Category Archives: Events in the Broader Community

Richard Wolff – Burack Lecture at UVM- Tuesday, March 17 at 4 p.m.

We’re excited that UVM is bringing two outstanding Burack Lecturers to campus in March and April. Richard Wolff will speak on “Deepening Economic Problems and New Solutions,” March 17th at 4pm in the Livak Ballroom in Davis. Wolff’s lecture, “Deepening Economic Problems and New Solutions,” links the 2007-09 financial crisis to structural changes taking place […]

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Blackboard Jungle 8 Symposium at UVM – Free tickets through Champlain ODI office

What: 8th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium, Inclusive Excellence at UVM: Building Our Collective Capacities When: March 26 & 27, 2015. What’s it all about: A provocative kickoff keynote presentation and panel discussion on Real Talk About the N-Word and Other Oppressive Language will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2015 from 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in the […]

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February Week Four: VT Interfaith, Local Motion, NWF Campus Ecology, AASHE, PLAN!, and Birds of Vermont

VT Interfaith (good read, local events): GREEN MOUNTAINS, BLUE WATER: Earth Care News from Vermont Interfaith Power and Light (VTIPL) February 2015 In this newsletter: Help VTIPL Match Our Challenge Grant! Greening Our Religions: Film & Discussion Series Ecumenical Lenten Carbon Fast Film Showing: “Wisdom to Survive,” Mar. 28, Montpelier Loss of Arctic Sea Ice: Cause […]

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Food justice Activism workshop – March 11

Are you interested in social justice or food justice? Then you should come to Food Justice Activism: Through a Social Justice Lense workshop! This March 11th at Aiken 110 from 6-8pm, the speaker kat yang-stevens will be putting on an intersectional food justice workshop! This workshop will use an intersectional and anti-colonial framework to develop and deepen understandings and intrinsic connections […]

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Food Chain$ – film screenings at UVM, Feb 21 & Apr 1

Food Chain$ Film screenings at UVM February 21 and April 1 This semester, UVM is hosting two screenings of Food Chain$, a documentary that tells the story of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ fight for food justice. Both screenings will be followed by panel discussions with Migrant Justice about Milk with Dignity, a new campaign […]

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February Week 3: Second Nature, ECHO, AASHE, VNRC, Peace and Justice Center, Vermont Campus Sustainability Network’s Spring 2015 Newsletter

Check out the latest this week from some of the best sustainable institutions! Second Nature (good watch): New Release: Second Nature Sustainability Sit-Downs Video #4 Sustainability Sit-Downs #4 is out. This week’s video features Tim Carter, President of Second Nature, discussing higher education’s role in making a sustainability society. Sustainability Sit-Downs is a new Second Nature […]

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