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Events at Smith ES&P Lunchbag: Statistical modeling for forest ecology September 30, 2020 with Albert Kim, Assistant Professor in Statistical and Data Sciences. Many people associate �statistics� only with dense mathematical formulas and numbers. While superficially this is the case, at a much deeper level statistics is about creating models of real-world phenomena. In particular, these data-driven models must navigate uncertainty. In this data visualization driven talk, Kim will address three questions relating to the growth of trees (1) �How can we model growth?� (2) �How can we model the effect of interspecies competition on growth?� and (3) �How does climate change affect annual growth?� The talk will center on forestry data from the ForestGEO network�s Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, VA, USA. Use your Smith email to join us at the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm Open Zoom Hours with Rachael Wein October 1, 2020 Are you passionate about the environment and sustainability? Want to think through how you can connect what you're studying to issues of environmental justice? Need to talk through an article you just read or an idea you just learned about? Just want to hang out? You'll find good company in this zoom room! Bring your questions, thoughts, and specific interests! Rachael is excited to meet you! https://smith.zoom.us/j/92864294175 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunrise Smith meeting October 1, 2020 Calling all Smithies! We'd love to have you join our regular weekly meeting. Interested folx can email sunrisesmith @ smith.edu to get link. Virtual via Zoom 6:00 pm Antigone in Ferguson October 2, 2020 A performance of Sophocles' Antigone as a catalyst for an audience discussion about racialized police violence.Antigone in Ferguson is a groundbreaking project that fuses dramatic readings by acclaimed actors of Sophocles� Antigone with live choral music performed by a diverse choir, from St. Louis, Missouri and New York City culminating in powerful, healing discussions about racialized violence, police brutality, systemic oppression, gender-based violence, health inequality, and social justice. Register for this free event below: More... Virtual via Zoom 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm Supporting and Leveraging the Local Food System During the Pandemic October 5, 2020 Gaby Immerman, Experiential Learning Specialist at the Smith College Botanic Garden and Grow Food Northampton Board Member, will discuss how organizations in the Northampton community joined together at the start of the pandemic to support local farmers and feed those who are food insecure. She will talk in depth about the Community Food Distribution Project. More... Virtual via zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Part 4: Electing Data October 6, 2020 Learn how to find and assess spatial data, and perform analysis in ArcGIS Online to examine the variables that can contribute to understanding issues like: voter turnout, changing district demographics, campaigning, and others. Part of the Spatial Analysis Lab fall workshop series. Pre-register using the link below and join in at https://smith.zoom.us/j/6757119877 More... Virtual via zoom 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm Presentation of the Environmental Concentration October 6, 2020 We want to help you find your path- whether you are interested in sustainable food, sustainable design, environmental justice, or something else entirely. Join us to learn more about how you can use our choose-your-own-adventure concentration model to weave together formal and informal learning opportunities to bridge theory and practice in support of environmental decisions and action. Use your Smith email to join us at the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm Live Q&A conversation with members of the SmithVent team October 6, 2020 Don't miss this opportunity to hear from the SmithVent team, winners of the CoVent-19 competition that was launched by a group of anesthesiology residents at Massachusetts General Hospital in partnership with Ximedica medical device company. FastCompany magazine called the SmithVent project �a master class in designing for the COVID-19 era.� You will learn from Smithies about what it was like to rapidly and collaboratively design a winning solution to one of our world's pressing needs. This event is a lead up to a Collaborative Design-a-Thon that will happen later this month! Please register at the link. More... Virtual via zoom 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Six Smith Alums, in Celebration of the Publication of The Map of Every Lilac Leaf October 6, 2020 This virtual public poetry reading, featuring Rebecca Foust, Gina Franco, Laurie Anne Guerrero, Jessica Jacobs, Gail Mazur, and Abe Louise Young, launches The Map of Every Lilac Leaf, a new poetry collection and art book featuring 40 nationally known poets responding to art in SCMA�s collection produced by the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College and the Smith College Museum of Art. Register for the event using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:30 pm Events Off Campus What Does the Earth Ask of Us? September 30, 2020 By Robin Wall Kimmerer, distinguished Professor and author of Braiding Sweetgrass. We are showered every day with the gifts of the Earth and yet we are tied to institutions which relentlessly ask, what more can we take? Drawing upon both scientific and Indigenous knowledges, this talk explores the covenant of reciprocity. How might we use the gifts and the responsibilities of human people in support of mutual thriving in a time of ecological crisis? The Keynote to the 2020-21 Feinberg Series, Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency presented by the UMass Amherst History Department. Use the link below to register or for more information: More... Virtual via Zoom, FaceBook or YouTube. 