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The Environmental Studies Department at Skidmore is proud to host and participate in a wide variety of events. Occasions in the past have featured guest speakers, conferences, co-sponsored discussion panels, and special film presentations.
Upcoming Events
Environmental Studies Annual Welcome Reception
featuring a lecture by Tom Wessels: "The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future" and an informative reception featuring local organizations, campus greening opportunities, research opportunities, and more.
The lecture is Monday, October 13th, at 7:00 P.M. in Gannett Auditorium, followed by the reception from 8:00 to 9:00 P.M. in the Palamountain Lobby.
Our guest speaker, Tom Wessels, is the author of "Reading the Forested Landscape," "The Granite Landscape," "Untamed Vermont," and "The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future." Tom is an ecologist and founding director of the masters degree program in Conservation Biology at Antioch University New England. He is the former chair of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation that fosters environmental leadership through graduate fellowships and orginizational grants. He serves as an ecological consultant to the Rain Forest Alliance's SmartWood Green Certification Program. In that capacity Tom helped to draft green certification assessment guidelines for forest operations in the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Tom's presentation will focus on his most recent book, "The Myth of Progress," and will offer a critical examination of our reigning notions of progress through the lens of complex systems science.
Following Tom's presentation, please join us for an informative dessert reception that will offer students an opportunity to meet members of the Environmental Studies (ES) faculty, ES majors who have studied abroad and participated in collaborative research projects, the new Eco-Reps and members of the Sustainable Skidmore team, and representatives from local organizations that offer student internships ranging from land-use planning to water monitoring. This is a great opportunity for new or potential ES majors to learn about the opportunities avaiable to them.
