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"Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya" with David Breashears at Middlebury College, March 7th

The Himalaya are home to the world’s most magnificent peaks and thousands of high-altitude glaciers. These important glaciers supply crucial seasonal flows to rivers across Asia, yet many are disappearing at an increasing rate. “Rivers of Ice” presents recent photographs by mountaineer and photographer David Breashears of the world’s least studied glaciers alongside archival images taken over the past century by the world’s greatest alpine photographers. The comparison starkly reveals the alarming loss of ice during the intervening years.

Dana Auditorium

Middlebury College
Thursday, March 7th, 7:00pm
Free and open to the public

 

Green Mountain Club Volunteer Opportunities!

Volunteer Opportunities

The Green Mountain Club has a variety of volunteer opportunities for any time of year! Please ask as about helping out with projects on and off Vermont's Long Trail.  For more information about any of the opportunities listed below please contact:

Mari Zagarins
Director of Membership and Volunteer Services

phone: (802) 241-8324
email: mzagarins@greenmountainclub.org

Browse through the list below to view our most current opportunities, then fill out our online Volunteer Application form. Be sure to indicate any and all areas in which you are willing to help!   

Ongoing Field Opportunities

Bark Mulch Packers
Mulch Packers carry 40-50 lb. bags of bark mulch into backcountry shelters over rugged terrain for use at composting privy sites. This is an excellent opportunity to prepare for backpacking trips and scheduling is flexible to meet your needs.

 

Volunteer Long Trail Patrol
Ever wanted to run away to the woods for a week or two? People of all ages and experience can volunteer to help the GMC's trail crew with maintenance projects. Click here to read an interview with VLTP co-leaders Swami and Duck Feet!

  

Volunteer Summit Caretakers

GMC Summit Caretakers are stationed on Camels Hump and Mount Mansfield during the hiking season to educate visitors on how to minimize their impacts. The summits of these mountains are especially sensitive because they are above treeline and support many species of rare and endangered alpine plants. Training is provided by qualified GMC staff and volunteers. 

 

Section Work OutingsCheck our Calendar of Events for work hikes organized and led by your local GMC section.  A great way to meet other GMC volunteers!

 

Adopt a Trail or ShelterHelp enhance the hiking experience for everyone by becoming a Long Trail adopter.  We can help you get started on basic maintenance of a trail or shelter.  Whether you want to volunteer on your own, with your family, or with your outing group, maintaining the Long Trail is a great way to give a little back to the Green Mountains.  For a current listing of available trails and shelters, contact Mari.

 

Land Protection & Stewardship MonitorsThe GMC Stewardship Program needs your help to monitor over 30,000 acres of Long Trail and Appalachian Trail conservation lands in Vermont.  Volunteer Corridor Monitors regularly walk protected lands to ensure that conservation restrictions are being upheld and the trail is vigilantly defended.  Monitors wander off the beaten path into the woods of Vermont to help maintain boundaries, gather natural history information, map property features, and keep an eye out for illegal encroachments and violations.  For more information on available Long Trail and Appalachian Trail parcels to monitor contact Pete Antos-Ketcham email: pantosketcham@greenmountainclub.org.  

 

Sign Routers
Volunteers are needed to produce GMC signs as needed or requested. Individuals must be willing to follow the criteria for materials, design, and construction and demonstrate the ability to rout letters to GMC standards. Volunteers willing to work on their own with their own tools and materials are encouraged. 

 

Hikers' Resources

 

Shuttle Drivers

Help hikers get to trailheads.  With limited public transportation in Vermont, long-distance hikers often need a hand to get to trailheads. Add your name to a list of contacts willing to pick up and drop off hikers. You may charge for gas. Contact Jen Donley, email: jdonley@greenmountainclub.org.

 

Publications & Communications

 

Illustrators, Artists, and PhotographersHelp keep GMC publications and printed materials looking fresh. A variety of mediums are accepted. Mail samples to Megan Duni: mduni@greenmountainclub.org.

 

Long Trail News WritersIf you enjoy writing about the outdoors, about issues facing the hiking community, or like the challenge of writing assignments, become a contributor to the GMC newsletter. Send writing samples to Susan Shea: sshea@greenmountainclub.org.

