http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy The Yale F&ES student site Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:51:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey everyone, I have some friends flying in to Bradley airport next thursday and leaving on Saturday. Instead of me driving them back and forth twice, I was hoping there is some sort of train/bus option that someone could clue me in to. Have you taken public transport to and from ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/15/in-need-of-info-on-public-transportation-tofrom-bradley-airport-near-hartford/ Green Seal works with manufacturers, industry sectors, purchasing groups, and governments at all levels to “green” the production and purchasing chain. They utilize a life-cycle approach, evaluating a product or service beginning with material extraction, continuing with manufacturing and use, and ending with recycling and disposal. Greenseal President and CEO Arthur ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/15/fes-alum-arthur-weissman-from-greensealorg/ SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, OCT 23 @ 4:00pm, Bowers TOWN HALL TOPICS NEEDED:  By OCT 15. Email sac@panlists.yale.edu or place anonymous comments in Jude Wu’s Sage mail folder. Your very own TOWN HALL meeting is coming up soon!  Save the date and send us topics for discussion. You ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/15/last-call-your-topicsconcerns-for-fes-town-hall/ I found a small black jacket at the Sachem and Prospect intersection.  Let me know if you're missing something similar or know someone else who is. http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/15/lost-jacket-2/ Department of Sociology   Presents   Emily Erikson Department of Sociology University of Massachusetts - Amherst   Title of Talk   “The East-Indies Trade and Global Capitalism”   Thursday, October 16, 2008 Room 107, Williams Hall 4:00 PM 80 Sachem Street http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/15/department-of-sociology%e2%80%9cthe-east-indies-trade/ The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is proud to host the 2008 Net Impact North America Conference, “The Sustainable Advantage: Creating Social and Environmental Value". On November 13-15, 2008, more than 1,800 graduate students and professionals will assemble in Philadelphia, PA to discuss how businesses and organizations can ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/15/2008-net-impact-conference-phily/ >2008 Organic Harvest Celebration & Annual Meeting > >CT NOFA's Annual Meeting also includes an indoor Farmers' Market, >Book Sale and Potluck Lunch. > > > > > >An Organic Harvest Celebration is the theme of CT NOFA's Annual >Meeting. The public is invited to shop at the Farmers' Market, share >the delicious potluck lunch and hear from keynote speaker Claire >Criscuolo. ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/15/organic-harvest-celebration-november-1-2008-in-new-haven/ Anyone interested in SPIRET? (That stands for Student Partnership for the Integrated Religious and Ethical Treatment of the Earth). A quick meeting on Wednesday, October 15, at 12.15, at Sage Lounge. What's it about? See http://environment.yale.edu/current/SPIRET-Student-Partnership-for-the-Integrated-Religious-and-Ethical-Treatment-of-the-Earth/ Questions? email rachel dot holmes or mark dot evidente at yale dot edu http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/spiret-in-the-flesh/ They all oppose California's Proposition 8! Below are recently made videos opposing Proposition 8 in California (a ballot initiative to ban the constitutional right to marriage for a large segment of the population).  Watch, enjoy, and share. http://www.youtube.com/homotracker http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/what-do-molly-ringwald-margaret-cho-brad-pitt-and-steven-spielberg-have-in-common/ I mean a good grinder, and not just a grinder for good coffee. I need to borrow it for a few minutes to deal with a bag of beans... thanks! mark dot evidente at yale dot edu http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/anyone-have-a-good-coffee-grinder/ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html Another swing state swindle by the Republican Party (I'm having flashbacks to Florida's "black" felons list and Ohio's voting machine shortage in inner cities?  What's another four years of illegitimate executive representation? States' Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal --Coup 2008 underway: Tens of thousands of eligible voters in Colo., Ind., ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/swing-states-swindled-by-republicans-in-08-mccain-wins-mccain-wins/ Entrepreneurship in Energy: A serial entrepreneur's path through stationary fuel cells, micro-fuel cells, on-site wind and fuel additives Join Dr. William Acker, an experienced clean energy entrepreneur with expertise in hydrogen fuel cell, fuel additives and wind power technologies. When:  October 16, 2008 | 5:00 – 7:30PM Where: Dunham Lab - ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/entrepreneurship-in-energy-thurs-oct-16-5pm/ Please join the fresh & salty water SIG for a discussion on DESALINATION this Wednesday at 6pm at 85 Mansfield No. 2.  