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Featured Event

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

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

Events Off Campus

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

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

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

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

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

Events at Smith

Field Station Saturday!
November 26, 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

Exhibition- Ghosts of the Dry: Lost and Found
November 28, 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

Not Your Disney Princess: Beyond Pocohontas: Rewriting the Narratives of Indigenous Women
November 28, 2016
Mni Wiconi- Water is Life presented by the Indigenous Smith Studentgs and Allies (ISSA).
Neilson Browsing Room
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Exclusive Screening: Command and Control
November 29, 2016
View the brand new documentary that is currently out in theaters. "Command and Control" is based upon the book by the same name by Eric Schlosser that describes how painfully close we have been to nuclear disaster in the U.S. - of our own making. Visit the link below for more information about the movie. And be sure to mark November 29th on your calendar! Sponsored by the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, AFSC, the Nuclear- and Carbon-free Future Coalition.
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Helen Hills Hills Chapel
4:30 pm

Post-election conversation: environmental implications of a Trump administration
November 30, 2016
Did you miss our first gathering? Still have questions? Bring your questions and come for lunch and conversation.
CEEDS- Center for Environment, Ecological Design & Sustainability, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm

'Activism, Art and Science': A Conversation with Eric Avery and Anne S. De Groot '78
December 1, 2016
Join Dr. Eric Avery, artist, and Smith Medalist Dr. Anne S. De Groot (class of 1978), Founder, CEO & CFO, EpiVax, Inc., for a presentation and dialogue about their approaches to activism and advocacy through art and science. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Eric Avery: AIDS Work on view at Smith College Museum of Art through December 11.
Neilson Browsing Room
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Keeping the Lights On: What is our Energy Future?
November 29, 2016
The first in the Lighting our Future series organized by the Amherst League of Women Voters to explore how we can move toward renewable sources for electricity generation in Massachusetts. This talk will be given by Anne C. George, Vice President, ISO New England. ISO New England is charged with maintaining and operating the electric grid system in the 6-state New England region. The Future of Wind Energy in Massachusetts Tuesday, December 6, 7 - 8:30 PM, Bangs Community Center, Amherst James Manwell, UMass Prof. Manwell researches advances in technology for wind energy and is the Director of the UMass Wind Energy Center
Woodbury Room, Jones Library, Amherst, MA
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Northeast Climate Science Center Seminar Series: Webinar
November 30, 2016
Radley Horton of Columbia University will speak about the “Projected expansion of the Souther pine beetle into northern Forests.” Horton's talk is part of "Engaging Stakeholders in Climate Adaptation," a webinar series presented by The Northeast Climate Science Center. Radley Horton is an associate research scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University. His research focuses on extreme weather events, the limitations of climate models, and adaptation to climate change. He currently teaches in Columbia University's Sustainable Development department. 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

Urban Nature: Human Nature
December 1, 2016
with Peter Del Tredici, Associate Professor in Practice Harvard Graduate School of Design. 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

Good COP, Bad COP: Climate Change After Paris
December 1, 2016
Maria Ivanova delivers the final talk in a series exploring 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