Spring 2012 Woodin Colloquium Series schedule

Join us Thursdays 12:30-1:20 p.m. in The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest. Visit our video archives page to view a selection of past colloquia.

February 16

What Does Sustainable Development Mean, Anyway?: Contestation over Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam
Peter T. Klein, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Brown University

February 23

Energy is Relative – Thrills, Spills, and Drill, Baby, Drill
Ned Farquhar ’80, P ’14, Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Interior Department

March 1

Scaling Up the Local and Regional Food Supply Chain
Michael Rozyne, Founder and Director of Red Tomato

March 8

Music and the Environment
David Darling, Cellist

March 15

Visions of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Europe

Molly Costanza-Robinson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Chemistry; Helen Young, Professor of Biology; Andrea Olsen, John C. Elder Professor in Environmental Studies and Professor of Dance; Rebecca Kneale Gould, Associate Professor of Religion; Lynn Owens, Assistant Professor of Sociology

March 22

Growing a Healthy Future: The Story of a School Garden in the South Bronx
Ben Blackshear ‘12, Janet Rodrigues ‘12, Jacob Udell ‘12 and Kenny Williams ‘12

April 5

The Dagbe Antelope Project
Steve Trombulak, Environmental Studies and Biology, Middlebury College; V. Josselyne Price, Fine Arts, St. Michael’s College; Emmanuel Agbeli Dagbe Center for Cultural Arts, Kopeyia, Ghana; and members of the Akoma Ensemble, St. Michael’s College

April 12

Mapping the Value of Nature
Taylor Ricketts, Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont

April 19

Pass or Fail—The Obama Administration, Climate Change and Clean Air
Theo Spencer '88, Senior Advocate, Climate and Clean Air Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

April 26

Social Entrepreneurship and Environmental Conservation in East Africa: Perspectives From the Field
Kathleen Colson, CEO/Founder, The BOMA Project; Fred Nelson, Executive Director, Maliasili Initiatives

May 3

Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Amy Seidl, Lecturer, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, UVM

May 10

ES 401 Senior Seminar Presentations