Conservation Minnesota and Audubon Minnesota will host an informal reception in Northfield to present information on the organization’s work around the State, and discuss opportunities for Northfield area residents, organizations, schools and faith groups to collaborate in support of shared goals relating to energy, recycling, water quality, habitat, and the preservation of the environment.
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Cowling Arboretum Spring Bird Count
Join us for our annual spring bird count. Each year we count all the birds we see and hear at numerous stops throughout the Lower Arboretum. Over time we are able to better understand the contribution of the Arboretum to local bird habitat and better manage the Arboretum to maintain bird populations. You don’t have to be an expert birder to help out – even if you only know the call of the Chickadee or the honk of the Canada Goose, you can help by recording data and perhaps learn a few new calls! Meet at the Arboretum Office and return there for hot drinks, treats, and bird stories.
Energy Symposium
A major goal of the symposium is displaying how sustainable energy can only be adopted by society if we tackle its issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. The audience is students, faculty, staff, and community members who are interested in a sustainable energy future, but don’t know how society or science will get there. The idea is to educate the Carleton community about what the energy issue has looked like in the past, its current state, and what potential future progress may look like based a combination of multiple academic and practical perspectives. From there, students may be more inclined to get involved in local energy initiatives, or study social/scientific energy related issues at Carleton or later in life. There are many bright minds at Carleton and in the Northfield community. Energy Club wants to bring them together to tackle this important issue here and now, from all directions.
The Energy Symposium will be held at Carleton College, 6th Saturday (May 7th) 2-5pm with the following speakers/events confirmed.
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15 Minute Talks
- Arjendu Pattanayak, PHYS
- Introduction: Energy is an Interdisciplinary Issue
- George Vrits, HIST
- History of US Fossil Fuel Economy
- Steve Drew, CHEM
- Solar Fuels
- Martha Larson, Manager of Campus Energy and Sustainability at Carleton
- Energy at Carleton: Utility Master Plan
- Tun Myint + Molly Ellsworth, Brent Murcia, POCS
- Dimensions of Energy, and Peace Coffee
- Steve Doig and Marion Cass, CHEM
- Building a Fully Sustainable Home
- Mary Savina, GEOL
- Geothermal Energy
- Deborah Gross, CHEM
- Combustion and Air Pollution
- Tsegaye Nega + OCS Students Jerrilyn Goldberg, Lydia Hanson, ENTS
- Intro: Fuel Efficient Cookstoves in Ethiopia
Walk Around Events
- Tsegaye Nega + OCS Students (Demonstration of Fuel Efficient Cookstoves in Ethiopia)
- Tom Baraniak Demo Room (Energy Lab Science)
- Lindsay Rand Phone Bank (Obama’s Clean Power Plan)
Dinner
- Energy Think Tank Picnic
- Questions and Conversations
Spring Grimke Lecture By Constanza Ocampo-Raeder
Food movements around the world promise a new way to engage in more sustainable and ethical lives. Peru has embraced this vision with such enthusiasm that their identity as a nation seems to be fervently articulated around food. Participation in the movement is high and appears to include all socio-economic sectors and ethnic diversity, even the Afro-Peruvian population which continues to be heavily marginalized by mainstream national discourses. The architects of the movement attribute this overwhelming participation to the fact that food intrinsically represents and links everyone since Peruvian food, as the Peruvian people are constituted from the same process: fusion.
In theory this means that all food traditions are being embraced equally, but in practice there is an active selection of appropriate and inappropriate Peruvian foods, and as I argue, a selective and judgmental process that eventually targets people too. This lecture will discuss why certain Peruvian dishes are actively promoted yet others, like those that incorporate cats, are banned and disparaged and what this all means to the people who consume these cuisines.
Along the way you will also learn how to cook a cat… if so inclined. Meow!
Northfield Community Earth Day Contra Dance!
Join us for a contra dance featuring the music of Contratopia, and led by caller Robin Nelson. The dance will take place on Friday, April 22, 2016 in Cowling Gymnasium, Carleton College (enter campus at corner of Maple and First Street East, and bear right). Contra dance lessons (its easy) will start at 7pm led by Robin Nelson, and the main dancing event will take place from 7:30-10:30 pm to the music of Contratopia!
Energy Efficiency Fair
You’re Invited to an Energy Efficiency Fair!
What? Get information on how to and why we should conserve our energy use.
Find out how you can be a steward of God’s Earth and lessen your carbon footprint.
Where? St. Dominic Church in the Social Hall
When? Saturday, April 30th @ 6 p.m. or Sunday, May 1st @ 9-12:30 p.m.
Who? St. Dominic School 5th Graders are leading, and all are welcome!
Come learn about:
Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Tiny Houses, Climate Change, Carbon Footprint,
Electric Cars, Solar and Wind Energy, Composting, Biking, and more!
Earth Day Tree Planting
Volunteer in the Arboretum to celebrate Earth Day!
Join the rest of Northfield in this celebration – details on other local events, many of which are hosted at Carleton’s Weitz Center, can be found on the Earth Day event page.
Please note that this Volunteer Work Event occurs on the 4th Saturday, rather than the typical 3rd Saturday, of the month.
Environmental Studies 2016 COMPS Symposium
Carleton’s Environmental Studies majors will be presenting their COMPS revolving around the theme of governing animals.
Lighten Up Garage Sale
Come to the Carleton Center for Community and Civic Engagement’s Lighten Up Garage Sale! This year, Lighten Up will take place on Saturday, June 18 from 8am-5pm and Sunday, June 19 from 8am-12pm in Carleton’s West Gym. In 2015, the CCCE’s community garage sale raised over $37,500 for local non-profits. Please come and support this amazing fundraiser for Northfield Special Olympics, Northfield Union of Youth, and Project Friendship, and practice “greener” living!
Geopolitics of Climate Change: International Consequences of Our Warming Planet
Interested in climate change? Interested in international relations? Want to learn about how they intersect?
Come hear a talk given by Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D, the founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide.
Kennedy highlights the crisis of climate change around the world, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, and its consequences: dramatic increases in food shortages, food prices, and violence. Years of drought in Rwanda in the early 1990s precipitated a ‘perfect storm’ of factors that created near-starvation diets in an ever-growing population and the eventual catastrophe of the 1994 genocide.
Sponsored by the International Relations Council and the Sustainability Office.