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!
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"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....
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Tuesday, April 10th
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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
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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
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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. Yale has over 4,300.... Click the link above and press "like"!

Sustainably yours,
The Sustainable Dartmouth Team