Princeton Review just announced its 2011 Green Rating Honor Roll, and UCSB was on the list, along with UCSC and UCB.
The campuses selected for the honor roll received the highest score possible (99) on the sustainabilty survey sent out by Princeton-Review.
Thank you, once again, for everyone's hard work! All our achievements would not be possible without the combined effort of all of you!
Monday, August 2, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Arbor Installs Filtered Water Faucet
No need to purchase bottled water anymore!
Thanks to a grant from TGIF, the Arbor now has a filtered water faucet specially designed for your reusable bottles.
It is located inside the store to the right of the soda machine. Stop by and check it out next time you are in the area!
Thanks to a grant from TGIF, the Arbor now has a filtered water faucet specially designed for your reusable bottles.
It is located inside the store to the right of the soda machine. Stop by and check it out next time you are in the area!
UCTV Airing a Presentation by UCSB Students
UCTV will be airing a presentation by a few UCSB and UCB students on "Student-Led Office Greening and Building Greening Programs." Part of the presentation profiles our award-winning PACES program.
The presentation will be aired periodically from August 8-15 on Cox-Santa Barbara Channel 21.
To see the schedule and watch the video version:
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=18175
The presentation will be aired periodically from August 8-15 on Cox-Santa Barbara Channel 21.
To see the schedule and watch the video version:
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=18175
Monday, July 19, 2010
Two UCSB Buildings Receive LEED Certification
UC Santa Barbara's Life Sciences and Engineering II buildings have been awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED is the USGBC's rating system for designing and constructing the world's greenest, most energy efficient, and high-performing buildings. Read more...
This Way to Sustainability Conference - Call for Proposals
This Way to Sustainability VI ~ "Connecting Communities"
A partnership between CSU, Chico and Butte College will be held November 4-6, 2010. Over three days and two campuses, we hope to bring together people who care deeply about the future of the North State and our planet, to learn about pressing sustainability issues, and to create a space for dialogue and action.
Please visit our web site at http://www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/conference/ to submit your conference proposals online NOW through August 15th!
A partnership between CSU, Chico and Butte College will be held November 4-6, 2010. Over three days and two campuses, we hope to bring together people who care deeply about the future of the North State and our planet, to learn about pressing sustainability issues, and to create a space for dialogue and action.
Please visit our web site at http://www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/conference/ to submit your conference proposals online NOW through August 15th!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
UCSB Receives Its Best Practice Awards
On Monday, June 21 during the Awards Luncheon at the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference, UCSB received its three Best Practice Awards.
Pictured from left to right: Jill Richardson, Jordan Sager (Student Sustainability Program, PACES), Dave Harris (Water Efficiency & Site Water Quality, San Clemente Villages, CCBER), Mark Rousseau, Bonnie Crouse (Sustainable Food Service, Housing & Residential Services), and Mo Lovegreen
Pictured from left to right: Jill Richardson, Jordan Sager (Student Sustainability Program, PACES), Dave Harris (Water Efficiency & Site Water Quality, San Clemente Villages, CCBER), Mark Rousseau, Bonnie Crouse (Sustainable Food Service, Housing & Residential Services), and Mo LovegreenLife Science Building Receives LEED-EB Silver
Message from Jordan Sager, LEED Program Manager for UCSB:
Good morning All,
I'm excited to report that the final LEED for Existing Buildings application review for the Life Sciences Building has come back from the US Green Building Council, and LSB has achieved a LEED Silver certification.
This marks UCSB's fourth successful LEED EB project as well as our second laboratory certification, and is the result of a collaboration between our Physical Facilities division and UCSB's Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS), the dedication of a handful of student volunteers, and the commitment of the EEMB and MCDB communities.
Notable achievements at LSB during the LEED assessment include:
• Water savings of 29% from code due to installation of waterless urinals and high-efficiency restroom faucets.
• Exemplary performance in environmentally preferable purchasing - 100% of paper purchases with high recycled-content.
• Waste minimization strategies including copy paper reuse.
• Design for daylighting of lab and office spaces, an efficient lighting strategy and integration with UCSB's chilled water loop put the Life Sciences Building in the 90th percentile in energy efficiency among laboratory facilities in its climate zone.
Great job and congratulations to everybody who had a hand in the certification process!
Good morning All,
I'm excited to report that the final LEED for Existing Buildings application review for the Life Sciences Building has come back from the US Green Building Council, and LSB has achieved a LEED Silver certification.
This marks UCSB's fourth successful LEED EB project as well as our second laboratory certification, and is the result of a collaboration between our Physical Facilities division and UCSB's Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS), the dedication of a handful of student volunteers, and the commitment of the EEMB and MCDB communities.
Notable achievements at LSB during the LEED assessment include:
• Water savings of 29% from code due to installation of waterless urinals and high-efficiency restroom faucets.
• Exemplary performance in environmentally preferable purchasing - 100% of paper purchases with high recycled-content.
• Waste minimization strategies including copy paper reuse.
• Design for daylighting of lab and office spaces, an efficient lighting strategy and integration with UCSB's chilled water loop put the Life Sciences Building in the 90th percentile in energy efficiency among laboratory facilities in its climate zone.
Great job and congratulations to everybody who had a hand in the certification process!
Friday, June 11, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
UC Receives Millennium Environmental Award
A message from the UCOP Sustainability Manager, Matt St.Clair:
I write with very exciting news! This Saturday in Santa Monica, UC President Yudof will accept the Millenium Environmental Award from Global Green USA alongside fellow awardees Lisa Jackson, the U.S. EPA Administrator, and producer and director James Cameron. UC is receiving this award for our sustainability program that you all have made possible, so this is really an award for every person on this list. The UCOP communications office produced a wonderful 90-second video which will be shown as President Yudof receives the award. The video can be watched by linking to the article below. Those of you who have been working toward this with me since the UC Go Solar student campaign in the 2002-2003 academic year will find the message of the video especially gratifying. To think that the U.S. EPA Administrator, many UC Regents, and other L.A. and California leaders will all see this video and learn about all that we've accomplished and have committed to do in the coming years is very rewarding.
To read the article and watch the video: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/23525
I write with very exciting news! This Saturday in Santa Monica, UC President Yudof will accept the Millenium Environmental Award from Global Green USA alongside fellow awardees Lisa Jackson, the U.S. EPA Administrator, and producer and director James Cameron. UC is receiving this award for our sustainability program that you all have made possible, so this is really an award for every person on this list. The UCOP communications office produced a wonderful 90-second video which will be shown as President Yudof receives the award. The video can be watched by linking to the article below. Those of you who have been working toward this with me since the UC Go Solar student campaign in the 2002-2003 academic year will find the message of the video especially gratifying. To think that the U.S. EPA Administrator, many UC Regents, and other L.A. and California leaders will all see this video and learn about all that we've accomplished and have committed to do in the coming years is very rewarding.
To read the article and watch the video: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/23525
Thursday, June 3, 2010
SB Mayor Visits UCSB
On Friday, May 28, Santa Barbara City Mayor Helene Schneider and City Energy Manager Jim Dewey visited the UCSB campus for a sustainability tour led by LEED Program Manager Jordan Sager. In addition to visiting the Manzanita wetlands restoration, campus dining, and Bren Hall, she also sat in on a portion of the Chancellor's Sustainability Committee meeting and met with the Chancellor. We hope to partner with the City on many sustainability initiatives in the future!
Below are some photos of the visit taken by Lisa Slavid (Housing & Residential Services).
In this photo (left to right): Jim Dewey (City of SB), Jordan Sager (FM), Chancellor Henry Yang, and Mayor Helene Schneider (City of SB).
In this photo (left to right): Kirsten Deshler (Government Relations), Marc Fisher (Admin Services), Jan Myers (CCBER), Jim Dewey (City of SB), Mayor Helene Schneider (City of SB), Jordan Sager (FM), Jill Horst (H&RS Dining), Jill Richardson (Admin Services), and Jennifer Thorsch (CCBER).Friday, May 28, 2010
Conference: Environmental Justice and Green Economy
Environmental Justice, the Green Economy and the Transformation of the University Curriculum
June 4 @ 1:00-4:30pm
Bren Hall, Room 1424
The Center for Black Studies Research and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management are sponsoring this one day mini-conference. The keynote speaker is Professor Carolyn Finney, Department of Environmental Science and Policy Management, University of California, Berkeley. Her talk will focus on the relation of African Americans to the environment and to environmental movements, organizations, and educational institutions.
Panelists as well as the audience will be asked to comment on the topic presented and on how students, faculty, and departments can integrate environmental justice and green economy concerns into the UCSB curriculum. The panelists include: Prof. Sarah Anderson, Bren School; Tiffany Mayville, EAB, Environmental Justice; Maricela Morales, CAUSE (Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy); and Prof. Clyde Woods, Center for Black Studies Research.
The panel will be followed by a reception on Decker's Deck.
This is the inaugural event for a year-long series of conversations on environmental justice, green economy, and curriculum transformation sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.
Co-sponsors: the Department of Black Studies, the Environmental Justice Coalition of the Environmental Advisory Board and Environmental Studies
For more information contact:
Assoc. Prof. Clyde Woods, Acting Director, Center for Black Studies Research, cwoods@blackstudies.ucsb.edu or Rori Cowan, the conference organizer, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Rori Cowan, rcowan@bren.ucsb.edu.
For more information on Prof. Carolyn Finney see http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/facPage/dispFP.php?I=1615
June 4 @ 1:00-4:30pm
Bren Hall, Room 1424
The Center for Black Studies Research and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management are sponsoring this one day mini-conference. The keynote speaker is Professor Carolyn Finney, Department of Environmental Science and Policy Management, University of California, Berkeley. Her talk will focus on the relation of African Americans to the environment and to environmental movements, organizations, and educational institutions.
Panelists as well as the audience will be asked to comment on the topic presented and on how students, faculty, and departments can integrate environmental justice and green economy concerns into the UCSB curriculum. The panelists include: Prof. Sarah Anderson, Bren School; Tiffany Mayville, EAB, Environmental Justice; Maricela Morales, CAUSE (Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy); and Prof. Clyde Woods, Center for Black Studies Research.
The panel will be followed by a reception on Decker's Deck.
This is the inaugural event for a year-long series of conversations on environmental justice, green economy, and curriculum transformation sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research and the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.
Co-sponsors: the Department of Black Studies, the Environmental Justice Coalition of the Environmental Advisory Board and Environmental Studies
For more information contact:
Assoc. Prof. Clyde Woods, Acting Director, Center for Black Studies Research, cwoods@blackstudies.ucsb.edu or Rori Cowan, the conference organizer, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Rori Cowan, rcowan@bren.ucsb.edu.
For more information on Prof. Carolyn Finney see http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/facPage/dispFP.php?I=1615
Thursday, May 27, 2010
GreenScreen Environmental Media Program
Speak out on behalf of our Planet
Participate in the GreenScreen Environmental Media Program
GreenScreen is an environmental media production program that brings together undergraduate and graduate students in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences to engage environmental issues in Santa Barbara through artistic production. The goal of the program is not only to increase awareness about the environment, but to expand the ways that these issues are represented and communicated. This involves working across disciplines, artistic genres, and developing a critical approach to environmental media production. The program is open to students from all majors.
Students interested in participating in GreenScreen during 2010-2011 are invited to enroll this Fall 2010 in Film and Media Studies 183, Films of the Natural and Human Environment (space allowing). In relation to documentary and fiction film screenings (CHINATOWN, NO IMPACT MAN, TROUBLE THE WATER, WALL-E, and more) and a multi-disciplinary array of approaches and issues, this course presents students with the conceptual tools to critically analyze environmental media works, and will offer an opportunity for students to develop their own environmental media projects in the course itself in an extra two-unit video production "lab section."
