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Drinking Water Safety in China: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Risks
November 4, 2016
With Hongqiao Liu, an environmental researcher and award winning journalist who focuses on seeking holistic solutions to balance economic and environmental imperatives. In her recent study for China Water Risk (CWR), Ms. Liu has examined the alarming effects of water pollution and rare earth metals mining in China, and investigated the obstacles to regulatory reform. Her series of “Water Matters” reports explored challenges faced by China in safeguarding its drinking water sources and formed the cornerstone of CWR’s work to ‘un-silo’ water risks in the policy arena to facilitate comprehensive solutions. About the talk: China’s economic miracle has come at a heavy environmental price, and policy makers are only beginning to respond in earnest. Though trillions of money have been invested to securing drinking water safety, unsafe drinking water is pumped into millions of homes every day and for those who living in remote areas, water scarcity and unsatisfying water quality make safe drinking water a luxury. Widespread awareness of urban and rural water pollution has fueled a boom in China’s bottled water industry, currently growing twice as fast as the country’s GDP. Bottled water is not however, a sustainable replacement for clean tap water; lack of oversight at treatment facilities does not guarantee its safety for consumption, and massive amounts of plastic waste is generated. Meanwhile, the extraction and processing of rare earth metals, in which China accounts for 85% of global production, is wreaking environmental havoc in surrounding districts.
Seelye 106
4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Game Day at the Field Station
November 5, 2016
Want to get off campus? Join a trip to MacLeish. Come explore the station, go on a hike, sit by the fire pit, enjoy the BEC (Bechtel Environmental Classroom), and relax. This week’s theme is game day, so board games card games and other fun will be offered! The drive up to Whately is approximately 25 minutes; the van will leave from the Chapin loading dock (between Chapin and the CC) at 1:00 p.m. and return around 4 p.m. reserve your spot by going to tinyurl.com/macleishvans or emailing esulser at smith.edu
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Meet at Chapin loading dock to head to the MacLeish Field Station
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Lecture: Sustainable Development on the Edge of the Lacandon Jungle in Chiapas, Mexico
November 7, 2016
Moises Zambrano, Land Rights Attorney in Chiapas, Mexico addresses the complex issues and legalities of sustainable development (El Extencionista) surrounding the Lacandon rainforest. Part of the ENX 100 lecture series hosted by CEEDS.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Vermont Farm to School 2016 Conference
November 2, 2016
November 3, 2016
The conference agenda will include 26 workshops led by national, regional and local leaders in the farm to school movement, including two extended afternoon sessions on Wednesday, November 2nd focused on curriculum design and storytelling. National Director of the USDA Farm to School Program Deborah J. Kane will address the conference as keynote speaker on Thursday, November 3rd. Betti Wiggins, Executive Director, Detroit Public Schools Office of School Nutrition, a 25+ year school nutrition veteran will present “How F2S Made Me a Triple A Threat” that evening.
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Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT

Reimaging the Charles River
November 3, 2016
with Richard Burck Founder & Principal, Richard Burck Associates. This lecture is part of the Fall 2016 Zube Lecture Series at UMass Amherst - LA&RP Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning. All are welcome.
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Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Massachusetts Farm & Sea to School Conference
November 4, 2016
The conference will bring together over 400 farm to school advocates from across Massachusetts and New England. Learn about curriculum integration, reducing food waste, school gardens, engaging youth through policy and social justice, and more. There will also be thematic networking sessions, providing the opportunity to get to know farm to school advocates in your areas of interest and expertise. Learn more at the link below: (This conference is organized by Massachusetts Farm to School in collaboration with the Farm Based Education Network's National Gathering, November 4-6.)
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Leominster, MA