 

Outreach & Education

 

GMC AmbassadorsVolunteers are needed to represent the GMC at various festivals, events, and gatherings throughout the state. No experience necessary - just a love for the Long Trail and willingness to share information! GMC outreach volunteers have worked at a variety of community events in the past, including GMC Ski weekends at Mad River Glen, the VT History Expo, Solarfest, and more. Contact Mari for information about specific events.

 

GMC Headquarters - Waterbury Center, VT

 

Thursday Volunteers help with a wide range of administrative projects every Thursday at GMC headquarters. Experience not necessary.  

 

Maintenance Assistants work with the Facilities Manager on projects in and around the Visitor Center. Particular assignments will be based on volunteers' own interests and skills. Contact Pete Antos-Ketcham for more information: pantosketcham@greenmountainclub.org.

Branch Out Burlington! 2013 Special Events

January-April: Annual Tree Sale--To view selections or place an order, go to: www.branchoutburlinton.org or contact Kyle Albee: 802-862-6084 kyle@northstarleasing.com

April 2nd:  Tuesday 6-8pm Tree Keeper Training, Parks and Rec Building, 645 Pine St.

May 4th: Saturday 9am Tree Planting and Tree Sale Pickup, Burlington Community Tree Nursery, UVM Hort. Research Center, 65 Green Mountain Dr., So. Burlington

June 8th:  Saturday 10am Annual Tree Walk, Mansfield Ave., Burlington. Check their website for details.

June 11th, July 9th: (5:30-7:30 pm) & August 10th 9-11am Weeding Bees. At the Burlington Community Tree Nursery, 65 Green Mountain Dr. So. Burlington

September: Entries for the Burlington Awesome Tree Contest are accepted all month. Check their website for detials.

For details, visit www.branchoutburlington.org

Contact: Warren Spinner, 862-8245, wspinner@ci.burlington.vt.us

Margaret Skinner, 656-5440, mskinner@uvm.edu

Consider an Americorps National Civilian Community Corps year!

AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is a full-time, team-based residential program for men and women age 18–24. Members are assigned to one of five campuses, located in Denver, Colorado; Sacramento, California; Perry Point, Maryland; Vicksburg, Mississippi; and Vinton, Iowa.

The mission of AmeriCorps NCCC is to strengthen communities and develop leaders through direct, team-based national and community service. In partnership with non-profits—secular and faith based, local municipalities, state governments, federal government, national or state parks, Indian Tribes and schools members complete service projects throughout the region they are assigned.

Drawn from the successful models of the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s and the U.S. military, AmeriCorps NCCC is built on the belief that civic responsibility is an inherent duty of all citizens and that national service programs work effectively with local communities to address pressing needs.

There are more NCCC opportunities than ever before. Last year, CNCS and FEMA launched an innovative partnership, and implemented FEMA Corps--a track of 1,600 additional NCCC members solely devoted to working with FEMA on disaster response and recovery.
So now, in addition to NCCC’s traditional corps member and team leader opportunities, we are also seeking qualified corps members and team leaders to serve in NCCC’s FEMA Corps.  

The next recruitment deadline for NCCC and FEMA Corps--for team leader and corps member positions--is April 1st.  Visit http://www.americorps.gov/about/programs/nccc.asp for more information!

Elise Schadler, an alum of Americorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) would be more than happy to answer questions you may have about the program (elise.schadler@uvm.edu)! 

 

 

Jobs for Social Change - Start Your Non-Profit Career with the Fund for the Public Interest

Are you a graduating senior? Start your non-profit career with the Fund for the Public Interest! We're currently hiring graduating seniors to run our grassroots campaign offices across the country as Citizen Outreach Directors.

The Fund for the Public Interest is a national non-profit organization that runs grassroots campaigns for some of the nation's leading environmental and progressive non-profits. For over 30 years, our organization has enabled over 40 organizations to pass tougher legislation against air pollution, forest clear-cutting, hate crimes, and special interest money in politics, among other issues. 

