“Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers makes the statistics of contemporary American culture — 15 million sheets of office paper used every five minutes or 106,000 aluminum cans used every 30 seconds — come to life,” says Kristina Durocher, director of the Museum of Art. “Statistics can feel abstract, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of figures like 3.6 million SUV sales in one year. Chris Jordan’s intricately detailed prints prompt us to question individual choices and collective impacts.”
“Chris Jordan’s photographs and the video competition both demonstrate the ability of art to address complex, difficult issues in a way that is direct and accessible.”
The three videos and three images that receive the most “like’s” on Facebook (make sure your friends and family vote for yours!) will make it to the final juried round. Comprised of students, faculty and staff, the jury will chose the final two winners.
“Thought-provoking, attention-grabbing, fun: students today know how to reach out, grab and educate people on big issues like sustainability,” says Sara Cleaves, associate director of the Sustainability Academy. “This contest is a way to show off the talented and moving voices of UNH students.”
Chris Jordan has been called the “it” artist of the green movement: his large-scale digital photographs have captured the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, American consumerism, and plastics littering the oceans. Learn more at www.chrisjordan.com.
What role do business leaders play in making sustainability happen at UNH?
Every day, every person – whether they are a student or the leader of a large, multi-national enterprise – has the opportunity to make choices about how to live and operate in the world. These choices can be as seemingly simple as riding your bike, walking or taking the bus to campus or as elaborate as innovating product design to have less environmental impact. WSBE is actively working to develop future business leaders who focus not just on increasing the bottom line but also in cultivating sustainable business cultures.
What motivates you personally to be involved in sustainability?
Many responsible businesses define sustainability as the intersection of “people, profits and planet” to create increased value for each. What motivates me is not the profit aspect of this “triple bottom line” but the people and the planet. A love of the outdoors and a curiosity about our natural world initially sparked my interest in and practice of sustainability. Today it is working with people that motivate me, like the participants involved with the Certificate in Corporate Sustainability and the local business owners we work with in the WSBE Executive Education program.
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“Sustainability Unbound” - Save the dates!
Sustainability is more than a buzzword, but what does it really mean? Break free from the limits of “green.” Join an international group of humanists to discuss the big idea of sustainability — and what the humanities have got to do with it.
All lectures will be held in the Huddleston Ballroom, UNH Durham, and are free and open to the public.
March 21, 2012
Melissa Lane
Professor, Department of Politics, Princeton University12:10 PM, Huddleston BallroomDr. Lane is a political theorist specializing in ancient Greek thought, with longstanding experience of thinking with public and private leaders about the ethics and politics of sustainability through work with the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and the Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme. Her book Eco-Republic is forthcoming this fall, using Plato’s Republic as a model for thinking about a stable, sustainable, and healthy state of mutual shaping between persons and polity. In her talk, Dr. Lane will extend that argument about the nature of the virtues and the reconceptualization of the common good in light of sustainability, and build on a new interdisciplinary project on communicating scientific uncertainty in connection with sustainability in which she is involved at Princeton.
Lewis Hyde
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College and Faculty Associate, Berkman Center, Harvard University
7:00 PM, Huddleston Ballroom
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, illuminates and defends the non-commercial portion of artistic practice. Trickster Makes This World (1998) uses a group of ancient myths to argue for the kind of disruptive intelligence all cultures need if they are to remain lively, flexible, and open to change. Hyde’s most recent book, Common as Air, is a spirited defense of our “cultural commons,” that vast store of ideas, inventions, and works of art that we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the present. A MacArthur Fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde teaches during the fall semesters at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing. During the rest of the year he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
March 22, 2012
Jeff Titon
Professor of Music, Brown University, enthomusicologist
12:40 PM, Huddleston Ballroom
Dr. Titon, author of the blog, ”Sustainable Music: A Research Blog on the Subject of Sustainability and Music,” focuses on musical cultures as ecosystems and an ecological approach to musical and cultural sustainability. His work in acoustic ecology and ecological economics theorizes nature’s economy to show how sound transforms place and how ecological principles may inform cultural policy. He is the author or editor of seven books, numerous articles, recordings, and documentary films. Co–founder of the American Studies program at Tufts University, since 1986 he has directed Brown University’s doctoral program in ethnomusicology and is a past editor of the Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He is the first person trained in ethnomusicology to focus on American vernacular music and is regarded as a pioneer in the area of applied ethnomusicology and cultural conservation. he is currently writing the Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (co-edited with Svanibor Pettan) and a book theorizing an ecological approach to music and cultural policy. Dr. Titon holds an MA in English and the PhD in American Studies from the U. of Minnesota, with a dissertation in ethnomusicology on blues.
