Events
Events--Fall 2011
ETSU Environmental Studies minor
last update: October 17, 2011
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Tuesday, October 4, 7 -8:40pm
Brown Hall Auditorium
"The Last Mountain" (U.S.A. 2011, 95 min) Documentary Film Screening
"The Last Mountain" (U.S.A. 2011, 95 min), a documentary film by Bill Haney, focuses on Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small but passionate group of ordinary citizens are trying to stop the devastating practice of Mountaintop Removal mining. The film examines the politics, economics, and ecology of the method of coal extraction sometimes called Radical Strip Mining. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January, and is scheduled to be released on DVD in November.
This ETSU screening was organized by Amy Poole, an undergraduate in Political Science, and is co-sponsored by ECO (Environmental Conservation Organization), an ETSU student group, and by the Environmental Studies minor. For more information, contact Amy Poole at poolea2goldmail.etsu.edu, or Dr. Kevin O'Donnell at odonnell@etsu.edu, 423 439-6679.
Friday, October 21, 7pm
"Farming, Food and Community Health: Cultivating Real Prosperity in Appalachia"
Brown Hall Auditorium
This presentation, by Anthony Flaccavento, an organic farmer and founder of SCALE, Inc, a food systems consulting business, is the keynote address for the East TN Local Food Summit being held this weekend. See below.
Friday and Saturday, October 21 and 22, 2011
Fri: 1:30-4:15pm. Sat: 9:30am-4:45pm.
Milligan College Campus
East Tennessee Local Food Summit
www.etsu.edu/food The East Tennessee Local Food Summit will bring together consumers, producers, students, educators, elected officials, and “foodies” to discuss and promote local food in upper East Tennessee, on Friday, Oct 21 and Saturday, Oct 22, 2011. The event will include concurrent panel presentations on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning and afternoon, in Derthick and Hyder Halls, on the campus of Milligan College, and a keynote speaker in Brown Hall auditorium on the ETSU campus, on Friday evening. This event is sponsored by Milligan College, and by ETSU's Center for Appalachian Studies and Services; Dept of Literature and Language; Dept of Sociology and Anthropology; and the Environmental Studies minor.
Primary contact person: Rebecca Stephens, Assistant Professor of Writing, Milligan College, RJStephens@Milligan.edu; office phone: 423 461-8413.
ETSU Contacts: Tess Lloyd, Associate Professor of Literature and Language, and Appalachian Studies, lloydt@etsu.edu; office phone: 423 439-6677; Kevin O'Donnell, Professor of Literature and Language, Director of Environmental Studies minor, odonnell@etsu.edu; office phone: 423 439-6679.
Sunday, October 23, 4-6pm
ETSU’s Presbyterian House; 1412 College Heights Rd (1/4 mile south of ETSU campus).
“Emerging Green Colleges in the Southern Appalachians”
Presentation and dialogue organized by Green Interfaith Network Inc (GINI).
Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 6pm-reception; 7pm-forum
Rogers-Stout rm. 122
Forum on Depleted Uranium production at Aerojet in Jonesborough TN
Appalachian Peace Education Center and Christian Peacemaker Teams have organized this panel, in connection with CPT’s delegation to Jonesborough protesting the use of depleted uranium.
Speakers: Doug Rokke, PhD, US Army (retired), DU weapons expert and whistleblower: health implications of uranium weapons for US Troops; John Paul Hasko, former Aerojet worker: uranium weapons production in Jonesborough; Ann Harris, Nuclear Safety Advocate: from mining through enrichment – the weaponization of uranium; Cliff Kindy, DU Weapons Campaign Leader: “getting in the way" of DU weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan; Ash-lee Henderson, ETSU graduate and community organizer: role of nonviolent civil disobedience in pursuit of peace and justice. Moderator: Rev. Jacqueline Luck, Minister, Holston Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Convenor of Tri-Cities Cooperation Circle of United Religions Initiative.
Thursday, October 27, 2:15pm
225 Nicks Hall
“The End of Eden: Writings of an Environmental Activist”
A talk by Thomas Rain Crowe, Tuckaseegee, NC author and activist. Free and open to the public. Contact Dr. Ted Olson, Professor of Appalachian Studies, olson@etsu.edu, 423 439-4379
Friday, Octoer 28, 3pm
Lamb Hall room 132
“Hispanic Migrant Farmworker Health in East Tennessee: Interprofessional Education and a University/Community Partnership,”public health seminar presented by Dr. Sharon Loury, Professor, College of Nursing, ETSU
Sponsored by Department of Environmental Health. for info, contact Ken Silver, Assoc. Prof. Environmental Health, silver@etsu.edu, 423 439-4542.
Students from several health disciplines at ETSU have been working in partnership with a local rural health clinic in a migrant farmworker community in rural East Tennessee. The data collected during the screenings is currently being analyzed for overall findings and additional factors that impact this population. In addition, cooperation with a local farm has led to the piloting of several ergonomic interventions by students in a tomato packing house. Students have also identified the need for future assessment of the migrant farmworker’s knowledge in preventing accidental pesticide exposure, and identification of stressors experienced by the migrant farmworker.