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How to Stop Objectifying Trees: Thoughts on Economy, Culture, and Forests
January 6, 2023
an online event with Katharina Linne, and the first event in To Understand a Tree, an Arts Afield public event series curated by Gina Siepel, MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence. Katharina Linne’s research investigates new possibilities for the economic valuation of trees and forests in Europe, advocating for an incorporation of their multifaceted ecological value into economic thinking. Her presentation will explore ways that ingrained cultural stories shape understandings of sustainable forestry, human relationships to trees, and dominant economic paradigms. Katharina examines the historical development of Christianity in Europe, the impacts it had on the relationship of humans to nature, and the ways that shaped the development of forestry. Q&A following the presentation. Interested in joining? Email ceeds @ smith.edu for a link. Sponsored by the Arts Afield program, an initiative of the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability at Smith College and the Kestrel Land Trust.
Virtual via Zoom
4:30 pm

Paradise Pond Sediment Workshop
January 12, 2023
There has been a dam on the Mill River at the Paradise Pond location since 1665! At this workshop, participants will discuss progress in developing techniques for sediment release from the pond and questions associated with the removal of run-of-the-river dams. Speakers include Gary Hartwell, Project Manager, Smith College Facilities Management; Ethan Nadeau, Executive Dir., Biodrawversity LLC.; Robert Newton, Exec. Dir. Geoscience Solutions, LLC, and Prof. Emeritus, Smith College, and Marney Pratt, Sr Lab Instructor, Biological Sciences, Smith College. Anyone interested in attending should RSVP at: ghartwel@ smith.edu
Smith College Conference Center
10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Events Off Campus

Cooperative Foodways: Building Our Future Together: 36th Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference
January 14, 2023
January 15, 2023
The Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter hosts its annual winter conference with keynote speaker Ira Wallace, Author and worker/owner of the cooperatively managed Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. The conference aims to connect farmers, gardeners, homesteaders, educators, and environmentalists to share resources and ideas to grow our vibrant organic community. -30+ Farming, Gardening and Food Systems Workshops and more! Full Scholarships Available. The event will be in-person at Worcester State University on Saturday January 14 and online on Sunday January 15, 2023. For more details and to register, see the link below:
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Worcester State University and online

Events Off Campus

The Deluge by Stephen Markley Book Panel
January 24, 2023
Join us in person as Stephen Markley presents his new novel, The Deluge. His conversation partner for this event is Smith College Associate Professor Camille Washington-Ottombre. This is the January selection of the Odyssey First Editions Club. From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. Event at 7 pm, doors open at 6:30 pm.
Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St, South Hadley
7:00 pm

Forever Chemicals and Immediate Responses: Addressing PFAS in our Environment
January 26, 2023
Join Martin Suuberg, the Outgoing Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, for a lecture about PFAS - widely-used, long-lasting chemicals which pose a big mystery. Martin will discuss the growing data on these ubiquitous compounds, government responses to date, and what future measures will be considered to protect public health and the environment. Register at link below:
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Virtual via Zoom
12:00 pm