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Past Events

April 2008

Yale University: Sustainability Summit MORE

March 31st to April 3rd, 2008 on Yale Campus. See website for details.

Sustainable Architecture, Today and Tomorrow:

Reframing the Discourse MORE

A symposium sponsored by the Yale School of Architecture.
Fri., April 4, 2008, at 6:30 PM in the Art Gallery's McNeil Lecture Hall (enter on High Street)

Sat., April 5, 2008, 9 AM - 5 PM in the Art Gallery's McNeil Lecture Hall (enter on High Street)

The Challenges of Going Green: Other University Experiences
Featuring Speaker David Orr of Oberlin College. Part of the Prof. Stephen Kellert Lecture Series: "The Challenges and Opportunities of Going Green: The Case of Kroon Hall." Brown bag lunch; hot beverages and dessert will be provided.  
Mon., Apr. 21, 2008 from Noon to 1 PM in Bowers Aud., Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect St.

The Power of Story in Strengthening Conservation
Featuring Speaker Peter Forbes, executive director, Center for Whole Communities, Knoll Farm, Vermont. Sponsored by Peabody Museum/Land Use Coalition, F&ES.
Mon., Apr. 21, 2008 at 4 PM in the 3rd floor aud., Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave.

Global Forest Carbon Budgeting and Measurement
Featuring Speaker Richard A. Houghton, deputy director and senior scientist, Woods Hole Research Center.
Mon., Apr. 21, 2008 at 4 PM to 5:30 PM in Bowers Aud., Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect St.

Environmental Refugees and the Ethics of Border Security: The Politics of the Moroccan-Spanish Border
Featuring Speaker Gregory White of Smith College. Sponosored by the Council on Middle East Studies and the MacMillan Center.
Tue., Apr. 22, 2008 at Noon in Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect St.

Food Matters -- A Look at Eating, Agriculture and Global Warming
Featuring Speaker Mark Bittman. Sponosored by Saybrook College.
Wed., Apr. 23, 2008 at 5 PM in LC (Linsly-Chittenden) 101, 63 High St.

Environment, Democracy, and Peace
Featuring Speaker Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, Founder, the Green Belt Movement.
Fri., Apr. 25, 2008 at 2 PM in the Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School.

March 2008

For the Love of Timber - A Different Look at a Natural Resource
Featuring Speaker Andrew Aulisi, Director of the Markets and Enterprise Program for the World Resources Institute. Reception to follow.
Thu., Mar. 6, 2008 at 4:30 PM at 55 Hillhouse Avenue, in the GM room.

Engineering for Sustainability at Kroon and Elsewhere
Featuring speaker Patrick Bellew, founding director Atelier Ten. Part of the Prof. Stephen Kellert Lecture Series. Sponsored by FES.
Thu., Mar. 6, 2008 at 5 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street.

Speaker: Adam Markham, Executive director of Clean Air Cool Planet
Bryan Garcia, the head of CBEY, is organizing this event to help inform the carbon offset portfolio design work of FES and SOM students, and ultimately to help inform what Yale's Univesity-wide Carbon Fund will look like.
Tue., Mar. 25, 2008 at 4:30 PM at 55 Hillhouse Avenue, in the GM room.

Investing in Clean Energy and Climate Change - A Private Equity Panel
Featuring Speaker Jeff Miller (Partner with Tremont Group) and Jeff Possick (Principal with Mission Point Capital Partners), and moderated by Mark Barnett (Co-Chair of Foley Hoag's Energy Technology and Renewable Practice)
Thu., Mar. 27, 2008 at 4:30 PM. Location TBD.

Forum on Solar Variability and Climate Change MORE

Sponsored by The YIBS Center for the Study of Global Change.
Friday & Saturday, Mar. 28-29, 2008 in Room 123, Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Ave.

Yale University: Sustainability Summit MORE

March 31st to April 3rd, 2008 on Yale Campus. See website for details.

February 2008

Sustainable Value - Concept and Application to the Car Manufacturing Sector
Featuring speaker Tobias Hahn of the Institue for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment, and a Visiting Fellow at Yale FES. From Ned Gordon:

"Sustainable Value is a new value-based concept to the assessment of corporate sustainability. It applies opportunity cost thinking from financial management to environmental and social resources next to economic capital. As a result it provides a monetary measure of corporate sustainability. I introduce the concept of Sustainable Value and present its application to the car manufacturing sector where we assessed the sustainability performance of 16 major car manufacturers worldwide covering 9 different economic, environmental and social resources."

