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).