The Sustainability Office in collaboration with Green Groups Directorate is now accepting applications for....
The Sustainable Moving Sale Co-Sponsorship Initiative and Grant Program!!!
Apply to either of these wonderful opportunities to receive funding for either a sustainability-related event being held on campus or a sustainability project that you want to make happen!
Applications are quick and easy to fill out. Just blitz them back to 'Sustainable Dartmouth' by February 19th. Take this opportunity to get your awesome idea funded and make positive change on this campus!!
More Information and applications are attached. We look forward to reading your applications!
-The Sustainable Dartmouth Team
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"This Week" Highlights:
MONDAY, Feb 13th
*Tomatoland: The High Price of Food, with Barry Estabrook, 4pm, Silsby 28
TUESDAY, Feb 14th
*The Kyoto Process after Durban, with Professor Michael Dorsey, 6pm, Steele 007
*SUSTAINABILITY HUB ROUNDTABLE DINNER & DESSERTS, 7pm, Collis 101
THURSDAY, Feb 1st
*Global Food Crisis Dinner Discussion, 7pm, Collis 101
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Monday, Feb. 13th
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, with Barry Estabrook
When: 4pm
Where: Silsby 28
What: Have you eaten a fresh tomato from a grocery store or food-service company during the winter? Chances are you have eaten fruit picked by the hand of a slave. Learn about the horrors of modern-day slavery in Florida's tomato industry, and about the migrant worker rights groups fighting to stop this injustice, at a lecture by BARRY ESTABROOK, author of the acclaimed book "TOMATOLAND: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit." Hear Estabrook address issues of agriculture, labor and justice at his lecture.
Tuesday, Feb. 14th
The Kyoto Process after Durban, with Michael Dorsey
When: 6:00pm
Where: Steele Hall 007What: Dr. Michael Dorsey is assistant professor in Dartmouth College's Environmental Studies Program and the Director of the College's Climate Justice Research Project. His research is focuses on the intersections of climate change policy, finance and social justice. In 2010 Lisa Jackson, the US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) Administrator, appointed Dorsey to the EPA's National Advisory Committee. He has followed closely the climate change negotiations from the Rio Treaty through the Kyoto Protocol to the most recent negotiations in Durban, South Africa. He was present in Durban for the most recent round of talks and will provide us with his insights on and critical analysis of the process, results from Durban, and prospects and alternative scenarios for the future.
Sustainability Hub Roundtable Dinner & Desserts
When: 7pm
Where: Collis 101
What: At this second Sustainability Roundtable, we will be discussing the idea of a Sustainability "Hub" and enjoying delicious food (free dinner + homemade Valentine's Day baked goods + chocolate). Imagine a place that hums with energy, where students, faculty and staff come together to tackle real world problems, connect with leading experts in their field, and to tackle your greatest sustainability challenges and opportunities. We want you to imagine this place -- to draw it, to define it, to let us know how to make it work. Because you have great ideas, no valentine, and want free dinner...do it.
Human Rights and the Global Food Crisis Dinner Discussion
When: 7pm
Where: Collis 101
What: SLC and Ecovores present a dinner discussion with sustainable food interns Remy Franklin and Jasmine Kumalah, who recently attended the Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights. Come learn about what they learned about the focus of this year's conference: the global food crisis. Delicious dinner and discussion are both in store!
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!
*APPLY TO THE SUSTAINABLE MOVING SALE GRANT by February 19th! (once again, apps are attached)
Go green!