Sustainability Events, 3/26 - 4/1
Green Bag Luncheon Series: Sustainable Landscaping and Gardening
Wednesday, March 38 at 12:00pm, Sarratt 189
Presenters: Julie Berbiglia, Metro Water Services; Mark Kerske, Gardens of Babylon
Sponsored by the Sustainability and
Environmental Management Office (SEMO) and the American Studies
Sustainability Project, the Green Bag luncheon series focuses on the
environment and sustainability, both at work and at home. This
educational series features informal lunchtime discussions and/or
workshops – from sustainable food and dining choices to backyard
composting to utility savings at home and work and much more. So bring
your lunch and join us to learn interesting ways to incorporate
sustainability into your life!
For more information or to view past Green Bag sessions, visit, www.vanderbilt.edu/sustainvu/, or contact SEMO.
David Bollier: "The Commons as a Counterpoint to the Market/State Duopoly"
March 29, 2012, 4:10 p.m.
Black Cultural Center Auditorium
David Bollier is an American activist,
writer, and policy strategist. He is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear
Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, collaborates
frequently with television writer/producer Norman Lear, and writes
technology-related reports for the Aspen Institute. Bollier is also
editor of On the Commons
where he frequently writes. Bollier calls his work “focused on
reclaiming the commons, understanding how digital technologies are
changing democratic culture, fighting the excesses of intellectual
property law, fortifying consumer rights and promoting citizen action."
His books include Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Commons Wealth (2002), Brand Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture (2005), and Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (2009).
Next Week
James L. Wescoat, Jr.: "Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape"Thursday, April 5, at 4:10pm in Cohen 203
James L. Wescoat, Jr., is Aga Khan Professor in the Aga Khan Program for
Islamic Architecture at M.I.T. His research has concentrated on water
systems in South Asia and the US from the site to river basin scales. He
led the Smithsonian
Institution's project titled, "Garden, City, and Empire: The Historical
Geography of Mughal Lahore," which resulted in a co-edited volume on Mughal
Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, Prospects, and The Mughal
Garden: Interpretation, Conservation, and Implications with colleagues from
the University of Engineering and Technology-Lahore.
More recently, he led an NSF-funded project on "Water and Poverty in Colorado." He is currently
conducting comparative research on international water problems. In 2003,
he published Water for Life: Water Management and Environmental Policy with
geographer Gilbert F. White (Cambridge University Press); and in 2007 he
co-edited Political Economies of Landscape Change: Places of Integrative
Power (Springer Publishing) for LAF Landscape Futures Initiative.
Sponsors: The 2011/12 "Sacred Ecology" Faculty Fellows Program of the Warren
Center for the Humanities and the History of Art Department.
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3/28 12:00 p.m.
Green Bag Luncheon Series: Sustainable Landscaping and Gardening
3/29 4:10 p.m.
David Bollier, The Commons as a Counterpoint to the Market/State Duopoly
4/5 4:10 p.m.
James Wescoat, Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape
4/18 12:00 p.m.
Green Bag Luncheon Series: Northwest Earth Institute Course Intro
4/18 5:00 p.m.
Shade Grown: An Evening of Environmental Poetry, Spoken Word, Songs, Comedy and Short Performances
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