Please RSVP to Ned at edward.gordon@yale.edu if you plan to attend.

Lunch will be provided.
Fri., Feb. 1, 2008 at 12 noon in the classroom at 380 Edwards St.

Freedom from Oil: How the Next President Can

End the United States' Oil Addiction MORE
Robin Chase, founder and former CEO of Zipcar, will be hosting a Master's Tea at the Trumbull Master's House. Sponsored by the Offices of Sustainability and Sustainable Commuting, and the Trumbull Master's Office.
Mon., Feb. 4, 2008 at 12 noon in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street

Environment, Agriculture and Obesity: New Thinking on Sustainability
With Professor Daniel C. Esty. Free and open to the public. Registration Required. For reservations, contact Tricia Wynne, (203) 423-6700. Sponsored by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
Mon., Feb. 4, 2008 at 2 PM in the Conference Room at the Rudd Center, 309 Edwards St.

Carbon Cycling in Boreal Forest Ecosystems
With Stith (Tom) Gower, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison. Sponsored by the Western Resources Student Interest Group.
Mon., Feb. 4, 2008 at 2 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street

From Farmers to Global Markets: The Politics of Commodity Supply Chains in Indonesia
Featuring Speaker Erick Danzer, University of Wisconsin. Sponsored by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies & the Dept. of Political Science.
Wed., Feb. 6, 2008 at 12:00 PM in Room A001, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

A Master's Tea with Robin Chase MORE
Robin Chase, founder and former CEO of Zipcar, will be hosting a Master's Tea at the Trumbull Master's House. Sponsored by the Offices of Sustainability and Sustainable Commuting, and the Trumbull Master's Office.
Wed., Feb. 6, 2008 at 4 PM at the Trumbull Master's House.

Profit or Paradox -Environmental Strategy for an Investment Bank
Featuring Speaker Jim Butcher, Director for the Office of the Environment for Morgan Stanley. Reception to follow in partnership with Cleantech in Connecticut at Thali (4 Orange Street).
Wed., Feb. 6, 2008 at 4:30 PM at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Sustainable Society: A Teach-In & Discussion About Food and Social Justice
Sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project.
Thu., Feb. 7, 2008 from 5 to 6:30 PM in the Library at Dwight Hall, 67 High Street, Old Campus.

Indian and American Forestry: Common History, Different Problems, New Complementaries
Featuring Speaker William R. Bentley, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and principal, Salmon Brook Associates. Yale Forest Forum Lunch. Lunch will be provided.
Thu., Feb. 14, 2008 from 12 PM to 1 PM at the Marsh Rotunda, 360 Prospect St.

Capitalism and Environment: The Coming Transformation
Bioethics Study Group: "Genetically Modified Plants". Speaker Gus Speth, Dean, F&ES, with respondent Stanley Garstka, Deputy Dean, SOM.
Thu., Feb. 14, 2008 from 4 PM to 5:30 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street

The Transformative Potential of Going Green
Part of the Prof. Stephen Kellert Lecture Series addressing "The Challenges and Opportunities of Going Green: The Case of Kroon Hall." For info, reading materials and dinner reservations, e-mail: carol.pollard@yale.edu . Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.
Thu., Feb. 14, 2008 from 5 PM to 6:30 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street

Master's Tea with Dr. Steven Koonin, head scientist, BP.
The Benjamin and Barbara Zucker Environmental Fellow, Dr. Koonin will be the guest at a Master's Tea on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 4:00 pm in the Berkeley College Master's House.
Mon., Feb. 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM at the Berkeley Master's House, 125 High Street.

Energy: Facts, Challenges and Responses
Featuring the Benjamin and Barbara Zucker Environmental Fellow, Dr. Steven Koonin, head scientist, BP. The world's demand for energy will grow by some 60% in the next 25 years. Satisfying that demand in an economical and environmentally acceptable manner is one of the most significant challenges facing society. New technologies will play a central role in meeting this challenge, albeit conditioned by the economic, social, and political contexts in which they are developed and deployed. The presentation will focus on the major forces shaping the World's energy future and the technologies required to respond to them.
Tue., Feb. 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM in Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect St.

Funding Solutions to Climate Change - A Philanthropy Panel
Featuring Speakers Stewart Hudson (President of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation), Ted Smith (Executive Director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation), Leslie Harroun (Senior Program Officer for the Oak Foundation), Michael Northrop (Program Officer for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund), and moderated by Dean James Gustave Speth.
Wed., Feb. 20, 2008 at 4:30 PM at 55 Hillhouse Avenue, in the GM room.