Current issues we are tackling with Environment America include: working to bring 50,000 new solar roofs to Massachusetts over the next five years; working to ban or end natural gas drilling (i.e. fracking) from states across the country; and protecting Oregon's Crater Lake National Park from clear cutting by working to get it designated as a federal wilderness area. Recent victories include giving Environment America the public backing necessary to convince the Obama Administration to release the first-ever nation-wide standards for mercury pollution from nuclear power plants.

Citizen Outreach Directors run one of over 60 regional campaign offices across the country and are responsible for organizing membership building and grassroots campaigns for any one of our partner organizations, such as Environment America, the Human Rights Campaign and USPIRG. We’re looking for smart, socially conscious graduating seniors who work well in a team and are eager to make a real impact on some of the most critical issues facing our society. If you are looking for a position that provides real immediate responsibilities and the opportunity to make an immediate impact towards social change, apply today at www.FundJobs.org 

Find out more at our information session on 

Monday March 18th at 6pm in the

Davis Center rm 413 Chittenden Bank Room. 

Interviews will be held on Tuesday March 19^th in the

Living and Learning Center E-170.

If you're interested in applying, contact me via email at: ekim@fundstaff.org or by phone at: (201)-403-6021. I’m looking forward to speaking with you about our career opportunities! 

Intervale Conservation Nursery needs volunteers!

Calling All Volunteers!

The greenhouse is clean...

The heat is on...

It's planting time!

We've got more than 10,000 trees to start in our greenhouse and we'd love your help!

• Thanks to an AMAZING crew that helped out last Saturday, it's time to plant in our warm and cozy greenhouse.
• Volunteers are welcome Monday-Friday from 9-5 and Saturday, March 9th. You can sign up for full day or just a few hours.
• Volunteer opportunities are ongoing. We'll always have a task for you!
• For those of you who love to be outside, we still need help collecting a few last cuttings as well. 

All volunteer hours count towards a City Market member worker discount!

To sign up contact seth@intervale.org or call 802.660.0440 x104

Champlain Montreal's Campus Activity Report, 4th Edition (Spring 2013)

An excerpt from the Champlain Montreal campus Activity Report, 4th Edition (Spring 2013)

Healthy Body, Mind, and World

Continuing with the Activism Project for Environmental Earth Science Class, this student shares her latest discoveries:  I chose to do a blog about healthy, eco-friendly food because eating healthy is very important to me. In this post I will give some interesting information on something that all humans need to drink. Read more.

INTERNSHIP: UVM Land Stewardship (LANDS) Program, Applications due March 22nd

Are you interested in land conservation?

Do you want to help protect the natural and working landscapes of Vermont and New England, while also getting experience that can lead to jobs with groups like The Nature Conservancy, The Trust for Public Lands, and state agencies?

Do you like working outside, in the woods, out in nature?

If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, consider the Land Stewardship (LANDS) Program, an innovative summer internship being offer the summer of 2013 through the University of Vermont in Burlington and Student Conservation Association.

LANDS interns work to support land-use agencies in their land conservation efforts. In particular there are many small land trusts and towns that need help. Land trusts are one of the fastest growing sectors of land conservation (1700 nationally) and collectively they have conserved an area 16X the size of Yellowstone.

Spend your summer in Vermont doing land conservation and stewardship work!

Program runs June 3 - August 2, 2013. Applications close March 22.  Google “LANDS UVM” for more information and application instructions.

Internships at Local Motion, Fall 2013

Bike Recycle Vermont Summer Program Coordinator Intern

The Summer Programs Coordinator will work closely with the BRV staff in the dynamic, exciting BRV shop setting to implement programs that serve bike customers and volunteers. You'll participate in Bike Recycle Vermont open hours (Tuesday through Friday, 1-5pm), distributing refurbished bikes to bike customers, helping with intake of bikes to be repaired, working at the front desk greeting customers, and working Bike Recycle volunteers to repair bicycles and perform other shop tasks.  You'll also work with youth, leading "Bike Club" rides and helping to teach "Earn-a-Bike" classes. 

