Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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CES News
- CES Fall Seminar Series, November 12 (Thursday)
On Campus
- Free Screening of “Tapped,” November 10 (Tuesday)
- APPLY NOW: Join the Better World '10 Team!, November 11 (Wednesday)
- Department of Geological Sciences Fall Colloquium Series, November 12 (Thursday)
- UTRA Infosession: November 12
- The Sarah Cutts Frerichs Lectureship in Victorian Studies, November 12 (Thursday)
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar and Brown Bag Lunch Series
- US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will give an “Update from DC”, Friday, Nov. 13
- Save the Date: “Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter,” December 3-5
- Environmental Course Announcement: Anthropology 1260-Humans and Birds: Intersections
Internships & Opportunities
- Loraine Tisdale Environmental Education Awards
- Job Opening: Start-up CEO/Manager Boston Community Energy Services Coop
- NSF-IGERT Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA
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CES News_________________________
CES Noon Seminar
Umngazi River Bungalows: a role model for Ecotourism?
Kathryn Tanner
Visiting Assistant Professor in CES
Research Fellow, Dept. of Sociology, Darwin College, Cambridge, England
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dr. Kathryn (Katie) Tanner is a CES alum (class of 2000), who worked with Caroline Karp on topics of international environmental policy (focusing on Madagascar) as an undergraduate. Since graduation, Katie has worked as a Fulbright Fellow (Madagascar 2000/1) and Tanzania Program Coordinator for the GSC project of Earth Island Institute (2001/2). In 2002, Katie started her M.Phil. & Ph.D. programs at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Geography and Darwin College, where she was an active participant in the Political Ecology of Development research group. More recently, Katie was a Visiting Assistant Professor in environment & development geography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York (2006-8). Currently, she is a research fellow in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and a research associate at Darwin College. For more information, please see her current website: http://www.ppsis.cam.ac.uk/soc/staff/ktanner.htm
Thursday, November 12
12 noon
UEL 106
Pizza available; $1.00/slice
On Campus_____________________
Free Screening of “Tapped”
“Tapped” is a 2009 documentary about the effects of the bottled water industry on America’s economy, environment, and public health. A coalition of Brown University student groups and the Environment Council of Rhode Island are sponsoring a free, public screening of “Tapped” on Tuesday, November 10, at 8:00 pm in the Salomon Center on the Main Green.
Americans spent $15 billion on bottled water in 2007, a 30-fold increase in consumption per capita since 1976. Producing these bottles used the equivalent of 17 million barrels of oil, excluding the cost of transportation. Whereas bottled water costs $7.50 to $11.00 per gallon, tap water costs $0.01 per gallon. 24% of bottled water sold in the US, including Dasani and Aquafina, is not spring water but simply purified, repackaged tap water.
Compared to bottled water, tap water is regulated more rigorously and tested more frequently by the EPA. Bisphenol-A, the chemical from which 5-gallon water cooler jugs are made, has been linked in 200 independent studies to illnesses including obesity, prostate cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, and brain disorders.
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APPLY NOW: Join the Better World '10 Team!
Come learn how to be a part of the tremendously successful, 3-day design conference on how to better the world, co-hosted by Brown University + RISD. 2 info sessions next week:
@ RISD: Tue. Nov. 10 : 7 pm : the Tap Room, 226 Benefit Street
@ Brown: Wed. Nov. 11 : 7 pm : Wilson Hall 101
There will be no added responsibilities this semester, but we want to meet and select the conference committee now, so next semester we can all start planning immediately! Free pizza will be provided at both info sessions.
Applications available NOW at www.abetterworldbydesign.com
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Department of Geological Sciences Fall Colloquium Series
Earthquakes Triggered by Seismic Waves
Emily Brodsky
University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, November 12, 4pm
115 MacMillan Hall
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UTRA Infosession: An information session on the Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards Program (UTRA) at Brown will be held on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 7:00PM at Salomon 001. Instructions on how to apply, criteria for selection, and deadlines will be discussed. Students interested in the Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research are encouraged to attend. To register visit: https://apps.college.brown.edu/rsvp/utra-fall09
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The Sarah Cutts Frerichs Lectureship in Victorian Studies
“The Charms of Assumption”
Andrew H. Miller
Professor of English
Director, Victorian Studies Program
Indiana University
November 12, 2009
Pembroke Hall 305
5:00 – 6:30pm
Open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
For more information:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Humanities_Center/events/Frerichs.html
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar and Brown Bag Lunch Series
Seminar, Monday, November 9, 12pm
Frederick Cohan, Wesleyan University "The origins of bacterial species."