Students with video projects in development may apply for entrance into the anticipated Winter Quarter video production course, Film and Media Studies 118.
For more information, go to http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/Programs/EMI/Teaching/GS_splash.html,
Participate in the GreenScreen Environmental Media Program
GreenScreen is an environmental media production program that brings together undergraduate and graduate students in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences to engage environmental issues in Santa Barbara through artistic production. The goal of the program is not only to increase awareness about the environment, but to expand the ways that these issues are represented and communicated. This involves working across disciplines, artistic genres, and developing a critical approach to environmental media production. The program is open to students from all majors.
Students interested in participating in GreenScreen during 2010-2011 are invited to enroll this Fall 2010 in Film and Media Studies 183, Films of the Natural and Human Environment (space allowing). In relation to documentary and fiction film screenings (CHINATOWN, NO IMPACT MAN, TROUBLE THE WATER, WALL-E, and more) and a multi-disciplinary array of approaches and issues, this course presents students with the conceptual tools to critically analyze environmental media works, and will offer an opportunity for students to develop their own environmental media projects in the course itself in an extra two-unit video production "lab section."
Students with video projects in development may apply for entrance into the anticipated Winter Quarter video production course, Film and Media Studies 118.
For more information, go to http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/Programs/EMI/Teaching/GS_splash.html,
or contact Dr. Cathy Boggs at cboggs@cftnm.ucsb.edu.
GreenScreen is a project of UC Santa Barbara's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media and the Department of Film and Media Studies.
GreenScreen is a project of UC Santa Barbara's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media and the Department of Film and Media Studies.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Talk: Environmental Politics of a New Century: Understanding Climate Debates
Environmental Politics of a New Century: Understanding Climate Debates
Dr. Dana Fisher (Columbia University)
May 20 @ 5:00-6:15 pm
Buchanan Hall, Room 1910
Free and open to the public
Dr. Fisher is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she is also Director of the Environmental Stewardship Project, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). Dr. Fisher's book, National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime, is one of the best analyses available about how and why climate issues play out so differently in the U.S. than in the rest of the world. Dr. Fisher is also the author of Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America.
For the New York Times article that features her work on Climate Change debates, see http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/11/02/02climatewire-coal-country-poses-the-biggest-obstacle-in-s-79147.html
Dr. Dana Fisher (Columbia University)
May 20 @ 5:00-6:15 pm
Buchanan Hall, Room 1910
Free and open to the public
Dr. Fisher is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where she is also Director of the Environmental Stewardship Project, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP). Dr. Fisher's book, National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime, is one of the best analyses available about how and why climate issues play out so differently in the U.S. than in the rest of the world. Dr. Fisher is also the author of Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America.
For the New York Times article that features her work on Climate Change debates, see http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/11/02/02climatewire-coal-country-poses-the-biggest-obstacle-in-s-79147.html
Friday, May 14, 2010
TALK: Food Security and Farm Labor in California
Food Security and Farm Labor in California: A Case Study of Santa Barbara County
Monday, May 24 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Presentations:
- Mexican Immigrant Farmers and Collaborate Networks in Santa Barbara County
Teresa Figueroa (Chicano/a Studies, UCSB)
- Organizing MILPA’s (Mexican Immigrant Labor and Producers’ Association) Association in Santa Maria
- Global studies and chicano/a studies undergraduates Erika Herrera, Julio Vera, Jocelyn Gutierrez, Zenaida Perez, and Brenda Navarro
Mexican immigrant families have been producing agricultural commodities in northern Santa Barbara County for almost three decades. Since the early 1980s, they have been farming multiple commodities by borrowing capital and leasing small plots from corporations. Mexican families then create sophisticated infrastructures to produce staple and luxury commodities. Mexican immigrant families turn their commodities to “culers” or shipping and distribution companies that market local commodities at global markets. The resulting poor rate of return bankrupts family farmers who, in turn, cannot pay their laborers or their loans. In the absence of regulated markets and public policy, Mexican immigrant families experience the social, economic, and legal consequences of farming luxury and staple commodities at great risk.
We have developed an applied research project to address the most pressing needs of the Latino immigrant farmers in Santa Maria by organizing an association of Mexican immigrant family farmers and small farmers and linking them with fair trade networks. We have been developing collaborative relationships with social justice organizations and educational institutions to address the social consequences of producing food in a globalized world. This project will present the opportunities and challenges encountered while addressing the multiple needs of disenfranchised farmers.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/food-security-and-farm-labor-in-california-a-case-study-of-santa-barbara-county/
Sponsored by IHC’s Food Studies RFG, Departments of Chicano/a Studies, Anthropology, Global Studies, Sociology, and History.
Monday, May 24 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Presentations:
- Mexican Immigrant Farmers and Collaborate Networks in Santa Barbara County
Teresa Figueroa (Chicano/a Studies, UCSB)
- Organizing MILPA’s (Mexican Immigrant Labor and Producers’ Association) Association in Santa Maria
- Global studies and chicano/a studies undergraduates Erika Herrera, Julio Vera, Jocelyn Gutierrez, Zenaida Perez, and Brenda Navarro
Mexican immigrant families have been producing agricultural commodities in northern Santa Barbara County for almost three decades. Since the early 1980s, they have been farming multiple commodities by borrowing capital and leasing small plots from corporations. Mexican families then create sophisticated infrastructures to produce staple and luxury commodities. Mexican immigrant families turn their commodities to “culers” or shipping and distribution companies that market local commodities at global markets. The resulting poor rate of return bankrupts family farmers who, in turn, cannot pay their laborers or their loans. In the absence of regulated markets and public policy, Mexican immigrant families experience the social, economic, and legal consequences of farming luxury and staple commodities at great risk.
We have developed an applied research project to address the most pressing needs of the Latino immigrant farmers in Santa Maria by organizing an association of Mexican immigrant family farmers and small farmers and linking them with fair trade networks. We have been developing collaborative relationships with social justice organizations and educational institutions to address the social consequences of producing food in a globalized world. This project will present the opportunities and challenges encountered while addressing the multiple needs of disenfranchised farmers.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/food-security-and-farm-labor-in-california-a-case-study-of-santa-barbara-county/
Sponsored by IHC’s Food Studies RFG, Departments of Chicano/a Studies, Anthropology, Global Studies, Sociology, and History.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Talk: Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 8:00 PM
Campbell Hall
General public $17.00
UCSB Students $10.00
(Suitable for ages 15+)
Bill Nye the Science Guy knows just how cool science can be. His wit and enthusiasm for making science and technology entertaining and accessible is so out of this world that his PBS/syndicated series has garnered a remarkable 28 Emmy Awards. So get ready for a universe of amazing fun, from quarks and quasars, to the questions that scientists are still trying to figure out. Nye takes us on a wild ride through topics like the scientific method, matter, fundamental forces, heat, light, electricity, magnetism, waves, weather, and space – the whole family will have a blast!
For more information: https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1754
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 8:00 PM
Campbell Hall
General public $17.00
UCSB Students $10.00
(Suitable for ages 15+)
Bill Nye the Science Guy knows just how cool science can be. His wit and enthusiasm for making science and technology entertaining and accessible is so out of this world that his PBS/syndicated series has garnered a remarkable 28 Emmy Awards. So get ready for a universe of amazing fun, from quarks and quasars, to the questions that scientists are still trying to figure out. Nye takes us on a wild ride through topics like the scientific method, matter, fundamental forces, heat, light, electricity, magnetism, waves, weather, and space – the whole family will have a blast!
For more information: https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1754
Monday, May 3, 2010
Talk: Industrial Applications of Green Chemistry
Industrial Applications of Green Chemistry
Dr. Ingrid Merglesberg
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 @ 2-3pm
Bren 4016 (Env. Studies Conference Room)
FREE
Join Dr. Mergelsberg as she discusses Merck's vision of building in "Green Chemistry from the beginning of process development."
* Success stories from projects in different stages of development will be described, including "tools" and guidelines to achieve greener process design within Merck.
* The successful and sustained implementation of green chemistry solutions requires a change in behaviour and attitude across all functions.
* Several successful examples will be discussed including remaining opportunities to further increase the "greenness" of future projects.
Dr. Ingrid Mergelsberg received her PhD in organic chemistry from the University in Freiburg, Germany. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester NY and at Hoffmann LaRoche in Basel, Switzerland. She worked for Parke Davis in Freiburg and then joined a Schering-Plough subsidiary in Lucerne, Switzerland. Her roles include chemical process development for early and late stage projects with a strong passion and dedication for green chemistry. Five years ago she relocated to NJ and now works for Merck as project lead for early process development for 3 European sites. She co-chairs the ACS Green Chemistry Institute (GCI) Pharmaceutical Roundtable since April 2009.
Co-Sponsored by: Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS)' Green Chemistry Initiative, and The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF).
Dr. Ingrid Merglesberg
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 @ 2-3pm
Bren 4016 (Env. Studies Conference Room)
FREE
Join Dr. Mergelsberg as she discusses Merck's vision of building in "Green Chemistry from the beginning of process development."
* Success stories from projects in different stages of development will be described, including "tools" and guidelines to achieve greener process design within Merck.
* The successful and sustained implementation of green chemistry solutions requires a change in behaviour and attitude across all functions.
* Several successful examples will be discussed including remaining opportunities to further increase the "greenness" of future projects.
Dr. Ingrid Mergelsberg received her PhD in organic chemistry from the University in Freiburg, Germany. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester NY and at Hoffmann LaRoche in Basel, Switzerland. She worked for Parke Davis in Freiburg and then joined a Schering-Plough subsidiary in Lucerne, Switzerland. Her roles include chemical process development for early and late stage projects with a strong passion and dedication for green chemistry. Five years ago she relocated to NJ and now works for Merck as project lead for early process development for 3 European sites. She co-chairs the ACS Green Chemistry Institute (GCI) Pharmaceutical Roundtable since April 2009.
Co-Sponsored by: Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS)' Green Chemistry Initiative, and The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF).
Talk: Sacred Waters: Arts and Ecologies of Mami Wata and Other Aquatic Divinities in Africa
Sacred Waters: Arts and Ecologies of Mami Wata and other Aquatic Divinities in Africa
Henry Drewal (Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Thursday, May 20 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Arts for sacred waters in Africa are ancient and widespread. They express deeply-held beliefs and practices about the sanctity and power of water. Mami Wata, Pidgin English for “Mother Water,” is the name of a widely worshiped deity, as well as the generic term for a vast “school” of water deities across much of the African continent. Mami Wata’s many attributes and roles are as fluid as water itself — only the frames of history and culture can give her specificity. This talk explores some of the faces and engagements of Mami Wata in selected environments — cultural and ecological.
Sponsored by the Idee Levitan IHC Endowed Lecture Series, IHC’s Oil+Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/sacred-waters/
Henry Drewal (Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Thursday, May 20 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Arts for sacred waters in Africa are ancient and widespread. They express deeply-held beliefs and practices about the sanctity and power of water. Mami Wata, Pidgin English for “Mother Water,” is the name of a widely worshiped deity, as well as the generic term for a vast “school” of water deities across much of the African continent. Mami Wata’s many attributes and roles are as fluid as water itself — only the frames of history and culture can give her specificity. This talk explores some of the faces and engagements of Mami Wata in selected environments — cultural and ecological.
