Environmental Studies

“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.

MIDD-ES STUDENT REFLECTIONS ON LEARNING:
Summer Research and Internship Experiences

“Batteries and the Matter of a Clean Energy Future” by Jay Turner, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Wellesley College.

Scaling up a clean energy future is going to require more than just solar panels and wind turbines. It will also require batteries. How can considering the environmental history of batteries in the 20th century help us think more carefully about the role of batteries in a more sustainable and just 21st century? Cosponsored by the departments of History and Political Science.

“Art in the Age of Planetary Distress” by Karen McCoy, Professor, Kansas City Art Institute Sculpture Department, and Social Practice

This talk questions how we might make art that contributes in a meaningful way to the current conversation surrounding climate change. While simultaneously seeking to deepen our own understanding of this complicated context, will we creative humans move beyond raising awareness to catalyze action? In order to discover what this art looks like we will examine a few selected examples and discuss them.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?: Yes

“This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back” by Ken Ilgunas, Author and Journalist.

Author and adventurer Ken Ilgunas will talk about his 1,700-mile hike across the Great Plains and how it inspired him to call for an American “right to roam.” Inspired by the United States’ history of roaming, and taking guidance from present-day Europe, Ilgunas calls into question our entrenched understanding of private property and provocatively proposes something unheard of: opening up American private property for public recreation.

Featuring Middlebury College Faculty Members:
Kathleen Doyle, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
Rebecca Gould, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Joseph Holler, Assistant Professor of Geography
Chris Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Environmental Studies