Meagan Mauter, a PhD student, from the Environmental Engineering will present her work on Engineered Applications of Carbon Nanotubes in Reverse Osmosis Membranes.  Please RSVP to janna.shub@yale.edu today!  ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/aquitards-water-dinner-this-wednesday-on-desalination/ If you see her, give that girl a hug! http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/happy-birthday-meg-arenberg-2/ Presidential Elections U.S. Style – Oct. 22 @ 5:30pm, International Center, 421 Temple Street  With the 2008 presidential election fast approaching, and the efforts to win the White House for ’change’ in America, one is likely to hear talk about grassroots campaigning and federal election reforms, both of which require more ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/14/understanding-america-presidential-elections-us-style/ Hi everyone, Nkem Okafor, a Health Management graduate student, is looking for students interested in developing a business plan (to hopefully execute) to create an online social network/marketing organization focused on bringing events and activities, such as concerts, conferences, Bible studies/fellowship events, in a consolidated form to a Christian audience. Nkem hopes to create a team ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/join-a-wonderful-mph-student-on-an-entrep-business-planning-team/ Anyone driving to Boston next weekend? I'd love a ride and would be happy to pitch in for gas, snacks on the way, etc. Email me: cindy dot chang at yale etc http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/driving-to-boston-next-weekend/ Anyone with an extra personal/space heater to spare? Please help. Lucy (Lucy.magembe at yale dot edu) http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/international-student-freezinghelp/ We all know cities cannot survive without energy but how can they really going to survive on less? Gérard Magnin Founder & Director of Energie-Cités Energie-Cités is the Association of European local authorities promoting local sustainable energy policy. It represents 1000 towns and cities in 30 countries. Energie-Cités builds European projects for helping ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/urban-energy-climate-issues-in-the-eu-guest-speaker-gerard-magnin-dir-of-energie-cites-430pm-oct-22/ King Corn, that is--the movie tracing two Yallies' journey to plant an acre of corn, and follow it to the dinner table. Come join the Coalition for Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) for a showing of the film, discussion, and snacks: Thursday, October 16, Bowers 8pm And if this sort of thing is ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/long-live-the-king/ MWAHAHAHA! Join like-minded, attractive Green folks for a pre-Halloween, pre-presidential debate celebration this Wednesday, October15th from 6:00-8:00pm at: Rudy's Bar and Grill 372 Elm Street, New Haven, CT * (203) 865-1242 This month we're lucky enough to have folks from 1,000 Friends of Connecticut speaking about smart growth in Connecticut. And to celebrate the economy ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/new-haven-green-drinks-rudys-this-weds-6-8pm/ In case you missed my plea for help: My husband and I will be leaving Friday Nov 21 and returning late on the 29th.  We live in Branford and it may be easiest for you to stay at our home for the week.  We’ll have a car for you!  Branford is ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/dog-sitter-needed-for-thanksgiving-week-repost/ This is it folks.  The final debate is upon us, and so it may be the last chance before election to see a major shift in public opinion. Come join us in Bowers Auditorium. You know the drill:  snacks, drinks, big screen, fun people. The debate will be at 9:00pm. Come at ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/final-presidential-debate-watching-party/ So, I'm a joint degree student with the law school (Yale's). One of the nicest things there is that we have an exam bank of previous years's exams. Very helpful for study. Anyone know if there is a bias against one for FES? If not, wanna help create one? Email me. Paul Beaton http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/exam-old-ones-bank-wanna-help-create-one/ Anyone have old exams (midterms) to use for study? I know several students who will be most grateful! We can bake cookies, fix bikes, tell you how wonderful you are... email Paul Beaton if you can help! Thanks - Paul, Marissa, Lisa, Owen, Ilan, ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/old-exams-ecosys-patterns-processes/ Go take the survey and tell SOM to offer the course! http://yale.