For more information e-mail the contact below:

Send a resume and one-page cover letter by email to Dan Hock at dan@bikerecycle.localmotion.org. Include a description of why you’re interested in the internship and in what ways you feel you are qualified. If you appear to be a good match for the position, we will invite you in for an interview

Bike Recycle Designs Intern

Contribute design ideas, organizational skills and customer service to Bike Recycle Designs (BRD), an income-producing jewelry and craft initiative with the goal of providing funding for Bike Recycle Vermont.  There is room to make this position suit your interests and skills. Options include product development and design, teaching and coaching other artists and crafters, focusing on sales and inventory, and supporting production of existing products.  Tasks range from assisting other volunteer artists and crafters with their pieces; ensuring that there is a healthy stock of our popular products that we sell regularly; developing and experimenting with new designs and new products for the line; recruiting and managing volunteers who want to help create products; to helping to evolve the “brand” and “look” for Bike Recycle Designs.  This internship will give you real-world entrepreneurial experience.

For more information e-mail the contact below:

Send resume and one-page cover letter by email to Hnnah Ohlson at hannah@bikerecycle.localmotion.org. Include a description of why you’re interested in the internship and in what ways you feel you are qualified.

 

Bike Ferry Intern

The Local Motion Bike ferry transports walkers, runners and bikers across a 200’ cut in the Colchester/South Hero causeway at the mouth of Mallett’s Bay in Lake Champlain. It’s a world class trail, and Local Motion has worked for 10 years to realize daily ferry service across this break in the route.  We’ve run Demonstration Service on August weekends for many years; and this year, after successfully completing a $1.5 million fundraising campaign, with a new boat and improved infrastructure, we’re finally able to launch daily service.  You’ll work closely with Bike Ferry Manager, Assistant Manager, and Local Motion Executive Director to manage, market, and run Bike Ferry operations for this exciting first year of daily service.  

For more information e-mail the contact below:

Send resume and one-page cover letter by email to Brian Costello at Brian@localmotion.org

describing your interest and qualifications. If you appear to be a good match for the position, we will

invite you in for an interview.

SGA Elections after Spring Break!

The SGA will be holding elections after Spring Break!  For more information on positions go the SGA website.

Redesign/Rebuild Project Manager Part-Time Temporary Position at Goddard College, Applications Due March 11th

Goddard College seeks an experienced project manager and skillful team-builder to manage the early but crucial stages of a project to "redesign" and "rebuild" historic student-designed campus structures.  Specifically, the project manager will oversee creation of a long-range, phased project plan and budget; develop connections with alumni and local partners; oversee an initial round of volunteer renovation; and develop a plan for the next stage of funding and media outreach.  The long-range goal is for these buildings, designed and constructed by students and faculty in the 1970s, to serve as the hub of a center for the arts and design at Goddard College and its home town, Plainfield, Vermont, revitalizing the arts and the creative economy by offering space and educational opportunities in the arts, design, and building trades. 

This position is grant-funded for 10 hours per week, March through December 2013.

Desired Qualifications:  Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred; strong writing, budgeting, research, and project-planning skills; meeting facilitation skills; a high degree of comfort collaborating with and leading project teams, including professionals such as architects and builders; some knowledge of design, building, and / or architectural preservation helpful; information technology skills including managing groups meeting and working remotely. 

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:  To apply, please see instructions on position announcement at www.goddard.edu/employment.  Applications are due March 11, 2013.

Blackboard Jungle 6 Symposium, March 28-29th

The University of Vermont's Chief Diversity Office is pleased to announce that our 2013 keynote kickoff speaker will be Rebecca Walker, feminist author of the bestselling memoirs Black, White and Jewish and Baby Love and daughter of Alice Walker.

She will speak on Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel. 

The Keynote Kickoff is free and open to the public.

On Friday, March 29, 2013 there will be a full day of Symposium panels and workshops created for UVM faculty and staff and the local community that is focused on expanding our understanding of cultures and the growing identities that help foster civility, conversations, and inclusive behaviors in higher education.

Dr. William E. Cross, Jr., leading theorist and researcher on black and racial-ethnic identity development, will be the breakfast keynote speaker. Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor and chair of the Sociology department at Duke University and author of Racism Without Racists, will be the luncheon keynote speaker.

For more information and to register visit http://www.uvm.edu/conferences/blackboardjungle6/.

Employee Eco-Reps Series "Energy", Find and share ideas!

