Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Josh Howe ‘02, Assistant Professor, History and Environmental Studies, Reed College Kathy Morse- John C. Elder Prof of Environmental Studies; Prof of History Telling Stories about CO2: History, Science, and the Politics of Climate Change Josh Howe and Kathy Morse will explore how environmental studies and the discipline of history can productively contribute to the climate change conversation, and what the history of global warming itself can tell us about the way forward.

Bobby Levine ‘08, CEO of Digested Organics and Chief Science Officer of Algal Scientific Jon Isham- Professor of Economics; Director, Center for Social Entrepreneurship Life after Middlebury: An Entrepreneur’s Quest Middlebury prepared me well as a thinker and leader, but I graduated having never really heard the word entrepreneur. In this brief talk, I will discuss how I went from oblivious to the start-up world to a founding member of two fast-growing companies that have products and services aimed at delivering environmental benefits combined with financial savings for our customers.

Lila Buckley ‘04, Senior Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development Mike Sheridan- Associate Professor of Anthropology What does a liberal arts approach to sustainable development look like? A conversation between Lila Buckley ’04 and Professor Mike Sheridan will explore Lila’s career path in sustainable development work, starting with her coursework and experiences at Middlebury.

Susannah Drake FASLA, ASLA Principal DLANDStudio Ashar Nelson ‘90- Principal, Vermont Integrated Architecture, AIA, LEED AP Andrea Murray- Principal, Vermont Integrated Architecture, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB Perspectives on the Designed Environment Andrea, Ashar, and Susannah will present examples of recent work and discuss their efforts in using design to inspire people to care more about our built and natural environments.

Pieter Broucke, Director of the Arts, Professor of History of Art and Architecture Public Art and the Environment: Herman de Vries’ Wintergräser at Franklin Environmental Center Middlebury’s public art program marks 50 Years of Environmental Education and Leadership with a work of art by Herman de Vries, the 83 year old Dutch artist who has been making environmental art for as long as Middlebury’s Environmental Studies Program has been in existence.

Rebecca Gould, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies Chris Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Environmental Studies Marc Lapin, Associate in Science Instruction in Environmental Studies FlashBack FlashForward: Environmental Studies 1965 and 50 years on

Lebanon’s Shouf Biosphere Reserve Transition Zone: Sport Hunters and a Protected Area Robert Greeley, Visiting Instructor in Arabic, Middlebury College Protected areas have undergone a powerful and sustained social critique, however, very little of this it addresses biosphere reserves and only a small fraction addresses the zoning practices of biosphere reserves. This talk is based on months of interviews and participant observation with biosphere personnel, police, politicians, Shouf residents and hunters in the transition zone of the Shouf Biosphere reserve.

Forecasting global water stress: successes and limitations Matt Landis, Research Scientist, ISciences, LLC Water stress is increasingly recognized as a central emerging challenge of the 21st century. Early warning of extreme water deficits and surpluses are valuable across sectors of society, ranging from food production to electricity generation. In this seminar, I’ll describe models and the underlying data used to forecast water stress globally over timescales ranging from months to decades, with a focus on what such data and models can and cannot tell us.

Environmental Studies Core Panel Discussion Looking Back a Half Century: “1966….the year of the new conservation”—LB Johnson, 2/23/66 Mez Baker-Medárd, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies; Marc Lapin, Associate in Science Instruction in Environmental Studies; Kathryn Morse, John C. Elder Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of History; Nick Muller, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College

“We Conserve What We Love”: Stories About the Conservation of Bread Loaf Katherine Michels ‘14.5, Environmental Philanthropy Associate at the High Meadows Fund In June 2015, Middlebury College and the Vermont Land Trust, with the support of alumnus Louis Bacon ‘79, signed a conservation easement which forever protects 2,100 acres of land around the Bread Loaf campus. Katie spoke with people from Middlebury College, the Vermont Land Trust, the Nature Conservancy of Vermont, Ripton, and Louis Bacon’s representatives.