Center for Environmental Studies
Matt Cole Library
Hopkins Forest
Log Lunch Schedule

Past Schedules

2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
2000-2001


Fall Semester 2000
September 15 Introductions
September 22 Diana Muir, Author and Naturalist
"Reflections on Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England"
September 29 David Kline, Amish Farmer and Writer
"The Agricultural Imagination"
October 6 Alberto Rivera, Anthropologist
"Current Environmental Projects in the Lake Atitlan Area"
October 13 Cancelled, Mountain Day
October 20 Mark Robertson '02
"Farmland Preservation in Central Ohio: Lessons Learned."
October 27 Lisa Carey, Coordinator of Leadership Studies
"A 'New' Take on the Public's Role in Environmental Planning"
November 3 Mike Levien '01
"Environmental Injustice in Roxbury: The Urban Environment as a Site of Racial Oppression, Social Control, and Grassroots Resistance."
November 10 David Zuckerman, VT State Legislator and Organic Farmer
"Organic Farmer/Legislator: Mixing Activism With Electoral Politics"
November 17 Rachel Louis, CES Project Coordinator
"Putting a Thaw on Global Warming: The Nationwide College Movement to Ratify the Kyoto Treaty"
December 1 Jonathan A. Wiener '02
"Transportation Demand Management in Silicon Valley"
Winter Study 2001
January 5 Christine Pace '01
"Understanding Girls' Adolescence in the Developing World: A Path Towards Social Cohesiveness, Economic Productivity and Reproductive Health"
January 12 Kay Sadighi, The Nature Conservancy
"Landscape-scale conservation by The Nature Conservancy"
January 19 Mindy Kinnas, student at the University of Massachusetts
"A Week at the Hague: Student Activism and the Kyoto Protocol Negotiations"
Spring Semester 2001
February 2 Daniel Greenberg, , Director Living Routes Ecovillage Education Consortium
"Ecovillage Education: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Lifestyles"
February 9 Paul Catanzaro, Mass. State Forester
"Massachusetts Family Forests: A Cooperative Approach to Sustainable Forestry in Western MA"
February 23 Lauren Stevens, director, Hoosic River Watershed Association
"Hoosic, Hoosac, Hoosick.Whatever"
March 2 William Fox, Prof. Of Geosciences Emeritus, and Research Assoc in Envt. Studies
"Where and Why are the Trees Located in the Hopkins Forest?"
March 9 Nathaniel Gerhart '96
"Community-based conservation and development: lessons learned from Peru"
April 6 Tony Sarkis, RPI
"Environmental Management in Nepal"
April 13 Ardith Spence, Visiting Asst Professor of Economics
"Value of Life Premia for Sherpas in Nepal"
April 20 Lino Paula, lecturer in Biology and Society, Leiden University
"Food Fight: Europe takes on MacWorld"
April 27 Bruce Harley, Technical Director for Residential Services Conservation Services Group
"The Energy Star Homes Program in New England"
May 4 Senior Log Lunch