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A screening of the 2010 film Bag It, which follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program.
Ken Ilgunas walked nearly 2,000 miles across North America, following the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline, from Hardisty, Alberta, to the Gulf Coast of Texas. Learn about Ilgunas’ adventure, the world’s first modern journey across private property, on which he trespassed over one of the most ignored, yet beautiful, regions of our continent—the […]
Presented by the F. Russell Cole Distinguished Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Jon Foley of the California Academy of Science. The news on the global environmental front is grim. But what if there was a practical plan, based on the latest science, that could turn it around, and help us build a better future? That’s what PlanetVision […]
Hear from Emmie Theberge, Colby Class of ’08, federal director at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, about current threats coming from the Trump administration and Congress that could hurt Maine’s clean air, water, wildlife, and climate — and what you can do to help protect Maine’s environment. Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program.
Robert Steneck, professor at the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, presents the fall 2018 Hollis Lecturer in Environmental Studies. Ecosystems can “flip” and, as a result of reinforcing feedback mechanisms, “lock” into alternative stable states. Steneck studied this process in a kelp-forest ecosystem in Maine for nearly four decades and found two stable states: […]
A documentary film by Antonia Grace Glenn with scholar commentary by Evelyn Nakano Glenn. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director and producer Glenn and scholarly commentator Evelyn Nakano Glenn, a sociologist who was Colby’s 2012 Kingsley Birge Lecturer. She has written extensively on the intersection of race, class, citizenship, and gender in […]