Sponsored by the Idee Levitan IHC Endowed Lecture Series, IHC’s Oil+Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/sacred-waters/
Movie: Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea
Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea
Introduction by Steve Witkowski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, May 18 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Once known as the “California Riviera,” the Salton Sea is called one of America’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea covers the historical, economic, political, and environmental issues that face the sea, and it offers up an offbeat portrait of the eccentric and individualistic people who populate its shores. It is an epic western tale of fantastic real estate ventures and failed boomtowns, inner-city gangs fleeing to white small-town America, and the subjective notion of success and failure amidst the ruins of the past. Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities you’ve ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil+Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/plagues-and-pleasures-of-the-salton-sea/
Introduction by Steve Witkowski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, May 18 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Once known as the “California Riviera,” the Salton Sea is called one of America’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Plagues and Pleasures of the Salton Sea covers the historical, economic, political, and environmental issues that face the sea, and it offers up an offbeat portrait of the eccentric and individualistic people who populate its shores. It is an epic western tale of fantastic real estate ventures and failed boomtowns, inner-city gangs fleeing to white small-town America, and the subjective notion of success and failure amidst the ruins of the past. Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities you’ve ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil+Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/plagues-and-pleasures-of-the-salton-sea/
Thursday, April 29, 2010
UCSB Wins Three Best Practice Awards
The UC Office of the President just announced the winners of the 2010 Energy Efficiency Partnership Best Practice Awards. UCSB received awards in three categories:
Student Sustainability Programs - Program for the Assessment and Certification for the Environment and Sustainability (PACES)
Water Efficiency & Site Water Quality - San Clemente Ecological Restoration and Stormwater Management Plan
Sustainable Food Service - Residential Dining Sustainability Plan
Congratulations to our winners!
To read the official announcement and see the entire list of winners:
http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/docs/BestPracticeAwardWinners2010.pdf
Student Sustainability Programs - Program for the Assessment and Certification for the Environment and Sustainability (PACES)
Water Efficiency & Site Water Quality - San Clemente Ecological Restoration and Stormwater Management Plan
Sustainable Food Service - Residential Dining Sustainability Plan
Congratulations to our winners!
To read the official announcement and see the entire list of winners:
http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/docs/BestPracticeAwardWinners2010.pdf
Monday, April 26, 2010
2010 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference
California Higher Education Sustainability Conference
June 20-23, 2010 (the main conference days are June 21 and 22)
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
The early bird registration ends May 14.
Students are only $50; Staff/faculty are $475
For more information and to register: http://2010higheredsustainabilityconference.org/
June 20-23, 2010 (the main conference days are June 21 and 22)
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
The early bird registration ends May 14.
Students are only $50; Staff/faculty are $475
For more information and to register: http://2010higheredsustainabilityconference.org/
Talk: SB County Agrifood System: Export-import and the Potential for Localization
The Santa Barbara County Agrifood System:
Export-import and the potential for localization
WHEN: Tuesday, May 11, 4:00-4:50 pm
WHERE: Env Studies Conference Room (#4016 Bren Bldg)
Why localize the Santa Barbara County agrifood system? How local is the system now? What are some of the costs of the current system? How can we localize the Santa Barbara County agrifood system to reduce costs and increase benefits?
Followed by an edible demonstration of our local food system by the Isla Vista Food Co-op.
Presented by the SBC AFS Research Group led by Professor David Cleveland: Sean Anderson, Ingrid R. Avison, Caitlin Brimm, Heidi Diaz, Anthony Hearst, Kai Hinson, Sydney E. Hollingshead, Nora M. Muller, Corie N. Radka, Tyler D. Watson, Hannah Wright.
Sponsored by UCSB Academic Senate Sustainability Champion Program and the Environmental Studies Program.
Export-import and the potential for localization
WHEN: Tuesday, May 11, 4:00-4:50 pm
WHERE: Env Studies Conference Room (#4016 Bren Bldg)
Why localize the Santa Barbara County agrifood system? How local is the system now? What are some of the costs of the current system? How can we localize the Santa Barbara County agrifood system to reduce costs and increase benefits?
Followed by an edible demonstration of our local food system by the Isla Vista Food Co-op.
Presented by the SBC AFS Research Group led by Professor David Cleveland: Sean Anderson, Ingrid R. Avison, Caitlin Brimm, Heidi Diaz, Anthony Hearst, Kai Hinson, Sydney E. Hollingshead, Nora M. Muller, Corie N. Radka, Tyler D. Watson, Hannah Wright.
Sponsored by UCSB Academic Senate Sustainability Champion Program and the Environmental Studies Program.
Friday, April 23, 2010
TGIF Announcements
1) The Green Initiative Fund - a student lock-in fee - was reaffirmed by the students for another four years! Yea!
2) 2009-10 TGIF Awards have been announced.
See the TGIF web site http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/tgif or the press release for more information about the projects that were awarded funding http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2229
Go TGIF!
2) 2009-10 TGIF Awards have been announced.
See the TGIF web site http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/tgif or the press release for more information about the projects that were awarded funding http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2229
Go TGIF!
Films: Green Screen
Green Screen
Environmental Film Premier
Saturday, April 24
Refreshments and Live Music, 5 p.m.
Screening, 5:30-7 p.m.
Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista
Featuring these short films: Cultivating Kids, EcoWatch, Navigating Copenhagen, Plastocalypse
GreenScreen is an environmental media production program of UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media and the Department of Film and Media Studies.
For more information: http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/Events/2010/greenscreen/index.html
Event Presented By Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, and The Coastal Fund of UC Santa Barbara Associated Students.
Environmental Film Premier
Saturday, April 24
Refreshments and Live Music, 5 p.m.
Screening, 5:30-7 p.m.
Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista
Featuring these short films: Cultivating Kids, EcoWatch, Navigating Copenhagen, Plastocalypse
GreenScreen is an environmental media production program of UCSB's Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media and the Department of Film and Media Studies.
For more information: http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/Events/2010/greenscreen/index.html
Event Presented By Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, and The Coastal Fund of UC Santa Barbara Associated Students.
Isla Vista Earth Day
Isla Vista Earth Day
Saturday, April 24 @ noon - 7:00 pm
Anisq'oyo Park, Isla Vista
The event will have exhibitors, food vendors, live music, etc.
Event is put on by the UCSB Environmental Affairs Board.
For more information: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/eab
Saturday, April 24 @ noon - 7:00 pm
Anisq'oyo Park, Isla Vista
The event will have exhibitors, food vendors, live music, etc.
Event is put on by the UCSB Environmental Affairs Board.
For more information: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/eab
Summit on Energy Efficiency
Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency
May 12-13, 2010
Four Seasons Biltmore Resort - Santa Barbara, CA
Organized by: The Institute for Energy Efficiency, UC Santa Barbara
The second annual Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency will be held at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara on May 12-13, 2010. This event brings together key players in industry, academia, venture capital, and government for two days of insights into the latest breakthroughs in energy efficiency technologies and in-depth discussions around accelerating them to market.
UCSB students and faculty save an additional 50% off of the regular academic rate - use coupon code UCSB50.
Keynote speakers include:
* Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google
* Michael Peevey, President, California Public Utilities Commission
* Richard Newell, Administrator, US Energy Information Administration
Sessions include:
* Enabling Technologies for New Energy Sources
* Implementing Energy Savings
* Energy Efficiency Computing at a Large Scale
* Energy Efficient Information Technologies
* Tools and Technologies for Energy Efficient Building Systems
* Moving Towards a Large Scale LED Market
* Most Promising Technologies for Energy Efficiency
Full details for the Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency can be found at http://iee.ucsb.edu/sbsee2010.
Contact Whitney Wegener Kopf, Program Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency with questions at whitney@iee.ucsb.edu or 805-893-5496.
May 12-13, 2010
Four Seasons Biltmore Resort - Santa Barbara, CA
Organized by: The Institute for Energy Efficiency, UC Santa Barbara
The second annual Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency will be held at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara on May 12-13, 2010. This event brings together key players in industry, academia, venture capital, and government for two days of insights into the latest breakthroughs in energy efficiency technologies and in-depth discussions around accelerating them to market.
UCSB students and faculty save an additional 50% off of the regular academic rate - use coupon code UCSB50.
Keynote speakers include:
* Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google
* Michael Peevey, President, California Public Utilities Commission
* Richard Newell, Administrator, US Energy Information Administration
Sessions include:
* Enabling Technologies for New Energy Sources
* Implementing Energy Savings
* Energy Efficiency Computing at a Large Scale
* Energy Efficient Information Technologies
* Tools and Technologies for Energy Efficient Building Systems
* Moving Towards a Large Scale LED Market
* Most Promising Technologies for Energy Efficiency
Full details for the Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency can be found at http://iee.ucsb.edu/sbsee2010.
Contact Whitney Wegener Kopf, Program Director, Institute for Energy Efficiency with questions at whitney@iee.ucsb.edu or 805-893-5496.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Talk: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
UCSB REGENTS’ LECTURER MAUDE BARLOW
Tuesday, May 11 / 7:00 PM
Corwin Pavilion
By 2030, demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by forty percent. The global water crisis is the greatest human and ecological crisis of our time. Because most of us were raised with the myth of water abundance, we have been slow to come to terms with the enormity of the threat of a world without water. Maude Barlow will outline the nature of the crisis, including the crisis facing California, and offer the practical principles that could lead to a water-secure future.
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is also an executive member of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. She is also the best-selling author or co-author of 16 books, including Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
Sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, the IHC’s Oil+Water series the Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, the Dept. of Film and Media Studies, the Dept. of Environmental Studies, the Environmental Defense Center and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/maude-barlow/
UCSB REGENTS’ LECTURER MAUDE BARLOW
Tuesday, May 11 / 7:00 PM
Corwin Pavilion
By 2030, demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by forty percent. The global water crisis is the greatest human and ecological crisis of our time. Because most of us were raised with the myth of water abundance, we have been slow to come to terms with the enormity of the threat of a world without water. Maude Barlow will outline the nature of the crisis, including the crisis facing California, and offer the practical principles that could lead to a water-secure future.
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is also an executive member of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. She is also the best-selling author or co-author of 16 books, including Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
Sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, the IHC’s Oil+Water series the Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, the Dept. of Film and Media Studies, the Dept. of Environmental Studies, the Environmental Defense Center and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/maude-barlow/
Talk: Alien Ocean: Life at Sea
Alien Ocean: Life at Sea
Stefan Helmreich (Anthropology, MIT)
Tuesday, May 4 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
A new generation of marine biologists, employing the science of DNA sequencing, is coming to see the ocean as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in extreme conditions - from deep-sea volcanoes to methane-rich coastal areas - such microbes are becoming key figures in scientific and public debates about the origin of life, climate change, bioprospecting and biotechnology, and even the possibility of life on other planets. Such microbes are fresh, scientifically-imagined tokens for the life the sea symbolizes and substantiates. Drawing on anthropological work with marine microbiologists, I name this new double-visioned sea the alien ocean - a zone in which worldly nature oscillates between familiar and strange, in which the very category of "life" is at sea.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/alien-ocean-life-at-sea/
Stefan Helmreich (Anthropology, MIT)
Tuesday, May 4 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
A new generation of marine biologists, employing the science of DNA sequencing, is coming to see the ocean as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in extreme conditions - from deep-sea volcanoes to methane-rich coastal areas - such microbes are becoming key figures in scientific and public debates about the origin of life, climate change, bioprospecting and biotechnology, and even the possibility of life on other planets. Such microbes are fresh, scientifically-imagined tokens for the life the sea symbolizes and substantiates. Drawing on anthropological work with marine microbiologists, I name this new double-visioned sea the alien ocean - a zone in which worldly nature oscillates between familiar and strange, in which the very category of "life" is at sea.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/alien-ocean-life-at-sea/
Field Trip to Shepherd’s Farm
Field Trip to Shepherd’s Farm
Wednesday, April 28 / 2:00 PM
Shepherd’s Farm, Santa Barbara
Join the Community Sustainable Food Group for a visit to Shepherd’s Farm here in Santa Barbara. Transportation will be provided. Location of departure to be announced. Please contact Megan Carney at megcarney@gmail.com for more details.
