In food and farm news, we're excited to have a new High Tunnel at the college farm, LaFarm. The mid-March color palate may be drab, but the greens soon to grow won't be. @LafEnvironment@LafCol https://t.co/BRqM4Ip9sq
Please join us this Thursday, March 5, @LafLib for the next in the @LafCol Environmental Humanities Speaker Series, organized with @Katherine_Groo and Film and Media Studies:
Prof. Jennifer Fay of @VanderbiltU speaks about film and/in the anthropocene (https://t.co/QKoLVisY9w).
Come to Skillman Library tomorrow afternoon at 12:10 to hear @brcohen95 and @jeremyzallen discuss their new books. Histories of food and light! https://t.co/6WaI4b5qqi
Our Office of Sustainability is making progress in the @LafCol goal for carbon neutrality by 2035. This new energy partnership with @LehighU, @Muhlenberg, and @DickinsonCol helps: https://t.co/8pAgTKvr7p
The picture might be poorly lit but the presentation was polished and professional at one of many talks by @LafCol environmental students @Muhlenberg today for @LVAICollaborate's Sustainability Conference. This one was about sustainability metrics.
Thoreau, Leopold, Libby Jones, phenology, and climate change -- thanks to @sarahdimick for a great talk and thank you to crowd @LafLib for the packed house.
Set your calendars for a talk by our very own @sarahdimick next Monday at 4:10pm @LafLib here @LafCol. She's next in our 2019-20 Environmental Humanities Speaker Series. https://t.co/nb9MhI7afM
Set your calendars for a talk by our very own @sarahdimick next Monday at 4:10pm @LafLib here @LafCol. She's next in our 2019-20 Environmental Humanities Speaker Series. https://t.co/nb9MhI7afM
Here's more great coverage of faculty work, this one an interview with @jeremyzallen about his new book American Lucifers, on the human costs of creating artificial light from 1750 to the end of the Civil War. https://t.co/MH2T3fl5rR
A nice story about our friend and colleague @MechEAmyVan, who's researching ways to increase the use of renewable energy sources "to power air conditioning systems and relieve stressed electricity delivery systems during times of high demand." https://t.co/fMujhJWLJx
Students in @sarahdimick's @LafCol spring class will spend some solid time at the campus farm thanks to a grant from the Modern Language Association! https://t.co/UaxaYz7OPs
Ben's book is out TODAY! We'll be celebrating spring semester, but you can read Pure Adulteration over winter break to catch up on the history of food politics.
A battle raged in the 1800s w trust, authenticity & purity on 1 side, deception, duplicity & adulteration on the other, leading to modern food regulation. Pure Adulteration tells the tale. Now available @UChicagoPress. #envhist#foodhist#histsci#histtech https://t.co/cyavKIi9zh
For your weekend read, try "an angry prayer on migration" in the new climate fiction issue of McSweeney's (#58) by @LafCol@LafEnglish Professor @AwakeMik. https://t.co/k1TixhZZF3
A big cheer for fall graduate Emma Stierhoff, Biology major/EVST minor, for her successful thesis defense today under the supervision of @mwbutler2! https://t.co/bZYewFNHle