level
6:45 pm

Events Off Campus

Grow Food Northampton Organic Community Gardens Garden Plot Registration
March 21, 2015
Cost: $30 for a 10'x20' or 20'x20' garden plot ($40 non-resident) Discounts for seniors (20%) and valid SNAP card recipients (80%). Garden plots will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, with 46 new plots opening in 2015. They will also be accepting orders for finished compost that gardeners can apply to their garden plots. sign up starts at 9 a.m. and goes through 11:30 a.m.; an all-gardener meeting follows at Noon. Follow the link below for more information:
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Smith Vocational & Agric. School (80 Locust St, Northampton)
9:00 am to 11:30 am

Lecture: Racialized Viruses/ Militarized Biomedicine: Armed Interventions Made in the Name of Health
March 24, 2015
with Jennifer Terry, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine as part of the Race and Science series presented by the Five College Science and Technology Students Initiative in collaboration with the Five College Women's Studies Research Center.
Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Featured Event

Panel: Smith Women in the Environment
March 30, 2015
Every other year the environmental science and policy program invites four Smith alums with diverse environmental careers back to campus to talk about their careers and how their education at Smith helped set them on their professional path. This year's panelists include: Alana Miller ‘10 Policy Manager, Transportation Alternatives; H. Hanh Chu ‘07 Emissions Data Analyst, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; Beth Callaghan ‘04 Senior Education Specialist, Monterey Bay Aquarium; Jacquelyn Ottman ’77 J.Ottman Consulting, Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Brands. The event will start with Traditional Smith Tea refreshments followed by the panel discussion. Bring your questions and bring your friends!
Neilson Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Screening: Food Chain$
March 31, 2015
Presented by SGA Campus Sustainability and the Real Food Challenge: Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States.
Seelye 107
7:00 pm

Workshop: Get Rid of the Waste. Get On With A Better Life.
March 31, 2015
With our society now driven by a 'throwaway' mentality, and recycling and composting leveling at 34% recovery rates, the time is now for action to reduce waste and change the consumption paradigm causing it. This highly interactive workshop facilitated by Jacquie Ottman '77, nationally recognized expert in green marketing and sustainable consumption, explores practical lifestyle-enhancing steps to reduce, reuse, share, repurpose and repair, beyond recycle and compost. This event, sponsored by the ES&P program, is free and open to the public.
McConnell 103
7:00 pm

Interactive exhibit: Dialogue: A Decade of Smithies on Sustainabilty
April 1, 2015
A collection of 65 works from various disciplines, by students who have sought to address Food, Waste, and Landscapes on campus and in the Pioneer Valley, brought together by Eve Pan, '15. Do underline the books, write on the margins, comment on the back, take our survey & enjoy. Notes from the curator:Over my four years at Smith, I have seen the great work of both my peers and my predecessors, yet the absence of a thorough library and space where these works may be accessed for viewing, reference use, and inspiration. ^ May we graduate knowing we may leave behind our work for the next generation to build upon. Co-sponsored by the Smith College Libraries. Neilson Hillyer Young
Visit the common spaces in Neilson, Hillyer, Young Libraries

Events at Smith

Smith Built Environment lunch
March 27, 2015
Are you interested in the architecture major at Smith, or architecture in general? Meet the seniors and ask questions relating to their work that is currently exhibited at the gallery, internships, studio tips, classes and their time at Smith, and meet and mingle with the the Smith Built Environment org! Lunch will be provided.
Jannotta Gallery, Hillyer
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Field Station Saturdays
March 28, 2015
Want to get off campus? Come visit MacLeish Field Station! You can explore the five miles of trails (rent snowshoes or skis from the Outing Club) or stay cozy in the building with a cup of tea. It's a great place to study or relax—and there's a collection of board games! The van will leave from the Chapin loading dock at 1pm and return to campus by 4:30pm. Space is limited, please sign up here: http://goo.gl/nhrVZF. For more information, contact ewald@smith.edu.
Chapin loading dock
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Food Recovery Network
March 29, 2015
April 1, 2015
Help us collect leftover dining hall food to donate to people who need it! We recover food twice a week and donate it to a local shelter in Holyoke. We meet Wednesdays & Sundays at 6:45p.m. in the lower level Campus Center (by the colored couches). Join Us! Questions? Email Allison and/or Pam: acwu at smith.edu or pmatcho at smith.edu
Campus Center lower level
6:45 pm

Lecture: Erotechnics and Civilization:Theories and Practices Concerning Social Relationships
March 30, 2015
among the Sexes in mid-20th Century Urban Landscapes with Mark Hamin, Master of Regional Planning Program, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, UMass-Amherst. This lecture is part of the LSS 100: Landscape, Design, and the Environment series and is free and open to the public.
Weinstein Auditorium
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Exhibit: Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens
April 1, 2015
For twenty years, photographer Vaughn Sills collected images of a gardening style that, despite its long history, is unknown to most horticulturists and is disappearing quickly. Sills traveled through the Deep South searching out African-American folk gardens: those yards and gardens that reflect in form and organization some of the earliest African-American religious and cultural traditions. The exhibit runs from March to September 2015.
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Lyman Plant House, Smith College

Events Off Campus

Dancing in Wild Places: Seaweed and Ocean Health
March 29, 2015
A 40-minute performance project based on travels and dancing at seven seaweed sites internationally. A short discussion about the relationship between art-making and environmental projects will follow the presentation. Free and open to the public. Come early/limited seating.
Studio 3, Kendall Hall, Mount Holyoke College
2:00 pm to 3:15 pm

Conversation and panel with the author of Labor and the Locavore, Margaret Grey
March 31, 2015
The panel will include the author, food system worker activists, and local food system researchers. The evening is sponsored by the Pioneer Valley Workers Center and the Agrarian Action Network. More about the event and the book at the link below.
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Pioneer Valley Workers Center 42 Gothic St. Northampton ma 2nd floor
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Where did 'Organic' Come From? The Unpredictable Past of Natural Food
April 1, 2015
Andrew Case, Washington College This talk explores the shifting environmental and cultural values of the organic movement in the postwar US through the story of publisher and natural health enthusiast J.I. Rodale. A transformational figure in the history of environmentalism, Rodale began publishing about health and farming in 1942, and became the popular face of the organic movement. in the late 1960s. Eccentric enough that people did not always take him seriously, his story nonetheless raises critical questions about the limits of the marketplace as a site of equitable and sustainable environmental reform, particularly given the international and global scope of the issues at stake.
Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115) Amherst College
4:30 pm

Designing Living Landscapes: Origins and Significance of Cultural Landscape Research in Landscape Ar
April 2, 2015
Ethan Carr is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst and co-directs the graduate certificate program in Cultural Landscape Management. He is the author of several books on the history of American park planning and design and is an editor of the papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
School of Management 137, UMass
4:00 pm