Climate Change in Connecticut and Across the U.S. - Meeting the Challenge MORE
Connecticut has been one of the leading proponents of state action on climate change in the U.S. and Commissioner Gina McCarthy is both a local and national leader on this issue.
Thu., Feb. 21, 2008 at 4:30 PM at the Yale Peabody Museum.

Launching a Biofuels Start-up in India: CleanStar, Jatropha and Economic Development. MORE PRESS RELEASE

Featuring Speaker Sagun Sexena, CEO, CleanStarEnergy Pvt. Ltd. Hosted by The Yale School of Forestry's Center for Industrial Ecology.
Fri., Feb. 22, 2008 at 12 noon in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street

Insuring the Future in a Changing World
Featuring Speaker Ralph Mucerino, President of AIG Global Marine and Energy, who will discuss the impact of climate change on insurance and related financial products and services.
Thu., Feb. 28, 2008 at 4:30 PM at 55 Hillhouse Avenue, in the GM room.

January 2008

MIT Environmental Film Festival MORE
MIT will be hosting a film festival beginning in mid-January and lasting through February 3, and will be showing such films as Troubled Waters, The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa, Being Caribou, and Is God Green?
January 16, 18, 23, 25, 30 & February 1-3. See website for details.

Institutionalizing Sustainability: Moving from Theory to Practice MORE
The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies presents The YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminar Series. A talk featuring speaker Julie Newman, Director, Office of Sustainability.
Fri., Jan. 18, 2008 at 12 noon in Room 110, ESC, 21 Sachem Street.

Environmental Injustice: The Other Inconvenient Truth MORE
Featuring speaker Jerome Ringo, president of Apollo Alliance. The Arnold J. Alderman Memorial Lecture. Part of the Peabody Museum's program "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice 2008."  
Sun., Jan. 20, 2008 at 2 PM at the Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave.

From India to the World: Suzlon Energy and the Global Market for Wind Power MORE
Speaker Hornung Pedersen, CEO of Repower (formerly Suzlon). An Industrial Environmental Management Seminar, presented by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Reception to follow.
Wed., Jan. 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

Speaker: Cate Mortimer-Sandilands on Queer Ecologies MORE
Presented by Special Trees in the Forest.
Thu., Jan. 24, 2008, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street, 1st Floor.

Developing intersections between phylogeny and ecology MORE
The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies presents The YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminar Series. A talk featuring speaker Michael Donoghue, Director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History; G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Fri., Jan. 25, 2008 at 12 noon in Room 110, ESC, 21 Sachem Street.

E-Cycling: A Brownbag Talk MORE
Featuring speaker Stefan Renckens, Sustainable Peace Action Research Center, Belgium. Sponsored by the Yale Center on Environmental Law and Policy.
Mon., Jan. 28, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Seminar Room, 380 Edwards Street.

Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for

Environmental Justice MORE
Featuring speaker David Pellow of Univ. of California, San Diego.
Wed., Jan. 30, 2008, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM in Bowers Aud., Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect St.

Investing in Climate Change - Hedge Funds and Climate Change MORE
The Connecticut Hedge Fund Association together with the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Connecticut Departments of Environmental Protection, Insurance, Treasury, and Clean Air - Cool Planet have organized a winter symposium of insurance and investment management leaders to explore risks and opportunities as well as the new Green Exchange trading platform established by a NYMEX-led consortium of leading financial institutions.
Wed., Jan. 30, 2008, at 5:30 PM at the Delamar Hotel in Greenwich, CT.

Working for a Sustainable Future: How your career can (help) save the world. MORE

A Focus the Nation and Climate Campaign Event. A pastor, a politician, a journalist, a scientist and an artist walk into a panel. What do they discuss? Climate Change. A panel discussion followed by refreshments and informal conversation.
Thu., Jan. 31, 2008, at 3:30 PM in Linsley-Chittenden Hall, Room 102.

December 2007

NPR's Kitchen Sisters MORE
Of Morning Edition's "Hidden Kitchens" Series: Radio, Readings, and Some Secret, Local, Hidden Kitchen Cooking. Five radio pieces will be discussed at this session: Mozart's Hidden Kitchen; Deep-Fried Fuel: A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision; Farm Aid: Saving the Family Farm; Milk Cow Blues: Enthusiasts Seek the Raw Stuff; and Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro. This talk, sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project and the Yale Office of Sustainability, will be given by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. At 4 PM in the Davenport College Master's House, a Master's Tea will be held.
Fri., Dec. 7, 2007, 11 AM to 1 PM, 77 Prospect Street, ISPS Seminar Room B012.

