LAPPING LECTURE SERIES
SPRING 2010


Tuesdays at 6 pm
Unity College Centre for the Performing Arts
Unity, Maine
Open to the general public. Free.

This spring all the issues will revolve around the question:
HOW GREEN IS...?

There will be at least one speaker on each side of the question.

   
January 12, 2010
Jesse Pyles, Sustainability Coordinator, Unity College
How Green is Unity College? Unity College’s Sustainability Profile.

Jesse Pyles focuses his efforts on mobilizing student sustainability efforts on campus, and is coordinating the college's climate action planning process. He studied environmental studies at Pace University in New York City, and environmental education with the Audubon Expedition Institute in the Pacific Northwest, desert and canyonlands, Gulf of Maine, and North Carolina. Jesse is also a Senior Fellow with the national Environmental Leadership Program, which aims to increase diversity and leadership capacity in the environmental movement. Jesse thinks a lot about food, and is scheming ways to get back to Oglebay Institute's Junior Nature Camp.


January 19, 2010
Student Response to Jesse Pyles and the College Sustainability Program Leaders/Q&A
Sandy Donahue, Dining Services Director 
Roger Duval, Director of Facilities and Public Safety
Sara Trunzo, 2008 Unity Graduate
Mick Womersley, Associate Professor and Director of Sustainability

January 26, 2010
Georges Dyer, Senior Fellow, Second Nature
Sustainability in Higher Education

Georges Dyer is a Senior Fellow at Second Nature, where he has focused his work on supporting the American College & University Presidents¹ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). The ACUPCC is a high-profile national initiative led by college and university presidents who have agreed to join together in creating a plan for climate neutrality in campus operations and promoting research and education on climate change and sustainability. Over 660 institutions have joined the ACUPCC to date, serving as powerful role models and catalysts for change throughout higher education and beyond. Georges is also a Partner at a sustainability-focused investment holding company called Aedi Group, on the Advisory Board of Greenopolis.com, a Trustee of Stratleade Sustainability Education, and a member of SoL, The Society for Organizational Learning. He holds a Master of Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden, and a B.A. in History and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.


February 2, 2010
Brian Kent, Planner/Architect/Consultant
Greening Rural Maine: State, Local and Personal Choices

Brian Kent holds degrees in Architecture and Urban Design. He has lived in Maine for 35 years and was born in Cape Town, South Africa. As a planning and design consultant, Brian specializes in downtown revitalization, site planning, and large scale conservation plans. He has produced downtown plans for many Maine towns, including Waterville, Augusta, Unity, Gardiner, Belfast, Rockland, and Ellsworth. He has authored a number of environmental and design publications and is currently working on a guide to farmland preservation. In the 1980s he was in charge of Maine’s solar energy and energy-efficient building construction programs. Brian resides in Litchfield in an off-the-grid home that he designed and built. He and his partner, Janet, have two grown children. His interests include photography, sculpture, woodworking, hiking, and woods management.

February 9, 2010
Arielle Greenberg Bywater, Assoc, Professor of English, Columbia College Chicago
How Green is Your Valley? Rethinking the Sustainability of the Maine Homestead.

Arielle Greenberg Bywater is the author of several volumes of poetry and editor of three poetry anthologies and a college reader on American youth subcultures. An associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, where she teaches creative writing, literature and cultural studies, she has a long-standing personal and scholarly interest in counter-cultural movements and is currently on sabbatical in Maine working on a book of first-person accounts of the new back-to-the-land movement in Waldo County.

February 16, 2010
Dylan Voorhees, Clean Energy Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine
How Green is Rural Maine Living? Connections to US Energy and Economic Policies and Practices.

Dylan Voorhees directs the Clean Energy Project at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, the state’s leading environmental advocacy organization. Since 2006, Voorhees has led NRCM’s involvement in a variety of energy and climate issues, including adoption of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, wind power/renewables policy and permitting, and energy efficiency funding and standards—including the establishment of Maine’s mandatory energy building code in 2008 and the restructuring of energy efficiency programs in 2009. Prior to joining NRCM, he worked on wind power issues for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts, and on sustainable land use development for the Vermont Forum on Sprawl. Voorhees holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he concentrated in environmental and energy policy. He lives in Augusta with his family and has commuted by bike, foot or bus for the last six years while living in Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont.

