"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

 

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

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/.

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.

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!

Tar Sands Teach-In Feb. 27 in Burlington

BWBC Annual Meeting 3/28 Thurs 5:15 - 8pm 60 Lake St, Burlington

Join us at the BWBC's Annual Meeting March 28 5:15 – 8:00 pm   

Location: 

Lake and College Building 

60 Lake St., Burlington

in the Board Room, 2nd floor 

(above Skinny Pancake)

Envision what the next year holds for the BWBC, hear about our accomplishments, and get the latest on bringing the City to Gold Level Walk-Friendly and Bike-Friendly Community status. 

Free!   

Includes dinner!

Burlington Walk/Bike Council Mtg Thurs 2/28 5:30 pm

Burlington Walk / Bike Council   

www.burlingtonwalkbike.org

Thursday, February 28, 2013  5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Room 12, City Hall

Pizza and healthy snacks will be served!

                  

Hear Stu's stories from Velo City!

Report from Velo City                                                                                                                    

Stu Lindsay was the BWBC’s representative at the Velo-City conference, one of the world's primary forums for the exchange of bicycling expertise, in Vancouver last year. He has stories and photos from his visit.

Help Welcome Budnitz Bikes to Burlington!

Join us in welcoming Paul Budnitz and BudnitzBicycles to Burlington! Team up with Mayor Miro Weinberger, Paul Budnitz, and others for acelebratory ride from City Hall Park to Maglianero Cafe on Tuesday, February 26 at noon. Please dress for the conditions. A press conference and a tour of Budnitz Bicycles will follow the ride. Help us acknowledge the addition of yet another vibrant enterprise to the Burlington business community.

Let us know you are coming on facebook

Lunches available $12/person, first come, first served.

Sign up for lunch here.

Railyard Enterprise Project Public Meeting #1, 3/7, 7PM, Burlington City Hall

We Want to Hear From YOU!

Bring us your ideas on how to improve travel and make the south end of Burlington’s Waterfront more accessible and livable

On Thursday, March 7^th at 7:00PM join us at Burlington City Hall to learn more about the Railyard Enterprise Project(http://www.ccrpcvt.org/transportation/scoping/railyard-enterprise-project/).

The Railyard Enterprise Project will develop multimodal transportation alternatives that enhance connectivity and local circulation, advance economic development, and improve access to the Vermont Railway rail yard on Burlington’s Waterfront. The study area (shown below) is bordered by King Street to the north, Pine Street to the east, and Marble Avenue/Barge Canal to the south (see map).

The Study is sponsored by the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) and the City of Burlington. Refreshments will be served.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend. In accordance with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the CCRPC and City of Burlington will ensure that public meeting sites are accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for free interpretive or translation services, assistive devices, or other accommodations should be made to Andrea Grayson, CCRPC Title VI Coordinator, at 802-846-4490 ext. 21 (711 for Telecommunications Relay Services), or agrayson@ccrpcvt.org, at least 72 hours in advance.

For additional information, contact Diane at 865.1794 or diane@thirdsectorassociates.com.

Check out City Market's March Events!

Some classes are FREE! Most classes are offered for a nominal fee - $5 for City Market members, $10 for non-members. We also ask for 7 days’ notice if you need to cancel your class registration. Questions? Please consult our class policies and FAQs.

Parking: Please note that parking in the City Market lot is not available for class participants. There is free 2-hour parking available at the Burlington City parking garages, located on Bank Street and Cherry Street.

Hear about new classes by email! Sign up for our twice-monthly class e-newsletter and you'll find out when new classes are offered. Click here.

For the calendar of free events and classes to sign up for at City Market, click here!

Become a Tree Keeper with Branch Out Burlington, Training on April 2nd

Every year, volunteers from Branch Out Burlington! transplant trees from the Burlington Community Tree Nursery to sites along the streets of Burlington. The trees need some tender loving care to become established in their new locations. The first year is especially critical.

Through the Tree Keeper Program, we match trees with residents who agree to provide them with some simple care. In addition to getting a tree, Tree Keepers receive free tree care training from local experts.

Come to the Tree Keeper Training 

WHEN: Tuesday, April 2 from 6-8PM 

WHERE: The Dept of Parks and Rec, 645 Pine Street, Burlington, VT

For more information and RSVP contact: Margaret Skinner, 656-5440 or email: Margaret Skinner.