The Associated Colleges Sustainability Day will take place at St. Lawrence University on Friday April 23rd, Earth Day! This will be followed by the Green Living Fair on Saturday.
| Time | Location – ODY Library | Topic | Presenters |
| 1:00-1:50 | McAllaster Rm | Integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals into the Campus Strategic Framework | Alex French, Susan Powers |
| Frost Ferguson Rm | The Ethics of Eating | Camille Frazier | |
| 140A | Reimagining Our Nonhuman Neighbors | Ana Maria Spagna | |
| 140B | Sustainability & Humanities | Glenn McClure | |
| 2:00-2:50 | McAllaster | Red Markers: Presentation/Art installation: Representations of nature/environmentalism | Sandhya Ganapathy |
| Frost Ferguson | Food Waste: Moving Toward Compliance w/NYS Law for Large Quantity Generators | Susan Powers | |
| 140A | UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Progress Report | Heather Sullivan-Catlin | |
| 140B | Language/Perception of Sustainability | Glenn McClure | |
| 3:00-3:45 | McAllaster | Rivers Have Rights: A Youth Driven Community Conversation | Blake Lavia, Voices of Rivers Committee |
| Frost Fergusaon | North Country College Sustainability Update | Toby Harmon | |
| 140A | Getting to net zero GHG emissions: Clarkson’s Path & Progress | Susan Powers | |
| 140B | Red Days: Sustainability Onstage | Hailey Alvarado |
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“THE HONORABLE HARVEST” KEYNOTE ADDRESS
CANTON, NY – “The Honorable Harvest” is the keynote speech to be shared by Robin Wall Kimmerer on Friday, April 22nd at 4:00 p.m. at St. Lawrence University’s Gulick Theater, in the Noble Center, at no charge to the public. It will also be live-streamed for viewers at home, with a link at the website bit.ly/SDGLF22.
The event is sponsored by The SUNY Canton Living Writers Series as part of the North Country Sustainability Day & Green Living Fair on April 22nd and 23rd, being held at multiple locations on the St. Lawrence University campus. For a printable campus map, including parking lots, visit www.stlawu.edu/documents/printable-campus-map.
Speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
As a writer and a scientist, Kimmerer’s interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm near Syracuse, New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild.
She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals.
“Robin Wall Kimmerer has written an extraordinary book, showing how the factual, objective approach of science can be enriched by the ancient knowledge of the indigenous people,” says renowned anthropologist Jane Goodall, “It is the way she captures beauty that I love the most – the images of giant cedars and wild strawberries, a forest in the rain and the meadow of fragrant sweetgrass will stay with you long after you read the last page.”
Kimmerer tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.”
The sponsors of this portion of the Sustainability Day & Green Living Fair event, The SUNY Canton Living Writers Series, have brought a long list of acclaimed authors to the community since 2011 in the belief that literature is a living, breathing organism that is essential to our culture and our humanity.
The keynote address is an in-person event open to the public, but will also be available via Live Stream at www.stlawu.edu/offices/music//livestream.
A series of informative workshops and presentations will also be available from 1:00-3:45 p.m. and are available to view at the website bit.ly/SDGLF22.
A reception and book signing will be held at the Sykes Formal Lounge following the keynote presentation, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Other events that day include a gallery exhibit, “Indigenous Perceptions of Nature” at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery from 7:00 a.m.-12:00 midnight and “Red Days,” a student-directed and produced play by Rachel Bublitz highlighting the dilemmas of crisis levels of poor air quality, at 8:00 p.m. in Noble Center 109, near the Gulick Theater.
NoCoPEACS organizers encourage the public to view the entire two day event schedule at this website: bit.ly/SDGLF22 or to contact them by email at GreenLivingNNY@gmail.com. Volunteers and new exhibitors are welcomed.