6:00 pm Art as Story Through an Indigenous Lens with Judy Dow September 30, 2020 In order to understand the world today and prepare for the future, we must also know and understand the past. Judy Dow, Abenaki artist & educator, uses art to tell stories rooted in the geologic and historical context of land, the people who live on it, and the ways that they interact. Judy has been teaching for 30 years and in the past 10-15 has worked with youth to tell important stories through Abenaki traditions, crafts, and skills. From middle school math lessons, to high schoolers helping shape how land is used in Brattleboro, the art & stories Judy will share offer a new lens for considering the world around us. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Join on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Farm to College in New England: Past, Present, and Post-Pandemic October 1, 2020 "Farm to institution" represents an important lever for change in the effort to build resilient and sustainable regional food systems. Institutions, including colleges and universities, make important daily choices about food including: what food to buy, where to buy it from, if they should grow it, how much to pay for it, how much to charge for it, and how to serve it. These choices provide opportunities to promote sustainable growing practices, provide transparency in the food system, support regional economies, and increase food access & food justice. These connections have become ever more relevant due to Covid-19�s food system disruptions. What roles can (or should) institutions play in support of the regional food movement at the intersections of sustainability, resiliency, student food access, and food justice? More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Maintaining Resilient and Enduring Urban Places in the Age of Climate Change October 1, 2020 with Forster Ndubisi, Professor, Texas A&M University. Part of the Zube Lecture Series hosted by Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass, Amherst. More... Zoom 4:00 pm A Black Pandemic Toolkit: Lessons from Black Geographies on Crisis October 2, 2020 with Dr. Celeste Winston, part of the UMass Department of Geosciences Guest Lecture Series. Listen in using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:20 pm Co-Op Power Annual Climate Justice Summit October 3, 2020 October 4, 2020 Spend the weekend taking in the good news about the substantive progress toward racial justice, climate justice, and community owned clean energy. Join this multi-class, multi-race, inter-generational, inclusive gender, Northeast regional movement with practical ways to build a more just and sustainable energy future. Extended plenary sessions with inspiring speakers, lots of interaction and time for networking and learning . Dozens of participatory workshops on critically important themes. Opportunities for community building and mutual aid. FREE for anyone under 25. Get the full conference schedule and register using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Webinar: The Perfect Storm: Forests, Climate, and Environmental Justice October 6, 2020 Join a webinar that will address how false industry solutions and industrial logging of U.S. forests perpetuate systemic racism and the climate emergency, and how incorporating forest protection makes for a stronger and more just climate policy. With panelists Dr. Bill Moomaw, Professor at Tufts University and co-chair of the Global Development and Environment Institute; Reverend Leo Woodbury, Pastor and Executive Director of New Alpha Development Corporation; Danna Smith, JD executive Director, Dogwood Alliance, and moderator Katherine Egland, NAACP National Board of Directors and Co-Founder of EEECHO. Register using the link below: More... Webinar 5:00 pm Screening: Gather October 6, 2020 Join a virtual screening of GATHER, a documentary that traces the intentional destruction of Native American foodways and the renaissance to reclaim indigenous agriculture and food systems. The film will be followed by a live discussion. Featuring the work of First Nation�s Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative, GATHER highlights tribes and Native communities as they build sustainable foodways that improve health, strengthen food security and increase control over Native agriculture and food systems. GATHER follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous caf� as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath River: gather.film. �The food sovereignty movement has so many powerful stories that needed to be told from the community perspective,� said Michael E. Roberts (Tlingit), First Nations President and CEO. �Hearing stories about Native people from Native people, along with experts in this type of storytelling, brings a tribal producer�s vision and First Nation�s work to the forefront.��This event is free, but registration is required: More... Virtual 6:30 pm		Events at Smith Grandma Taught Me Best / Centering our voices and ancestors in the environmental movement October 8, 2020 Have you ever opened your freezer to a big tub of ice cream, only to open it and find dinner leftovers from a week before? Fish heads, jollof rice, curries - sound familiar? BIPOC families have always practiced �sustainability�, yet are left out of the mainstream narratives of what it means to be an �environmentalist� and live �sustainably�. While big green organizations (the Sierra Club, National Park Service, Audubon Society, etc.)