UMass Student Farmers' Market
November 4, 2016
Every Friday, the UMass Student Farmers' Market provides good food, beautiful goods, and great music. It features locally grown produce, medicinal herb, handmade crafts, student art, and an opportunity to get to know the amazing agricultural community on the UMass Campus.
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Goodell Lawn, 351 Hicks Way, UMass Amherst
12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Experiential workshop
November 4, 2016
Including mindfulness exercises, storytelling, and reflective writing. Part of the Talking Truth: Finding Your Voice Around the Climate Crisis Fall 2016 SERIES. Seating is limited – please arrive early. Talking Truth is co-sponsored by: Office of Civic Engagement and Service-Learning, UMass Amherst Libraries, Department of Environmental Conservation, and Psychology of Peace and Violence Program. The series is endorsed by: UMass Climateers, Eco-Rep Program, Biostead Initiative, Contemplative Pedagogy Working Group, and Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.
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Floor 26, Du Bois Library, UMASS, Amherst
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Talk: 'Beyond Utopia: Capitalist Futurism v. Eco-Temporalities'
November 4, 2016
UMass graduate and Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Politics at Brown University, Claire Brault, presents “Beyond Utopia: Capitalist Futurism v. Eco-Temporalities“ as part of the UMass Political Theory Graduate Alumni Lecture Series - Fall 2016. Free admission, handicap access available.
Thompson Hall, Room 620, UMass Amherst
4:00 pm

Standing Rock Prayerful Protest
November 5, 2016
We will march to TD Bank at 243 Triangle St in Amherst. Hosted by Climate Action Now Western MA
Bank of Americ, Amherst, 1 South Pleasant St, Amherst
10:00 am

Sustainability Student Leaders Symposium 2016
November 5, 2016
The annual symposium is a set of presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions by students or regional professionals. The structure of the symposium allows students from different schools to lead sessions on a variety of topics, providing valuable presentation experience as well as facilitating the spread of ideas between schools. Sessions are typically grouped by broad topics, or tracks, such as “engagement,” “building a program,” or “communications.” The symposium shows students that they belong to a larger community of people like themselves who are all working for the same cause of creating a sustainably conscious community at their college or university. Admission $20, register for tickets online.
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Campus Center, Amherst Room, UMass Amherst
11:00 am to 5:30 pm

Featured Event

Food Tasting and Discussion with Adam Danforth
November 10, 2016
Sample mature, pastured, prepared local goat and learn from James Beard award-winning butcher and author Adam Danforth about why eating less meat, but better meat, is good for you and the environment. Adam and the Smith Dining staff are featuring more local meats for dinner at King/Scales, Cutter/Ziskind and Hubbard. For info on the menus and serving locations visit the link below or use the dining app
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Campus Center 103/4
4:15 pm

Conversation with acclaimed poet Corrie Williamson: the writing process
November 14, 2016
Outreach director at Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO) and author of "Sweet Husk", Williamson focuses on the different ways we engage with the natural world. Built on patterns and echoes, her poems center on what we can make from what is broken, dead, unsung, or left behind. Corrie Williamson is "multiple in her identities: anthropologist of imagination, archaeologist of the heart, naturalist observing the world with acuity"- Gregory Orr.
Meet at Chapin loading dock to head to the MacLeish Field Station
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Events at Smith

Food recovery action!
November 11, 2016
WE NEED YOUR HELP!It's the 2nd Fall Preview Day tomorrow so Smith will be catering lunch for prospective students and Food Recovery Network is able to recover! We are recovering from TWO locations: The Conference Center at 1:00pm; Scott Gym at 1:15pm. Let us know you can help by emailing: foodrecovery@ smith.edu
Two locations- see above
1:00 pm

Movement for Justice in El Barrio
November 12, 2016
A series of workshops hosted by Organizing for Undocumented Student Rights (OUSR) and Smith College VOX: Students for Choice. The first workshop at 11am is Getting Our Communities Involved in the Fight, focusing on outreach to different sectors of a community. The second is the Politics of Listening - why taking direction from marginalized communities is important for community organizing. The third is Women's Struggles Transform the World, focusing on women's struggles to effect change at home and all over the world.
Seelye Rm 106
11:00 am

Field Station Saturday!
November 12, 2016
Want to get off campus? Join a trip to MacLeish. Come explore the station, go on a hike, sit by the fire pit, enjoy the BEC (Bechtel Environmental Classroom), and relax. This week’s theme is TBD, but we'll have lots of fun!The drive up to Whately is approximately 25 minutes; the van will leave from the Chapin loading dock (between Chapin and the CC) at 1:00 p.m. and return around 4 p.m. reserve your spot by emailing esulser at smith.edu
Chapin loading dock to the MacLeish Field Station
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Food recovery action!
November 13, 2016
Help us recover food from Smith Dining that will go to feed members of our larger community. Email and let us know if you can make it. Your help will be most appreciated. foodrecovery@ smith.edu
Meet at Cutter-Ziskind
3:50 pm

