Environmental Studies

Sustainable architecture in the 21st century tends to work without explicit attention to disability. In this public lecture, Johnna S. Keller, RA discusses ways that architecture can consciously consider both sustainability and accessibility as creative design challenges, thus promoting a socially just and ecologically restorative environment.

Co-sponsored by Middlebury’s Advisory Group on Disability Access and Inclusion, Architecture Studies/History of Art & Architecture, Franklin Environmental Center, and the Program in Environmental Studies.

“Farms, Fish & Forests: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Maine” by Kathryn Olson ‘05, MA, PhD Candidate, Boston College.

How is climate change changing our places? This talk will examine data from interviews with farmers, fishers, and foresters throughout the state of Maine on their experiences and observations of climate change. Part of the Living Change project, this work documents the profound, but often subtle changes in place—and therefore culture and livelihood—that people are observing on the ground in Maine.

Carolyn Finney, PhD will present a talk as part of the Howard E. Woodin ES Colloquium Series (rescheduled from 2/13). Lunch served starting at 12:15p.

“The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability” by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Assistant Professor of Food Studies and Affiliate of the Departments of Geography and Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University.

“Climate Struggle: A Working Class Strategy for the Climate Movement” by Matt Huber, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University.

“Why will you ask her?” Wildlife conservation, sustainable development, and gender issues in India by Monica Ogra, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Gettysburg College.

“The Inner Workings and Long-Term Impacts of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the Bakken Shale Play” by Kristin Smith ’08, Ph.D. Candidate, Montana State University.

“Turning Tricks Into Treats: Behavioral Insights to Deconstruct Common Myths in Transportation Planning and Improve Sustainability Outcomes” by Andrea Hamre ‘05, Ph.D., Transportation Analyst, Chittenden Area Transportation Management Association.

A deconstruction of 10 common transportation-planning myths about driving, riding transit, walking and bicycling, and TDM, with lessons for improving sustainability outcomes.

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