Fourth Installment of 'Conversations on Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investing' - Tuesday, April 10th in EUC Maple Room

This year we have been having a series of conversations on Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investing.  

The fourth conversation will be Tuesday April 10 from 3:30-5pm in the EUC Maple Room and will be an interactive discussion "Moving Forward: Consideration of What Has Been Learned." Note the new location, which should provide a more flexible space for interactive discussion.  Bring your thoughts and ideas for moving us forward!

This series of Conversations on Sustainable and Socially Responsible Investing has been sponsored by the the UNCG Sustainability Council with support from the Green Fund and the Sustainability Faculty Fellows program.  Check here for more information on additional conversations:

https://sustainability.uncg.edu/conversations-sustainable-socially-responsible-investing/

See you at the Conversation!

Stephen Holland

Sustainability Faculty Fellow

Department of Economics 

Upcoming Spring Nature Events at the Kathleen Clay Library - 1420 Price Park Rd

Wed., March 28th, 7 – 8:30 pm – Wendell Berry Film

LOOK & SEE revolves around the divergent stories of several residents of Henry County, Kentucky who each face difficult choices that will dramatically reshape their relationship with the land and their community.

In 1965, Wendell Berry returned home to Henry County, where he bought a small farm house and began a life of farming, writing and teaching.  This lifelong relationship with the land and community would come to form the core of his prolific writings. A half century later Henry County, like many rural communities across America, has become a place of quiet ideological struggle. In the span of a generation, the agrarian virtues of simplicity, land stewardship, sustainable farming, local economies and rootedness to place have been replaced by a capital-intensive model of industrial agriculture characterized by machine labor, chemical fertilizers, soil erosion and debt - all of which have frayed the fabric of rural communities. Writing from a long wooden desk beneath a forty-paned window, Berry has watched this struggle unfold, becoming one of its most passionate and eloquent voices in defense of agrarian life.

Filmed across four seasons in the farming cycle, LOOK & SEE blends observational scenes of farming life, interviews with farmers and community members with evocative, carefully framed shots of the surrounding landscape.  Thus, in the spirit of Berry’s agrarian philosophy, Henry County itself will emerge as a character in the film - a place and a landscape that is deeply interdependent with the people that inhabit it.


Sat., April 14th, 1 – 5 pm – Earth Day Festival

All ages are welcome to this fun, free, educational festival. Enjoy music, nature crafts, face-painting, hay rides, eco-exhibits, alternative energy displays, eco-art, garden demos, live animals and more. For more information, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov 
Great American Cleanup – Help us pick up litter around Greensboro
April 14th, 9 – Noon, Sponsored by Greensboro Beautiful
To sign up: http://greensborobeautiful.org/cleanups/great_american_cleanup.php 


Sat., April 21st, 2 – 4 pm – The Last Pig Documentary

The Last Pig is a short film which raises questions about equality and compassion in the story of the struggles of a pig farmer, and how he tries to reinvent his life.  Enjoy a virtual discussion with the filmmaker. This program is co-sponsored by the Piedmont Area Vegan Educators.


Wed., May 9th – 7 – 8 pm - Jordan Lake Discussion

Researchers from UNC and NC State will discuss nutrient management strategies for Jordan Lake.  This collaboration seeks to understand the sources of nutrients, effect of water quality, and how to improve this and other state lakes. For more information, e-mail melanie.buckingham@greensboro-nc.gov .

Free Rain Garden Workshop March 21, Kernersville, NC

FREE Rain Garden Workshop March 21, Kernersville, NC

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Town of Kernersville, 509 Michael St., Kernersville, NC 27284

8:30 am - 4:00 pm


Rain gardens are bowl-shaped areas set aside to capture rainwater from roofs and hard surfaces. They help remove pollutants, minimize runoff, and provide habitat for wildlife. Rain gardens can be integrated into the existing landscapes or included in initial landscaping plans. To effectively manage storm water, they must be accurately sized and properly constructed. This 1-day workshop will consist of a classroom presentation covering methods for sizing and design and an outdoor hands-on demonstration of proper construction techniques.

Led by experienced installers from N.C. State University Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and staff from N.C. Cooperative Extension, Forsyth County Center,  the workshop is tailored to the following groups of individuals:
Commercial and Residential Landscapers (Landscaper Contractor Credit provided)
Landscape Architects
Design Engineers
Homeowners and HOA members
Property Managers and Owners
Teachers and Educators (Environmental Education Certification, Criteria II)
Master Gardener Volunteers

The workshop is FREE and lunch will be provided at no cost.
Pre-registration is required at https://goo.gl/forms/pJQIBEYpjk677D3d2
Contact Phyllis Smith, Natural Resources Agent, N.C. Cooperative
Extension, Forsyth
County Center
pbsmith4@ncsu.edu, 336.703-2858.