Rethinking Local and Global Microbial Diversity MORE
The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies presents The YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminar Series. A talk featuring speaker Jeffrey Townsend, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Fri., Dec. 7, 2007 at 12 noon in Room 110, ESC, 21 Sachem Street.

Youth and Migration in the Arabian Peninsula: The Case of Yemen
A speech presented by the Demography & Population Seminar Series. Featuring speaker Nathalie Peutz, Department of Anthropology, Yale University. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Fri., Dec. 7, 2007, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM at 77 Prospect Street, Room A001 (Lower Level)

Global Environmental Sustainability MORE
A talk by Professor Daniel C. Esty, sponsored by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The talk is free, but registration is required; contact Tricia Wynne at (203) 432-6700 for reservations.
Fri., Dec. 12, 2007 from 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM in the Conference Room, Rudd Center, 309 Edwards St.

Forest Certification, Wood Use, and Green Building MORE
This talk will provide an overview of an ongoing project that Connie McDermott
and Ben Cashore, in partnership with Greg Norris of Sylvatica, are conducting
for the US Green Building Council. The project involves developing decision
tools for USGBC to apply within in its LEED credit system for the use of wood
and other bio-based materials in green building. Connie will discuss both the
research conducted for this project as well as stakeholder dynamics during the
project's peer review.
Thu., Dec. 13, 2007, 4 PM to 6 PM, 230 Prospect Street, First Floor.

Speaker: Andrew Aulisi
A talk by Andrew Aulisi, Director of the Markets and Enterprise Program for the World Resources Institute.
Thu., Dec. 13, 2007 Time and Location TBA.

November 2007

Chapel District’s 1st Thursdays featuring CitySeed MORE
The 1st Thursday of every month, the Chapel St. Historic District hosts a downtown celebration with in-store events, promotions and entertainment, including trunk shows, shopping discounts, refreshments, and more.

In addition, this month participating stores will accept donations for CitySeed, offer a free taste of fruits from CitySeed farmers, and give a free eco-friendly designer tote with a minimum purchase (while supplies last). All promotions run from 5pm to 9 pm and are valid only on Thursday, November 1. The Chapel St. Historic District includes Chapel, York, High and College Streets.

Thu., Nov. 1, 2007 from 5 PM to 9 PM at the Chapel St. Historic District.

Global Institute Lunch Time Series MORE
Sponsored by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. For information, contact barbara.ruth@yale.edu.
Thu., Nov. 1, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Marsh Rotunda, 360 Prospect St., New Haven.

Biofuels: Is the Tank Half-Full or Half-Empty? MORE
Lecture on Bio-Fuels with Robert Anex from Iowa State. Part of the IEM Lecture Series supported by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund. Reception to follow in the 1st floor Student Lounge.
Thu., Nov. 1, 2007, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor.

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health MORE
This talk, sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project, will be given by Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University.
Thu., Nov. 1, 2007, Time and Location TBA.

Energy, development, and environmental change; the social ecology of energy provision in sub-Saharan Africa MORE
The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies presents The YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminar Series. A talk featuring speaker Robert Bailis.
Fri., Nov. 2, 2007 at 12 noon in Room 110, ESC, 21 Sachem Street.

A Pot of Gold for Renewable Energy?

Funding RE Projects with Carbon Finance
A talk by Peter Sweatman, director of client operations in Southern Europe and Latin America for UK-based investment bank Climate Change Capital, .
Tue., Nov. 6, 2007, 2:30 PM in the Steinbach Lounge at 52 Hillhouse Avenue.

The Case Against Eating by the Numbers MORE
This talk, sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project, will be given by Joan Gussow, Mary Swartz Rose Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Education, Columbia University.
Wed., Nov. 7, 2007, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM at the Rudd Center (conference room). 309 Edwards St.

Global Institute Lunch Time Series MORE
Sponsored by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. For information, contact barbara.ruth@yale.edu.
Thu., Nov. 8, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Marsh Rotunda, 360 Prospect St., New Haven.

Green Technology from the Mustard Family:

Biofuels and Biofumigants from Brassica Napus MORE
Featuring speaker Neil McHale, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Sponsored by the Yale Interdisciplinary Ceter for Bioethics.
Thu., Nov. 8, 2007 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

The Future of Energy MORE
Conference will explore the relationship between international law and the shift of accessible hydrocarbon reserves to unstable or developing nations; the types of incentives the current regulatory regime creates for renewable energy sources, both at the regional and national levels; and will address the economic prospects of both traditional and alternative energy producers over the next 12-18 years.  
Fri., Nov. 9, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Levinson Auditorium, Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St.