�led and made up of predominantly White employees and members�have been trying to take action to redress their racist and colonialist origins, how can we, as BIPOC, hold space to claim, center, and celebrate our familial practices? In this conversation, we will come together to discuss how the environmental movement has centered the western world and Whiteness, how we can identify and center our voices in the movement, and how we can connect to BIPOC-led environmental justice efforts�at Smith, in our communities, and beyond. This discussion has been designed for BIPOC students. https://smith.zoom.us/j/96479330700 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Sunrise Smith meeting October 8, 2020 Calling all Smithies! We'd love to have you join our regular weekly meeting. Interested folx can email sunrisesmith @ smith.edu to get link. Virtual via Zoom 6:00 pm Events Off Campus California Burning: the Apocalyptic Trinity of Climate Change, Alien Plant Invasion & Exurbanization October 7, 2020 a lecture by Mike Davis, activist, writer, historian and distinguished Professor Emeritus, UC Riverside moderated by Vijay Prashad. Part of the 2020-21 Feinberg Series, Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency presented by the UMass Amherst History Department. Spanish interpretation and closed captioning available. Use the link below to register or for more information: More... Virtual via Zoom, FaceBook or YouTube. 6:00 pm Rebuilding Baltimore: More Than a House October 7, 2020 Black Women Build - Baltimore is a homeownership and wealth-building initiative that trains black women in carpentry, electrical, and plumbing by restoring vacant and deteriorated houses in West Baltimore. Black Women Build-Baltimore was founded in 2017 by Shelley Halstead who believes that for black women to build intergenerational wealth, with the inherent security and prosperity it can generate, they must also learn the skills necessary to maintain that wealth. Home ownership and the ability to maintain that asset is one way this can be achieved. Using an intersectional framework Black Women Build-Baltimore offers its holistic training program to capable women who are ready for change, and would not otherwise have the opportunity. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. The Yestermorrow Speaker Series is a free offering that has traditionally focused on design/build, craftsmanship, and interesting ideas & concepts related to sustainability. This fall, we are highlighting speakers & organizations that seek to "re-design/build" communities, structures, and systems for the health of people & the planet. Join on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Modern Environmental Politics: Big Data, Behavioral Science, and Getting Out The Vote October 8, 2020 Environmentalists aren't voting as much as they ought to, but recent advances in data analytics and behavioral science offer hope for 2020 and beyond. With fresh data from recent elections and mobilization experiments, voter turnout expert Nathaniel Stinnett will discuss how modern political campaigns identify and mobilize voters, and how that impacts environmental policy at the local, state, and federal level. Speaker Nathaniel Stinnett is the Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-partisan nonprofit that uses data analytics and behavioral science to mobilize environmentalists to vote. Named one of five global "climate visionaries" by The New York Times in 2018, and dubbed "The Voting Guru" by Grist magazine, Stinnett is a frequent expert speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques and the behavioral science behind getting people to vote. He has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, Congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns, and he sits on the Board of Advisors for MIT's Environmental Solutions Initiative. Register at the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Webinar: The Perfect Storm: Forests, Climate, and Environmental Justice October 8, 2020 Join a webinar that will address how false industry solutions and industrial logging of U.S. forests perpetuate systemic racism and the climate emergency, and how incorporating forest protection makes for a stronger and more just climate policy. With panelists Dr. Bill Moomaw, Professor at Tufts University and co-chair of the Global Development and Environment Institute; Reverend Leo Woodbury, Pastor and Executive Director of New Alpha Development Corporation; Danna Smith, JD executive Director, Dogwood Alliance, and moderator Katherine Egland, NAACP National Board of Directors and Co-Founder of EEECHO. Register using the link below: More... Webinar 12:00 pm Webinar: How Will Climate Change Impact Forest Wildlife? October 13, 2020 The forests of the NE CASC region are highly exposed to climate change. Likewise, many of the species that inhabit these forest ecosystems are at their southern range edges here and are considered sensitive to climate change. Finally, the adaptive capacity of local species is limited by habitat fragmentation, high rates of invasive species, and other stressors. This presentation will review some of the latest research on mammal, bird, and other species' responses to climate change in addition to summarizing projections for future impacts. It will also showcase coproduced research indicating that climate change refugia, areas buffered from climate change, can be conserved to enable the persistence of species in the face of a changing climate. More... 4:00 pm		Events at Smith Sunrise Smith meeting October 15, 2020 Calling all Smithies! We'd love to have you join our regular weekly meeting. Interested folx can email sunrisesmith @ smith.edu to get link. Virtual via Zoom 6:00 pm Radical Hope in a Moment of Danger October 16, 2020 Julie Sze, American Studies, University of California, Davis, and author of Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger, will speak as part of the Kahn project, Imagining Climate Change: From Slow Violence to Fast Hope. What does non-na�ve radical hope look like now in the face of interconnected environmental, political and social disasters? Culture and media, in abolitionist climate justice narratives, offer a partial answer. All welcome. Register using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm SCALE Africa�s W(i)SH Initiative: Increasing Access to Education For Girls in Zambia October 19, 2020 The social standing, health, and education of women has enormous effects on the amount of carbon