Tag: environmental
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Our program seeks to count the cost of carbon and lead in sustainability efforts
On Friday 10 February, 2018, our program participated in the Sustainability Showcase at the College organized by the sustainability office. Check out our poster and our sustainability initiatives!
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Infographic Session – Climate Disruption Class
Please join the students in Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking (PEAC 055 / ENVS 031) for an infographic session (similar to a poster session) on Monday morning December 11 at 10:30 a.m. in Shane Student Lounge. Refreshments provided. This is a zero waste event. With thanks for support from the Lang Center for Civic…
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Events Near Swarthmore This Weekend, 12/1/2017-12/3-2017
This weekend, December 1-2, Pendle Hill, the Quaker retreat center on the other side of Crum Wood is holding a one-day (and one evening) workshop: Right to Refuse: When Community Rights and Corporate Rights Conflict and What to Do Next Featuring: Chad Nicholson, Malinda Harnish Clatterbuck, Dianne Herrin, and Paula Kline https://pendlehill.org/events/right-refuse-community-rights-corporate-rights-conflict-next/ Whether it is…
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UPCOMING WORKSHOP — Weaving the Threads: Intersectionality, Sustainability & Environmental Justice
How do we identify and address intersectional concerns (e.g. from racism, to poverty, to militarism, to homelessness, and more) in our sustainability work and activism? How do we connect our various initiatives within a framework of environmental justice? How do we communicate these visions with others? On Monday, November 20, join Peace and Conflict Studies and Environmental Studies for a workshop with…
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From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange – A Book Talk with the Authors
On Thursday, November 2, Peace and Conflict Studies will welcome the authors of From Enemies to Partners- Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange. The lecture will take place at 4:15 PM in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall. Download and print a flyer. Dr. Charles Bailey (Swarthmore ’67) is Director Emeritus of the the Aspen Institute Agent Orange…
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NEW Climate Disruption course Fall 2017 PEAC/SOCI/ENVS
PEAC 055. Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking (Cross-listed as ENVS 066, SOAN 055C) The course will examine several ways in which climate change is a driving force of violent and nonviolent conflict and creates opportunities for peacemaking and social justice. Already, climate change has been identified by the U.S. military as a threat to national…
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West Virginia Statesman, Author Ken Hechler ’35 dies at 102
December 12th, 2016 Swarthmore News and Information Washington Post: Ken Hechler, W.Va. congressman and author of ‘Bridge at Remagen,’ dies at 102 Ken Hechler, an urbane historian who carpetbagged his way into West Virginia’s gritty politics, where he battled destructive coal-industry practices, unsafe mining conditions and felonious county officials, died Dec. 10 at his home in…
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Making Moral Arguments About Divestment
Making Moral Arguments About Divestment Hans Oberdiek, Professor Emeritus Krista Thomason, Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Monday, April 6, 2015 4:30 p.m. Science Center 199 In conversations about divestment, economic arguments often take center stage. What about the moral arguments? Is divesting the right thing to do? Could there be moral arguments against divestment? Moral philosophers…