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Green Living Seminars 

 

Green Living Seminar Series

Sponsored by EOS Ventures, Inc. and Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

Presented by the Environmental Studies Department

 

Every semester the Green Living Seminars center around a different topic, timely and relevant in current sustainability issues. 


Missed a seminar?
Presentations are broadcast on local cable access television:

Fridays at 4 pm

Sundays at 11:30 am

Tuesdays at 7:30 pm

or click the podcast link after the seminar title, below, to listen anytime.

 

2012 Green Living Presentations

All seminars are at 5:30 in Murdock Hall, Room 218.

Listen to a podcasts from earlier this year, below, or hear podcasts from previous years. 

Biodiversity and conservation in New York State Parks (podcast)
George Robinson, University of Albany, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
1/26/2012 

Medicinal plant conservation (podcast)
Emily Mooney, MCLA, Assistant Professor of Biology
2/2/2012

Land conservation and the New England cottontail (podcast)
Doug Bruce, Berkshire Natural Resources Council, Stewardship Manager
2/9/2012 

Saving biodiversity in the Berkshires (podcast)
Jane and Bruce Winn, Berkshire Environmental Action Team
2/16/2012

Rattlesnakes in the Berkshires (podcast)
Tom Tyning, Berkshire Community College, Professor of Environmental Science
2/23/2012

Biodiversity conservation in western Massachusetts (podcast)
Angela Sirois, Restoration Specialist, The Nature Conservancy
3/8/2012 

Massachusetts endangered species protection  (podcast)
Jon Regosin, MA Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, Chief of Conservation Science
3/22/2012

The changing biodiversity of the Northeast  (podcast)
Peter Alden, Naturalist and writer
3/29/2012

Integrating biodiversity into land use planning  (podcast)
Erik Kiviat, Hudsonia, Executive Director
4/5/2012

Ocean biodiversity: Medicines, fisheries, and marine conservation (podcast)
Kathleen Frith, Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment, Managing Director
4/12/2012

Landscaping and bird biodiversity (podcast)
Susannah Lerman, U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station, Post Doctoral Research Associate
4/26/2012

Evolution and biodiversity: How a musical instrument that evolved from feathers can help conserve biodiversity (podcast)
Kim Bostwick, Cornell University Museum, Curator of Birds and Mammals
5/3/2012  

 

TCE Contamination

This mini-documentary about TCE contamination of North Adams ground water was produced by students in the 2011 Green Living Seminar.