Workshop: "Connecting Sustainability Educators: Initiatives and Visions"

Workshop: “Connecting Sustainability Educators: Initiatives and Visions”

When: April 21, 2013 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Where: Russel Sage Laboratory, Room 5101, Russell Sage Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Sponsored by Rensselear’s Sustainability Studies Program. This workshop will bring together people involved in education at all levels who are already offering or are interested…

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Talk: Marina Zurkow, “The Haunting: challenging our environmental relations”

Talk: Marina Zurkow, “The Haunting: challenging our environmental relations”

When: April 20, 2013 @ 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Where: EMPAC Studio 2, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Abstract Everything is broken. We have become lethargic, complacent, consumptive, elegiac: completely disenchanted. Through multi-disciplinary visual art work, Zurkow seeks to explore enchantment and haunting…

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Talk: David Dunn, “Sonic Interventions Into Hidden Sound Worlds: A Composer at the Edge of Science”

Talk: David Dunn, “Sonic Interventions Into Hidden Sound Worlds: A Composer at the Edge of Science”

When: April 20, 2013 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Where: EMPAC Studio 2, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Sponsored by the Vasudha Living and Learning Community with support from the Volmer Fries Endowment Abstract For over three decades there has been an ongoing…

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Talk: Andrea Polli, “Ecomedia: Environmental Science and Technology and Interaction in Public Art”

Talk: Andrea Polli, “Ecomedia: Environmental Science and Technology and Interaction in Public Art”

When: April 20, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Where: EMPAC Studio 2, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Abstract In the 21st century, there has been a resurgence of ecologically conscious art using new media technologies. Like Eco-art, this recent Ecomedia movement is…

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Film: “Hoot” – An Eco-Film for Kids

Film: “Hoot” – An Eco-Film for Kids

When: April 20, 2013 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: EMPAC Studio Beta, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Hoot is a fast-paced and hilarious movie about kids working to save a burrowing owl habitat in Florida – threatened by plans to build a…

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Film: “Eco-Film Medley for Kids”

Film: “Eco-Film Medley for Kids”

When: April 20, 2013 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Where: EMPAC Studio Beta, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

We will screen the original Lorax, Jim Hensen’s Fraggle Rock, Earth Day Word Girl and Curious George, Mulch Ado About Nothing. Please RSVP for this…

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Panel & Film: “Updates on Shale Gas Research: A Systems Approach”

Panel & Film: “Updates on Shale Gas Research: A Systems Approach”

When: April 20, 2013 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Where: EMPAC Studio 2, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

The Panel Escalating investment in natural gas extraction over the last few years has provoked sharp debate, and also extensive research into associated risks. Studies…

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Workshop: “Secondary School Frack Out!”

Workshop: “Secondary School Frack Out!”

When: April 20, 2013 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Where: EMPAC Studio 2, EMPAC @ Rensselaer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

In the fun tradition of RPI Freakout! for hockey, we will run a Jeopardy game that quizzes players about natural gas as an energy resource….

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Film: "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet"

Film: “A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet”

When: April 14, 2013 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Where: DCC 308, Darrin Communications Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet documents fifty years of the environmental movement,from conservation to climate change. There are stories about…

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