Spoiler Alert: How Technology Can Support Food Recovery and Waste Diversion Efforts
November 14, 2016
Ricky Ashenfelter, CEO of Spoiler Alert-a food-tech startup helping businesses manage surplus food and organic waste-brings the ENX 100 lecture series to a close. Ashenfelter will examine how technology can help create an online marketplace and be a collaboration tool for otherwise wasted food. Part of the Environment and Sustainability Lecture Series hosted by CEEDS.
McConnell 103
2:40 pm to 4:00 pm

Shoals Marine Lab Information Session
November 15, 2016
Shoals Marine Lab (operated by the University of New Hampshire and Cornell University), is located 7 miles off the coast of Portsmouth, NH. The lab offers several marine science intensive summer courses that can be applied towards the ES&P minor and the Five College Coastal and Marine Sciences certificate. Jim Coyer, Assistant Director for Academic Programs and faculty for the underwater research course, will give a presentation about available courses, island life, and the application process.
Bass Hall 103
5:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Local Food Entrepreneur - Alum Molly Merrett Lecture
November 9, 2016
Molly Merrett is the chef and owner of Beets and Barley, a local vegetarian catering service. After running her own farm, she entered the catering business with the goal of creating delicious food while strengthening the local food system using local and organic ingredients.
Franklin Patterson Hall Room 104 , Hampshire College
12:00 am to 12:00 am

Living with Climate Change: The Road from Paris
November 9, 2016
Dale Jamieson delivers the second in a series of three talks that explores the science, ethics and politics of climate change, one year after the historic agreement made at the COP21 - 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris. Sponsored by the Miller Worley Fund for the Center for the Environment and The Science Center.
Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
7:30 pm

From Resilience to Transformation: Climate Risk Adaptation in New York City
November 10, 2016
with William Solecki Hudson River Estuary. This lecture is part of the Fall 2016 Zube Lecture Series at UMass Amherst - LA&RP Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning. All are welcome.
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Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

UMass Student Farmers' Market
November 11, 2016
Every Friday, the UMass Student Farmers' Market provides good food, beautiful goods, and great music. It features locally grown produce, medicinal herb, handmade crafts, student art, and an opportunity to get to know the amazing agricultural community on the UMass Campus.
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Goodell Lawn, 351 Hicks Way, UMass Amherst
12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Multi-generational Non-violent Direct Action Training
November 12, 2016
Want to learn more about the legal status of pipelines in Massachusetts and how we are working together to stop them? Considering participating in an action where you might risk arrest? Interested in learning the theory and practice of non-violent direct action? To register, contact susantheberge@icloud.com PLEASE PUT NVDA IN THE SUBJECT LINE. We will contact you to confirm your registration and to send you more specific info about the day. Include your name, address, e-mail, phone and town and whether you are already in an affinity group. You do NOT need to be in an affinity group to participate nor do you need to know whether you are prepared to risk arrest. The training will support you to consider all your options. This full- day training offers interactive opportunities including a role play simulation of a potential action. Sugar Shack will help you form or find an Affinity Group-necessary to participate in a non-violent direct action where we are intentionally risking arrest, and to be part of the decision-making process of Sugar Shack Alliance. There is no charge, but we do pass a hat to cover costs of materials, gas, the trainers’ time, and space rental fee. Folks usually throw in from $5 to $20 each. No one will be turned away. Organized by Climate Action Now and Sugar Shack Alliance
Unitarian Universalist Society, 121 North Pleasant St, Amherst
9:30 am to 5:30 pm

Neighbor, Worker, Customer: How Local Improves Your Quality of Life
November 13, 2016
Part of the "Why Shop Local" Seminar series. Free samples galore- raffles and prizes, $3 sandwich of the day for participants.
Serios Market, 65 State Street
12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Army Corps Action
November 15, 2016
Join us in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. We the protectors will be standing in protest for the people out at Standing Rock. Interested in going? Email jbenkley @ smith.edu. Sponsored by Climate Action Now Western MA
696 Virginia Rd, Concord, MA 01742
12:00 pm

