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Events at Smith Presentation of the Landscape Studies Minor October 21, 2020 Use your Smith email to join us to discuss the unlimited possibilities within the Landscape Studies Program! Link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Open Hours with Stephanie, CEEDS Sustainability Coordinator October 22, 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! Stephanie is excited to meet you! More... Virtual via zoom 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm Sunrise Smith meeting October 22, 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 A Collaborative Design-a-Thon October 24, 2020 October 25, 2020 What motivates you? It�s time to co-design a better and more just post-COVID-19 world. A Collaborative Design-a-thon is a 36-hour virtual weekend event dedicated to tackling today�s wicked challenges. Fourteen teams of two or more Smithies will be accepted on a first come, first registered basis. Bring at least one friend, or more. And if you are looking for a teammate, don�t worry - indicate that in the registration form and we can match you up with another curious, creative soul. Register at the link below! More... Virtual via zoom 11:30 am Concentrations Information Session October 26, 2020 Interested in exploring the ways a concentration might open doors to new ways of thinking and being in the world? We'll provide a brief overview of the common features and shared goals of Concentrations at Smith, say a few words about resources available to support the work of concentrators, and then we'll break into focused info sessions with the directors, key support staff, and students from the Archives, Book Studies, Community Engagement and Social Change, Environmental, Global Financial Institutions, Museums, Poetry, and Translation Studies Concentrations. Register to receive the Zoom link. More... Virtual via Zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Food Policy Initiatives at the State Level with Jo Comerford October 26, 2020 Jo Comerford, Massachusetts State Senator for the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester districts, will discuss food policy initiatives at the state level. What's happening? What's working, what isn't? Part of the ENX 100 lecture series. More... Virtual via zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm To Understand a Tree, a work-in-process presentation October 27, 2020 What is the community of a tree? What will happen if I, as a woodworker, place myself in a deeper relationship to the forest? Arts Afield Visiting Artist Gina Siepel discusses her ongoing work, To Understand a Tree, currently in process in the forests of the Macleish Field Station. To Understand a Tree is inspired by a desire to contemplate a living forest tree and its immediate habitat from the perspective of a woodworker, directly engaging both the forest ecosystem and the furniture making process. In collaboration with naturalist Kate Wellspring and others, Siepel is studying a single northern red oak tree, integrating artistic and scientific methodologies. Forests are complex, interconnected systems, and in that spirit, To Understand a Tree connects furniture and object making to questions of forest ecology, climate change, and the ethical harvesting of plants and other natural resources. Please register at the link! More... Virtual via zoom 7:00 pm Events Off Campus Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust: Centering Indigenous Sovereignty on Stolen Land October 21, 2020 With Stephanie Morningstar, Executive Director. Part of the Erasure and Restoration: An Exploration of Past and Present in the Kwinitekw Valley�s Indigenous Communities series sponsored by the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Learn more and register at the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm DesignBuildBLUFF with Hiroko Yamamoto, Adrienne Caesar, and Perry Martin October 21, 2020 DesignBuildBLUFF is a graduate architecture program at the University of Utah focused on immersing students in hands-on cross-cultural experiences. We work in partnership with the Rural and Native communities of San Juan County in the Utah Four Corners. There is an overwhelming need for affordable and culturally appropriate housing within the Navajo Nation. With this problem in mind, our students sought to develop a flexible housing prototype that could be easily built by would-be native homeowners. The concept of �sweat equity� is one in which the client uses their own labor, rather than cash, as a form of contribution in the building process. Join Hiroko Yamamoto (instructor), Adrienne Caesar (intern), and Perry Martin (student) to learn more about this impactful program. Hosted by Yestermorrow Design/Build School. Join the event on FaceBook Live, or use the link below to join via Zoom: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Data, data everywhere: Dealing with the deluge to address issues of environmental concern October 22, 2020 Big data and data science have become common buzzwords that invoke both excitement and fear, depending on the audience. In environmental sciences and studies, big data and the tools of data science can lead to revolutionary advances and increased understanding of our collective impact on each other and the natural world. But dealing with these data presents inherent challenges, and, as the expression goes, "with great power comes great responsibility," from how we collect, manage, and analyze these data to how they are presented, stored, and shared. In this lecture, examples of "big data" projects are presented, along with the complex nature and sensitivities of interpreting and sharing results, and implications for combatting issues of environmental and conservation concern. Leone Brown, Environmental Studies, Tufts University, is an ecologist with training in population, landscape, and disease ecology, conservation biology, and data science. Register for the event using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Facing COVID/Advancing Resilience in Washington, DC October 22, 2020 with Dwane Jones, Acting Dean for the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability, and Environmental Sciences at the University of the District of Columbia. 