Join us Thursdays 12:30-1:20 p.m. in The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest.
February 14
Environmental Risk Communication
Andrew Schwarz ’72, President, Industrial Economics, Inc.
February 21
The Production and Emission of Methane by Living Trees
Kristofer Covey, PhD. Candidate, Silviculture and Biogeochemistry, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
February 28
Between the Animal and the Animate Earth: Some Thoughts on Language and the Ecology of Sensory Experience
David Abram, Cultural Ecologist, Geo-philosopher, and Director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics
March 7
Boundaries, Interfaces, and the Environment
Molly Constanza-Robinson, Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry; Rebecca Kneale Gould, Associate Professor of Religion; Nicholas Z. Muller, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury
March 14
U.S. Action on Clean Energy and Climate Change (via Skype)
Holmes Hummel, Senior Advisor, Office of the Undersecretary for Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
March 21
Change We Can Believe In? U.S. Environmental Policy in the Obama Years
Chris McGrory Klyza, Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies, Middlebury
April 4
Tracing Obscure Connections: Monsanto and Child Labor in the Production of Hybrid Genetically Modified Cottonseed in India
Kacy McKinney, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Middlebury
April 11
Stories from the Wilderness
Sylvia Johnson ’00.5, Documentary Filmmaker
April 18
Rating Green Buildings: LEED, Living Building Challenge and the Learning Process
Charley Stevenson, Owner, Integrated Eco Strategy, LLC
April 25
The Sufficiency Principle: A Key to the Sustainable Future
Katherine Ebner ’87, Co-Director, Institute for Transformational Leadership, Georgetown University; Founder, CEO, The Nebo Company
May 2
Resilience: A Personal, Community, and Systems Perspective
Sarah Stokes Alexander ‘93, Director, Environmental Practice, The Keystone Center
May 9
“The Country Keeps Changing”: Cultural and Historical Contexts of Ecosystem Changes in Alaska’s Yukon Delta
Kenneth Pratt, ANCSA Program Manager, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaska Region
Special Afternoon ES 401 Senior Seminar Presentations (4:30 pm)
