Environmental Studies
Past Events
Wednesday, April 27, 2011: Sasha Kramer ’99 "Ecological Sanitation in Haiti: from Human Rights to Humus" 4:45 p.m., Biology 19 Sasha Kramer ’99 will speak about the organization Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods, SOIL, which she co-founded in 2006. SOIL focuses on transforming waste into resources in Haiti through ecological sanitation, where human waste currently is converted into valuable topsoil. Sasha also will speak about her transition from academia to advocacy to development work and how SOIL's work has changed since the earthquake. The talk will address the importance of integrated approaches to environmental problems with a particular focus on the role of international organizations in global development. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Committee and by the Walter Krause Economics Lecture Fund.
Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011: Special Seminar!! Stewart Brand, PhD (The Long Now Foundation and Global Business Network, CA) will give a talk entitled "Green Biotech, Green Slums, Green Nukes, Green Geoengineering", 7:30-9pm Kaul Auditorium
The Environmental Studies Committee will host a gathering for Reed community members with pizza and an informal discussion of Brand's lecture:* 5:30 pm, Thursday, Mar. 10, 2011, Chem lounge (Chem 401). Please RSVP to Tamara Venit-Shelton (tvenit@reed.edu) by Mar. 9 if you will attend. Feel free to pass this invitation along to other enviro-interested students who will be attending Brand's lecture!
Environmental Chemistry seminar: Prof. Helen White, Haverford College, "Persistence of Oil in Marine Environments" Thursday, Oct. 14, 4:15 pm, Phys 123
O-Week Environmental Studies Program Information Session. This year, the college inaugurates an interdisciplinary environmental studies (ES) program, which will offer majors in ES-Biology, ES-Chemistry, ES-Economics, ES-History, and ES-Political Science. The Environmental Studies Committee will present details about the program and the majors, followed by an opportunity to talk with the faculty involved in the ES program.Thursday, August 26, 11:30am-noon, Psych 105
The Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Lecture: James Collins, Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, "Life in Transition: Origins, Energy, and Adaptation at the Junction of the Life and Physical Sciences." Thursday, September 2, 7:30PM. Vollum Lecture Hall. Co-sponsored by the Reed Environmental Studies Program. Free and open to the public.
AESS Annual Meeting at Lewis and Clark College, June 17 to June 20, 2010.
Environment & the Media talk by Andy Revkin @ U Oregon Portland center, Friday May 14, 9 am.
Panel discussion about Goldwater (all science) and Udall (environment) Scholarships (applications submitted in student's second or third year at Reed), April 7, 5:30 p.m., Chemistry 301. Panelists: Faculty advisors and current Fellows.
Biology seminar: David K. Skelly, PhD (School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale Univ.) "Hermaphrodites in your backyard: the landscape ecology of amphibian intersex," March 26, 4:10-5pm, B19
Open Meeting with the Environmental Studies Committee, Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 4:30-5:30PM in Eliot 314.
Portland Center for Public Humanities presents an Environmental History Forum. March 9, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 238. This event is free and open to the public. A discussion of new issues and directions in environmental history with national scholars in the field. Participants will include: William Cronon (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Author of Changes in the Land; Nature’s Metropolis; Uncommon Ground. Nancy Langston (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Author of Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares; Where Land and Water Meet; Toxic Bodies. James Feldman (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), Author of Storied Wilderness.