The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society is partnering with the Revers Center for Energy at the Tuck School of Business, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Dartmouth Office of Sustainability to offer an eight-week seminar series this fall called “...
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Assistant Professor – Agroecology
Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth CollegeThe Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth seeks applicants for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the field of agroecology. The successful candidate will have a strong foundation in ecological science and its applications in the area of sustainable agriculture. In addition, the ideal candidate will take an interdisciplinary approach that...
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Ask just about any human and they’ll tell you that mosquitoes are pests we’d be better off without, especially since some mosquitoes carry deadly diseases. Even many scientists agree: A 2010 article in the journal Nature concluded that a world without mosquitoes would be less itchy and less deadly for us, with few drawbacks for other species, outside...
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A team of researchers lead by Research Assitant Professor Dave Lutz is sampling lakes across the Northeast this week as part of efforts to better understand what’s causing cyanobacteria blooms.
The blooms have become common in other parts of the country, including the Midwest, and are starting to pop up locally in New Hampshire and surrounding states. Scientists are unsure what’s driving the change.
The effort this week is something of a lake-sampling marathon....
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College students can learn a lot by leaving campus and helping people whose homes are in need of repair, says Terry Osborne, a senior lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program and the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric who every spring teaches a course that gives his class an opportunity to do just that.
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On a chilly gray spring afternoon, about a dozen students stand in a circle along the banks of the Connecticut River at the College’s organic farm. In the middle of the circle, a moose hide, still covered in fur, is draped over a makeshift sawhorse.
This is an outdoor classroom for a course called “Encountering Forests,” taught by Nicholas Reo, assistant professor of environmental studies and Native American Studies....
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Elizabeth Wilson
Director, Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society and Professor of Environmental Studies“Shaping Energy Transitions”
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Kemeny 007Changing energy systems requires shifts in technologies, but also values, laws, institutions and practice. How energy systems evolve in New England states and towns will be shaped by a different set of resources, legacy energy systems...
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Dr. Stephen Mulkey, former president of Unity College
Saturday, April 7, 2018
6:00 PM
Dartmouth Hall 105As president of Unity College, Dr. Mulkey led the charge in the nation's first college divestment from fossil fuels. Hear Dr. Mulkey's thoughts on the role of divestment in college endowments and on the responsibility of academic institutions to be leaders in activist movements
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“Innovations in Solar in the Bronx: Doing Well by Doing Good in the Private Sector”
Adam Gordon, President, Madison Development LLC
Thursday, April 12, 2018
12:30-1:30 (pizza lunch)
Haldeman 041In the Bronx, New York City real estate developer, Adam Gordon’s Madison Development has launched the city’s largest community solar-panel system – allowing participants to share energy without installing panels on their own homes or...
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As part of the Environmental Studies foreign studies program, Dartmouth undergraduates visit the Namib Desert of Namibia and get an opportunity to conduct original research on social-ecological systems and conservation issues involving the local Topnaar people, the economic importance and ecology of the !nara melon, and the ecology of this desert environment.
For two weeks at the end of the FSP in southern Africa, through a collaboration...
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