The next topic in the Employee Eco-Reps series is Energy, available on Clearspace: Employee Eco-Reps.  We’ve done a lot of great work in this area over the years, but there is a lot of potential for people to get involved – namely, flipping the switch! What great practices do you have in place and can share with others?

What is the Employees Eco-Rep Project?  An opportunity for faculty and staff to be a part of the greater Sustain Champlain effort.  Find and share ideas on how to make your work life a bit greener.

Screening of "Chasing Ice" at ECHO, March 9th

VTIFF will be screening a Best of Showcase at ECHO featuring four films from the 2012 Festival. One of the films is a fantastic documentary about climate change, "Chasing Ice", on the world's glaciers, described as "going to the mental, physical and technical extreme to deliver images of glacial events rarely seen by humans".

This film will be screening on Saturday March 9th at 1 PM
Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, and $5 for students.

2nd Annual UVM Food Systems Summit - June 2013

This June, UVM’s Food Systems Summit will be the venue for intense examination and exchange of ideas, knowledge, and practical skills. A valuable part of the summit is the The Necessary [r]Evolution for Sustainable Food Systems Conference on June 27. This year’s focus is on creating regional food systems that are better alternatives to the conventional ones that exist today. Several nationally-recognized food systems leaders are scheduled to speak.

Following a very successful Public Conference in 2012, this half-day event will shine a spotlight on and amplify the most important ideas, initiatives, and voices for the necessary food system revolution.

In addition to the Public Conference, UVM is also offering  an intensive program for Breakthrough Leaders June 10-28.  Participants will engage in a three week-long program combining an online and on-campus program that promises to expand their capacity to recognize and create positive, forward-looking solutions for our broken food system. The program’s online component will start June 10, 2013, immediately followed by a residential learning experience on the campus of the University of Vermont June 23-28, 2013.

If you want to learn more, please visit UVM Food Systems Summit or contact UVM at FoodSystemsSummit@uvm.edu. Please help us spread the word about these events by sharing this email with your networks.

AASHE Professional Development Workshops for June, 2013

Please stay current with professional development opportunities:   http://www.aashe.org/events/workshops

Sustainability Across the Curriculum for Campus Leaders at San Diego State University
Taking place June 27-28 in San Diego, California, this workshop is for faculty leaders of all disciplines who wish to develop or enhance curriculum change programs around sustainability on their campuses. Engaging with the philosophy of change in higher education developed through the Ponderosa Project, workshop participants will experience an intensive two days of presentations, exercises, discussions, reflection, and planning with the aim of adapting the Ponderosa Project model to their own campuses. Workshop space is limited to 35 participants. Apply by March 22.

Developing a Campus Sustainability Living Lab at Portland State University
Taking place June 7-9 in Portland, Oregon, this workshop will introduce systematic efforts to break through the current curricular and operational paradigms and form a new model for both education and sustainability action—the campus living lab. Participants will leave with: a plan and a set of actions/strategies for implementing a living lab at their campus; a deep understanding about the underlying theory and value proposition in implementing a sustainability living lab on campus; clear typology and definition for a living lab program and courses that increase sustainability education; a network of peers; and more. Register by May 15.

Film Screening of "Tipping Point", March 2nd

'Tipping Point'

Saturday, March 2, 7–8PM at Goddard College in Plainfield. Free.

Contact Info:

• 802-454-8311
• Event Website

Sigourney Weaver narrates Niobe Thompson and Tom Radford's award-winning documentary about a Native community's reaction to Canada's tar sands. A discussion follows. Media Room 207, Community Center.

NWF Campus Ecology Newsletter

4 Ways to Fight Climate Change on Campus and More!

For the entire newsletter, click here!

Exhibit: Nature Transformed – Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, Now through April 21st

Exhibit: Nature Transformed – Edward Burtynsky's Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context

Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Burtynsky's iconic photographs of the quarries of Vermont are explored within the context of the geological and social history of the area, including in particular the Italian immigrant stoneworkers in the granite quarries near Barre. This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and generously supported by Raphael and Jane Bernstein/Parnassus Foundation and Laurie Jean Weil DVM in honor of her parents, Jean and Bucks Weil, Dartmouth Class of 1935. Supported at Middlebury by the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Foundation and Friends of the Art Museum. Free

"Beyond Divestment: Money and Finance for a Living Economy", featuring Bill McKibben, Bob Massie, John Fullerton, Deneene Brockington, Alice Maggio, Tom Barefoot--March 6th

Featuring Bill McKibben, Bob Massie, John Fullerton, Deneene Brockington, Alice Maggio, Tom Barefoot and local Vermont organizations on the Middlebury campus.

