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Events at Smith

Geothermal Project Tour
March 20, 2023
Have you been wondering what all the construction around campus is about? Have you ever been inside a Smith building in the summer and wondered when we'll install AC? Have you ever wanted to know what the college is doing to combat climate change? Come find out the answers to these questions and more on one of our student-run Geothermal Project Tours! Rain date is 3/21 at the same time. Open to all Smith community members.
Meet at the Elm St entrance to the Campus Center
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

Wissatinnewag: Healing of an Indigenous Landscape
March 20, 2023
with David Brule, Author, Activist, & Volunteer for the Nolumbeka Project. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm

Sustainable Energy Lunch Learn In: Biofuels
March 22, 2023
Renewable and sustainable energy is key to combating climate change, but information on how it works and legislation surrounding it is often highly technical and hard to understand. Designed by a student for students to give us the tools we need to support environmentally conscious energy change. Lunch provided.
CEEDS
12:15 pm to 1:10 pm

ES&P Lunchbag: Interview Skills Practice
March 23, 2023
Join Jason Bauer-Clapp, Lazarus Center's Director of Career Education, to explore how best to present your ES&P skills, knowledge and experiences- in an interview and otherwise. Lunch provided.
CEEDS, Wright Hall 005
12:15 pm

Mary Oliver: A Handsome Life, Queer Visions and Practice in the Poems and Essays
March 23, 2023
A talk by poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
4:30 pm

Events Off Campus

Stop funding climate chaos-- National Day of Action!
March 21, 2023
Rally and March to the site of the new Chase Bank For the sake of our beloved planet's web of life, we will gather at Pulaski Park for a rally, followed by marching to King and Main Streets, to spread the word that Chase Bank is destroying the climate by financing the fossil fuel industry and that no one should bank at Chase. This event is coordinated with National Day of Action to Stop Dirty Banks sponsored by Third Act. We encourage everyone to move your money out of Chase Bank, Bank of America, TD Bank, and other big banks that finance fossil fuels. Let's get rid of our credit cards managed by these banks. Learn more and register at the link below:
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Pulaski Park: 240 Main Street, Northampton
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

Career Development Day at MassRecycle 2023 Conference & Trade Show
March 23, 2023
Are you concerned about the environment, but do not know where to begin? Looking for your next step after graduation? Trash and waste are urgent environmental concerns; sustainable materials management is the solution. The MassRecycle Conference and Trade Show is the largest recycling and waste reduction conference in Massachusetts. This year, MassRecycle will be opening the afternoon session to students and job seekers for Career Development. Join us to learn about the current world of recycling, trash, reuse, and waste reduction, and emerging career opportunities. Learn about the creative solutions being implemented and how you can be a part of them. There will be lectures followed by an interactive discussion session and networking. Speaker Presentations include: Destinations for items banned from landfills; How to build Zero Waste plans into contracts; Municipal strategies to divert food waste; Extended Producer Responsibility legislation: holding manufacturers responsible. $10 for admission. Bring a resume and be ready to network. There will be Job Boards with open positions posted, company representatives recruiting, and roundtable discussions to offer career guidance. Learn about the many sustainability jobs in materials management, community outreach, regional planning, sales and marketing.  Registration opens at 12:30 pm. Speaker Sessions are 12:45-4:00 pm with a break for networking and job hunting, Roundtable discussions and networking will take place 4:00-5:00 pm.
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Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, Marlboro
12:30 pm to 5:00 pm

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
March 23, 2023
In the coming decades millions of Americans will be uprooted by wildfires, floods, and rising seas in the largest migration in our country’s history. And many are already on the move. "The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration" by Jake Bittle compassionately tells their stories and uncovers how government and insurance policies are shaping who rebuilds and who retreats. The Living on Earth Book Club, UMass Boston School for the Environment and Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston proudly present this free, live conversation between author Jake Bittle and Host Steve Curwood, with a special introduction by distinguished guest, UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco. SSL Director Rebecca Herst will also be offering remarks. This event is in a hybrid format. Register below:
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Virtual via Zoom
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Events at Smith

Lecture with Mindy Fullilove, Writer and Social Psychiatrist
March 25, 2023
Part of the spring semester Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex, Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

(Re)Claiming Grief: An Embodied Journey Back to the Earth
March 27, 2023
March 29, 2023
March 30, 2023
Healer, educator, and artist Lindsay Hopkins will lead this four-part workshop series on climate grief and guide a creative group brainstorming process, ending with a temporary, socially engaged art installation and community gathering. Space is limited; sign up at the link below: All Smith community members welcome!
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Smith campus.
3:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Getting Creative at the Mall
March 27, 2023
with Alexandra Lange, Architecture & Design Critic. Part of the Landscape Studies LSS 100 speakers program.
Hillyer Art Complex-Graham Hall
3:05 pm to 4:45 pm

Presentation: Yestermorrow- Fall 23 semester in Design/Build
March 29, 2023
Pizza lunch provided at this info session for students.
Design Thinking Initiative, Capen Annex, 25A Henshaw Ave
12:15 pm

Events Off Campus

Voices from the DawnLand: Indigenous Writers Speak
March 28, 2023
In this Zoom panel, three Indigenous writers from New England will be reading and discussing their work. Ella Nathaniel Alkiewicz, a Labrador Inuk poet, writer and teacher; Dawn Dove (Narragansett/ Niantic) editor and author of Narragansett history; and Melissa Zobel, Mohegan playwright, novelist, screenwriter will discuss their work and what it is to be a Native writer in New England. Moderated by Rachel Beth Sayet (Mohegan writer and Native American and Indigenous Studies Community Development Fellow for the Five Colleges). Each of these authors utilizes their cultural upbringing to share unique stories with the world, debunking histories of the myth of the vanishing Indian of New England.
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Virtual via Zoom
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm

Faith, Contemplation and the Land
March 28, 2023
Join Professor of Theology and World Religions at Union Theological Seminary the Rev. Dr. John Thatamanil and Tim Lilburn for a virtual conversation. A growing realization is emerging in a variety of fields that human beings have become profoundly inattentive to and disconnected from place and the land. The consequences for human and natural life are profound. What might be some of the causes of this separation, and what are the upshots? On the other hand, there has been considerable resurgence of attention to contemplation. Only this resurgence has had little impact on the former problem. What might contemplation and place/the land have to do with each other? What might Evagrius say about this question? How might contemplative life reconnect us once more to place and the land? Join the distinguished Canadian Poet and Essayist for a conversation on these vital themes for an age of ecological peril. Register using the link below:
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Virtual
6:00 pm