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Featured Event

Arts Afield: Weathering Heights
April 8, 2017
Join Smith College faculty, staff and students along with local community members for our inaugural Arts Afield event as they dance, tell stories, read poetry, play music and more. The event starts at 1 p.m. and features Carol Berner (EDC), Dean Flower (ENG), artists Bruce Hook and Dan Ladd, Naila Moreira (ENG), Michele Wick (PSY), Whitney Wilson (DAN) and several others. Music will be provided by the Wailing Banshees. Cider and donuts will be served. Want to go? Get a ride on our bus! Departs JMG at 12:30 pm, returns by 4:15 pm.
MacLeish Field Station- Catch a bus at JMG (see details above)

Events at Smith

Bird Watching Walk!
April 8, 2017
*Po-ta-to-chip* (American Goldfinch) *Teakettle* (male Carolina Wren) Calling all lover of birds and feathered creature enthusiasts!! Join Mark Brandriss (GEO) for a bird watching walk up the Mill River. We will meet by the boathouse and proceed from there, walking for 1-2 hours, hoping to see a few early spring migrants. Bring your best pair of binoculars (a few will be provided), listening ears, walking shoes, and bird calls/knowledge. Hope to see you all there bright and early!! Sign up at the link below by April 6th so we can determine how many people are coming; donuts may or may not be provided ;)
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Smith Boathouse, Paradise Pond
9:00 am

Environmental Science and Policy Lunchbag Talk:
April 12, 2017
Campus Sustainability Projects- a presentation by students in ENV 201/202. Lunch provided.
Sabin-Reed 220
12:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Conference: New England Farm to Institution Summit
April 7, 2017
The 2017 Summit will bring together more than 500 people who are leveraging the power of schools, colleges, hospitals and other institutions to transform our food system. Please join us – and hundreds of other farm to institution advocates – for two exciting days of learning, sharing, exploring and connecting. The event will convene representatives from institutional facilities, along with their food supply chain partners and farm to institution advocates, to maximize collective impact and overcome challenges to buying more local food. The summit will feature programming that focuses on farm to school, farm to campus and farm to health care, as well as cross-sector themes.
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Doubletree by Hilton, Leominster, MA

Living Waters, Animate Lands- Traditional Ecological Knowledge:
April 7, 2017
Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future. The third annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium. This symposium will build bridges among cultural heritage, ecology, economics and ethics by exploring Indigenous ecological knowledge and how to adapt to environmental change. Visit the website (below) for a full schedule.
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Cole Assembly Hall, Amherst College
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Reception and reading for Living Waters, Animate Lands-
April 7, 2017
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future. The third annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium. This symposium will build bridges among cultural heritage, ecology, economics and ethics by exploring Indigenous ecological knowledge and how to adapt to environmental change.
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Cole Assembly Hall, Amherst College
6:30 pm

Plant walk
April 8, 2017
for participants of the third annual Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium "Living Waters, Animate Lands-Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Braiding Story, Skills and Sustenance with Hope for a Sustainable Future."
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Amherst College
10:00 am

Featured Event

Unpacking an Environmental Election: a Continuation of the Post-election Conversation
April 18, 2017
Join us for a lunchtime conversation to continue unraveling the newest budget proposals and executive orders brought by this administration. We want to hear what this means for you and how it affects your daily lives-- your connections to people and place, your interests and passions. Alex Barron (ENV) and Sarah Hines (HIST) will be on hand to help us better understand the possible real life implications of these policy proposals. Come with your questions, concerns and a hungry appetite to engage in a conversation with other students, faculty and staff. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Events at Smith

April Showers [Earth Week]
April 17, 2017
April 18, 2017
April 19, 2017
April 20, 2017
Take part in the annual competition to see which house can save the most water and energy! The winning house will win a gift certificate to Herrells! For two weeks, starting on April 17th, mark on the scoresheet in your house's bathroom for every day you skip a shower or take a shower that lasts less than five minutes. Eco Reps will place timers in showers throughout the houses.
All Smith houses!