Enrique Leff
Mexican philosopher, economist, and environmentalist4:00 PM, Huddleston BallroomEnrique Leff is a Mexican environmentalist who works in the fields of political ecology, environmental epistemology, and ecological economics. He is a Level III Researcher with the Mexican National Researchers’ System and a Professor of UNAM’s post-graduate division of Political and Social Studies. Coordinator of the Latin American Environment Training Network of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) since 1986 and former UNEP Coordinator for Mexico, he is the author of more than 150 books and articles published in Europe and Latin America, including “Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality,” and is a member of numerous academic and consultative bodies: UNAM Advisory Board, Mexico City; Mexican Academy of Sciences; National Council of Environmental Education for Sustainability; Advisory Board to UNAM Environemntal Education; Scientists with Social Commitment Board of Directors (UCCS), Mexico; Mexican Academy of Science; Mexico ‘s Environmental Education Communication Foundation; Advisory Board Center for the Plata Basin Socio-Environmental Knowledge; International Advisory Council for the Latin American Forum of Environment Sciences, Argentina; Latin-American and Caribbean Society of Environmental History; CLACSO Political Ecology Group; International Network of Socio-Environmental Practices, Brasil; Réseau Francophone International dResearch in Environmental Education, Canada; Skepsis, Academia Semiologia e Direito, Portugal; and the International Association of Cultural Researchers Pirámide, Perú (EQUIDIA). Enrique is the editor of the Collection Environmental Latin American Thinking of the United Nations Environment Programme, a member of the Editorial and/or Scientific Councils of the journals Capitalism, Nature, Socialism (U.S.A.); Political Ecology (Spain); Éducation Relative á l´Environnement: Regards-Recherches-Réflexions, Canada; Theomani (Argentina); Ambiente & Sociedade, Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, y Sociedade em Debate (Brazil); Environment Ideas and Initiative & Environment (Colombia); Environmental Sciences (Costa Rica); Polis and Leader Magazine (Chile); Latin American Journal of Ecologic Economics (Ecuador); and Social Studies, Ecologic Gazette and Quivera (Mexico). He holds a Ph. D in Development Economics from Paris and an earlier degree in Chemical Engineering.
Carol is the director of numerous documentary films, including ”Voices from Yemen,” “Maid in Lebanon,” “Invisible Children,” “A summer not to forget,” “100% asphalt,” and more. Founder and owner of Forward Film Production, Carol makes documentaries about social problems such as domestic workers abuse and child labor in Egypt, Lebanon, and Yemen. Her work has won the Jury’s Award from the Sole Luna Film Festival, best short documentary from the International Film Festival – New Zeland, best short documentary at the 2001 Documentary Festival, the Jury’s Award at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Parise, and best documentary at the Arab film festival of Rotterdam.
The Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1965 in memory of Saul O Sidore of Manchester, New Hampshire. The purpose of the series is to offer the University community and the state of New Hampshire programs that raise critical and sometimes controversial issues facing our society. The University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities sponsors the programs.
Interested? Below is the course description of James Finley’s class. For any questions, his email is below.
