Majora Carter
Eco-Entrepreneur and Urban Revitalization Strategist
"Hometown Security and Environmental Equality"
Thursday, May 2, 2013
7:00 PM
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Majora hosts the Peabody Award winning public-radio series: The Promised Land. She has a long list of awards and honorary degrees, including a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 when few were talking about “sustainability”; and even fewer, in places like The South Bronx. Since 2008, her consulting company, The Majora Carter Group, has exported Climate Adaptation, Urban Revitalization, and Leadership Development strategies for Business, Government, Foundations, Universities, and economically under-performing Communities.
Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College.
Free and Open to the Public.
Join Terry Tempest Williams, Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies and Provostial Fellow, for a discussion of sustainability issues and occasional screenings of films.
Sustainability Salons
Tuesdays, April 2, 9, 23, 30
4:00 - 6:00 PM
006 Steele Hall
April 9 Agenda
Agenda is to have small groups and then full group discussions of "Thirty-Year Plan: Thirty Writers on What We Need to Build a Better Future," an Orion Reader, 2012 (Jennifer Sahn, ed.). Copies available at the Norwich Bookstore or online at http://www.orionmagazine.org/cart/index.php?crn=207&rn=556&action=show_detail for $12.
April 23 Agenda
Screening of Pandora’s Promise. Discussion with Director, Robert Stone, about the reimagination of nuclear energy in the 21st century.
April 30 Agenda
Ongoing discussion of "Thirty-Year Plan: Thirty Writers on What We Need to Build a Better Future," an Orion Reader, 2012 (Jennifer Sahn, ed.).
Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and the Office of the Provost at Dartmouth College
Free and Open to the Public.
