Smith College: Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability

This calendar lists each week's notable events with a focus on sustainability and its economic, social and environmental components. To get your event added, contact Joanne Benkley, assistant director, CEEDS. To have information about your event or activity sent to all campus email accounts, submit it to eDigest.


August 2-8	August 9-15	August 16-22

No events added yet. View all events.	Events Off Campus 39th NOFA Summer Conference August 9, 2013 August 10, 2013 August 11, 2013 Regular conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA). This year's keynote speaker is Atina Diffley, organic farmer, consultant, activist, and author of the 2012 memoir, "Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works". Atina's advocacy has addressed the pressures of suburban development, and she has been a leader in the struggle to stop the notorious polluters, Koch Industries from building an oil pipeline over her land and throughout the state of Minnesota. The conference also includes more than 200 workshops (on topics like organic farming, gardening, land care, draft animals, homesteading, sustainability, nutrition, food politics, activism, and much, more), music and dance, farmer's market and more. Visit the website for complete information. More... University of Massachusetts, Amherst	No events added yet. View all events.

August 2-8

August 9-15

August 16-22