Sponsored by Community Sustainable Food Group and the IHC’s Food Studies RFG.
Wednesday, April 28 / 2:00 PM
Shepherd’s Farm, Santa Barbara
Join the Community Sustainable Food Group for a visit to Shepherd’s Farm here in Santa Barbara. Transportation will be provided. Location of departure to be announced. Please contact Megan Carney at megcarney@gmail.com for more details.
Sponsored by Community Sustainable Food Group and the IHC’s Food Studies RFG.
Film: Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Tuesday, April 27 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth. We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
More information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/blue-gold-world-water-wars/
Tuesday, April 27 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth. We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive?
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
More information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/blue-gold-world-water-wars/
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Talk: Arctic and Antarctic Cricles
Hester Blum (English, Penn State University)
Thursday, April 22 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In 2007 a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the Arctic seabed under the North Pole, laying the groundwork for Russia’s claim to Arctic oil resources. “Arctic and Antarctic Circles” explores the pre-history of Russia’s polar land-grab in terms of the influential – if satirized – early nineteenth-century theories of Hollow Earth theorist John Cleves Symmes. In doing so, the talk considers the unexplored possibilities that the Arctic and Antarctic regions offer to hemispheric or transnational conversations, as well as to more recent calls to reorganize critical thinking from a planetary perspective.
Hester Blum is associate professor of English and director of the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives, which won the John Gardner Maritime Research Award. Blum is at work on a new project on the print culture of polar exploration.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, the ACGCC and the Community Environmental Council.
More information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/arctic-and-antarctic-circles/
Thursday, April 22 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In 2007 a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the Arctic seabed under the North Pole, laying the groundwork for Russia’s claim to Arctic oil resources. “Arctic and Antarctic Circles” explores the pre-history of Russia’s polar land-grab in terms of the influential – if satirized – early nineteenth-century theories of Hollow Earth theorist John Cleves Symmes. In doing so, the talk considers the unexplored possibilities that the Arctic and Antarctic regions offer to hemispheric or transnational conversations, as well as to more recent calls to reorganize critical thinking from a planetary perspective.
Hester Blum is associate professor of English and director of the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives, which won the John Gardner Maritime Research Award. Blum is at work on a new project on the print culture of polar exploration.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, the ACGCC and the Community Environmental Council.
More information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/arctic-and-antarctic-circles/
UCSB Listed in Princeton Review's Green Guide
Princeton Review chose the 286 schools included in their Green Guide based on the "Green Rating" scores the schools received in the summer of 2009 when they published Green Rating scores for 697 schools in their online college profiles and annual college guidebooks.
The UCSB campus has a nice profile (pg 130), plus an additional profile on our Environmental Studies Program and the Bren School - combining sustainability with education and research (pg 131).
Way to go UCSB!
The USA Today article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-20-greencolleges20_ST_N.htm
The Green Guide: http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=7076
The UCSB campus has a nice profile (pg 130), plus an additional profile on our Environmental Studies Program and the Bren School - combining sustainability with education and research (pg 131).
Way to go UCSB!
The USA Today article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-04-20-greencolleges20_ST_N.htm
The Green Guide: http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=7076
Monday, April 19, 2010
Save the Date: Sustainable Agriculture Talk
Sustainability Champion and Professor David Cleveland's (Environmental Studies) students will be presenting on sustainable agriculture.
Tuesday, May 11 @ 4:00 pm
Bren Hall, Room 4016
More details to follow.
Tuesday, May 11 @ 4:00 pm
Bren Hall, Room 4016
More details to follow.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Movie/Lecture: Addicted to Plastics
Addicted to Plastics: the Rise and Demise of a Modern Miracle
with introductory remarks by Dr. Andrea Neal
April 15 @ 3:00 pm
Bren Hall, Room 4016
FREE
Refreshments will be provided.
Event sponsored by the UCSB Coastal Fund.
with introductory remarks by Dr. Andrea Neal
April 15 @ 3:00 pm
Bren Hall, Room 4016
FREE
Refreshments will be provided.
Event sponsored by the UCSB Coastal Fund.
Talk: An Authentic Performance of Fishing
An Authentic Performance of Fishing: Indigenismo, Tourism, Music, and Dance on Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester)
Thursday, April 15 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico, was singled out for special attention in the idealistic postrevolutionary years of the 1930s, promoted as a site/sight of authentic Mexicanness, useful for nationalistic and touristic agendas, performing a role as attraction, destination, and iconic location. This talk will explore the multiple signifying and sensorial uses of the waters of Lake Pátzcuaro throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty first, in relation to processes and policies of tourism, performism, nationalism, and indigenismo. Discussion encompasses tourist displays of fishing, Noche de Muertos events, tourist and advertising imagery, films (the Disney production of The Three Caballeros and Janitzio), local fish dances, and scholarly and journalistic representations.
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, PhD, is a scholar, creator and performer whose work engages in an interdisciplinary context with the fields of performance studies, ethnomusicology, dance studies and anthropology, applied and community arts, theater studies, and Latin American studies. Since 2002 she has held the post of Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Winchester, UK.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/hellier-tinoco/
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester)
Thursday, April 15 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico, was singled out for special attention in the idealistic postrevolutionary years of the 1930s, promoted as a site/sight of authentic Mexicanness, useful for nationalistic and touristic agendas, performing a role as attraction, destination, and iconic location. This talk will explore the multiple signifying and sensorial uses of the waters of Lake Pátzcuaro throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty first, in relation to processes and policies of tourism, performism, nationalism, and indigenismo. Discussion encompasses tourist displays of fishing, Noche de Muertos events, tourist and advertising imagery, films (the Disney production of The Three Caballeros and Janitzio), local fish dances, and scholarly and journalistic representations.
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, PhD, is a scholar, creator and performer whose work engages in an interdisciplinary context with the fields of performance studies, ethnomusicology, dance studies and anthropology, applied and community arts, theater studies, and Latin American studies. Since 2002 she has held the post of Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Winchester, UK.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/hellier-tinoco/
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Talk: Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben
Saturday, April 24, 2010 @ 3:00 PM
Corwin Pavilion
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
One of America’s leading environmentalists, Bill McKibben is the founder of the international climate campaign 350.org, a Guggenheim Fellow and former New Yorker staff writer best known for his work on climate change issues including his treatise on global warming, The End of Nature. His recent book Deep Economy addresses the shortcomings of the growth economy and offers a realistic scenario for a hopeful future; while his newest release Eaarth argues for the essential change that will make our damaged planet endure.
This is a FREE event.
Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Environmental Studies Program as part of the UCSB Critical Issues in America series: Forty Years After the Big Spill – Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges in a Global Context.
For more information:
https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1739
Saturday, April 24, 2010 @ 3:00 PM
Corwin Pavilion
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
One of America’s leading environmentalists, Bill McKibben is the founder of the international climate campaign 350.org, a Guggenheim Fellow and former New Yorker staff writer best known for his work on climate change issues including his treatise on global warming, The End of Nature. His recent book Deep Economy addresses the shortcomings of the growth economy and offers a realistic scenario for a hopeful future; while his newest release Eaarth argues for the essential change that will make our damaged planet endure.
This is a FREE event.
Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Environmental Studies Program as part of the UCSB Critical Issues in America series: Forty Years After the Big Spill – Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges in a Global Context.
For more information:
https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1739
Movie: Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World
Le Monde du Silence (The Silent World )
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, April 13 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle’s Academy Award winning documentary The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. Cousteau and his team of divers shot the film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Having filmed before Cousteau turned environmentally conscious, The Silent World shows the crew of the Calypso using dynamite near a coral reef and attacking a school of sharks. Because of these actions, the film was later criticized for the environmental damage it caused.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Sponsored by the Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-silent-world/
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, April 13 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle’s Academy Award winning documentary The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. Cousteau and his team of divers shot the film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Having filmed before Cousteau turned environmentally conscious, The Silent World shows the crew of the Calypso using dynamite near a coral reef and attacking a school of sharks. Because of these actions, the film was later criticized for the environmental damage it caused.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Sponsored by the Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-silent-world/
Monday, April 5, 2010
Sedgwick Reserve Open House
The folks at Sedgwick Reserve invite you to an Open House!
Saturday, April 10 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
There will be hikes, craft projects, live music, a silent auction, and lunch for purchase - or bring a picnic lunch!
Individuals are $10 and families $25 (includes a beverage and dessert).
For more information: http://sedgwick.ucnrs.org
Proceeds from the event support the Outdoor Education Program on the reserve.
Saturday, April 10 from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
There will be hikes, craft projects, live music, a silent auction, and lunch for purchase - or bring a picnic lunch!
Individuals are $10 and families $25 (includes a beverage and dessert).
For more information: http://sedgwick.ucnrs.org
Proceeds from the event support the Outdoor Education Program on the reserve.
Talk: Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
DAVID MACKAY
Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government on Energy and Climate Change
April 6, 2010 3:30pm KITP Kohn Hall 1003
UC Santa Barbara
To be followed by a reception at 5:00pm
Please arrive early as seating is limited. This lecture will be simulcast in ESB 1001and webcast at http://iee.ucsb.edu.
Biography
David MacKay FRS studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He has taught Physics in Cambridge since 1995. Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time to public teaching about energy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Climate Change. Nine months after the publication of 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air', David MacKay was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
DAVID MACKAY
Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government on Energy and Climate Change
April 6, 2010 3:30pm KITP Kohn Hall 1003
UC Santa Barbara
To be followed by a reception at 5:00pm
Please arrive early as seating is limited. This lecture will be simulcast in ESB 1001and webcast at http://iee.ucsb.edu.
Biography
David MacKay FRS studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He has taught Physics in Cambridge since 1995. Since 2005, he has devoted much of his time to public teaching about energy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Climate Change. Nine months after the publication of 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air', David MacKay was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
Friday, April 2, 2010
Conference: Our Planet, Our Problem
The UCSB Environmental Affairs Board invites you to:
Our Planet, Our Problem: Approaches to a Climate Solution
Friday, April 9, 2010
10:00 am - 7:00 pm
UCSB Corwin Pavilion
This conference will bring influential members in the climate change arena to UCSB in order to provoke critical thought about the dilemma at hand. This full day event, featuring three panels addressing grassroots, business, and legislative solutions, respectively, comes in the wake of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event has been organized by students, and was conceived by a group of 23 undergraduates who were inspired to bring change to their campus community after attending the UN summit in December of 2009. By integrating grassroots, business, and government efforts, the event will empower the nation's youth to seek a greener future.
For more information: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/eab/
Our Planet, Our Problem: Approaches to a Climate Solution
Friday, April 9, 2010
10:00 am - 7:00 pm
UCSB Corwin Pavilion
This conference will bring influential members in the climate change arena to UCSB in order to provoke critical thought about the dilemma at hand. This full day event, featuring three panels addressing grassroots, business, and legislative solutions, respectively, comes in the wake of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event has been organized by students, and was conceived by a group of 23 undergraduates who were inspired to bring change to their campus community after attending the UN summit in December of 2009. By integrating grassroots, business, and government efforts, the event will empower the nation's youth to seek a greener future.
For more information: http://www.as.ucsb.edu/eab/
Bren School Master's Group Project Presentations
The Master of Environmental Science & Management
Class of 2010
Group Project Final Presentations
Class of 2010
Group Project Final Presentations
Open to the Public
Thursday, April 8, 2010
1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Bren Hall
Reception (with cash-only no-host bar) to follow
For more information and a schedule of events: http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/news/events/documents/GroupProjectInvite2010.pdf
Thursday, April 1, 2010
San Clemente Wins Goleta Valley Beautiful Award
On March 31, the Goleta Valley Beautiful Awards Committee announced the winners of the 2010 Goleta Valley Beautiful Annual Awards, and the San Clemente Villages Graduate Student Housing won the Public Institution category.
The winners receive their awards at the 36th Annual Goleta Valley Beautiful Awards Event at the Stow House Gardens on Sunday, May 2nd.
Congratulations to Housing & Residential Services for another job well done!
The winners receive their awards at the 36th Annual Goleta Valley Beautiful Awards Event at the Stow House Gardens on Sunday, May 2nd.
Congratulations to Housing & Residential Services for another job well done!
Monday, March 22, 2010
AASHE Awards 2010
If you have an idea of a project or student that/who would be a good nominee for one of these awards, please pass this information along to the appropriate person...
They even have an award for lessons-learned (the Oops Award) - so if you think of a project that was less successful, but you learned a lot from it, let me know!
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AASHE presents two Campus Sustainability Case Study Awards, one Student Sustainability Leadership Award, and one Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award annually. The awards are presented at an AASHE conference or other major gathering of the campus sustainability community. The deadline to apply for the 2010 Awards is July 1st, 2010.
•Campus Sustainability Case Study Awards
•Student Sustainability Leadership Award
•Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award
More info: http://www.aashe.org/programs/awards.php
They even have an award for lessons-learned (the Oops Award) - so if you think of a project that was less successful, but you learned a lot from it, let me know!
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AASHE presents two Campus Sustainability Case Study Awards, one Student Sustainability Leadership Award, and one Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award annually. The awards are presented at an AASHE conference or other major gathering of the campus sustainability community. The deadline to apply for the 2010 Awards is July 1st, 2010.
•Campus Sustainability Case Study Awards
•Student Sustainability Leadership Award
•Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award
More info: http://www.aashe.org/programs/awards.php
Conference: Oil and Water - The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California
Oil and Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California
Thursday, April 8 to Saturday, April 10
April 8 keynote: Harvey Molotch
April 9 keynote: Jim Nollman and Stephanie LeMenager
April 10 keynote: Harry Reese
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
This conference will explore the ways in which oil and water have created and transformed the history and culture of Santa Barbara and Southern California. Topics will include the Santa Barbara oil spill; the impact of oil on Hollywood; agriculture and marine life; the Owens River Valley; the Salton Sea; cars and car culture; and environmental histories and their lessons.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, UC Cal Studies Consortium and the Community Environmental Council.
Website: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/oil-water-socal/
Thursday, April 8 to Saturday, April 10
April 8 keynote: Harvey Molotch
April 9 keynote: Jim Nollman and Stephanie LeMenager
April 10 keynote: Harry Reese
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
This conference will explore the ways in which oil and water have created and transformed the history and culture of Santa Barbara and Southern California. Topics will include the Santa Barbara oil spill; the impact of oil on Hollywood; agriculture and marine life; the Owens River Valley; the Salton Sea; cars and car culture; and environmental histories and their lessons.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, UC Cal Studies Consortium and the Community Environmental Council.
Website: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/oil-water-socal/
Film: End of the Line
End of the Line
Introduction by Michael Albright (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, April 6 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In End of the Line we see the effects of our global love affair with fish as food firsthand. It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Introduction by Michael Albright (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, April 6 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In End of the Line we see the effects of our global love affair with fish as food firsthand. It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
UCSB Purchases the Most Recycled Content
UCSB is currently the highest purchaser of recycled content Office Max office supplies in the UC system -- 52% in Q2.
In addition, 100% of our Office Max purchases were made online rather than by a paper form.
Thanks to everyone, especially the UCSB purchasing staff, for being conscious of the materials your purchases are made of and of how you make the purchases. Keep up the good work!
And, as always, if you have any questions about recycled-content office supplies, contact Steve Howson in Central Stores.
In addition, 100% of our Office Max purchases were made online rather than by a paper form.
Thanks to everyone, especially the UCSB purchasing staff, for being conscious of the materials your purchases are made of and of how you make the purchases. Keep up the good work!
And, as always, if you have any questions about recycled-content office supplies, contact Steve Howson in Central Stores.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Talk: Reinventing Fire: Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation
Reinventing Fire: Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation
Amory Lovins
Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
March 5, 2010 2:00pm FREE
Corwin Pavilion, University Center, UCSB
Amory Lovins is widely considered among the world’s leading authorities on energy—especially its efficient use and sustainable supply—and a fertile innovator in integrative design. As Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Lovins pioneered the concept of “soft energy paths” involving efficient energy use, diverse and renewable energy sources, and special reliance on “soft energy technologies” based on solar, wind, biofuels, geothermal, etc., matched in scale and quality to their task, and widely accessible across society.
Built on 27 years of innovation, “Reinventing Fire” is the Rocky Mountain Institute’s most ambitious project to date. “Reinventing Fire” aims to create a clear and practical vision of a fossil-fuel-free future for the United States, backed up by quantitative analysis, and to map a pathway to achieve that future, led largely by business. This vision and pathway will offer a message of hope, put the spotlight on leaders, catalyze others to act, and inform and help to catalyze innovative policies.
In his lecture, Amory Lovins will demonstrate how “Reinventing Fire” can change minds and clarify choices by showing what exists, what works, what makes sense and makes money, what can change the world.
Sponsored by:
College of Letters and Science Critical Issues in America series, Environmental Studies, Institute for Energy Efficiency, A.S. Environmental Affairs Board, and the Santa Barbara Community Environmental Council
Amory Lovins
Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
March 5, 2010 2:00pm FREE
Corwin Pavilion, University Center, UCSB
Amory Lovins is widely considered among the world’s leading authorities on energy—especially its efficient use and sustainable supply—and a fertile innovator in integrative design. As Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Lovins pioneered the concept of “soft energy paths” involving efficient energy use, diverse and renewable energy sources, and special reliance on “soft energy technologies” based on solar, wind, biofuels, geothermal, etc., matched in scale and quality to their task, and widely accessible across society.
Built on 27 years of innovation, “Reinventing Fire” is the Rocky Mountain Institute’s most ambitious project to date. “Reinventing Fire” aims to create a clear and practical vision of a fossil-fuel-free future for the United States, backed up by quantitative analysis, and to map a pathway to achieve that future, led largely by business. This vision and pathway will offer a message of hope, put the spotlight on leaders, catalyze others to act, and inform and help to catalyze innovative policies.
In his lecture, Amory Lovins will demonstrate how “Reinventing Fire” can change minds and clarify choices by showing what exists, what works, what makes sense and makes money, what can change the world.
Sponsored by:
College of Letters and Science Critical Issues in America series, Environmental Studies, Institute for Energy Efficiency, A.S. Environmental Affairs Board, and the Santa Barbara Community Environmental Council
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Talk: Using Insurance to Facilitate Adaptation to and Mitigation of Climate-related Risk
Using Insurance to Facilitate Adaptation to and Mitigation of Climate-related Risk
Lindene Patton
Chief Climate Product Officer
Zurich Financial Services
Bren School Advisory Board Member
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Bren Hall 1414
*This talk can be viewed on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UFkXgmfiOo
Abstract
While Insurance is designed to facilitate protection of assets, it is also a dynamic tool that can also be leveraged to manage a public good, such as climate. Learn how government regulation and public-policy actions can distort the marketplace in ways that inadvertently encourage risky behavior and exacerbate free-rider challenges. Ms. Patton will also discuss why public-policy makers are often conflicted about risk-based price signals in the context of climate change, especially with respect to existing community assets. She will also address the issue of pooling and how some see it as a way to avoid difficult discussions about who should pay for certain risks and costs associated with low-carbon conversion. And she will discuss how government subsidies can actually introduce risk into technology—and how risk-based price signals (premiums) associated with insurance serve to reduce the risk of deploying new technology.
Biography
Lindene Patton serves as Chief Climate Product Officer at Zurich Financial Services. She manages the Underwriting Counsel staff and the Cost Engineering Services staff, which provide support to the environmental underwriting division and the architects and engineering underwriting division. She also oversees the group that underwrites guaranteed fixed-price remediation stop loss and all environmental impairment liability programs.
Ms. Patton has substantial expertise in all aspects of environmental insurance and professional liability insurance for the design professional, and she supports the development and improvement of all lines of environmental insurance. Additionally, she has worked extensively in standard property and casualty insurance and other specialty insurance coverages, such as political risk. She evaluates issues related to climate change and has developed products to support carbon trading and other unique solutions designed to assist customers in their adaptation to climate change.
Ms. Patton is an attorney licensed in the State of California and the District of Columbia, and an American Board of Industrial Hygiene Certified Industrial Hygienist. She holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis. She received her master's in public health from the University of California at Berkeley, and her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Lindene Patton
Chief Climate Product Officer
Zurich Financial Services
Bren School Advisory Board Member
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Bren Hall 1414
*This talk can be viewed on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UFkXgmfiOo
Abstract
While Insurance is designed to facilitate protection of assets, it is also a dynamic tool that can also be leveraged to manage a public good, such as climate. Learn how government regulation and public-policy actions can distort the marketplace in ways that inadvertently encourage risky behavior and exacerbate free-rider challenges. Ms. Patton will also discuss why public-policy makers are often conflicted about risk-based price signals in the context of climate change, especially with respect to existing community assets. She will also address the issue of pooling and how some see it as a way to avoid difficult discussions about who should pay for certain risks and costs associated with low-carbon conversion. And she will discuss how government subsidies can actually introduce risk into technology—and how risk-based price signals (premiums) associated with insurance serve to reduce the risk of deploying new technology.
Biography
Lindene Patton serves as Chief Climate Product Officer at Zurich Financial Services. She manages the Underwriting Counsel staff and the Cost Engineering Services staff, which provide support to the environmental underwriting division and the architects and engineering underwriting division. She also oversees the group that underwrites guaranteed fixed-price remediation stop loss and all environmental impairment liability programs.
Ms. Patton has substantial expertise in all aspects of environmental insurance and professional liability insurance for the design professional, and she supports the development and improvement of all lines of environmental insurance. Additionally, she has worked extensively in standard property and casualty insurance and other specialty insurance coverages, such as political risk. She evaluates issues related to climate change and has developed products to support carbon trading and other unique solutions designed to assist customers in their adaptation to climate change.
Ms. Patton is an attorney licensed in the State of California and the District of Columbia, and an American Board of Industrial Hygiene Certified Industrial Hygienist. She holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis. She received her master's in public health from the University of California at Berkeley, and her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Talk: Water: The Sacred Purifier
Water: The Sacred Purifier
Nandini Iyer (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Monday, March 8 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
“Just as the sacred river's roaring voice echoes all nature's sounds, just so, if the devotee wishes to be cleansed by its waters, his heart must respond to the cries of all living beings.” Professor Emerita Nandini Iyer is a life-long student of the world’s mystical traditions and of the teachings of M.K. Gandhi. She has taught philosophy and religious studies at the University of Oxford, UC Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara City College. She is one of the founders of the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara and has been involved with several schools committed to combating religious intolerance. Professor Iyer’s talk will be introduced by José Cabezón, Professor of Religious Studies, UCSB.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/water-the-sacred-purifier/
Nandini Iyer (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Monday, March 8 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
“Just as the sacred river's roaring voice echoes all nature's sounds, just so, if the devotee wishes to be cleansed by its waters, his heart must respond to the cries of all living beings.” Professor Emerita Nandini Iyer is a life-long student of the world’s mystical traditions and of the teachings of M.K. Gandhi. She has taught philosophy and religious studies at the University of Oxford, UC Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara City College. She is one of the founders of the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara and has been involved with several schools committed to combating religious intolerance. Professor Iyer’s talk will be introduced by José Cabezón, Professor of Religious Studies, UCSB.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/water-the-sacred-purifier/
Movie: Source to Sea: The Columbia River Swim
Source to Sea: The Columbia River Swim
Thursday, March 4 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about the river's disrupted ecosystems and dislocated peoples to over twenty thousand North American schoolchildren, and to a worldwide media audience of over one billion people. A group of thirty-plus Northwest filmmakers, led by Andy Norris, followed Swain's swim, and created a modern history of the great river of the West.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/source-to-sea/
Thursday, March 4 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about the river's disrupted ecosystems and dislocated peoples to over twenty thousand North American schoolchildren, and to a worldwide media audience of over one billion people. A group of thirty-plus Northwest filmmakers, led by Andy Norris, followed Swain's swim, and created a modern history of the great river of the West.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/source-to-sea/
Talk: Black Sea Files: A Territorial Research and Art Project on the Caspian Oil Geography
Black Sea Files: A Territorial Research and Art Project on the Caspian Oil Geography
Ursula Biemann
Tuesday, March 2 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The pipeline is a geo-strategic project of some political impact, not only for the powerful players in the region, but also for a great number of locals: farmers, oil workers, migrants, and prostitutes.
Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media Studies, IHC’s Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment, IHC’s Oil + Water Series, and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/black-sea-files/
Ursula Biemann
Tuesday, March 2 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The pipeline is a geo-strategic project of some political impact, not only for the powerful players in the region, but also for a great number of locals: farmers, oil workers, migrants, and prostitutes.
Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media Studies, IHC’s Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment, IHC’s Oil + Water Series, and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/black-sea-files/
Nutrition Week in the Dining Commons
Housing & Residential Services will be hosting Nutrition Week in all their Dining Commons everyday during March 1-5.
Students can talk to nutritionists and see displays on healthy, organic, and locally grown foods.
If you are interested in learning more about this event, please contact Terry Thomas at tthomas@housing.ucsb.edu.
Students can talk to nutritionists and see displays on healthy, organic, and locally grown foods.
If you are interested in learning more about this event, please contact Terry Thomas at tthomas@housing.ucsb.edu.
RecycleMania Sustainable Fashion Show
Sustainable Fashion Show to Support Recycle Mania
Sunday, February 28* @ 1:00-4:00 pm
Anisqoyo Park, Isla Vista
Associated Students Recycling Committee will be hosting a Sustainable Fashion Show as part of RecycleMania, a ten-week international recycling competition. The event will feature garments designed from students utilizing recyclable materials (plastic, mixed paper, aluminum, e-waste, etc). There will be a live DJ, band (Other Nature), food, and prizes for the best designs.
*Please note day change due to inclimate weather.
Sunday, February 28* @ 1:00-4:00 pm
Anisqoyo Park, Isla Vista
Associated Students Recycling Committee will be hosting a Sustainable Fashion Show as part of RecycleMania, a ten-week international recycling competition. The event will feature garments designed from students utilizing recyclable materials (plastic, mixed paper, aluminum, e-waste, etc). There will be a live DJ, band (Other Nature), food, and prizes for the best designs.
*Please note day change due to inclimate weather.
Talk: Personal Experiences, Observations, and Challenges for Protecting California's Ocean
Personal Experiences, Observations, and Challenges for Protecting California's Ocean
BRIAN BAIRD
Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, CA Resources Agency
Tuesday, March 2nd, 5:00pm
UCSB, Buchanan Hall, Rm 1910
About the Speaker:
Brian E. Baird, UCSB and Environmental Studies Alumnus, serves as the Director of the California Ocean Resources Management Program under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and also served in this role under Governors Davis and Wilson. He represents the Administration on the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health, California Coastal Commission, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the federal Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board, the California Ocean Science Trust, and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project among others.
He has authored or co-authored papers on ocean management, liquefied natural gas facility siting, archaeological resources, oil spill contingency planning, marine managed areas, regional ocean governance, and coastal economics and was the chief writer of chief writer of Governor Schwarzenegger's 2004 strategy titled, “Protecting Our Ocean - California's Strategy for Action.”
On Earth Day April 23, 1999, Assistant Secretary Baird was designated an "Environmental Hero" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and in February 2008 he received NOAA's Susan Snow-Cotter Award for Excellence in Ocean and Coastal Management.
This event is FREE.
Sponsored by: UCSB's College of Letters and Science Critical Issues in America Lecture Series and the Environmental Studies Program
BRIAN BAIRD
Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, CA Resources Agency
Tuesday, March 2nd, 5:00pm
UCSB, Buchanan Hall, Rm 1910
About the Speaker:
Brian E. Baird, UCSB and Environmental Studies Alumnus, serves as the Director of the California Ocean Resources Management Program under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and also served in this role under Governors Davis and Wilson. He represents the Administration on the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health, California Coastal Commission, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the federal Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board, the California Ocean Science Trust, and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project among others.
He has authored or co-authored papers on ocean management, liquefied natural gas facility siting, archaeological resources, oil spill contingency planning, marine managed areas, regional ocean governance, and coastal economics and was the chief writer of chief writer of Governor Schwarzenegger's 2004 strategy titled, “Protecting Our Ocean - California's Strategy for Action.”
On Earth Day April 23, 1999, Assistant Secretary Baird was designated an "Environmental Hero" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and in February 2008 he received NOAA's Susan Snow-Cotter Award for Excellence in Ocean and Coastal Management.
This event is FREE.
Sponsored by: UCSB's College of Letters and Science Critical Issues in America Lecture Series and the Environmental Studies Program
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Event: Victory Gardens: Join the Revolution!
Victory Gardens: Join the Revolution!
Rose Hayden-Smith
Doctoral Student, UCSB Dept of History
Sunday, March 7 @ 2:30 pm
History Education Center, Stowe House
304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta
Rose Hayden-Smith will discuss the victory gardens of the past, as well as current national policy and models, and the way the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing Americans today.
Also referred to as "war gardens" or "food gardens for defense," victory gardens were planted at private residences and in public parks during World War I and II to reduce the pressure the war efforts placed on the public food supply. Nearly 20 million Americans answered the government's call to provide their own produce. They planted gardens in backyards, empty lots and even city rooftops. Neighbors pooled their resources, planted different kinds of foods, and formed cooperatives, all in the name of patriotism.
For more information: http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2180
Rose Hayden-Smith
Doctoral Student, UCSB Dept of History
Sunday, March 7 @ 2:30 pm
History Education Center, Stowe House
304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta
Rose Hayden-Smith will discuss the victory gardens of the past, as well as current national policy and models, and the way the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing Americans today.
Also referred to as "war gardens" or "food gardens for defense," victory gardens were planted at private residences and in public parks during World War I and II to reduce the pressure the war efforts placed on the public food supply. Nearly 20 million Americans answered the government's call to provide their own produce. They planted gardens in backyards, empty lots and even city rooftops. Neighbors pooled their resources, planted different kinds of foods, and formed cooperatives, all in the name of patriotism.
For more information: http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2180
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Talk: Cruising
Cruising
Jill Casid (Art History, University of Wisconsin)
Tuesday, February 23 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In the rapt attention to digital transformation and the consideration of global cultural flows and liquid images, we may run the risk of losing sight of the material consequences of the physical and material flows of goods and people by boat, that seemingly antiquated technology of European conquest, catechism, and commerce. Cruising calls for attention not just to traveling images but also to the practice of leisure travel and not just the environmental cost of the tourist industry - the world’s largest by the end of the 20th century - but also the ongoing transformation of material environments to meet the desires and expectations of a particular kind of tourism, the floating world of the cruise ship boat.
Jill H. Casid is Associate Professor of Visual Culture Studies and Director of the Center for Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research in visual studies includes her book Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (2005) and her forthcoming book Shadows of Enlightenment.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/cruising/
Jill Casid (Art History, University of Wisconsin)
Tuesday, February 23 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In the rapt attention to digital transformation and the consideration of global cultural flows and liquid images, we may run the risk of losing sight of the material consequences of the physical and material flows of goods and people by boat, that seemingly antiquated technology of European conquest, catechism, and commerce. Cruising calls for attention not just to traveling images but also to the practice of leisure travel and not just the environmental cost of the tourist industry - the world’s largest by the end of the 20th century - but also the ongoing transformation of material environments to meet the desires and expectations of a particular kind of tourism, the floating world of the cruise ship boat.
Jill H. Casid is Associate Professor of Visual Culture Studies and Director of the Center for Visual Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research in visual studies includes her book Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (2005) and her forthcoming book Shadows of Enlightenment.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/cruising/
Discussion: Food @ UCSB
Food at UCSB
Bonnie Crouse (Dining Services, UCSB)
David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB)
Monday, February 22 / 1:00 PM
IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
Bonnie Crouse with be present a talk entitled, "UCSB Dining Services' Sustainability Initiative." A representative from Dining Services will discuss their sustainability initiative and will address issues such as the following: How did UCSB dining get involved in local food sourcing? What percentage of meals are made with local and/or organic food? How have students responded to these changes? What advice would you give to other campuses trying to undertake similar efforts?
Professor Cleveland’s talk will focus on, "The UCSB Community Organic Garden: A Link to the Community and Global Agrifood System". The UCSB campus organic garden has existed for over 40 years - currently as the Greenhouse and Garden Project (GGP), 5 acres west of Harder Stadium. It has had to struggle for existence at times because its importance has not been appreciated. The GGP has the potential to link UCSB to the local and global agricultural and food community.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG, Department of Environmental Studies, Department of Sociology and Department of History.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/food-at-ucsb/
Bonnie Crouse (Dining Services, UCSB)
David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB)
Monday, February 22 / 1:00 PM
IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
Bonnie Crouse with be present a talk entitled, "UCSB Dining Services' Sustainability Initiative." A representative from Dining Services will discuss their sustainability initiative and will address issues such as the following: How did UCSB dining get involved in local food sourcing? What percentage of meals are made with local and/or organic food? How have students responded to these changes? What advice would you give to other campuses trying to undertake similar efforts?
Professor Cleveland’s talk will focus on, "The UCSB Community Organic Garden: A Link to the Community and Global Agrifood System". The UCSB campus organic garden has existed for over 40 years - currently as the Greenhouse and Garden Project (GGP), 5 acres west of Harder Stadium. It has had to struggle for existence at times because its importance has not been appreciated. The GGP has the potential to link UCSB to the local and global agricultural and food community.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG, Department of Environmental Studies, Department of Sociology and Department of History.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/food-at-ucsb/
Dept of Public Worms - Salad and Compost Party
Salad and Compost Party
Wednesday, February 17 @ 12:00-1:00 pm
Outside the Student Resources Building
The DPW will be chopping veggies and composting the scraps to feed their vermicompost bins, and providing the salad fixings for you. You're welcome to bring what you want and join them in a tasty lunch. Salad is good for you & the worms!
Wednesday, February 17 @ 12:00-1:00 pm
Outside the Student Resources Building
The DPW will be chopping veggies and composting the scraps to feed their vermicompost bins, and providing the salad fixings for you. You're welcome to bring what you want and join them in a tasty lunch. Salad is good for you & the worms!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Films: Banff Mountain Film Festival
Best of the 34th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
February 23 and 24 @ 7:30
Campbell Hall
$12 for general admission, $10 for UCSB students and children
The event is hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures and it sells out every year!
For more information or to buy tickets:
Feb 23 - https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1687
Feb 24 - https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1688
February 23 and 24 @ 7:30
Campbell Hall
$12 for general admission, $10 for UCSB students and children
The event is hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures and it sells out every year!
For more information or to buy tickets:
Feb 23 - https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1687
Feb 24 - https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1688
Talk: So You Want to Change the World?
Peter Goldmark
Environmental Defense
So You Want to Change the World?
Or: Hammering on the Cliff in the Sun
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:00-1:30 pm
Orfalea Center Seminar Room – 1005 Rob Gym
(office wing at Ocean Road in front of Rob Gym, left side)
Peter Goldmark currently directs the Climate and Air program for Environmental Defense. Prior to joining Environmental Defense, he was Chairman and CEO of the International Herald Tribune. Peter has had exceptional careers in both the public and private sectors. His public service was highlighted by his tenure as Budget Director for the State of New York during the 1970s city- and state-wide fiscal crisis where he was an architect of its rescue; and as Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey through to 1983. He served as president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1988 to 1997, encouraging its involvement in environmental issues, particularly as they related to energy.
Mr. Goldmark was also a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1982-1988), member of Board Overseers and Chair of Harvard University’s Finance Committee (1984-1990), director of Knight Ridder Inc. (1991-1998), director of the Dreyfus Third Century Mutual Fund (1992-1998), member of the National Commission on Civic Renewal (1997-1998), trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (2000-2007) and trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. In addition, he serves as a board member of Lend Lease Corporation (1999-present), and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Goldmark is a recipient of the Wilson Wyatt National Award for Urban Revitalization and a member of the Legion of Honor, France. He has taught courses at the JFK School of Government, Harvard; Yale College; The New School; Brandeis University and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University as Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs.
Environmental Defense
So You Want to Change the World?
Or: Hammering on the Cliff in the Sun
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:00-1:30 pm
Orfalea Center Seminar Room – 1005 Rob Gym
(office wing at Ocean Road in front of Rob Gym, left side)
Peter Goldmark currently directs the Climate and Air program for Environmental Defense. Prior to joining Environmental Defense, he was Chairman and CEO of the International Herald Tribune. Peter has had exceptional careers in both the public and private sectors. His public service was highlighted by his tenure as Budget Director for the State of New York during the 1970s city- and state-wide fiscal crisis where he was an architect of its rescue; and as Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey through to 1983. He served as president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1988 to 1997, encouraging its involvement in environmental issues, particularly as they related to energy.
Mr. Goldmark was also a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1982-1988), member of Board Overseers and Chair of Harvard University’s Finance Committee (1984-1990), director of Knight Ridder Inc. (1991-1998), director of the Dreyfus Third Century Mutual Fund (1992-1998), member of the National Commission on Civic Renewal (1997-1998), trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (2000-2007) and trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. In addition, he serves as a board member of Lend Lease Corporation (1999-present), and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Goldmark is a recipient of the Wilson Wyatt National Award for Urban Revitalization and a member of the Legion of Honor, France. He has taught courses at the JFK School of Government, Harvard; Yale College; The New School; Brandeis University and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University as Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs.
Talk: The Future of Humankind and the Role of Green Chemistry
Robert Peoples, Ph.D.
Director of the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute®
The Future of Humankind and the Role of Green Chemistry
February 18th, 2010 @ 7:00-8:30pm
SB Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
FREE
Sustainability is a word that is being used more and more these days. What does it really mean and do we understand what it will take to truly be sustainable? This talk will focus on macroscopic issues facing the developing world and the resulting sustainability challenges they present. We will look at the role green chemistry can play in meeting those global challenges and provide examples of green chemistry and engineering in action. Dialog will be strongly encouraged throughout the talk.
Presented by Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS), and The Green Initiative Fund. http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/lars
For more information, contact: kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu
Director of the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute®
The Future of Humankind and the Role of Green Chemistry
February 18th, 2010 @ 7:00-8:30pm
SB Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
FREE
Sustainability is a word that is being used more and more these days. What does it really mean and do we understand what it will take to truly be sustainable? This talk will focus on macroscopic issues facing the developing world and the resulting sustainability challenges they present. We will look at the role green chemistry can play in meeting those global challenges and provide examples of green chemistry and engineering in action. Dialog will be strongly encouraged throughout the talk.
Presented by Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS), and The Green Initiative Fund. http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/lars
For more information, contact: kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Talk: Oil, Water, and the Sacred: Super/Natural Resources in Francophone Postcolonial Fiction
TALK: Oil, Water, and the Sacred: Super/Natural Resources in Francophone Postcolonial Fiction
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington)
Wednesday, February 17 / 1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone postcolonial fiction has always served as a means of figuring the properly political relationship between France and its former colonies and highlighting the resource-extractive politics of colonialism and neo-colonialism, but that it has recently come to signify broader cultural and eco-philosophical differences between metropole and postcolony. Bessora's Petroleum represents with equal emphasis the social and environmental externalities of the oil boom in postcolonial Gabon and the spiritual conflict that it provokes.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, Community Environmental Council and American Cultures and Global Contexts Center.
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington)
Wednesday, February 17 / 1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone postcolonial fiction has always served as a means of figuring the properly political relationship between France and its former colonies and highlighting the resource-extractive politics of colonialism and neo-colonialism, but that it has recently come to signify broader cultural and eco-philosophical differences between metropole and postcolony. Bessora's Petroleum represents with equal emphasis the social and environmental externalities of the oil boom in postcolonial Gabon and the spiritual conflict that it provokes.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, Community Environmental Council and American Cultures and Global Contexts Center.
Talk: Water, Oil, and the Global Production of Islamic Sacred Space: Mecca in Modernity
TALK : Water, Oil, and the Global Production of Islamic Sacred Space: Mecca in Modernity
Juan Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, February 10 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities - Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research, Campo’s illustrated talk will track the interrelationships of the growth of the Kingdom’s oil revenues, the transformation of these two religious centers, and the annual hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. His analysis will include an examination of how water supply and distribution intersects with these developments and place the subject in comparative perspective relative to the rise of Dubai and the development of Muslim sacred spaces in other localities, including Iraq, Iran, India, and Pakistan. Juan Campo teaches in UCSB’s Department of Religious Studies. His most recent book, Encyclopedia of Islam, was published in 2009 by Facts-on-File.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Juan Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, February 10 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities - Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research, Campo’s illustrated talk will track the interrelationships of the growth of the Kingdom’s oil revenues, the transformation of these two religious centers, and the annual hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. His analysis will include an examination of how water supply and distribution intersects with these developments and place the subject in comparative perspective relative to the rise of Dubai and the development of Muslim sacred spaces in other localities, including Iraq, Iran, India, and Pakistan. Juan Campo teaches in UCSB’s Department of Religious Studies. His most recent book, Encyclopedia of Islam, was published in 2009 by Facts-on-File.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Screening: Trouble the Water
SCREENING: Trouble the Water
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, February 9 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters fill their world and the screen, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film their harrowing retreat to higher ground and the dramatic rescues of friends and neighbors. The filmmakers document the couple's return to New Orleans, the devastation of their neighborhood and the appalling repeated failures of government. Weaving an insider's view of Katrina with a mix of verite and in-your-face filmmaking, Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes--two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, February 9 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters fill their world and the screen, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film their harrowing retreat to higher ground and the dramatic rescues of friends and neighbors. The filmmakers document the couple's return to New Orleans, the devastation of their neighborhood and the appalling repeated failures of government. Weaving an insider's view of Katrina with a mix of verite and in-your-face filmmaking, Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes--two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Food Studies RFG Paper Workshop
WORKSHOP: Food Studies RFG Paper Workshop
Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB)
Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB)
Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM
SSMS 3122
Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in Santa Barbara County amidst a climate of politically charged food movements that challenge gender inequality within the global-industrial food system.
Stefanie Stauffer will present “Towards a Gated Community of Food or a Rustbelt Revival?: A Story of Decay, Renewal, Hope, and Urban Farming in Southeast Michigan.” This project investigates the present crisis of food access and equity while also documenting the unique and innovative strategies individuals, communities, and organizations are adopting to counteract the local impact of the crisis in Michigan and elsewhere.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG, the Dept. of Sociology, the Dept. of Anthropology, and the Dept. of History.
Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB)
Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB)
Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM
SSMS 3122
Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in Santa Barbara County amidst a climate of politically charged food movements that challenge gender inequality within the global-industrial food system.
Stefanie Stauffer will present “Towards a Gated Community of Food or a Rustbelt Revival?: A Story of Decay, Renewal, Hope, and Urban Farming in Southeast Michigan.” This project investigates the present crisis of food access and equity while also documenting the unique and innovative strategies individuals, communities, and organizations are adopting to counteract the local impact of the crisis in Michigan and elsewhere.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG, the Dept. of Sociology, the Dept. of Anthropology, and the Dept. of History.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Discussion: Accelerating the Adoption of LED Lighting
Executive Roundtable Discussion:
Accelerating the Adoption of LED Lighting
February 9, 2010 5:30 PM
Corwin Pavilion, UC Santa Barbara
Please join us for a ninety minute executive roundtable discussion that explores public policy measures for accelerating the adoption of LED lighting. This discussion will be moderated by Noah Horowitz, Principal Scientist of the National Resource Defense Council; participants include executives from Industry, non-profits, government, and academia.
The discussion will review possibilities to fact-track widespread adoption of LED lighting, identify current policy inhibitors of adoption, and propose new solutions for accelerating adoption of this energy saving technology. Participants will be called upon to provide insight into these issues in a roundtable setting that promotes dialog between and among participants.
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu
Accelerating the Adoption of LED Lighting
February 9, 2010 5:30 PM
Corwin Pavilion, UC Santa Barbara
Please join us for a ninety minute executive roundtable discussion that explores public policy measures for accelerating the adoption of LED lighting. This discussion will be moderated by Noah Horowitz, Principal Scientist of the National Resource Defense Council; participants include executives from Industry, non-profits, government, and academia.
The discussion will review possibilities to fact-track widespread adoption of LED lighting, identify current policy inhibitors of adoption, and propose new solutions for accelerating adoption of this energy saving technology. Participants will be called upon to provide insight into these issues in a roundtable setting that promotes dialog between and among participants.
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu
Friday, January 29, 2010
Talk: Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn
A World Powered Predominantly by Solar and Wind Energy
Tuesday, February 2 @ 4:00 pm
Kohn Hall, Room 1003
Prof Kohn will be discussing his chapter manuscript on solar and wind energy.
Tuesday, February 2 @ 4:00 pm
Kohn Hall, Room 1003
Prof Kohn will be discussing his chapter manuscript on solar and wind energy.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Campus-wide Sustainability Meeting
Campus-wide Sustainability Meeting
Everyone is invited!
Friday, January 29 @ 10:00 am
Ellison Hall, Room 2620 (wing closest to Campbell Hall)
AGENDA
10:00-10:10 -- Announcements
*Katie-Conference Survey
*Mo-Transportation Survey
10:10-10:40 -- Sustainability Champion David Cleveland
10:40-11:20 -- David McHale/Jordan Sager
*Campus Utility Pilot Project
*Strategic Energy Partnership -progress to date
*LEED Portfolio-progress to date
11:20-11:40 -- Campus Recycling
*Ron-Update on container negotiations with Mario
*Bonnie Crouse/Mark Rousseau-Trayless Dining program update
*Mark Rousseau-Composting program update
*Ryan Kintz-Recyclemania
*Hunter Flynn-EAB's Campaign to rid IV of Plastic Bags
11:40-12:00 -- Jill Richardson
*GHG Emissions Review
*Videoconferencing
*Earth Day
*TGIF application numbers
Everyone is invited!
Friday, January 29 @ 10:00 am
Ellison Hall, Room 2620 (wing closest to Campbell Hall)
AGENDA
10:00-10:10 -- Announcements
*Katie-Conference Survey
*Mo-Transportation Survey
10:10-10:40 -- Sustainability Champion David Cleveland
10:40-11:20 -- David McHale/Jordan Sager
*Campus Utility Pilot Project
*Strategic Energy Partnership -progress to date
*LEED Portfolio-progress to date
11:20-11:40 -- Campus Recycling
*Ron-Update on container negotiations with Mario
*Bonnie Crouse/Mark Rousseau-Trayless Dining program update
*Mark Rousseau-Composting program update
*Ryan Kintz-Recyclemania
*Hunter Flynn-EAB's Campaign to rid IV of Plastic Bags
11:40-12:00 -- Jill Richardson
*GHG Emissions Review
*Videoconferencing
*Earth Day
*TGIF application numbers
Conference: Strategies for Adaption across the Sustainability Curriculum
"Taking It to the Next Level: Strategies for Adaptation across the Sustainability Curriculum"
March 22-23, 2010
Wake Forest University
AASHE invites faculty, academic deans and provosts to attend this learning and planning event, which we are pleased to co-sponsor with Wake Forest University.
Inspired by student demand, institutional commitment, and faculty interest, colleges and universities are integrating sustainability themes into curricula and research. The complex and interdependent nature of this work calls for a multidisciplinary approach.
To register or for more information: http://sustainability.wfu.edu/invite/
March 22-23, 2010
Wake Forest University
AASHE invites faculty, academic deans and provosts to attend this learning and planning event, which we are pleased to co-sponsor with Wake Forest University.
Inspired by student demand, institutional commitment, and faculty interest, colleges and universities are integrating sustainability themes into curricula and research. The complex and interdependent nature of this work calls for a multidisciplinary approach.
To register or for more information: http://sustainability.wfu.edu/invite/
Monday, January 25, 2010
Green Shorts Film Festival Submissions
GREEN SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL IN SHORT
The Green Shorts Film Festival is an annual online film festival about saving our planet, helping our environment and being green. The 2010 contest theme is “Bringing it Home” (the theme of the Community Environmental Council’s South Coast Earth Day Festival).
With this theme, we hope to solicit compelling and pragmatic solutions, and entertaining commentaries regarding, sustainable living, eating and growing local food, sustainable transportation, energy independence and a green future without petroleum. This is a chance for concerned citizens to share the ways in which we can all reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, protect our environment and reduce our carbon footprint.
For information submitting a film: http://greenshortsfilmfest.org
*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 2ND*
The Green Shorts Film Festival is an annual online film festival about saving our planet, helping our environment and being green. The 2010 contest theme is “Bringing it Home” (the theme of the Community Environmental Council’s South Coast Earth Day Festival).
With this theme, we hope to solicit compelling and pragmatic solutions, and entertaining commentaries regarding, sustainable living, eating and growing local food, sustainable transportation, energy independence and a green future without petroleum. This is a chance for concerned citizens to share the ways in which we can all reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, protect our environment and reduce our carbon footprint.
For information submitting a film: http://greenshortsfilmfest.org
*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 2ND*
Cycle MAYnia Mini Grant Program
For the month of May, go beyond biking and host your own bike event as part of Cycle MAYnia! When people choose to leave their cars at home and go by bike instead, they experience a healthier lifestyle and help everyone in Santa Barbara County experience cleaner air and reduced traffic.
This year, Traffic Solutions is offering mini grants to individuals and organizations who want to promote bicycling throughout Santa Barbara County. Propose the event that you’ve always wanted to see happen, and it can join the full month of Cycle MAYnia activities.
For more information, see the Traffic Solutions flier:
http://www.trafficsolutions.info/PDFs/Cycle_MAYnia_minigrant_app.pdf
This year, Traffic Solutions is offering mini grants to individuals and organizations who want to promote bicycling throughout Santa Barbara County. Propose the event that you’ve always wanted to see happen, and it can join the full month of Cycle MAYnia activities.
For more information, see the Traffic Solutions flier:
http://www.trafficsolutions.info/PDFs/Cycle_MAYnia_minigrant_app.pdf
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Compost Coalition Meeting
Compost Coalition Meeting
Friday, January 22 @ 12:30
Lawn between Campbell and Ellison Halls
This will be a working meeting, so please come ready to have fun and sort some worms!
For more information:
Chris Murphy
compostcoalition@gmail.com
Friday, January 22 @ 12:30
Lawn between Campbell and Ellison Halls
This will be a working meeting, so please come ready to have fun and sort some worms!
For more information:
Chris Murphy
compostcoalition@gmail.com
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Lecture: Green Chemistry and Battery Technology
Green Chemistry and Battery Technology: Changing the Landscape of What's Possible
Dr. Galen Suppes
Dr. Galen Suppes
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
3pm-4pm
Ellison Hall 5824
Please join Dr. Suppes as he discusses:
* Why batteries are important in the world of green technology
* The impact of battery chemistry and technology as green technology
* The evidence of great potential for such technology
* Advanced flow batteries
Dr. Suppes, a world-renowned member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Society Automotive Engineers, and the American Society Engineering Education will explain the intricacies and potential for the greening of battery technology. Dr Suppes has received many honors and awards, which include the 2006 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and the 2006 AOSC -- SDA/NBB Glycerine Innovation Research Award (a system he created for converting waste glycerine from biodiesel production to propylene glycol) He is also contributed many publications in the name of science; one such book includes "Sustainable Nuclear Power"
Dr Galen Suppes graduated from John Hopkins University in 1989 with a PhD in chemical engineering and is currently a chemical engineering educator and researcher at the University of Missouri.
Co-Sponsored by: Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS)' Green Chemistry Initiative and the UCSB Department of Chemistry.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Strengthening the Roots: Food and Justice Convergence
Strengthening the Roots: Food and Justice Convergence
February 12-14
UC Santa Cruz
A regional gathering of students and allies to strengthen the roots of the movement for just and sustainable food through workshops, panel discussions, and leadership trainings.
The event is being organized by the California Student Sustainability Coalition, West Coast Real Food Challenge, and regional sponsors.
For more information and to register: http://realfoodchallenge.org/STR2010
February 12-14
UC Santa Cruz
A regional gathering of students and allies to strengthen the roots of the movement for just and sustainable food through workshops, panel discussions, and leadership trainings.
The event is being organized by the California Student Sustainability Coalition, West Coast Real Food Challenge, and regional sponsors.
For more information and to register: http://realfoodchallenge.org/STR2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
IEE Seminar: Green in Silico Project
The Institute for Energy Efficiency is hosting a seminar:
Peter James
Professor of Environmental Management, University of Bradford
Co-director, Higher Educuation Enviromental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) Project
Green in Silico Project
Evolving Scientific Research out of the Lab into the Data Center - Environmental Benefits and Challenges of Scientific Computing
Wednesday, January 13 @ 4:30 pm
Bren Hall 3526
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu/
Peter James
Professor of Environmental Management, University of Bradford
Co-director, Higher Educuation Enviromental Performance Improvement (HEEPI) Project
Green in Silico Project
Evolving Scientific Research out of the Lab into the Data Center - Environmental Benefits and Challenges of Scientific Computing
Wednesday, January 13 @ 4:30 pm
Bren Hall 3526
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu/
Monday, January 11, 2010
Connexus Travel Portal Open
Hi all,
You should have recently received a D-List email about the Connexus Travel Portal. I encourage you to use, or ask the travel person in your department to use, Connexus for all your travel purchases. We are currently trying to get a handle on emissions from campus-related travel, but it is difficult under the current decentralized system. Connexus will allow us to collect all the information needed to calculate these Scope 3 emissions for the campus.
So in addition to saving your department money in travel expenses, Connexus will help us get a better idea of the impact our travel is having on the enviroment!
More information on Connexus: http://accounting.ucsb.edu/travel
You should have recently received a D-List email about the Connexus Travel Portal. I encourage you to use, or ask the travel person in your department to use, Connexus for all your travel purchases. We are currently trying to get a handle on emissions from campus-related travel, but it is difficult under the current decentralized system. Connexus will allow us to collect all the information needed to calculate these Scope 3 emissions for the campus.
So in addition to saving your department money in travel expenses, Connexus will help us get a better idea of the impact our travel is having on the enviroment!
More information on Connexus: http://accounting.ucsb.edu/travel
Save the Date: Transportation Webinar
Measuring the Real Cost of Parking and Alternative Transportation Options
Tuesday, March 9
10:00-12:00
FM Learning Center (Bldg 594)
More information on the webinar: http://tinyurl.com/y9gusvj
Seating limited to first 50 people in attendance.
Tuesday, March 9
10:00-12:00
FM Learning Center (Bldg 594)
More information on the webinar: http://tinyurl.com/y9gusvj
Seating limited to first 50 people in attendance.
Article about Fuel Cells
Jordan Sager, the campus LEED Manager, was recently quoted in an article on fuel cells in the Montecito Journal.
Have a read!
http://s3amazonaws.com/clearedge-production/uploads/Montecito_Journal_Article_Low_Res_Final.pdf
Have a read!
http://s3amazonaws.com/clearedge-production/uploads/Montecito_Journal_Article_Low_Res_Final.pdf
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Institute for Energy Efficieny Lecture Series: Steve Koonin
The IEE's Energy Leadership Lecture Series invites you to:
Steve Koonin
Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy
Sustainable Solutions: Fixing the Unbalanced Agenda
Thursday, January 14 @ 3:00 pm
Campbell Hall
Koonin will examine the demands development and population growth are placing on global resources, both globally and locally, and explore solutions for security of supply and management of greenhouse gas emissions.
This is a FREE event!
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu
Steve Koonin
Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy
Sustainable Solutions: Fixing the Unbalanced Agenda
Thursday, January 14 @ 3:00 pm
Campbell Hall
Koonin will examine the demands development and population growth are placing on global resources, both globally and locally, and explore solutions for security of supply and management of greenhouse gas emissions.
This is a FREE event!
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Copenhagen Panel
Review of the Copenhagen Summit
Wednesday, January 6
12:30-1:45 pm
Bren Hall 1414
A panel of UCSB faculty who attened the Climate Summit in Copenhagen last month will discuss their impression of the event.
More information: http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/events/copenhagen.htm
Wednesday, January 6
12:30-1:45 pm
Bren Hall 1414
A panel of UCSB faculty who attened the Climate Summit in Copenhagen last month will discuss their impression of the event.
More information: http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/events/copenhagen.htm
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