Featured Event

A Post-election Conversation about the Environmental Implications of a Trump Presidency
November 18, 2016
A space to ask questions like: - Where do we go from here?- How does the political system really work and how might we engage with it effectively now? - What might happen internationally? - How do we maintain hope and use this moment as a springboard for positive action? - What lessons might we learn? - How might this change the movement? Brought to you by CEEDS, the Eco-reps and the Environmental Science & Policy Program. Lunch provided.
Campus Center 205
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

Webinar: The Post Election Climate for Climate Action
November 16, 2016
with Bill McKibben, 350.org. Part of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy Politics and Environment Education Project.
CEEDS, Wright 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Climate Justice Intersections: a Teach-In with Nia Eshu Martin-Robinson
November 18, 2016
Activist Nia Eshu Martin-Robinson will speak about environmental justice through a lens of race and class, describe her own community organizing work (with Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, Planned Parenthood and elsewhere) and lead discussion on these issues. This event will be a space for people in the Five Colleges and broader community to learn, reflect, connect and strategize.
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Neilson Browsing Room
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Field Station Saturday!
November 19, 2016
Want to get off campus? Join a trip to MacLeish. Come explore the station, go on a hike, sit by the fire pit, enjoy the BEC (Bechtel Environmental Classroom), and relax. This week’s theme is TBD, but we'll have lots of fun!The drive up to Whately is approximately 25 minutes; the van will leave from the Chapin loading dock (between Chapin and the CC) at 1:00 p.m. and return around 4 p.m. reserve your spot by emailing esulser at smith.edu
Chapin loading dock to the MacLeish Field Station
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Opening Reception- Ghosts of the Dry: Lost and Found
November 19, 2016
A presentation of a special studies project by Erika Lively, AC17J; a visual narrative about family history, homesteaded land, and water on the drought ridden plains of southeastern Colorado. Her work makes visible an unknown region and the intersections of pioneers, both White and Black, and the Indigenous Nations during westward expansion. Tthe show runs through December 4.
Nolen Art Lounge, Campus Center
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Exhibition- Ghosts of the Dry: Lost and Found
November 21, 2016
A project by Erika Lively, AC17J; a visual narrative about family history, homesteaded land, and water on the drought ridden plains of southeastern Colorado. Her work makes visible an unknown region and the intersections of pioneers, both White and Black, and the Indigenous Nations during westward expansion. The exhibition runs through December 4.
Nolen Art Lounge, Campus Center
8:00 am to 4:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Northeast Climate Science Center Seminar Series: Webinar
November 16, 2016
Webinar by Ambarish Karmalkar, a research fellow at the NE CSC at UMass Amherst. Ambarish’s research focusses on producing and communicating physically consistent and spatially coherent information on climate change and associated uncertainties for impacts assessment. This talk focuses on the management of natural resources in a changing climate, which relies heavily on climate change projections produced by dynamical models. While it is difficult to pick ‘best’ climate models from the climate modeling perspective, the impacts community is typically interested in using a handful of models in impacts research due to enormous computational and data storage costs. In this talk, Ambarish will describe a framework - a two-step process - developed to select a subset of credible climate models (global and downscaled) that can be used for impacts studies in the Northeast. Free admission; webinar can be joined remotely.
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Morrill Science Center, Room 134, UMass Amherst
3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

From Motown to No Town to Our Town
November 17, 2016
with Zenia Kotval PhD, FAICP MSC, Professor, Director, MSUE Urban Collaborators and Urban Planning Partnerships, Michigan State University. This lecture is part of the Fall 2016 Zube Lecture Series at UMass Amherst - LA&RP Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning. All are welcome.
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Procopio Room, 105 Hills North
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

UMass Student Farmers' Market
November 18, 2016
Every Friday, the UMass Student Farmers' Market provides good food, beautiful goods, and great music. It features locally grown produce, medicinal herb, handmade crafts, student art, and an opportunity to get to know the amazing agricultural community on the UMass Campus.
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Goodell Lawn, 351 Hicks Way, UMass Amherst
12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Hot Water Issues Symposium
November 19, 2016
Global, National, and Valley Perspectives: Problems, Solutions, and the Challenges Ahead. Nationally recognized experts will address three hot topics and quantity concerns. -Looming Water Shortages: Is water the next oil? -Is My Water Safe to Drink? Conventional and emerging contaminants -Climate Change and Water: Should we be worried? Speakers will be followed by a Q&A panel discussion with the audience. Please register using the link below:
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845 West Street, Amherst
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm