This Week in Sustainability!
In Summary:
~ Green Commute Week
~ Farm Pizza Night- Tomorrow
~ "Another (Food) Future Is Possible: Post-Industrial Peasants Foraging a Solidaire Rationality of Agriculture." - Tomorrow
~ Big Questions Lunch on Religion and Sustainability- Next Tuesday
~ Wild Foraging Workshop- Next Wednesday
~ "Interrogating the Trade-offs: Sustainable Development and Carbon Markets in Chiapas, Mexico" - Next Wednesday
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All Week Long
Green Commute Week is a statewide challenge during the week of May 16th-20th to use more sustainable modes of transportation (i.e. everything but private, fossil fuel automobiles).
Teams can register at http://commutegreennh.org/register-your-team. Individuals just log their green activities for the week on the site for the team they're on. Teams can win prizes and are immediately eligible for discounts at stores across the state. All participants in the challenge are treated to breakfasts in Lebanon, Hanover, and Claremont.
Regional events are listed here: http://commutegreennh.org/uvlsrpc
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Wednesday May 11th
Farm Pizza Night, Dinner Dialogue & Jam Session!
Join the Ecovores and the Dartmouth Organic Farm for a dinner dialogue on
Urban Agriculture, Food Systems, & Food Justice with Mike Easterling,
director of the Open Roads Institute.
4-5pm _ Learn how to make homemade pizza in the farm's bread oven
5-7pm _ Dialogue on urban Ag, food systems and food justice.
7-9pm _ Jam session! Bring instruments!
@ The Dartmouth Organic Farm
Rides leaving from behind Robo at 4 & 5 pm and returning at 7, 8 & 9pm
Sponsored by Ecovores, Dartmouth Organic Farm and COSO.
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Wednesday May 11th- Bildner Environmental Justice Speaker
Join Dr. Chaia Heller, Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College, for a brownbag lunch seminar at 12:00 p.m. in 113 Steele Hall and/or a community dinner at 6 p.m. in the Cutter-Shabazz lounge. Dinner is free and open to the public and catered by Mamatina's Tamales. This event is part of "Ecosystems, Justice and Markets: The 2nd Annual Bildner Environmental Justice Speaker Series."
Event Abstract:
While distinct conditions, industrial agriculture and post-industrial agriculture occupy the same temporal spheres. If the post-war industrial model entails a mix of technological and chemical interventions that increase farm productivity, then post-industrial agriculture (emerging in
the 1970s) constitutes agricultural surpluses, as well as an array of trade, aid, and biotechnology practices that introduce novel foodstuffs (processed and genetically modified) on an unprecedented scale. While industrial agriculture reduces the farming population, the latter gives rise to new sets of actors who question the nature and validity of the industrial model. This paper explores the rise of one set of such actors. *Paysans* (peasants) from France's second largest union, the Confederation Paysanne, challenge the industrial model's instrumental rationality of agriculture. Reframing food questions in terms of food sovereignty, *paysans *propose a solidarity-based production rationality which gives hope to those who believe that another post-industrial food system is possible.
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Thursday, May 12th
Dartmouth Council on Climate Change (DC3)
Climate Change Education in Local Schools: Future Directions and Opportunities for Student Involvement
8-9 pm, Haldeman 124
Join us in a discussion of climate change education in local schools, with climate change activist and K-12 educator Peter Malsin.
We will discuss Dr. Malsin's proposal for involving Dartmouth students in climate change curriculums at local K-12 programs.
Lou's pies and assorted desserts provided!
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Tuesday May 17th- Big Questions Lunch on Religion and Sustainability
Join Dartmouth Religious Leaders for lunch and conversation from 12 to 1 in the Tucker Foundation. Conversations will surround the question of Sustainability. How can we act, how can we hope, as population growth, declining energy resources, and climate change threaten human life on earth?
Panelists will include Dawood Yasin, Muslim Advisor; Michael Thomas, Lutheran Pastor; Allyn Field, Zen Buddhist Advisor. The moderator will be Kurt Nelson, Assistant Chaplain.
This event will be sponsored by Tucker Foundation and The Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity.
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Wednesday May 18th- Wild Foraging Workshop
Learn about wild edible plants in a Wild Foraging Workshop with the Dartmouth Ecovores from 2-6pm! This event is FREE. Blitz the Ecovores to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited.
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Wednesday May 18th- Lecture: "Interrogating the Trade-offs: Sustainable Development and Carbon Markets in Chiapas, Mexico"
Join Dr. Tracey Osborne of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona for "Interrogating the Trade-offs: Sustainable Development and Carbon Markets in Chiapas, Mexico" as part of "Ecosystems, Justice and Markets: The 2nd Annual Bildner Environmental Justice Speaker Series." There will be a brownbag lunch lecture at noon in 113 Steele Hall and an informal and free catered community dinner at 6pm in the Cutter Shabazz lounge.
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