Day-long summit open to students, faculty, staff and community members.

Complete schedule of events and locations.

Many conservative economists consider a capitalist market a self-regulating, self-correcting system. However, in recent years financial crises, the threat of climate change, and growing inequality have all cast this theory into doubt. Yet, what alternatives exist? Those working for fossil fuel divestment contend that enlightened institutions can help avert catastrophe by factoring ethical and ecological concerns into their investment decisions. Surely though, this is only part of the answer and it begs the question "how else might we reorganize money and finance as a means to an end rather than an end in itself?"

Beyond Divestment is a summit that seeks to create space for the Middlebury community to explore the kinds of economic alternatives that are springing up all over the world. Join innovators in the areas of alternative currencies, time banking, impact investing, financial system regulation and reform, and "new economy" coalition building, as well as your own friends and neighbors for a conversation about how we can sow the seeds of a better, more life-affirming, economy.

Organized by an independent group of students, with the support of New Economics Institute and Middlebury Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

"Boundaries, Interfaces, and the Environment" with Molly Costanza-Robinson, Rebecca Kneale Gould, and Nicholas Z. Muller, March 7th

Molly Costanza-Robinson, Assoc Professor of Env Chemistry; Rebecca Kneale Gould, Assoc Professor of Religion; Nicholas Z. Muller, Asst Professor of Economics

Howard E. Woodin ES Colloquium Series

The Orchard, Franklin Environmental Center 103, Middlebury College

12:30 – 1:20p

Bring lunch to enjoy during the talk

Middlebury faculty teaching this semester’s core environmental studies courses will present their disciplinary perspectives on this topic and will then facilitate an audience discussion.

"Conserving culture and wildlife: the marriage of music and conservation biology in Ghana, West Africa" with Steve Trombulak, March 8th

Friday, March 8th 

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room, Middlebury College

12:15 – 1:30pm

This International and Global Studies Colloquium presentation will be given by Steve Trombulak, Professor of Environment & Biosphere Studies, Middlebury.

Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP by Monday, 3/4, by emailing rcga@middlebury.edu or by calling 802-443-5324.

"Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky’s Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context" with Edward Burtynsky, Photographer, March 14th

 Edward Burtynsky comes to Middlebury to speak about his photographic career on the occasion of the exhibition of his work at the college museum. His works are internationally acclaimed for their haunting verisimilitude as well as their unwavering focus on “nature transformed through industry.” Tremendous in both scale and ambition, their global reach includes recycling yards, quarries, factories, and refineries. The subject of major exhibitions world-wide, Burtynsky’s photographs are in the collections of more than fifty major museums, including our own.

Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Franklin Environmental Center, the Program in Environmental Studies, and the Academic Enrichment Fund.

Thursday, March 14th

Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College

4:30pm

Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Conference on "The Politics of Freshwater: Access and Identity in a Changing Environment, March 14th-16th

ROHATYN CENTER FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS

First Annual International Conference

The Politics of Freshwater: Access and Identity in a Changing Environment

March 14-16, 2013

Robert A. Jones '59 House conference room

Middlebury College

  

Water is life and yet it is capricious. In our changing environment, water is problem and solution, destroyer and healer, divider and uniter. Water is not always available where and when it is needed. At times, too much water wreaks havoc on our efforts to control it. Pollution, pricing, distance, water management, climate change, discrimination and availability of technology limit the fair and wise use of water. However, through conscious choice we can do better. We must solve the riddle of sustainable development in the 21st century. This interdisciplinary conference will focus on different processes contributing to water scarcity, such as land use decisions, privatization, pricing, damming, commoditization and climate change, and on ways to improve peoples’ relationships to the freshwater systems they depend on. Presenters will provide international perspectives on these issues, analyzing lessons from the past and considering opportunities for the future.

For the full list of events at this conference and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, click here!