English 401.24 Writing Sustainability MW 4:10-5:30
UNH has been recognized as a “sustainable learning community,” part of an increasingly crucial and increasingly global conversation about how to improve quality of life in ways that do not have negative consequences for future generations. Nearly everyone is debating sustainability issues, including politicians, economists, scientists, farmers, educators, and families. You will thus come across issues of sustainability in all aspects of your life. This special topic course will take the English 401 curriculum—helping students become better writers in academic, professional, and personal settings—and approach it through the lens of sustainability. We will examine specific arguments within sustainability so as to discuss, respond to, and write about the various ways that people discuss sustainability and define what it means to live in the world.
Contact instructor with questions: James Finley (jrc56@wildcats.unh.edu)
If you haven’t yet seen them, check out the videos below. UNH’s first Food Day is featured, including Dr. Joanne Burke (UNH Dietetic Internship Program and faculty fellow in our office) and UNH student food leader Evan Girard.
Up next: sustainable holiday shopping with the Green Alliance’s Assistant Director Scott Szycher and, well, ME! I really believe that once you get in the habit of thinking about sustainability when you give gifts, it becomes second nature. And much like eating local or organic food, you’ll find sustainable shopping more meaningful, heartfelt and fun than just buying someone yet another thing made cheaply in China.
Presidential Candidate Jon Huntsman will be discussing energy policy in the Strafford Room from 1-2 p.m. on November 1st. All are welcome to join this hot topic discussion!
VOTE NOW! Dan Winans is one of the Real Food Awards Finalists! Here is a link to the website: http://realfoodchallenge.org/programs/awards/finalists There will be one winner for each category and winners will be chosen by a group of students and staff who are involved with Real Food Challenge at the national and regional levels. The decision will be heavily informed by public voting and comments. So vote, and spread the word! Voting closes on November 9, 2011 and winners will be released on November 18.
UNH Theatre & Dance associate professor David Kaye‘s recent stint teaching in Israel could be a movie unto itself: tragedy mixed with hope. If you haven’t yet read about his Fulbright Award work in Israel, you must.
“In my job, I get to ask the fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? Through questions, maybe someone will gain insight that will help produce a leader of tomorrow who might take us a step closer to peace…. I have a real interest in culture and sustainability. You can’t confront environmental issues without confronting them on the cultural level. It all comes down to the question: What is a good life? You know you need water but you also need peace.”
You know how being a college student with a car generally means you’ve inherited the family sedan with the falling off exhaust pipe, the muffler dragging on the ground, and the atrocious fuel economy? (Seriously, how many hours of your life are spent at the gas station watching your money slowly drip into a fuel tank?) Oh, and of course, UNH students know well the feeling of waiting for the West Edge bus and the joys of Winter Parking Ban. We shall say no more.
None of this is a reality if you drive a ZipCar.
ZipCar = convenience. UNH has ZipCars around campus, ready when you need one. They are new, fuel efficient, and fun to drive. You don’t need to pay for gas or insurance; just a membership fee and hourly or daily rates to drive the car. Once you’re done, park it in one of UNH’s ZipCar spaces (by the Dairy Bar and Library), and walk away…it’s that easy.
Even better, UNH will soon be the recipient of a new 2012 Ford Focus, and even more ZipCar discounts for students who sign up soon! The first 100,000 new members nationally will receive a $10 discount off their membership fee, and $1 off the hourly rate for the first million hours they use a ZipCar. Which, truth be told, is a lot of hours.
So UNH…what are you waiting for? Check out http://www.zipcar.com/unh/ today!
Incoming first-years and students returning to campus can furnish their rooms and apartments on the cheap and help the environment this fall, thanks to the efforts of a new student-led initiative. The project, called Trash 2 Treasure, collected more than 10,000 items discarded by students moving out in May; items will be sold at a huge three-day yard sale on the UNH campus during student move-in weekend.
Josina Garnham
Melissa Lane
Lewis Hyde
Jeff Titon
Enrique Leff
