<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ... Sustainability Solutions Café ... ~ solution-oriented conversations with innovative sustainability practitioners over snacks and refreshments ~ Friday, February 3: "Taking Sustainability Literally" 3-4:30 pm Fairchild Tower Lobby featuring: Mark McElroy - author, Corporate Sustainability Management Jed Davis '83, T'85 - Director of Sustainability, Cabot Creamery <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> And mark your calendars for the 3rd workshop in the Sustainability Workshop Series on Tuesday, February 7th! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "This Week" Highlights: TUESDAY, Jan 31st *Addressing Food Insecurity Lunch Discussion, 12pm, Tucker Foundation *Dartmouth Organic Farm meeting, 1pm, Robo basement *Environmental Conservation Organization, 6:30pm, Robo Basement *Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering Meeting, 8pm, Cummings 200, Thayer School THURSDAY, Feb 1st *Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group Veg Discussion Dinner, 6:30pm, Haldeman 031 FRIDAY, Feb 2nd *Sustainability Solutions Café: "Taking Sustainability Literally", 3-4:30pm, Fairchild Tower Lobby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, Jan. 31st ********************** Addressing Food Insecurity Lunch Discussion When: 12pm Where: Tucker Foundation What: Join us for UPPER VALLEY VOICES as we host HEATHER BAGLEY, Executive Director of WILLING HANDS--an organization that delivers fresh, wholesome food to local food shelves, free dinner programs and subsidized housing communities. Serving soup, salad, bread and GREAT conversation. Dartmouth Organic Farm meeting When: 1pm Where: Robo Basement What: Scott Stokoe will talk about life off the grid and how his house works, with some bonus content from Emil's engineering courses and lectures on renewable energy and solar buildings, ending with how the Farm's solar greenhouse traps and stores sunlight as heat. This will be informal, bring your questions and interests! Environmental Conservation Organization meeting When: 6:30pm Where: Robo Basement What: Save the Earth in 30 minutes! Thursday, Feb. 2nd ********************** DAWG Veg Discussion Dinner When: 6:30 pm Where: Haldeman 031 What: Are you an omnivore? vegan? vegetarian? pescetarian? anything else in between? Come to Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group's Veg Discussion Dinner to have a lively conversation about what makes you decide to eat what you eat, and hear what others have say too! Free dinner will be served. Friday, Feb. 3rd ********************** Sustainability Solutions Cafe: "Taking Sustainability Literally" When: 3-4:30pm Where: Fairchild Tower Lobby What: This inaugural Sustainability Solutions Café will explore the challenge of incorporating multiple dimensions of sustainability assessment into modern business practice without resorting to meaningless corporate "green-washing". Come participate in café-style small group discussions, initiated and framed by Mark McElroy's concepts of vital capitals and context-based sustainability metrics. Cabot Creamery Director of Sustainability, Jed Davis '83, T'85, will share how his company has used such metrics to "take sustainability literally" to the benefit of the their bottom line, employees, customers, and the environment. For more on this topic, see http://www.sustainableorganizations.org/ and a copy of Corporate Sustainability Management on reserve at Kresge Library. Ongoing: * Friend us on facebook! Just search Dartmouth Sustainability or go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dartmouth-Sustainability/190425884324950 * Have stuff you want to sell or buy? Check out dartlist.com, like craigslist but for the Dartmouth community! Go green! -The Sustainability Office