February 23, 2010
Jason Reynolds '05, Unity College Alum, Energy Auditor and Builder
Energy conservation and home building/retrofitting in rural Maine.

March 2, 2010
George Parmenter, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Hannaford
How Green is Hannaford? Sustainability of Hannaford Buildings, Products, and Processes.

George Parmenter manages Corporate Responsibility initiatives at Hannaford Supermarkets. Hannaford Supermarkets, based in Scarborough, Maine, operates 171 stores and employs more than 27,000 associates in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Most Hannaford locations have full-service pharmacies and all stores feature Guiding Stars. For additional information, visit www.hannaford.com.

Also, to learn more about our commitments to healthier people, products and plant, visit: http://www.hannaford.com/Contents/Our_Company/About/csr.shtml.


March 23, 2010
Molly D. Anderson, Principal, Food Systems Integrity
Incoming Chair of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems, College of the Atlantic
How Sustainable Can a Major Grocer Be?

Molly Anderson consults at the interface of science and policy for social justice, ecological integrity and democratic food systems. Recent work includes management of a project for the Kellogg Foundation on indicators of healthy, green, fair and affordable food; a paper about the influences of agribusiness on global food system governance proposals and food systems for Agribusiness Action Initiatives; and strategic advice to Oxfam America’s Decent Work Program. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Social Criteria Committee of the ANSI Sustainable Agriculture Standards initiative. Molly worked at Oxfam America 2002-2005, following 14 years at Tufts University as a professor, administrator, partnership builder, and researcher. She co-founded and for five years directed the Agriculture, Food and Environment Graduate Degree Program in the School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts. She also directed Tufts Institute of the Environment. She was a national Food & Society Policy Fellow 2002-2004 and a Senior Wallace Fellow at Winrock International. Her professional writing is on food security, food politics, food rights, food sovereignty and sustainability metrics.  

March 30, 2010
Craig McLaughlin, Associate Professor of Wildlife, Unity College
Trapping and Why it's Green.

Doctor Craig McLaughlin is an Associate Professor of Wildlife at Unity College, teaching courses in wildlife conservation and biology. Craig joined the Unity faculty in 2009, following a three decade-long career as a wildlife research biologist, manager, and administrator. He has worked for four state wildlife conservation agencies from Maine to Utah, where he most recently served as Wildlife Section Chief. His prior work included responsibilities for monitoring and managing species as diverse as American black bears, bats, bighorn sheep, cougars, black-footed ferrets, Canada lynx, moose, prairie dogs, pronghorn and wolves. He has administered comprehensive wildlife management programs in both Vermont and Utah. Doctor McLaughlin’s professional interests include assessing the status of wild populations, engaging the public in informed, science-based management programs, and planning for sustainable use of wildlife resources. He is enjoying the challenge of forging the next generation of natural resource professionals at Unity College.

April 6, 2010
Daryl DeJoy, Executive Director, Wildlife Alliance of Maine
Trapping and Why it's Not Green.

Daryl DeJoy is the founder and executive director of the Wildlife Alliance of Maine. He was also the co-founder of the NoSnare Task Force, a citizens group which helped to outlaw coyote snaring in Maine. Daryl has been a Registered Maine Guide for 19 years. He also guided for six winters in the Venezuelan jungles for Lost World Expeditions as a whitewater kayaking guide. Daryl was a licensed wildlife rehabilitator for the state of Maine for 10 years and is an accomplished amateur mycologist and is the owner of Penobscot Solar Design, working to design and install photovoltaic systems across the state.

April 13, 2010
Does Lead Ammunition Harm the Environment, Etc? (TBA)

April 20, 2010
Lucinda D Schroeder, Retired U.S. Fish & Wildlife Special Agent
Unity College WE Lead Guest Speaker
A Hunt for Justice.

Lucinda Schroeder was the third female special agent to be hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In late August 1992, she left her home to pose as a big game hunter, infiltrating a ring of international poachers who were seeking to kill the biggest and best of Alaska's wildlife. Throughout her career Lucinda worked hundreds of cases, sometimes with state game and fish agencies, other federal agencies, and even foreign governments. For Lucinda, each case held its own excitement and mystery, while benefiting wildlife. During her career she received recognition from the FBI, the IRS, and was once named one of the "Ten Top Employees" in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. See http://www.ahuntforjustice.com/about.htm.

April 27, 2010
Unity College Student Presentations