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.
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