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Events at Smith Ask Me Anything Alum Chat with Alexandra Davis, '18 April 12, 2021 The second guest in ES&P's AMA series is with Alexandra Davis �18. Her work as a Sustainability Consultant and Material Carbon Specialist at Thornton Tomasetti focuses on performing whole building life cycle assessments to identify the embodied carbon intensity of building materials and optimize design efficiencies towards low carbon material selection with an emphasis on product circularity and adaptive reuse. Join us to get answers to questions on your mind about life after Smith. Fair game are questions about finding a job, grad school, work/life balance, Smith courses that made a difference, career paths, lessons learned, and much more. What burning questions do YOU have? Email jbenkley @smith.edu for a link to join. 5:00 pm Yestermorrow Design/Build School Semester Info Session April 13, 2021 Interested in designing and building an architecturally innovative, high-performance shelter in a semester? Join the Design Thinking Initiative Wednesday, April 13 4:50-5:30 pm on Zoom to learn more about spending a semester thinking with your hands at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Waitsfield, Vermont. We will be joined by Yestermorrow faculty and Smithies who can speak to their experience in the program.To join use the zoom link below. More... 4:50 pm to 5:30 pm A Conversation With Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger April 13, 2021 Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multi-disciplinary artist of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel and repurposed materials, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st century Indigeneity. Using social collaboration and in response to timely and site-specific issues, Luger produces multi-pronged projects which oftentimes presents a call to action, provoking diverse publics to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring. Luger lectures and participates in residencies and projects around the globe and his work is collected internationally. He is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow, a 2020 Creative Capital Award recipient, a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant recipient and the recipient of the 2018 Museum of Arts and Design�s inaugural Burke Prize. The event is sponsored by the art department and CEEDS as part of this spring's Drawing Social Justice class. Register to join at the link below: More... Virtual 7:00 pm Events Off Campus Business of Saving the Planet: A Call to Environmental Leadership April 12, 2021 A round table discussion with Dr. Jane Goodall, Lisa Jackson (VP of Environmental Initiatives at Apple), Ryan Gellert (CEO Patagonia), and Scott Atkinson ( Managing Partner & Co-Head of Heidrick & Struggles� Global Sustainability Office). Sponsored by the graduate program in Environmental Sciences and Policy at Johns Hopkins. Full information and registration for the free virtual event can be found at the link below: More... Virtual 12:00 pm Earth Month Teach-In: Leveraging Research to Inform Calls to Action April 13, 2021 University of Pittsburgh invites you to join on April 13th for a virtual presentation and happy hour as part of the Green Speakeasy Series hosted by Pitt�s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. In this Earth Month event, we welcome seven influential women from our campus and community to discuss how we can leverage research to inform calls to action. The 7 amazing speakers include Melissa Bilec MCSI (Host and Moderator), Jessica Burke (Public Health), Emily Elliot (Geology & Environmental Science), Carla Ng ( Engineering), Mary Ohmer (Social Work), Kay Shimizu (Political Science), and Shannah Tarp-Gilliam (Homewood Children�s Village). Each of the presenters will bring their unique skill set in the areas of environment, equality, and economics to the conversation about discovering connections and building opportunities toward a healthier future. To register click below. More... 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Why Are There Colors In The Ocean? April 13, 2021 With Derya Akkaynak, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineer and Oceanographer, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. The color of ocean water provides us tremendous insights regarding the properties of the particles in it. Using satellites that sense ocean color, we are able to monitor worldwide concentration of phytoplankton�tiny organisms in the water column that produce food for everything else in the ocean to eat. That ocean water has color, however, is precisely what is holding us back from unveiling the colors of everything else, such as the colors of the ocean flora, fauna, and the unique habitats that host them. What would we learn if we could see the true colors of everything in the ocean? Part of the 2021 Sea Secrets lecture series at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Register below: More... Virtual via Zoom 6:30 pm Intergenerational Conversation: Art, Climate, and Action Panel April 14, 2021 Susan Theberge, Citizen�s Action Network / Extinction Rebellion Red Brigade; Carolina Arag�n, Landscape Architecture UMass, Climate Visualization Artist; and Nicole Young, Performance Poet and Philanthropy Professional, and others will share how they use their art to address the climate crisis. Co-moderated by Dee Boyle-Clapp, Director of Arts Extension Service, and Hind Mari, Women of Color Leadership Network, UMass Amherst. Artists will share how their work impacts and is impacted by the effects of climate change. Following the panel, participants will join in facilitated breakout groups by art form to discuss how to use one�s art and work intergenerationally to inspire action. Register below: More... 12:00 pm Hop Reuse Hub Presents: Plastic Bag Reuse and How to Reduce April 16, 2021 Register below to join the Johns Hopkins Homewood Recycling Office for a fun, two-part Lunch & Learn series this spring. We will teach you how to use plastic bags to make a reusable produce bag! This is a two-part event. During the first event, from noon to 1 p.m. on March 26, we will teach you how to use disposable plastic bags to make plarn, aka plastic yarn. During the second lunchtime event, from noon to 1 p.m., on April 16, we will teach you how to use the plarn to make a reusable produce net bag (see attachment for example). To participate in the event, all you will need is approximately four to six disposable bags and a pair of scissors. During both events we will also chat about the importance of reduction and reuse as well as the Baltimore City plastic bag ban and extended producer responsibility (EPR). You must register to get the Zoom link. Contact recycling@jhu.edu with questions. We look forward to seeing you! More... Zoom 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm		Events at Smith Climate Solutions for Massachusetts April 19, 2021 The SGA sustainability committee hosts a viewing of a webinar on climate Solutions for Massachusetts, hosted by Brandeis University and the Bard Center of Environmental Policy. Panelists include Dr. Jennie C. Stephens and Professor Tibor Toth. Dr. Stephens is the Dean�s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on integrating social justice, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives into climate and energy resilience. Professor Toth is currently the Managing Director of Investments at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. His work focuses on clean energy. We'll watch the webinar and then have a discussion afterwards. More... Virtual 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm AMA Alum Chat with Arame Tall '07 April 20, 2021 Join ES&P in the (Zoom) Living Room for an informal conversation about careers and life after Smith with our third and final alum guest in Ask Me Anything series. Arame is a Senior Adaptation & Resilience Specialist in the Climate Change Group of the World Bank. Dr. Tall leads the coordination of the Bank�s work on Adaptation & Resilience and is the team leader for the World Bank Group�s first-of-its-kind Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience. Email jbenkley @smith.edu for a link to join. Virtual 12:30 pm Lyman Plant House Open Hours - Extended for Earth Week April 20, 2021 Celebrate Earth Week by visiting the Lyman Plant House! The Botanic Garden is offering extended visitation hours to students in the COVID testing protocol. Come by and enjoy some plant life with a friend! Sign up with link below. More... Lyman Plant House 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Sustainability Trivia with SGA April 20, 2021 The SGA sustainability committee will lead a fun and interactive game about sustainability in everyday life and at Smith. How much do YOU know?! More... Virtual 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Water in the Philipines: Colonialism, Imperialism, & People's Resistance to Development Aggression April 20, 2021 with Leo XL Y. Fuentes, Jr. Fuentes is an agroecology advocate, columnist, and the regional coordinator for MASIPAG. MASIPAG is a farmer-led network of community organizations, NGOs, and Filipino scientists. Fuentes will outline a hydraulic history of the Philippines from the pre-colonial period, through Spanish colonization, and to today's neocolonialism that grants water rights to corporations. Fuentes will dive into case studies that intersect conversations surrounding Indigenous struggle for water rights, displacement, poverty, hydraulic development projects, mono-cropping, food sovereignty, and climate change. Brought to you by: ES&P, CEEDS, LAS, and Liyang Network Western Mass. Email jbenkley @smith.edu for the Zoom information to join. Virtual 7:00 pm Walk & Sketch with an Eco-Rep! April 21, 2021 Meet us outside the boathouse. From there, we will walk along Paradise Pond and up the river. Bring a notebook and drawing tool (pencil, pen, crayon, etc.). No experience required! This is a casual meet-up for people who are curious about drawing and getting out into nature! This will be about an hour-long experience. Sign up here: More... Boathouse 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm SGA Sustainability Discussion with Smith Alums for Earth Day April 22, 2021 The SGA Sustainability committee and alums Aidan Coffin Ness, Emelyn Chiang, and Frances Duncan get together in the Zoom Living Room for Earth Day! Aidan, Emelyn and Frances were winners of a 2020 national sustainability research award for the work they did investigating how Dining's greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced through milk and meat substitutions when they were students at Smith. Bring your questions and ideas for this conversation! More... Virtual 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm Earth Day Meditation and Conversation April 22, 2021 Take some time of your course work and join the Eco-Reps for a meditation and conversation centered around our relationship with the environment. Brought to you by the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability and the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life. Sign up with link below. More... 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm An On-Campus Memorial to Mark the Pandemic Year: From Remembrance to Hope April 22, 2021 A welcoming community memorial ritual wherein participants will have the opportunity to share and remember loved ones. This event is for any and all of us who have experienced a loss in the last year, or anytime, from Covid or otherwise; and to mark "dreams deferred" from this time of disruption. We will build community and generate hope together. We will also recognize that the year has been characterized by an increased awareness of police brutality against BIPOC citizens. We will mourn the loss of Daunte Wright, the most recent victim of widely publicized police violence, especially in the context of the feelings elicited by the Chauvin trial. We will say his name. Paradise Pond was chosen on the Smith Campus because of the ways in which water represents and reflects spirituality for many people. As a special part of this ritual we will have the opportunity to put bulbs gleaned from the bulb show into the ground to symbolize new life. (Directions will be provided to participants). Co-sponsored by Botanic Garden of Smith College, the Religion Department, Design Thinking Initiative, and Student Affairs. Sign up at the link below: More... Boathouse Lawn 5:30 pm Lyman Plant House Open Hours - Extended for Earth Week April 23, 2021 Celebrate Earth Week by visiting the Lyman Plant House! The Botanic Garden is offering extended visitation hours to students in the COVID testing protocol. Come by and enjoy some plant life with a friend! Sign up with link below. More... Lyman Plant House 10:00 am to 3:00 pm Sunrise Smith Demonstration April 23, 2021 Sunrise Smith leads an this Earth Week demonstration to hold Smith, the media, and the country accountable to acting on the climate crisis. This is for and organized by students. All welcome! Contact sunrisesmith @smith.edu with any questions. Chapin Lawn 12:30 pm Getting Out Alive: Scientist to Science Writer April 23, 2021 Bethany Brookshire, Ph.D. will talk about her career path from the lab bench to the writer's table, what a day in the life of a science writer is like, and more! There will be an opportunity for Q&A towards the end. Register below: More... Virtual 3:00 pm SGA Sustainability Screening of Wall-E April 23, 2021 We'll watch the 2008 film and then take some time to discuss it together. Join us for the fun! More... Virtual 7:00 pm Lyman Plant House Open Hours - Extended for Earth Week April 24, 2021 Celebrate Earth Week by visiting the Lyman Plant House! The Botanic Garden is offering extended visitation hours to students in the COVID testing protocol. Come by and enjoy some plant life with a friend! Sign up with link below. More... Lyman Plant House 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm SGA Sustainability Earth Week Closing Discussion April 24, 2021 To conclude our exciting and eventful Earth Week, the SGA Sustainability Committee will gather to issue a closing statement and facilitate a discussion around future initiatives to further sustainability at Smith. Join and share your thoughts, ideas, and feedback! More... Virtual 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Events Off Campus Indigenous Antipodes: Indigenous Women's Rights, Environmental Racism, Peacemaking and Sovereignty April 20, 2021 Rooted in Indigenous communities from two hemispheres but committed to building alliances across geo-political divides, Indigenous rights advocates, Binalakshmi Nepram, a Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center Fellow, and June L. Lorenzo JD, Ph.D., discuss areas of overlap and distinction in the long and intense struggles they and other Indigenous women face in their efforts to resist and counter the violences of settler/colonial nation-states. Register below: More... 6:00 pm Panel: Better Together April 21, 2021 A discussion with producer Nancy Black, director Isaac Hernandez and other cast members from the film, "Better Together". Synopsis: The 1969 Union Oil blowout mobilized the Santa Barbara community to fight for the environment, inspiring the creation of many nonprofit organizations, Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency and one of the first interdisciplinary Environmental Studies programs. Register for panel below: The legacy of the oil spill continues to inform the citizens, who have come together over the years to protect the air and water, preserve open spaces and for each other, as to when 3,000 volunteers joined the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade to dig mud from homes after the deadly 2018 debris flow. As the world faces a global climate disruption, the community needs to come together as never before. Free and open to the public. Information about how to watch the film provided after registration for the panel. Register at link below: More... 6:00 pm Monadnock Region Earth Day Film Festival April 22, 2021 April 23, 2021 April 24, 2021 A FREE virtual event to celebrate and cultivate a more resilient world. Monadnock International Film Festival, Monadnock Food Co-op, and Feast On This! Film Festival invite you to join us. FREE OF CHARGE, but you must register below. As soon as the festival site is available, you'll be notified to browse available films and events and add them to your library for viewing and attending during the festival dates. More... Virtual What Do We Mean When We Say "Justice"?: Environmental and Climate Decision-making at a Crossroads April 22, 2021 How can the next generation of environmental and climate law and policy change the balance of power in the United States? While policymakers have begun to embrace procedural justice, public engagement alone falls short of shifting power to those most at risk. Social movements push us further, calling for systems change that creates new rights and remedies to address past harms and reallocate resources. This talk will explore what decision-making looks like when designed with the needs and voices of frontline communities at the center. Speaker Amy Laura Cahn is an environmental and climate justice attorney. Through movement lawyering practice and scholarship, she collaborates with community-based organizations to confront cumulative effects of racial segregation, neighborhood disinvestment, and environmental risk and support community self-determination. Most recently, she has led the environmental justice advocacy for the Conservation Law Foundation, launching CLF's community lawyering initiative. Virtual 12:00 pm Uncharted: Navigating to a Sustainable Future April 22, 2021 A timely topic for these turbulent times! Creating a sustainable future demands navigating uncharted territory to address highly complex challenges and to work across silos and sectors to develop bold, effective, sustainable solutions. Best-selling author, entrepreneur, and CEO Margaret Heffernan will draw from her latest award-nominated book, Uncharted, which highlights people and organizations who aren�t paralyzed and daunted by uncertainty. Session will include Heffernan�s keynote and dialog with business leaders. Register below for the link: More... Virtual 12:30 pm Frontlines: Climate Risks & Migration April 22, 2021 - A Reflective Conversation on Migrants at the US Southern Border. The number of migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border has increased in recent weeks, leading to outcries by the usual actors and even some mainstream media of a �border crisis.� Many of these individuals are asylum-seekers from Central America, where compounding pressures and the failure to address conditions displacing individuals, including climate risks, are among the reasons driving forced movements to US borders.Now Climate Refugees and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University are hosting a virtual panel discussion on Central American migration at US borders through the lens of actors and activists working on the frontlines. We will bring together experts in asylum, climate policy, and environmental justice, working at individual, community and regional levels to discuss their respective work and solutions, and an overarching view on what can be done at the global level, ahead of the climate negotiations at COP26 in Glasgow. Panelists: -Alma Maquitico, Co-Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights -Jasmine Sanders, Executive Director, Our Climate -Adri�n Martinez Blanco, Director, La Ruta del Clima -Erika Andiola, RAICES. Moderator: Amali Tower, Founder and Executive Director of Climate Refugees. Hosted by Climate Refugees & the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. Register at the link below: More... Virtual 1:00 pm EARTH TALKS at Seattle University April 22, 2021 The theme for the 2nd edition of Earth Talks, a virtual showcase of short, 5-minute presentations by SU faculty, students, staff, and community partners is Unifying for Climate--Climate Solutions for a Just World. The event will be held across 2 sessions, with a diverse array of topics including research, service, community projects, artwork as well as a Q&A session with keynote speakers Jamie Margolin and Donna Moodie. The first session is between 2-3:30pm (EST)and includes Q&A with keynote Jamie Margolin. The second session is between 5-6:30 pm (EST) and includes Q&A with keynote Donna Moodie. The EARTH TALKS program and schedule can be found at www.earth-talks.org. This registration form (linked below) serves for both the morning and afternoon sessions. The event's Zoom link for both sessions will be the same. More... Virtual 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Lehigh University Virtual Earth Day Speaker: Dr. Julian Agyeman April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 marks the 51st anniversary of Earth Day! This year�s theme, �Restore Our Earth,� rejects the idea that the only solution to save the planet is to adapt to the changing climate and instead focuses on natural system processes and emerging green technologies to replenish the world�s ecosystems and forests, revitalize soils, enhance farming practices, and diminish waste from the world�s oceans. Lehigh's Office of Sustainability, in collaboration with the Eco-Rep Leadership Program, Environmental Initiative, Environmental Studies Program, and the Lehigh Sustainability Council, are thrilled to announce that the virtual keynote speaker for Lehigh�s Earth Day 2021 celebration will be Dr. Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University. Register for virtual webinar with link below. 4:30 pm		Events at Smith Community - Engaged Research, Help or Harm? Three Critical Considerations April 28, 2021 Yanna Lambrinidou �89�believes that teaching and action are deeply intertwined, and that the two should be lifelong endeavors. A Washington, D.C.-based scholar and activist serving as this year�s�Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence, Lambrinidou has a particular interest in lead in U.S. drinking water. She's also devoted to examining the connections between those who we define as �knowledge-makers� and those whose knowledge we marginalize in the process. Sponsored by the Psychology Department. Register using the link below: More... Virtual 12:30 pm Birding with CEEDS April 29, 2021 Learn to identify some of our local birds on this casual walk around Paradise Pond and along the Mill River with Dano Weisbord. No previous birding experience necessary! Please wear comfortable walking shoes and be ready for spring mud. Space limited and sign up is required. To sign up email ceeds@ smith.edu. Meet on Chapin Lawn 8:30 am to 10:00 am Special Screening of Heartbeat Opera's Breathing Free: April 29, 2021 a visual album set to the music of Beethoven�s Fidelio, newly arranged Negro Spirituals, and art songs by Black composers and lyricists. The film (a nominee for the 2021 Drama League Award for Outstanding Digital Concert Production) weaves opera, dance, music and film to center Black experience and artistry while examining universal themes of justice, hope, protest, rage, grief, and love. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Smith and Five College faculty in conversation with the filmmaker, Anaiis Cisco, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. The free event is sponsored by SmithArts and the Offices of the Provost and Alumnae Relations. Registration at the link below is required. More... Virtual 7:00 pm Events Off Campus Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative - Virtual Celebration April 28, 2021 The Grinspoon Entrepreneurship Initiative was founded to elevate the importance of entrepreneurship and recognize entrepreneurial excellence among college students in the Pioneer Valley region. This year, six Smithies have been recognized with Entrepreneurship Concept Awards! Join this virtual celebration to honor them and other students in the area, representing 42 ventures from 14 schools. Register at the link. More... Virtual via Zoom 5:30 pm