2012 M.A. CAREER MEET & GREET THIS FRIDAY
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BROWN UNIVERSITY, CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: 2012 masters CAREER MEET & GREETUEL 106 CLASSROOM |
| Friday, Feb. 10th :: 5:30-7:30pm :: 135 Angell St. | |
Brown's Center for Environmental Studies will be welcoming a handful of local-area M.A. alums to speak with current students about their careers and discuss their experiences while at Brown. They will speak briefly about their career trajectories and current work in the environmental field. After each alum has spoken for a few minutes, we will have a Q&A session followed by casual socializing over food and drinks. All CES undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend!Please contact Adam Kotin, Jim LaChance, or Deanna Talerico with any questions. The Following CES MA Alumnus Will be Speaking:
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CES Lunchtime Seminar
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To Act or Not to Act: Context, Capacity, and Community Response to Environmental RiskHilary Boudet, |
| Monday, Feb. 13th :: Noon-1:00pm :: UEL 106 Classroom | |
The siting of large industrial facilities represents a difficult policy problem. Despite decades of experience and research on siting, many of the same patterns of conflict persist. I focus on factors drawn largely from the study of social movements—risk, political opportunity, civic capacity—to explain variation in the mobilization efforts of project opponents in twenty cases of attempts to site large energy infrastructure projects. Hilary Boudet is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Prevention Research Center in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research interests include the environmental and social impacts associated with energy development and public participation in environmental and energy decision-making. Pizza - $1 per slice Learn More About Hilary Boudet |
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Stormwater utility fee system explainedArticle by CES Graduate Student Kate England |
WESTERLY - The typical Westerly homeowner would pay $68 per year under a stormwater utility fee system included in a draft report produced by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Owners of a typical commercial property would pay $449.
CES Grad Student Goes Behind The Scenes at Durban

When graduate student Brianna Craft volunteered to help the Least Developed Countries bloc at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Durban, she had no idea she'd been given an all-access pass to the closed-door climate talks. Here she talks about her experience, what she learned and why she's still optimistic about the possiblity of international climate justice.
CES Chair J. Timmons Roberts and Environmental Studies students travel to Durban South Africa for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations (Nov. 28-Dec 10, 2011)
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The purpose of this group is to contribute timely, accessible and impactful content that informs more just and effective global policy making on climate change, particularly on the issues of climate finance and Latin America. The focus during the fall 2011 semester is to influence the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Durban, South Africa to produce more just and effective processes and outcomes concerning climate finance and other relevant climate policy. FOLLOW THEIR PROGRESS AT THE FOLLOWING LINKS BELOWGlobal Conversation: Follow Brown's Climate Change Team at the COP 17 Negotiations http://www.watsoninstitute.org/news_detail.cfm?id=1602 Climate & Development Lab – Twitter Feed http://climatedevlab.wordpress.com/ Intercambio Climático – Blog of the Latin American Platform on Climate http://www.intercambioclimatico.com/en/ Adaptation finance: How can Durban deliver on past promises? http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/opinion/47954
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Past ES SEMINAR with Dr. Papa Samba DIOUF, Executive Director World Wildlife Fund West Africa Marine Programme
The West African Marine Eco-Region:
The World Wildlife Fund’s role in marine
conservation and sustainable fisheries
Watch video of talk
Local Occupy Protesters Join D.C.Rally

PROVIDENCE —The local Occupy movement traveled to Washington this weekend to join an estimated 10,000 protesters against the proposed transcontinental tar sands oil pipeline.
Two buses left the city early Saturday with about 40 protesters from the Occupy Providence and Occupy College Hill protest groups for the Sunday afternoon rally at the White House. The event was organized by activist and college professor Bill McKibben of 350.org and Tarsandsaction.org. Both groups urge President Obama to deny the permit for the pipeline.
By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staff
The EPA Discusses Opportunities
for Brown Students
See video footage of their talk
View their PowerPoint presentation
Catch the Video of Speaker Sivan Kartha's Captivating Talk on
“Little Pledges and Big Loopholes: industrialized country efforts under the global climate regime”
TREES AND THE URBAN HEAT
ISLAND EFFECT:
A CASE STUDY FOR PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND
“One straightforward and cost-effective way for the city to buffer itself from heat waves stood out among all the rest: to plant and care for trees”
UNITING ART AND BIOLOGY TO CONSERVE CORAL REEFS
Outreach, education, and charity to inspire marine stewardship among policy makers and the public
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Art and science are increasingly joining forces, more now than in the past, because of their shared creativity and the critical importance of conveying accurate messages to the public about the natural world. Mattison aims to discover how art and science can inform one another and combine to catalyze a public and political movement for coral reef conservation. To learn more about Courtney Mattison’s project Click Here.
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