Film- Seed: The Untold Story
April 17, 2017
Summary: Seed keepers around the world are determined to protect humanity's 12,000-year-old food legacy. The film has been screened at the DC Environmental Film Festival and has been featured at festivals in NYC and Columbus, OH, and elsewhere.
Airing on PBS' "Independent Lens" (10 pm on WGBY and 11 pm on CPTV)

DIY Upcycled T-shirt Bags [Earth Week]
April 17, 2017
April 20, 2017
Drop-in to learn how to transform your old t-shirts into reusable and functional shopping bags in as little as 15-20 minutes. Stop by one of our drop-in sessions with your favorite old shirt or use one of ours. Customize your bag with the tools and materials in the Design Thinking Prototyping Studio.
Design Thinking Initiative, Capen Annex, 25A Henshaw Ave.
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Hidden structures: Environmental contamination, science’s “rescue” narrative, and just engagement
April 18, 2017
with affected publics- a Sigma Xi Luncheon. Speaker Dr. Yanna Lambrinidou (Smith ’89) is a medical ethnographer, affiliate faculty in Science and Technology in Society at Virginia Tech and founder of the non-profit children’s environmental health organization Parents for Nontoxic Alternatives. Since 2007, she has conducted extensive investigative, ethnographic and public policy research on lead in drinking water nationally. Lunch is served at 11:45 a.m., talks begin at 12:00 p.m. and are open to all faculty, emeriti, staff, and students.
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Lunch in McConnell Foyer, talk in McConnell 103
11:45 am

Environmental Science and Policy Lunchbag Talk:
April 19, 2017
Linking Institutional Carbon Prices and Community Climate Fund Offset Frameworks to Opportunities at Smith. Lunch provided.
Sabin-Reed 220
12:15 pm

Repair Share [Earth Week]
April 19, 2017
Have a worn out pair of jeans? A broken lamp? A tea kettle in need of repair? Shoes in need of TLC? A laptop charger on the fritz? A lost button on your favorite button-down? A mug with a broken handle? Come to the Repair Share! We'll have cookies from Tart, tools, and supplies such as a sewing machine, adhesives, and volunteers to help you fix whatever you need. Celebrate Earth Week by saving things from the landfill. Help us build a community of re-use, skill sharing, and sustainability. If you have a special skill, contact Zoe Merrell at zmerrell@smith.edu to volunteer. This event is open to the public and is wheelchair accessible.
Design Thinking Studio in the Capen Annex
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Jill Stein
April 19, 2017
Hosted by the Green Team.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Geosciences lunch: Paleoceanographic implications of global climate change
April 20, 2017
in the Western Interior Seaway by Raquel Bryant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Lunch served at noon, talk begins at 12:10 p.m.
Sabin-Reed 103
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Lecture: Regenerative Design in the Built Environment
April 20, 2017
with Michael Singer, Architect. Singer is an innovator of functional design known for his sculptural gardens such as two atria at the Alterra Institute for Environmental Research in Wageningen, The Netherlands, which provides environmental interactions with the building's air, water and climate control systems, acting as the structure's "lungs and kidneys." His groundbreaking work has helped transform concepts of public art, architecture, landscape and planning projects into models for urban and ecological regeneration. All welcome; refreshments served. Part of the long-term project Modes and Models of Making at the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.
Neilson Browsing Room
5:00 pm

Events Off Campus

#marchforscience: why how signs mean matters
April 14, 2017
RPI Professor Mike Fortun will give a brief talk exploring the intersections of politics and science in the upcoming March for Science 2017 through the signs and posters that will be carried during the march. Why does it make a difference that we understand the purposes of signs and signification? What can the March for Science on April 22, Earth Day, 2017 accomplish? What can the posters & signs that are carried do? And what can/should the hashTag #marchforscience actually come to mean --and do-- for the sciences in the Trump era? This talk will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Professor Fortun to explore these questions and more. (This event is part of a seminar series which has a journal group component. A link to the reading by Gregory Bateson which accompanies the event can be found at the link below. Sponsored by The Institute for Science
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room 333 of the Cole Science Center at Hampshire College
1:30 pm

Dig in and Volunteer at Gardening the Community
April 15, 2017
Volunteer with the Community Service Organization for a spring trip to Gardening the Community. GTC is an intersectional food justice organization based in Springfield, Mass which focuses on youth development, community building, and growing good food. The event will take place outdoors and tasks will include weeding, planting, and other gardening activities. Transportation, sunscreen and bug spray are provided. Please bring water and a snack if you need one. To sign up, visit https://goo.gl/forms/rpP6N04MkW6conu73. For more information, email ewhittier @ smith.edu.
Gardening the Community, Springfield, MA
8:15 am to 12:30 pm

Edible Landscaping with Fruit
April 15, 2017
led by Ms. Sonia Schloemann. This presentation will explore how fruit can be incorporated into an edible landscape setting. We will talk about common fruit like strawberries and blueberries and also more unusual fruit like Aronia and Lingonberries. Participants will learn what these plants can contribute to a home landscape and what it takes to grow them successfully. The end of the class we will tour the UMass Permaculture Garden. Part of the Mass Aggie Seminars 2017: A Home Garden Series. Fee: $50. To register, go to the link below: Sponsors: Nourse Farms, OESCO,Inc., and Adams County Nursery.
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UMass-Amherst French Hall, 230 Stockbridge Rd., Amherst
10:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Featured Event

Anti-Racism, “White Fragility” and the “Third Reconstruction”:
April 21, 2017
A Black Feminist and Vegan Praxis of Survival, Resistance, and Hope, with African American food and health scholar Dr. A. Breeze Harper. Over the past decade of scholarship dedicated to ethical consumption ("good food", locavorism, vegetarianism, Fair Trade, veganism) , scholars and food justice activists focused on intersections of food, ethics, and race have noticed a pattern: the mainstream ethical food movement rarely, if ever, addresses how race (i.e., racism, whiteness, racialization, anti-racism) operates when it comes to food, sustainability, and ethics. Even though critical race applications within the ethical food movement are slowly gaining momentum, many people of color involved struggle with how to navigate, intervene, and break past the barrier of “white fragility” and build intersectional anti-racist based "good" and "ethical" food models and praxis. Dr. Harper will specifically talk about key strategies to identify conscious and unconscious racism, “white Fragility”, and the health and nutritional consequences of “racial battle fatigue”. She will creatively use real life examples of how systemic racism and white fragility operate, how to intervene, and how to create intersectional anti-racism for empowerment within the ethical foodscape and beyond. It is a timely talk during a new era of American politics that threatens decades of social justice and civil rights work collectively and successfully achieved by thousands of people of color and allies.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Events at Smith

April Showers [Earth Week]
April 21, 2017
Take part in the annual competition to see which house can save the most water and energy! The winning house will win a gift certificate to Herrells! For two weeks, starting on April 17th, mark on the scoresheet in your house's bathroom for every day you skip a shower or take a shower that lasts less than five minutes. Eco Reps will place timers in showers throughout the houses.
All Smith houses!

Earth Day Festival [Earth Week]
April 21, 2017
Join us for our Earth Day celebration, with a focus on sustainability and environmental justice. Featuring performances by student groups, free cookies from Tart, button-making, collaborative art, lawn games, and more!
Chapin Lawn. (Rain Location: CC Lower Level)
11:00 am to 2:00 pm

April Showers
April 22, 2017
April 23, 2017
April 24, 2017
April 25, 2017
April 26, 2017
Take part in the annual competition to see which house can save the most water and energy! The winning house will win a gift certificate to Herrells! For two weeks, starting on April 17th, mark on the scoresheet in your house's bathroom for every day you skip a shower or take a shower that lasts less than five minutes. Eco Reps will place timers in showers throughout the houses.
All Smith Houses!

Pipelines in our backyard! Conversation with Katy Eiseman, Pres. of the Pipeline Awareness Network
April 25, 2017
Ms. Eiseman is coming to CEEDS to talk about the role that states can play in terms of dealing with the Trump administration and its push for more fossil fuel infrastructure and fewer regulations that protect the public trust. Come with questions, comments, concerns, and an open mind!
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Environmental Science and Policy/CEEDS Lunchbag:
April 26, 2017
Unpacking the 4/22 "March for Science" and the 4/29 "People's Climate March" with students who participated. Co-sponsored with CEEDS. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

April Showers
April 27, 2017
Take part in the annual competition to see which house can save the most water and energy! The winning house will win a gift certificate to Herrells! For two weeks, starting on April 17th, mark on the scoresheet in your house's bathroom for every day you skip a shower or take a shower that lasts less than five minutes. Eco Reps will place timers in showers throughout the houses.
All Smith Houses!

Events Off Campus

Western MA Premiere of "THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES"
April 26, 2017
The First Full-Length Documentary of Climate Change's Impact on Global Stability, as seen by U.S. Military and Security Officials. Directed by Jared Scott, Director of "Requiem for an American Dream" Discussion to Follow, Led by Prof. Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace & World Security Studies.Free and Open to the Public.
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, Franklin Patterson Hall, Main Lecture Hall
7:30 pm

Mushroom Walk
April 27, 2017
Take a break from finals studying to join us on a guided forest walk in search of mushrooms. Explore the identification, uses, and ecological functions of different fungi with mushroom expert John Michelotti of Catskill Fungi. Please arrive on time; we will be walking from Franklin Permaculture Garden to a nearby forest promptly at 2:30 pm.
Franklin Permaculture Garden, UMASS AMherst
2:30 pm to 4:00 pm