Sidney Frank Hall Life Sciences Building, Nathan Marcovitz Auditorium, Room 220
Brown Bag Lunch, Friday, November 13
Tom Roberts, Professor "The celebrated jumping frogs of Calaveras County"
Eddy Auditorium, Biomed Center 291
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Brown students may be familiar with Stephen Colbert’s “Better Know A District” segment, in which he brings members of Congress to his show to discuss the 10 commandments and cocaine. But too few students have met their own representative, which is why the Democrats are proud to announce our second annual Better Know Your District series. On Friday, November 13, at 2 pm in Salomon 101, US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will give an “Update from DC.” He will discuss his views on the major components of the Obama agenda, such as health care reform. We hope that you will be able to join us and ask questions about pressing national issues, such as the cap and trade bill.
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“Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter”
December 3-5, 2009
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
The Malcolm S. Forbes for Research in Culture and Media Studies and the Cogut Center for the Humanities are collaborating to bring together three dozen leading scholars and practitioners in the field of new media to share their thoughts and projects under one roof. The result is a ground-breaking conference entitled "Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter." The conference runs from December 3-5, 2009 at the Cogut Center's home, historic Pembroke Hall on the campus of Brown University, Providence, RI.
Background: The paradox of modern media is that it is everywhere and nowhere at once. New media accentuates the “frenzy of the visible” ushered in by film and photography so that we now live in a world saturated with screens, images and objects—from gigantic public screens to cell phones—all demanding that we look at them.
At the same time, however, they also work invisibly, turning every day events into fodder for surveillance, adding an invisible layer of code—and a formerly inconceivable amount of data—onto the world. The uptake of these digital telecommunications technologies is thus generating new questions, methods and approaches, the more pressing of which are focused on the archive and archival practice.
How does the new vernacular archive—the flood of YouTube videos, cell phone novels and Facebook entries, as well as “bottom up” archiving sites such as del.icio.us—challenge the traditional function of “public records,” their place and their authority? How do changing archiving formats change history (both in terms of historical events and narratives)? What new global and globalizing memories and fevers are infecting our archives?
For more information on the topics, speakers and conference schedule, visit Animating Archives.
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Anthropology 1260-Humans and Birds: Intersections
Spring 2010
MW 8:30–9:50 am
Giddings House 212
Prof. Shepard Krech III
This course offers an anthropological perspective on the intersection of birds and people. Birds (in western science, the class Aves) represent a big slice of nature. They figure in many ways in human-animal relations, from providing raw material for artifacts and fodder, to entering social and cultural arrangements, narrative, theories of sickness and well-being, ideas of the sacred, and being named and classified as animate or inanimate and part of the human or other-than-human world. By sustained focus on birds, one category of the natural world, the hope is to throw into relief the broader relationship between people, in particular those considered as indigenous or aboriginal, and the environment, and to raise questions about the natural underpinnings of cultural apprehensions of nature.
Internships & Opportunities_______
Loraine Tisdale Environmental Education Awards
The Environment Council of Rhode Island Education Fund (ECRI Ed Fund) is pleased to announce that we are opening the application process for the Fifth Annual Loraine Tisdale Environmental Education Fund awards.
The Loraine Tisdale Fund honors a woman whose energy for a just and healthy environment are legendary. Mrs. Tisdale held an undergraduate degree in chemistry and a degree in nursing. For many years she led an organization that addressed safety and health issues concerning pesticides.
We are pleased to offer 3 grants of up to $250 to teachers or environmental organizations for support of projects that
1. Have student participation
2. Lead to measurable improvement in an environmental condition
3. Involve the community beyond a school in some way
The application deadline is November 20, 2009 and awards will be made in January 2010 for projects to be undertaken in the Spring of 2010
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Applicants should complete the below application and attach a one page description of the project including the cooperative components of the project, what the participants will gain, and how the success of the project will be measured. Applicants should note that a final report with at least one photograph of the project in progress must be produced at the end of the project and presented to the Environment Council by July 15, 2010. Applications should be sent to the Environment Council of Rhode Island Education Fund .