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 Dartmouth Energy Collaborative Seminar Series with Leah Stokes October 27, 2020 Leah Stokes of UC Santa Barbara will give a talk titled, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States," as part of the DEC Energy Seminar Series. In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. However, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over a thirty-year time frame, Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis. More than a history of renewable energy policy in modern America, Short Circuiting Policy offers a bold new argument about how the policy process works, and why seeming victories can turn into losses when the opposition has enough resources to roll back laws. Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). More... Online Event 12:15 pm		Events at Smith Presentation of the ES&P major and minors October 28, 2020 Interested in the environment and sustainability? Find out more about what it takes to major or minor in environmental science and policy or minor in marine science and policy. Meet faculty, staff, and students in the program, and get your questions answered! More... Virtual via Zoom 12:30 pm to 1:20 pm Events Off Campus Virtual Info Session: Columbia University�s graduate programs in applied sustainability studies October 29, 2020 The MPA in Environmental Science and Policy, the Master of Science in Sustainability Management, and the Master of Science in Sustainability Science programs provide students with the practical knowledge and training to become leaders in this rapidly growing area. To learn more about our cutting-edge programs, please register in Handshake. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Have questions or having trouble registering? Contact Kate Trzaskos, Assistant Director, Employer Relations in the Lazarus Center for Career Development. ktrzaskos at smith.edu Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm The American Garden - A life or Death Situation October 29, 2020 with Neil Diboll, President, Prairie Nursery. 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		Events at Smith Write and Speak and Stand Up: A Reading + Q&A with Zenaida Peterson November 5, 2020 Spoken-word poet Zenaida Peterson combines art, activism, identity, and justice in their work. Join the Jandon Center for Community Engagement and the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College for a poetry reading and conversation with this remarkable person. �I am afraid of the ways that I have to stay silent/ how the black community erases me/ how the queer community invalidates me/ and I defend them all anyway/ march for them all anyway� Register using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 7:00 pm Sustainable Solutions for the Climate Crisis and Its Cascading Impacts to Humanity November 9, 2020 Jana Ganion, will discuss her work as Sustainability and Government Affairs Director for Blue Lake Rancheria, a federally recognized tribe in California. She will give examples of how the community has created solutions around mega-wildfires and other climate impacts; these include implementing decarbonization policies and programs, and building sustainability community infrastructure. This is part of the ENX 100 lecture series. More... Virtual via zoom 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Events Off Campus Lecture and Conversation with Farshid Moussavi, Principal Farshid Moussavi Architecture November 4, 2020 Part of the Zube Lecture Series hosted by Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass, Amherst. This event is also co-sponsored by the Architecture department. Register for this event using the link below: More... Zoom 4:00 pm Food for Thought: Race, Place, and Change in the Food System November 4, 2020 An interactive dialogue with racial justice and food systems activist Liz Wills-O'Gilvie on efforts to increase healthy food access and social awareness in the communities of Greater Springfield and beyond. Liz serves as the director of the Springfield Food Policy Council, the board chair of the youth driven, urban agriculture organization, Gardening the Community. She is also a member of the Steering Committee and Advisory Boards of the Massachusetts Food System Collaborative and Mass Farm to School. A critical thinker about issues relating to race, class, gender, culture and privilege, Liz is quite comfortable with the discomfort attached to conversations about race. Register using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm What if Nature Had a Seat at the Table? November 5, 2020 The 2020s are a critical decade of urgent action to arrest the worst impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss and in which to build resilience to changes as we cross planetary boundaries and tipping points. COVID-19 has shown us what happens when we ignore scientific evidence of the risks of our encroaching on nature. 75 years after the founding of the UN the governance of our international systems is outmoded, with institutions, organizations and mechanisms dominated by a few powers, many of whom have demonstrated, at best, benign neglect in recent years. These mechanisms have struggled to value planetary health and our wellbeing and to integrate that in economic, social and political decision making. As the UN celebrates an important milestone, amid unprecedented challenges to multilateral cooperation, can we imagine how we may give nature a seat at the table and what would change if its voice, needs and contributions could be heard. Rachel Kyte is the 14th dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Prior to joining Fletcher, Kyte served as special representative of the UN secretary-general and chief executive officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL). She previously was the World Bank Group vice president and special envoy for climate change, leading the Bank Group's efforts to shift its operations and campaign for the Paris Agreement. Register for the event using the link below: More... Virtual via Zoom 12:00 pm Construction of Nature in New York City: Governance, Discourse, and Materiality November 5, 2020 with Lindsay K. Campbell, Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest Service. 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 Building Political Will for Climate Solutions Workshop November 7, 2020 Learn how to build political will for climate solutions using Citizens' Climate Lobby's five levers: lobbying congress, grasstops engagement, media relations, grassroots outreach, and group development. Led by CCL regional fellows, this workshop will help participants figure out how to use your time and talents to take concrete, meaningful action on climate change. This webinar is intended for students and anyone in higher ed. Please RSVP through Eventbrite (below) to obtain the Zoom meeting information in your confirmation email. More... 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