generated globally. Erin McGurn, Co-founder & Executive Director, Scale Africa Inc., will talk about the health and education of young women and tie that to good architectural design. Part of the ENX 100 lecture series. More... Virtual via zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Part 5: Not Fake News - Crafting a Spatial Narrative with StoryMaps October 20, 2020 In this final workshop in the series, we will use StoryMaps and web apps as a digital storytelling tool to present the spatial narrative of an election map. We will practice communicating data to a broader audience, using maps to weave together the present political fabric. Part of the Spatial Analysis Lab fall workshop series. Pre-register using the link below and join in at https://smith.zoom.us/j/6757119877 More... Virtual via zoom 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm Events Off Campus Live Panel Discussion and Q & A with Young Leaders of the Movement October 14, 2020 Join intersectional environmental activist "Green Girl" Leah Thomas and indigenous climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez for a discussion moderated by CSU Chico Associated Students President Breanna �Bre� Holbert. This event is hosted by the California State University System at 12 p.m. PDT- we have adjusted the time to EDT. Please sign up at the link. More... Online Event 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Architectural Survival in an Extreme Environment with Katelyn Hudson October 14, 2020 This talk explores the history of architecture in Antarctica and how biophilic design is found within structures where nature is often viewed as a negative, dangerous quality to be kept out. Biophilic design was established through observation of experiences that connect users to the natural environment for the benefit of their wellbeing. Through a case study of six buildings spanning the history of human habitation of the southernmost continent, Hudson will analyze the attributes of biophilic design and identify patterns that can aid in the development of architectural interventions in similar extreme environments � like Vermont on a good winter day. Originally hailing from Vermont, Dr. Hudson is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. She also holds a Doctor of Architecture (DArch) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research focuses on the evolution of human behavioral patterns within architectural interventions specific to colder climates. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Join the talk on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Being Entangled: Artistic Approaches to Complex Ecologies October 15, 2020 The escalating and overlapping ecological crises are increasingly understood as more than problems of technology, resource use, and maldistribution. They are also, and perhaps fundamentally, epistemic problems: ways of perceiving, thinking, and valuing the world that favor separation over relation. As a domain traditionally associated with questions of sensing and valuing, the arts can rehearse alternate ways of approaching the embeddedness and contingency of human stories in much larger material, environmental, and inter-species assemblages. This talk will screen "Ecologies of Acknowledgment" (currently on view in the Artist Response exhibition at the Tufts University Art Galleries) and use this film, along with its companion print and Fall 2019 field trip to Deer Island, as a case study to suggest reparative and relational roles for the arts in environmental work beyond documentation of threat and loss. Sarah Kanouse is artist, writer, and filmmaker examining the politics of landscape and space. Migrating between video, photography, and performative forms, her research-based creative projects shift the visual dimension of the landscape to allow hidden stories of environmental and social transformation to emerge. A 2019 Rachel Carson Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Sarah Kanouse is Associate Professor of Media Arts in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University. Register for the event at the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Where have all the People Gone? Studying Density and the Use of Public Space During COVID October 15, 2020 with Justin B. Hollander, Professor, Tufts University. Part of the Zube Lecture Series hosted by Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass, Amherst. Join using the link below: More... Zoom 4:00 pm International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2020: October 17, 2020 �Acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all� This year, an online global commemoration will share video messages from people and communities living in poverty and facing the adverse effects of environmental degradation and climate change who are also mobilized to address them. Their experiences remind us that social and environmental injustice often go hand in hand and the solutions they call for are also closely linked. Implementing them requires the mobilization of all. Register for this free event with the link below: More... virtual 11:00 am 400 Years: Truth and Healing for the Next Seven Generations October 18, 2020 An Interfaith/Inter-Community Project of listening, connecting, and acting for justice during this 400th year since the 1620 landing of English colonists on Native homelands in the Northeast. Native presenters will include: Rhonda Anderson � I�upiaq-Athabascan Commissioner of Indian Affairs for Western Mass; David Brule � Nehantic president of Nolumbeka Project; John �Jim� Peters, Jr. � Mashpee Wampanoag Commissioner of Indian Affairs for Massachusetts; Larry Spotted Crow Mann � Nipmuc Nation author, cultural educator & singer; Bryan Blanchette � Nulhegan Abenaki singer & musician; Stephanie Morningstar � Oneida Executive Director of NEFOC Land Trust. Join us in a live virtual gathering on Youtube via the link below: More... Virtual 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm