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Atomic Sustainability: What isotopes can teach us about our food and climate
November 12, 2021
Webinar by Dr. Rebekah Stein Webinar. Register in advance for this webinar in the link attached. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing your specific link for joining the webinar. You will need to use this link in order for the webinar to recognize you as a registered attendee.
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Virutal via zoom
12:00 pm

Learning Garden clean-up!
November 12, 2021
The Learning Garden is a student-led growing space located between Northrop and Lamont houses, which is being relaunched this spring. Help students and Botanic Garden staff put the garden to bed by pulling weeds, moving soil, and removing the failing raised beds in order to set the space up for success this coming growing season. This is an opportunity to get your hands in the soil and learn more about how you can get involved. Come for some or all of the event. No prior experience necessary but reregistration is requested. Rain date November 19th.
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The garden space between Northrop House and Lamont House
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Climate Change or Development? An African Perspective
November 15, 2021
Lily Odarno, Director of Clean Air Task Force’s Energy and Climate Innovation Program, Africa will speak as part of the ENX 100: Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field lecture series. All members of the Smith community in the testing protocol are welcome.
McConnell B15
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Wearables Repair Fair
November 17, 2021
Come to the Wearables Repair Fair and get your favorite clothes and backpacks fixed! Not sure if it can be fixed? Bring it and we will see. Skilled staff and students will be on hand to patch and repair your items. Want to learn how to do your own repair and embroidery? Design Thinking Initiative student interns will be on hand to do demos and lessons on how you can repair your own gear. We will also have limited hand sewing supplies for you to take home. For more info, email ceeds@ smith.edu
CC 103/104
12:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Humboldt’s Shadow: Plant Geography in a Human-Disturbed World
November 18, 2021
Colin Hoag, Assistant Professor of Anthropology with Madeline Turner '21. Using Alexander von Humboldt's genre-bending approach to plant geography as a throughline, this talk presents past and future research on the ways that power and culture insinuate ecological process —and our understanding of it. For example, how might a system of racial segregation shape patterns of vegetation on a hillslope in Lesotho? What might the plant family Asteraceae have to teach us about cosmopolitanism? And, based on collaborative research between Colin Hoag and Madeline Turner, how might the landscapes of Northampton express the possibility and trauma of a 19th century mental health paradigm?
CEEDS Wright Hall
4:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy.
November 19, 2021
Dr. Jennie Stephens joins us fresh from the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, which she attended as a member of the Global Council for Science and the Environment delegation. The climate crisis is a crisis of leadership. For too long too many leaders have prioritized corporate profits over the public good while reinforcing economic and racial injustice. Transformation to a just, sustainable renewable-based society requires leaders who connect questions of climate and energy to social justice on issues ranging from housing, to transportation, to health. In this talk, Dr. Stephens argues that the key to effectively addressing the climate crisis is diversifying leadership so that antiracist, feminist priorities are central. The seminar will offer inspirational stories of diverse leaders who integrate antiracist, feminist values to build momentum for structural transformative change. More info and registration.
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Virutal via zoom
12:20 pm to 1:20 pm

Events at Smith

Bag Making with Leni "Bagshare Workshop"
December 1, 2021
Learn how to use equipment to transform used feed bags and agricultural plastic waste into fashionable tote bags that hold up to 50 lbs. Workshop participants will be trained on all equipment and techniques necessary to lead future Bagshare workshops.
Capen Annex
4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Online Information Session with RISE
November 30, 2021
Interested in doing a research internship in Germany next summer? Already applying for a DAAD RISE internship? Join this livestream with representatives from the RISE team and a RISE intern who is right now working at an internship in Germany to ask your questions and learn more about the application process: www.daad.de/rise . This online information session is targeted at students interested in doing a research internship in Germany, as well as administrators and faculty who advise on study and research abroad. When you join the session with your name, please mention your home university, too. Use the teams link attached.
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Virtual
11:00 am

Centering Equity In Urban Biodiversity, Climate Justice, And Eco-Literacy
December 2, 2021
A seminar with Catherine Werner, Sustainability Director of St. Louis City. Increasingly, cities are attempting to establish more and equitable access to green spaces. Less common are efforts which ensure that green spaces provide high-quality benefits to the people in the urban core - in particular, those who are most vulnerable, such as people of color and low-income populations. As Sustainability Director for the City of St. Louis, Werner has found that centering equity in natural resource decisions can yield greater urban biodiversity, enhanced eco-literacy, and improved human health and well-being. Hosted by the Living Earth Collaborative (LEC) and Ecology, Evolution, and Population Biology (EEPB) at Washington University in St. Louis, the seminar will be live-streamed on YouTube. Click on the link below.
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Virtual
5:00 pm