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Make your Green Key truly GREEN!

THIS WEEK:


Wednesday, May 18

Dr. Tracey Osborne, Geography and Development, University of Arizona

"Interrogating the Trade-offs: Sustainable Development and Carbon Markets in Chiapas,  
Mexico"

This guests is part of "Ecosystems, Justice and Markets: The 2nd Annual Bildner  
Environmental Justice Speaker Series."
This guest will take part in two events:
1. A brownbag lunchtime lecture; noon; 113 Steele Hall
2. A catered community dinner (informal and free); 6 p.m.; Cutter Shabazz lounge

Abstract:

Forests are globally important for climate change mitigation, but also locally  
important to over a billion people that rely on forest ecosystems for their livelihoods.  
Climate change mitigation in forests has been highly controversial with respect  
to carbon markets, land rights and livelihood needs of local communities. These  
issues have been particularly controversial within a newly proposed mechanism  
for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing countries  
or REDD. This also speaks to what scholars of the social dimensions of the Clean  
Development Mechanism in general and carbon forestry in particular have identified  
for some time as fundamental tradeoffs between market efficiency and development  
goals, with the former often taking precedence. While scholars of common property  
resources argue, and it is well documented, that collective action will more likely  
result in sustainable resource management, I have found that in market-based carbon  
forestry projects, tradeoffs exist even in areas of collective action. Given,  
that indigenous and forest communities that manage land collectively, in many  
cases, have been important stewards of forest ecosystems, this paper explores  
how community engagement with carbon markets shape forest governance, and the  
resulting social and environmental outcomes. Based on research of carbon forestry  
in Chiapas, Mexico, I argue that commodification changes community rules that  
have previously protected forests, in ways that in some cases lead to environmental  
degradation and loss of culturally important livelihood benefits associated with  
traditional land uses.
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Wednesday, May 18
Wild Foraging Workshop from 2-6 PM

Learn to identify wild, edible plants!

All within walking distance of campus, free and delicious, learn how and where  
to find them.  You'll also learn how to prepare them.

Hosted by the Dartmouth Ecovores

This event is FREE.

Blitz the Organic Farm back to reserve a spot. Spaces are limited
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Friday, May 20

Check out The Big Green Bus at Block Party from 1-3PM

The Big Green Bus will be at KDE for Block Party on Friday. Students on The Big  
Green Bus for the summer will be hanging out, talking about the summer & sustainability,  
selling Boloco & some sweet swag!
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Monday, May 23

Applications due for the ESD grant

Get $$$ to make your sustainability dream come true!
Apply to the ESD grant program!

Application requirements:
Description of project/event, etc - What is your idea? When will you start?
Breakdown of expenses - How will the money be spent?
Environmental benefits - Why is this an effective use of funds? How does it improve  
sustainable practices in the DOC or at Dartmouth?

Applications do not have to be very long, but your idea should be clearly
planned out. If you have any questions or would like to be more involved in the  
environmental studies division of the DOC, blitz ESD.
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COMING UP:

Wednesday, May 25

Dr. Jennifer Jacquet, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia

"The Comedy of Guilt in the Tragedy of the Commons."

This guest is part of "Ecosystems, Justice and Markets: The 2nd Annual Bildner  
Environmental Justice Speaker Series."
This guest will take part in two events:
1. A brownbag lunchtime lecture; noon; 113 Steele Hall
2. A catered community dinner (informal and free); 6 p.m.; Cutter Shabazz lounge
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Friday May 27

Farm Plant Sale from 12-5 pm on Collis Porch

The Organic Farm will be selling plants for your home garden, so stop by and check  
it out!

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