Speaker: Shivi Kalyanakrishnan-Sivaramakrishnan MORE
The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies presents The YIBS/ESC Friday Noon Seminar Series. A talk featuring speaker Shivi Kalyanakrishnan-Sivaramakrishnan, Professor, Anthropology and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Fri., Nov. 9, 2007 at 12 noon in Room 110, ESC, 21 Sachem Street.

Understanding the Human Component:

Integrating Local Fuelwood Needs and Park Management

in the Saloum Biosphere Reserve, Senegal MORE
Featuring speaker Jeffrey Chatellier, sponsored by the Council on African Studies and the MacMillan Center.
Fri., Nov. 9, 2007 at 1 PM in Room 102, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

A View of Climate Change Physics MORE
Featuring speaker Carl Wunsch of MIT. Sponsored by the Department of Physics. Tea will be served at 3:30 PM in the third floor lounge.
Fri., Nov. 9, 2007 at 4 PM in Room 57, SPL (Sloane Physics Laboratory), 217 Prospect Street.

The Proliferation of Megacities
A speech presented by the Demography & Population Seminar Series. Featuring speaker Ellen Brennan-Galvin, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Fri., Nov. 9, 2007, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM at 77 Prospect Street, Room A001 (Lower Level)

Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming MORE
Featuring speaker Stuart Eizenstat, partner, Covington & Burling LLP. Sponsored by the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.
Thu., Nov. 8, 2007 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Room B012, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street.

A Panel on the Food and Farm Bill MORE
This panel, sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project, will feature Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group; Michael Nischan, chef, The Dressing Room; and Gus Schumacher, Former Undersecretary of Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services.
Tue., Nov. 13, 2007, 3 PM to 4:30 PM at Bowers Aud., SB (Sage-Bowers Hall), 205 Prospect St.

Effectiveness of Ecolabeling in Promoting Sustainable Fisheries MORE
Dr. Cathy A. Roheim, Professor in the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island, will present an overview of the Marine Stewardship Council certification program, incentives being created by its products in the global marketplace, environmental benefits that may be resulting, and implications for the future. Part of the Curtis and Edith Munson Marine Conservation Lecture Series on the Future of Fisheries. Light refreshments will be served.
Tue., Nov. 13, 2007 from 5:30 PM to 7 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor.

Global Institute Lunch Time Series MORE
Sponsored by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. For information, contact barbara.ruth@yale.edu.
Thu., Nov. 15, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Marsh Rotunda, 360 Prospect St., New Haven.

Does Economic Growth Reduce Fertility? The Case of India, 1971-1990.
A speech presented by the Demography & Population Seminar Series. Featuring speaker Andrew Foster, Department of Economics, Brown University. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Bioethics Center and the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Fri., Nov. 16, 2007, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM at 77 Prospect Street, Room A001 (Lower Level)

"Sustainability, Yield and Uncertainty in Fisheries Management with Marine Protected Areas" MORE
Featuring speaker Louis W. Botsford of the University of California at Davis.
Tue., Nov. 27, 2007, at 5:30 PM at Bowers Aud., SB (Sage-Bowers Hall), 205 Prospect St.

Talking Dirty about the Earth: Effective Strategies for Communicating Environmental Issues to Faith-Based Communities MORE
SPIRET (the SIG devoted to the intersection of faith traditions and the environmental movement) will be hosting Reverend Fletcher Harper of GreenFaith, a faith-based environmental organization based in New Jersey (www.greenfaith.org). Fletcher, an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, recently contributed a chapter to Emily Enderle's book and has a great deal of experience as an environmental leader. Greenfaith has a proven track record of advocacy and education; it has accomplished reductions in diesel fuel emissions in New Jersey, has recently worked with the NRDC in a successful class action suit against the Army Corps of Engineers for pollution of the Newark Bay, and it has been motivating and educating churches and synagogues in NJ about sustainability and environmental justice. Lunch will be provided.
Wed., Nov. 28, 2007 from 11:30 AM to 1 PM in Sage-Bowers Hall, 205 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor.

Land of Exploitation: Farms, Forests and Labor in the Early 20th-Century South MORE
Featuring speaker Betsy Herbin, postdoctoral fellow. A part of the Global Institute Lunch Time Series, sponsored by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. Lunch will be provided.
Thu., Nov. 29, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Marsh Rotunda, 360 Prospect St., New Haven.

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