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Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies ENVS

A Workshop for Change-makers: Connecting Earth & Community & Self

Sponsored by:
Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Environmental Studies, and OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY INTEGRATION
Students, Join us for 2 hours at the farm in a workshop of experiential practices based on Joanna Macy’s “Active Hope” & “Work that Reconnects” To fruitfully commit oneself to such huge tasks in social and environmental change requires many tools. We must learn and practice ways to enrich and empower our inner selves, and go forth hopefully with intention. RSVP preferred but you can come either way sessercalvi@middlebury.edu A van will be meeting at ADK 6:15 if you do not want to walk to farm or if it is raining we will drive to Hadley Barn.

Hadley Barn

Monsanto Discussion

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies
Join Philip J. Eppard, Academic Engagement Lead and Michael Spencer, Transformation Strategy Lead and Science Fellow from Monsanto Company to discuss considering sustainable agriculture in the face of climate change and a growing world population in a talk titled: A growing world population and creating sustainable communities: What role is crop biotechnology playing?

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

"A Small Good Thing"

Sponsored by:
Environmental Studies and Well-Being Committee
“A Small Good Thing” is a film about the next American dream to live a more wholehearted, connected life. The film asks whether we can change our larger goals as a nation and learn from the rest of the world about the small truths that are the sources of human happiness. Can our dreams serve as a conduit for the developing world’s financial well-being? The film explores how working in small but meaningful ways, we can overcome obstacles to happiness – the isolation of suburban comfort as well as the despair of poverty – to create joy for ourselves and others.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Free
Open to the Public

Lake Baikal: Environmental Issues and NGOs' Efforts to Solve Them

Sponsored by:
International Programs & Off Campus Study, Environmental Studies, Russian, and OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY INTEGRATION
Anna Ogorodnikova will talk about Lake Baikal (the deepest and the oldest lake in the world), protected areas around the lake, its current environmental problems (logging, overfishing, eutrophication, etc.) and the work of local non-profits to solve or mitigate some of these problems. Anna is the director of the Baikal Interactive Eco-Center, an NGO based in Irkutsk, Russia. She teaches a course on Lake Baikal ecology to students studying at the Middlebury C.V. Starr School Abroad in Irkutsk. She also builds hiking trails in the Baikal region.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public