Please join the Dartmouth Sustainability Office for this year's.... ** SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE DINNER ** Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 Collis Commonground RSVP required: http://tinyurl.com/c3juq8o 6:30pm Dinner Catered by Maple Street 7pm Panel Begins Why does Sustainability matter? How do you feel Sustainability and Social Justice connected? Come share a community dinner and hear fellow Dartmouth community members talk about sustainability from a variety of perspectives. Four members of the Dartmouth community will answer these questions, as passionately as they can, based on their life experience and work. Discussion will follow at each dinner table about how sustainability and social justice are, or should be, connected here at Dartmouth. Featuring panelists: Professor Ross Virginia, Environmental Studies Department Kurt Nelson, Tucker Foundation’s Assistant Chaplain Gurveen Chadha, Dartmouth Class of 2013 Jasmine Kumalah, Dartmouth Class of 2012 And now for This Week in Sustainability, keeping you up to date with all things green at Dartmouth and beyond! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "This Week" Highlights: TUESDAY, April 10th *Sustainability Salon with Terry Tempest Williams, 4-5:45pm, 101 Fairchild *"The Book of Ice," talk and multimedia performance with DJ Spooky, 4:30-6pm Loew Auditorium *Green: Film Screening and Discussion, 7pm, Loew Auditorium *ECO meeting, 7:30-8pm, Collis 212 WEDNESDAY, April 11th *Screening of Gasland, 7-8:30pm, Howe Library THURSDAY, April 12th *DAWG and Ecovores Sustainable Diets Discussion, 6:30pm, SLC *Conservation on Tap, 7pm, Collis Commonground Details.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, April 10th ********************** Sustainability Salon: When Art Meets Politics When: 4-5:45pm Where: 101 Fairchild What: Join Terry Tempest Williams, Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies and Provostial Fellow, for a discussion of sustainability and screening of the film, "The Island President" (running time: 101 minutes). Other salons will be on April 24 and May 1. "The Book of Ice," talk and multimedia performance with DJ Spooky When: 4:30-6pm Where: Loew Auditorium What: Multimedia artist, writer and musician DK Spooky brings his unique perspective on Antarctica to Dartmouth. Miller uses Antarctica to contemplate humanity's relationship with the natural world. Book signing afterwards. Hosted by the Dickey Center. More Information here: http://dartmouth.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7d9a2b2a3a794cc47e76b8d5d&id=1b6a9c3a42&e=a69fc56b38 ECO meeting When: Tuesday, 7:30 - 8pm Where: Collis 212 What: Starting our first project of mini-campaigns with baked goods to snack on!! Check it out! Green: Film Screening and Discussion When: 7pm Where: Loew Auditorium What: Moderator: James Igoe, Associate Professor of Anthropology. Green, a female orangutan, is a victim of deforestation and resource exploitation in Indonesia in this hard-hitting portrayal of environmental disruption. Offered in conjunction with the upcoming Hood exhibition Looking Back at Earth. Running time: 48 min. More info: http://d2u.dartmouth.edu/archive?id=10695 Wednesday, April 11th ********************** Screening of "Gasland" When: 7-8:30pm Where: Howe Library (across from Ramunto's) What: "The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown." [ from the website: http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/about-the-film/] Event hosted by the Sierra Club of the Upper Valley. Thursday, April 12th ********************** DAWG and Ecovores Sustainable Diets Discussion When: 6:30pm Where: Sustainable Living Center What: The Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group and Ecovores are teaming up for a delicious (vegan!) homemade dinner and a discussion about how meat-free and other diets fit in with sustainability and environmentalism. Conservation on Tap When: 7pm Where: Collis Commonground What: Conservation on Tap is a quarterly event hosted by Ledyard to spread awareness of conservation-related topics throughout the Dartmouth community. The focus of the event is a film screening; past films have documented water pollution in Ecuador, oil drilling in Alaska, and human impact on the Grand Canyon. After the film, a panel discussion offers further information on the topic, and gets students involved in the discussion. Of course, we couldn't call it conservation on tap without offering free beer (for 21+) and pizza! Conservation on Tap will be hosted during Riverfest. For more information about Ledyard's Riverfest visit www.ledyardriverfestival.com ONGOING: *Nominate speakers for the next Sustainability Solutions Café: A new speaker series that enables faculty and students to bring speakers to campus to speak about their experiences with your course material in the real world! Learn more about the Sustainability Solutions Cafés and how to nominate a speaker for next term here! http://www.dartmouth.edu/~envs/about/sustcafe.html *GET READY FOR EARTH WEEK!! Only 6 days until the fun begins. Stay tuned for updates via our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dartmouth-Sustainability/190425884324950 (The Dartmouth Sustainability facebook has 460 friends. 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