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Associate Professor, English
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Lecture
Global food security to be topic of ES guest speaker
[11/11/12] Susan Bragdon, an attorney whose expertise includes sustainable development and poverty alleviation, will discuss global food security Monday, Nov. 12, in Emerson Auditorium. Read More.
Sustainability
Skidmore honored for campus sustainability innovation
[11/7/12] Skidmore wins a national award for geothermal heating and cooling. The college uses an elaborate system of pipes to tap constant temperatures deep in the earth. Read More.
Lecture
Environmental scholar to discuss field study in Bhutan
[10/19/12] Robin Sears of the School for Field Studies will discuss maximizing a study abroad experience through environmental field studies, when she visits Skidmore Oct. 24. Read More.
Campus News
Carr lecturer Clark to discuss science, policy, conservation
[10/8/12] An expert on the Endangered Species Act, Jamie Rappaport Clark will discuss the act in the context of her talk as this fall's Carr Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture. The event is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11. Free admission Read More.
Community
Campus and community invited to North Woods Service Day
[10/5/12] October 13 event to include trail maintenance and clean-up; Skidmore Student Conservation Corps to play key role Read More.
Lecture
America's environmental past, present to be topic
[9/21/12] Mount Holyoke scientist and author Lauret Savoy will present Skidmore's Environmental Studies keynote lecture on Thursday, Sept. 27. Her talk will follow an information session featuring a number of local environmental groups, sharing internship and volunteer opportunities. Read More.
Community
Skidmore wins Preservation Foundation award
[7/5/12] College's latest preservation award recognizes rebuilding of stone wall along campus property Read More.
Sustainability
Public tours of North Woods announced
[6/18/12] Two tours of Skidmore's North Woods are planned this summer to share information about this resource with the public. North Woods stewards, who work with the campus Sustainability Office, will lead the first tour, scheduled June 24. (Left: Stewards Sondra Lipshutz '13, left, and Jenn Garvin '14) Read More.
Campus
'Rev. Billy' to lead spiritual/political revival April 15
[4/8/12] He may be an actor but his message is no act. Performance artist 'Rev. Billy' brings his anti-consumerist, pro-environmental message to Skidmore's Case Center Sunday, April 15. Read More.
Community
Skidmore to hold North Woods service day April 14
[4/6/12] Volunteers sought from Skidmore and the local community to work on trail maintenance, clean up, and erosion control. Read More.
Sustainability
Dining Services now uses flour with local connection
[4/1/12] Continuing its focus on local and regionally produced products, Dining Services has introduced a new flour into foods produced in the Murray-Aikins Dining Hall. Lead Baker Matt Littrell (left) calls the flour, from Watertown's North Country Farms, "beautiful." Read More.
Activism
EAC to explore issues surrounding food this week
[3/25/12] Food. We eat it, we love it, we gather around it, and we build community with it. Where does food come from? What's in it? Who grows it? Why doesn't everyone have enough? How does it grow? How is it cooked?" Get answers to these questions and more throughout Skidmore's Food Week. Read More.
Community
Public use of North Woods to be topic of open forum
[3/20/12] Student-organized event on March 29 to examine public attitudes and conservation regarding Skidmore's wooded property Read More.
Film
Brunswick to have Skidmore debut
[3/4/12] Brunswick is about landscape change, told through the story of a farmer’s lifelong connection to his now-threatened land. The film weaves together the plight of Sanford Bonesteel, a farmer in his 90s, with the dynamics of small-town politics. Read More.
Sustainability
Skidmore competing to reduce energy use
[2/19/12] Skidmore Unplugged's annual competition to reduce energy consumption has a new twist this year. Skidmore is competing against Hobart and William Smith, St. Lawrence, Colgate, and Hamilton to determine who can reduce their total energy use by the largest percentage. Read More.
Sustainability
Student-organized forum to explore New Energy Economy
[1/30/12] February 17 event to probe clean-energy solutions; keynote address by best-selling author Jeff Goodell on Feb. 16 Read More.
Sustainability
Alumna Moie Crawford, organic farmer, to share story
[11/17/11] An organic farmer for nearly 40 years, Moie Crawford will share the story of the Pennsylvania farm that she and her husband operate, as well as her thoughts on the importance of sustainable agriculture to society. Read More.
Sustainability
Stearns's topic: 'Media, Civic Engagement, Sustainability'
[10/29/11] Protesters in the Arab world and the "Occupy" sites around the U.S. have taken the media into their own hands to tell their stories and fight for issues they care about. Josh Stearns of the national media reform group Free Press will explain how people can change the media and the world. Read More.
Current Events
Experts to debate, discuss the future of cities
[10/16/11] Two noted scholars--Paul Steely White and James Howard Kuntsler--will debate the future of our cities in a panel moderated by transportation expert Jeff Olson. Skidmore's Environmental Studies Program is sponsor of the Oct. 20 discussion, which is free and open to the public. Read More.
Distinguished Scientist Lecture
Noted Swiss biologist to discuss world food needs Oct. 19
[10/7/11] Newest U.N. predictions expect the world population to total nine billion by 2050. Providing sufficient food for this number of people requires an increase of 50 percent in crop production. Wilhelm Gruissem will offer his views on how to achieve this goal when he lectures Oct. 19. Read More.