This Thursday November, 10th 8-11pm in One Wheelock....
come to the GREEN GROUPS’ BLUEGRASS CONCERT featuring:
RECKLESS BREAKFAST
and
TUMBLING BONES
And check out the other awesome events happening this week listed below.
Questions about any of this stuff? Drop in and say hi during the
Office of Sustainability's office hours!
Rosi Kerr, Director of Sustainability at Dartmouth: 12-2:30pm Tuesdays
in Robo 108
Kelly McGlinchey, Sustainable Dartmouth Intern: 9:30-11:30am Thursday
in Robo 108
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"This Week" Highlights:
MONDAY, Nov. 7th
*Dartmouth Council on Climate Change, 7pm, 124 Haldeman
TUESDAY, Nov. 8th
*Dartmouth Organic Farm meeting, 12:30-1:30pm, Robo basement
*Arctic Challenges and Opportunities: A Danish Perspective, 3pm, 041
Haldeman
*Environmental Conservation Organization, 7:30pm, Robo Basement
*Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering, 8pm, Cummings 200 Thayer School
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 9th
*Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group, 5pm, Collis 219
THURSDAY, Nov. 10th
*Great Issues Lecture: THE BIG PICTURE: Beyond Hot Spots & Crises in
our Interconnected World, 7:30-9pm, Dartmouth Hall 105, overflow 041
Haldeman
*BLUEGRASS CONCERT, 8-11pm, One Wheelock
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details.....
Monday, Nov. 7th
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Dartmouth Council on Climate Change
When: 7pm
Where: Haldeman 124
What: Jessica O'Hare, a representative from the NH branch of
Environment America, will be coming to speak with us about the
campaign for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and what we
can do here on campus to make a difference in environmental/energy
policy.
Tuesday, Nov. 8th
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Dartmouth Organic Farm Meeting
When: 12:30-1:30pm
Where: Robo basement
What: Come hear about the farm, what's going on this week and what
we're up to this fall and how you can get involved in all that (it's
easy)!
Arctic Challenges and Opportunities: A Danish Perspective
When: 3pm
Where: 041 Haldeman
What: Presentation by the Ambassador of Denmark to the United States,
Peter Taksøe-Jensen. The Arctic is opening up to the world. That means
new challenges and new opportunities:
How do we handle the consequences of the melting ice?
How do we make use of the resources in the Arctic - oil, gas and
minerals?
How do we at the same time protect the fragile Arctic nature and
environment?
How do we ensure the best possible safety of the increasing navigation
in Arctic waters?
And how do we ensure the best living conditions of the Arctic peoples?
These are among the questions the Danish Ambassador will seek to answer.
Environmental Conservation Organization
When: 7:30pm
Where: Robo basement
What: Come check out our weekly ECO meeting!! We will be hearing about
the progress on our trash bag pilot program, brainstorming some lyrics
to ECO Croo performances, and discussing details of the sustainability
planning process at Dartmouth. Bring friends, bring dinner, bring
ideas, and help us brainstorm ways to make the Big Green even greener!
Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering meeting
When: 8pm
Where: Cummings 200, Thayer School
What: DHE is an award-winning, impact-driven organization comprised of
students from every year and most majors. Come learn about our
projects, including hydropower, fuel-efficient cookstoves, biogas, and
water quality monitoring in Rwanda, Tanzania, and West Virginia and
how you can get involved doing hands-on work and helping to grow our
impact!
DHE is NOT just for engineers. We need passionate students from every
field!
Feel free to blitz us any questions!
Wednesday, Nov. 9th
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Dartmouth Animal Welfare Group
When: 5pm
Where: Collis 219
What: Come to hear weekly meeting to discuss plans for a vegetarian
Thanksgiving, volunteering at a local animal shelter, bringing in
awesome speakers and more!
Thursday, Nov. 10th
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Great Issues Lecture: THE BIG PICTURE: Beyond Hot Spots & Crises in
our Interconnected World
When: 7:30-9pm
Where: Dartmouth Hall 105, overflow 041 Haldeman
What: Great Issues Lecturer, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of
Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, will speak
to John Sloan Dickey's quote "The world's troubles are your troubles
and there is nothing wrong with the world that better human beings
cannot fix."
Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University
Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton
University. From 20092011 she served as Director of Policy Planning
for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold
that position. Upon leaving the State Department she received the
Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor conferred
by the State Department, for her work leading the Quadrennial
Diplomacy and Development Review. She also received a Meritorious
Honor Award from the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID). Dr. Slaughter is a frequent contributor to both mainstream
and new media, publishing op-eds in major newspapers, magazines and
blogs around the world and curating foreign policy news for over 8,000
followers on Twitter. She appears regularly on CNN, the BBC, NPR, and
PBS, lectures widely, and has served on boards of organizations
ranging from the Council of Foreign Relations and the New America
Foundation to the McDonald's Corporation and the Citigroup Economic
and Political Strategies Advisory Group. Foreign Policy magazine named
her to their annual list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009 and
2010.
Bluegrass Concert
When: 8-11pm
Where: One Wheelock
What: There will be a Bluegrass concert at One Wheelock this Thursday
from 8-11 pm, featuring Reckless Breakfast and Tumbling Bones!!!
Hosted by the Green Groups and co-sponsored by Programming Board, its
going to be a really great concert and a really nice way to relax
after a long week. Come and bring friends!
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
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