We would prefer that applications be emailed to us at environmentcouncil@earthlink.net but will also accept applications by mail to:
ECRI Ed Fund
PO Box 40568
Providence RI 02940
The Environment Council is more than willing to answer any questions you have about the program and to discuss potential projects with you. We can be contacted either by email at the address listed above or by phone at 621-8048.
Sincerely,
Greg Gerritt
for the ECRI Ed Fund
Application for the Loraine Tisdale Fund Environmental Education Awards
1. · Name of Applicant
2. · Address
3. · Phone/ email
4. · Name of Project Leader/ Director/ Responsible Person
5. · Name of group/ school sponsoring the project
6. · Town in which project will occur
7. · Number of persons carrying out project
8. · Purpose of project
9. · Budget for the project, including sources of funds and whether those funds are in hand
10. · Completion date for project
Please include a one page description of the project including the cooperative components of the project, what the participants will gain, and how the success of the project will be measured.
We would prefer that applications be emailed to us at environmentcouncil@earthlink.net but will also accept applications by mail to:
ECRI Ed Fund
PO Box 40568
Providence RI 02940
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Job Opening: Start-up CEO/Manager Boston Community Energy Services Coop
OVERVIEW:
In late 2008, six Boston-area non-profit organizations serving low income communities and communities of color joined together to form a Steering Committee to develop a community and/or worker-owned energy services firm. The organizations - Alternatives for Community and Environment, Boston Workers Alliance, Chinese Progressive Association, Co-op Power Metro East, Community Labor United, and Boston Connects – envisioned a company that would train and employ people in their neighborhoods in the important work of energy auditing, air sealing, insulation, other conservation and efficiency measures, and community education for residential and small commercial buildings. A feasibility study completed in September 2009 indicated a number of viable growth scenarios for the company.
POSITION:
The Steering Committee is now seeking an entrepreneurial leader with experience in energy services, cooperatives, and community organizations to serve as its Start-up CEO/ Manager. This individual will work with the Steering Committee to refine the feasibility study into a business plan and then secure the resources needed to implement it. Position will initially report to the Steering Committee which will transition to Board of Directors.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Build upon the ESCO Steering Committee’s planning efforts by overseeing the implementation of a new worker-cooperative including: incorporate the company; secure initial contracts; create organizational infrastructure required to launch the company; hire, secure training for and supervise initial workforce; and build and maintain liaisons with utilities, municipalities and community activists.
- Guide the company’s start-up and strategic growth to support its mission. Balance the goals of operating profitably and, sustainably, increasing the efficiency of existing neighborhood buildings, training and employing local people for livable-wage green jobs.
- Plan, direct, schedule and coordinate activities of workers and subcontractors engaged in performing energy audits, air sealing, insulation, appliance and lighting upgrades, heating system upgrades, water saving appliances and other energy efficiency measures.
- Train or arrange for training of workers in state-of-the-art air sealing, insulation, and other conservation and efficiency measures.
- Ensure top quality customer service, optimum financial management and implementation of appropriate protocols for measurement and valuation procedures. Make certain that company remains current on new developments in energy conservation and efficiency.
- Stay informed of federal, state and utility rebates, programs, tax credits and grant opportunities to ensure that the company, its workers and its customers maximize their ability to install efficiency measures.
- Promote community acceptance and use of the company’s services in collaboration with community organizations, utilities and others.
TO APPLY
Please send a cover letter and resume to:
Attention: Marina Spitkovskaya
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE)
2181 Washington Street, Suite 301
Roxbury, MA 02119
Review will begin December 15, 2009.
We welcome applications from diverse candidates.
Women and persons of color are encouraged to apply.
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NSF-IGERT Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA
Description: 3 year fellowship that provides a $30,000 stipend/year, tuition, fees, travel stipend to participate in a scientific conference or workshop, internships and international experience. The fellowship will develop leaders in environmental energy through integrated research and coursework in the science, business and policies of clean technology. Completion of a 1-3 month cross-disciplinary internship with an industrial partner or national laboratory is encouraged.
Requirements:
-US citizens, nationals or permanent residents
-Excellent academic achievement
-Graduating seniors (starting graduate school in Fall 2010) or graduate students with less than 12 months of graduate study (as of August 2009).
Application deadline: December 15, 2009.
Mariko Walton
IGERT Program Coordinator
Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA
phone 310-206-1215
fax 310-267-4918
http://cleanenergy.ucla.edu
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