Sustainable Working Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities

Friday, Mar 17 2017, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Dickinson 232
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Friday, Mar 17 2017 1:00 PM Friday, Mar 17 2017 2:00 PM America/New_York Sustainable Working Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join us in welcoming Brian Donahue from Brandeis University to discuss the challenges presented in the visions of New England’s active stewardship of the landscape, and especially the potential agricultural expansion. His presentation is titled: Sustainable Working Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity, Water Quality, and Carbon Sequestration. Dickinson 232 Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Brian Donahue is an Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies on the Jack Meyerhoff Fund at Brandeis University, and Environmental Historian at Harvard Forest. He teaches courses on environmental history and sustainable farming and forestry, and chairs the Environmental Studies Program. Donahue holds a BA, MA, and PhD from the Brandeis program in the History of American Civilization. He co-founded and for 12 years directed Land’s Sake, a non-profit community farm in Weston, Massachusetts. For three years he was Director of Education at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and now sits on the board of the Thoreau Farm Trust and The Land Institute.

Donahue will present a science workshop, "Sustainable Working Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity, Water Quality, and Carbon Sequestration" following his Woodworth Lecture on Thursday evening. Among his numerous articles and books, Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in New England won the Historic New England Prize, and The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord won multiple awards including the George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society of Environmental History. He recently co-authored A New England Food Vision, which lays out an advocacy plan for New England to produce 50% of its own food by 2060.