*Phyllis B. Smith*
Extension Agent, Natural Resources Conservation
and Environmental Sustainability
N.C. State University
336-703-2858 office
336-757-0455 cell/text
336-767-3557 FAX
forsyth.ces.ncsu.edu

N.C. Cooperative Extension
Forsyth County Office
1450 Fairchild Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27105

image from The Nature Conservancy www.nature.org

Two Upcoming Events at the Kathleen Clay Library - March 3rd and 14th

Sat., March 3^rd, 1 – 2 pm – Women and Water

Come hear Jo Proia, Director of Women’s Programming from GET: OUTDOORS, will discuss how women can get started paddling, stay safe, and enjoy this sport.  Jo will share her favorite places from her book, Piedmont Lakes: A Practical Guide for Boating in the North Carolina Piedmont and other destinations statewide.

Wed., March 14^th, 7 – 8:30 pm – Conversations with Kate Moore

Meet author, Kate Moore of the book, Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Hear the  fascinating and horrifying history of radium in America.  Early 20^th century scandal and the groundbreaking workers’ rights battle are presented in a fast-paced and inspiring history.

For more information, e-mail beth.sheffield@greensboro-nc.gov  . 

Kathleen Clay Library

1420 Price Park Rd.

Greensboro, NC 27410

336-373-2923

Ashby Dialogues: "The Difference Agrarianism Makes: Encountering The World as Gift," March 1st, 3:30-5:30pm, School of Education Room 120

Dr. Norman Wirzba from Duke University Divinity School will present "The Difference Agrarianism Makes: Encountering The World As Gift" on March 1 at 3:30-5:30p.m. Please join us.

Urban Vegetable Gardening Talk by Dr. Megan Maurer of the UNCG Anthropology Department - February 6 at 5pm in Graham 423

Upcoming Events at the Weatherspoon

Friday, January 26, 2018 - 'Baggage Claims'

​​6:30-8 pm | Public Reception. Free and open to the public. Cash bar. No reservations required.

Baggage transports and holds our belongings, and by implication our thoughts. As objects, trunks, suitcases, luggage, and crates suggest the extreme mobility of our global culture. As ideas, in this exhibition, they refer to the humanitarian and political concerns that instigate this mobility and that dominate national and international conversation and policy. The term baggage also carries a psychological meaning: things that encumber one's freedom, progress, or development.

Baggage Claims presents its featured artworks through the lens of this global mobility, which results from political, economic, natural, and social conditions. It affects broad sectors of the population, through the benign commodification of hospitality (think Airbnb) to the horrific displacement of millions of immigrants and refugees as a result of crises occurring around the world. Each work in the exhibition suggests multiple readings. On the one hand, each tells the story of individuals: their journeys, suffering, and memories, their hopes for possibilities ahead. Simultaneously, they refer to the politics and policies that create and shape those individuals' experiences: ethnic cleansing, contested borders, lack of social services, and environmental cataclysms. The works in the exhibition—some humorous, others eliciting heartbreak—address both personal experiences and global policies, as well as the consequences and catalysts of mobility.

This exhibition is organized by the Orlando Museum of Art and co-curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2-curatorsquared.​ ​Its presentation at the Weatherspoon​ ​Art Museum​ ​is supported by a Kohler Grant from UNCG's International Programs Center, UNCG's Keker First Year Common Read, and ArtsGreensboro.​ ​On view January 27-April 22, 2018.


​Related Programs:

​Thursday,​ ​February​ ​1, 6:30pm
Film: Human Flow, directed by artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei.

Wednesday, February 7, 5 pm
Lecture: Yesomi Umulo, Falk Visiting Scholar in Art History
Hear from Yesomi Umolu (Nigeria/UK), scholar and curator of contemporary African and African Diasporic art and global contemporary art and spatial practices. 

Thursday, February 8, 6:30-7 pm
Evening Tour​: Baggage Claims​
Explore the themes of global mobility, migration, and the part baggage plays in our personal and family histories. 

Thursday, February 22, 5 pm
Educators Workshop: Identity in a Suitcase (registration required) 

Thursday, February 22, 6:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Building Community, Immigrants & Refugees in the Triad
News clips and statistics overshadow the realities of rebuilding one's life in a new country. Hear from individuals who have resettled in the Triad and others who are supporting their efforts, and learn ways to get involved. Co-sponsored by the Islamic Studies Research Network. 

Tuesday, March 13, 12-12:20 pm
Noon @ the 'Spoon, Public Tour
Explore the exhibition in this quick 20-minute guided tour. 

Friday, April 6, 12-1 pm
Reading: Susan Harlan, Luggage
You can't think about travel without thinking about luggage. Writer Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. Along the way, she shows how the materials of travel—the carry-ons, totes, trunks, and train cases of the past and present—have stories to tell about displacement, home, gender, class, consumption, and labor. 

​Guided & Self-Guided Tours
​To schedule a visit for your class, please see http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/learn/university-students-faculty/​ or call 336-334-5770. 


Image: Avery McQuaid Nelson Lawrence, Arranging Suitcases, 2012, performance still. Photo credit: Ross McDermott © Avery McQuaid Nelson Lawrence. Image courtesy of the artist.

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