Lafayette Environmental
@LafEnvironment
The official Twitter account of Lafayette College's Programs in Environmental Science and Environmental Studies.
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As @brcohen95 says, if you're "in town," come on out to discuss Pure Adulteration! facebook.com/events/1122012…
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 instagram.com/lafayettecolle…
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 (calendar.lafayette.edu/node/44131).
Come to Skillman Library tomorrow afternoon at 12:10 to hear @brcohen95 and @jeremyzallen discuss their new books. Histories of food and light! calendar.lafayette.edu/node/47674
Harvesting metal from plants -- @LafCol alum Ian Morse '17 (@ianjmorse) in today's @NYTScience. nytimes.com/2020/02/26/sci…
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Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants (Published 2020)
Hyper-accumulating plants thrive in metallic soil that kills other vegetation, and botanists are testing the potential of phytomining.
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: news.lafayette.edu/2020/02/25/laf…
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.
Fah Fair ’22 Published in The Washington Post news.lafayette.edu/2020/02/10/fah…
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.
Today at 4:10, come see @sarahdimick, learn about phenology, and see environmental humanities in action:
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. calendar.lafayette.edu/node/48010
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. calendar.lafayette.edu/node/48010
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. news.lafayette.edu/2020/01/22/the…
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." news.lafayette.edu/2020/01/15/kee…
Our own @sarahdimick leading the charge on #CliFi and #ClimateChange at #MLA2020!
Macquarie Simon '21 publishes in San Francisco Chronicle: news.lafayette.edu/2019/12/20/mac…
Pure Adulteration getting some great press. Go grab your copy so you can join the convo!
I'm grateful to @deborahblum and @SciMagBooks for this generous review of Pure Adulteration. blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/12/…
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! mla.org/Resources/Care…
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 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
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. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcswe…
A big cheer for fall graduate Emma Stierhoff, Biology major/EVST minor, for her successful thesis defense today under the supervision of @mwbutler2! youtube.com/watch?v=9Mqe6-…
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