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Screening: Racing Extinction
December 2, 2016
Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, Oscar-winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists intent on showing the world never-before-seen images that expose issues of endangered species and mass extinction.
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Campus Center 003
7:30 pm

Field Station Saturday!
December 3, 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

Ross Gay Poetry Reading
December 6, 2016
Ross Gay's third and most recent collection, "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude," has placed him in the spotlight of the poetry world, having won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts and the National Book Critics Circle awards, and named finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and the NAACP Image Award. An ardent gardener, Gay has said, “Almost everything that interests me is in the small moments, the very precise and nearly invisible moments that, upon meditation, have to do with everything.” Q&A at 4pm in the Poetry Center open to the Smith community. Evening reading free & open to the public.
Chapel Sanctuary
7:30 pm

DIY Toothpaste & Deodorant making
December 8, 2016
Make a change in your health, the environment & your wallet! Please bring 2 small containers if you can. *Hosted by Green Team
CEEDS- Center for Environment, Ecological Design & Sustainability, Wright Hall 005
7:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Plan Health: Designing Healthy Communities at A.P.E. Gallery
December 4, 2016
December 5, 2016
December 6, 2016
December 7, 2016
December 8, 2016
This year, students from landscape studies (LSS 389) and engineering (EGR 422) are collaborating on a joint project with the Office of Planning and Sustainability on the design and siting of small, temporary parks and parklets in downtown Northampton. Some of the students' work will be on display at the APE Gallery from December 4-9 as part of a broader initiative called Plan Health: Designing Healthy Communities. The reception on Tuesday, December 6 (5:30-7:30 PM) will feature the parklets in particular and conversation with the LSS and EGR students. This collaboration is sponsored in part by the Smith College Design Thinking Initiative and Landscape Studies program.
A.P.E. Art Gallery, Downtown Northampton
2:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The Future of Wind Energy in Massachusetts
December 6, 2016
The second 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 James Manwell, UMass. Prof. Manwell researches advances in technology for wind energy and is the Director of the UMass Wind Energy Center.
Bangs Community Center, Amherst
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Events at Smith

Environmental Concentration Capstone Project Presentations
December 9, 2016
Join the Climate Change and Sustainable Food concentrators as they present their respective capstone projects. Both projects explore various methods of implementing institutionalized recovery of food products that would otherwise be thrown away. Lunch will be served to the first 30 guests.
CEEDS- Center for Environment, Ecological Design & Sustainability, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm to 2:00 pm

Community partnerships project presentations
December 12, 2016
This semester, students in the Introduction to GIS class have collaborated with the Kestrel Land Trust, Franklin Land Trust, and Mass Audubon on projects to define food deserts in Chicopee, map the Forever Farmland conservation initiative, map trail networks in Florence's Sawmill Hills, map floodplain forests near Arcadia, assess impacts of cleared forest land in Williamsburg, and catalog Franklin Land Trust's conservation efforts over their 30 year history. We would be honored to have you join us to celebrate this work with food, drink, and short presentations by the student groups!
Sabin-Reed 104
9:00 am to 10:20 am

ENV 312 Project Presentations
December 13, 2016
Lunch provided. Projects are 1)'Using Compost Education to Decrease Trash at the Smith College Campus School' by Marilla Harris-Vincent, Anastasia Konefal, & Allison Snyder; 2)'Sustainable Innovation for the Smith College Landscape'by Sarah Sorensen & Celeste Venolia; and 3) 'Got Chicken? Incorporating Smith College's Food Values and the Real Food Challenge in Poultry Purchasing' by Kimberly Lu, Avita Streatfield, & Avery Westa.
Neilson Browsing Room
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Lecture: A 6000 year climate change and hurricane record:
December 9, 2016
implications for climate and humans, past and present by Dr. Lisa Park Boush, University of Connecticut
Morrill 129, UMASS Amherst
3:30 pm

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