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_0qrnBtka8KuwmRS&SVID=Prod -Paul http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/13/want-a-real-estate-course/ FRIDAY, October 17th. Government Or Engo?: Pros And Cons Of Environmental Careers In The Public Sector 10:00am - 11:00am, Oct 17, 2008 Sage - Student Lounge FES alumni Dr. Arthur Weissman, President and CEO of Greenseal.org, will speak about the pros and cons of working for government vs an ENGO. Alumni in Non-profits and NGOS, ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/12/greenseal-conservation-international-tnc-free-lunch/ It's coming.  Thursday, October 30, 2008.  It's the third-annual FES liquor treating, where we revisit the childhood tradition of knocking on doors and demanding goodies, but in tasty alcohol form. This year, we need hosts (3-5 apartments in East Rock and 3-5 in Mansfield) that can offer drinks to 15-30 people ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/12/knock-knock-whos-there-liquor-treating-biatches/ Dear all, I left my keychain with a swissknife and a thumbdrive on it, inside the loud lab. Someone took just the knife off, and left the chain and the pendrive. The knife was gifted by someone very dear to me (very dear... sentiments, man, sentiments! I can't help it). I ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/11/swiss-knife-stolen/ Is anyone driving up to the 2nd year trip mid-morning on Friday?  I have a meeting I can't reschedule but should be done by 10.  I would *love* to hitch a ride if anyone else is in the same boat (and, unlike me, has wheels).  Please let me know ASAP ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/11/2nd-year-class-trip-anyone-driving-up-mid-morning/ st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Climate Justice Speaker Series presents: Renewal: a film “Across the nation, people of faith are standing up for the environment.” Monday, October 13, 7-9pm Bowers Auditorium Pizza will be served Renewal is the first feature-length documentary to capture the breadth and vitality of America’s emerging ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/11/monday-free-pizza-and-a-great-movie/ STIGMA invites you to join us for a plant walk this Sunday in East Rock Park from 3-5. We will meet at the bridge on Orange Street just past Cold Spring St. This plant walk is a hike with the expectation that you are going to be walking with a ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/east-rock-plant-walk-sunday/ CALLING ANY STUDENT GIVING A PRESENTATION! What: Presentation Skills Workshop When: Monday, October 20, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Where: Room 24, Sage Hall Who: All FES Students Why: Because talking is front of people can be terrifying. Stephen Nickson, a Yale School of Management communications coach, has given presentation training internationally in Asia, as well as ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/presentation-skills-workshop-with-stephen-nickson/ Stephen Perkins, Director, Office of Ecosystem Protection, EPA - New England Office and Yale alum will be at FES to talk about full time opportunities and will be collecting resumes. Noon, Sage 24. Bring your lunch, drinks will be provided. http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/epa-info-session-bring-your-resume/ On Tuesday, October 14, 2008,  Mr. Caleb Pungowiyi, Arctic Rural Liaison and Senior Advisor at Oceana, will be speaking at FES. "Native Culture and Coastal Communities Threatened due to Warming" Food Security: How climate change is affecting the availability and accessibility of traditional food resources to the Inuit people. The lecture is part ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/native-culture-and-coastal-communities-threatened-due-to-warming/ Monday, October 13, 2008 11:30 am to 12:45 am, Luce 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Laura Ondere Yale College (BR '10) Communication and Medicine: a Volunteer Project with Maventibao Clinic, Madagascar Maventibao Clinic, which was established in 1998 in Maventibao village, Northwest Madagascar by Ben Shipley, a former US marine, ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/1013-brown-bag-1130-am-laura-ondere/ ** Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis' ** The global economy loses more money from deforestation than the current banking crisis, says an EU-commissioned report. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7662565.stm Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis' By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Barcelona The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/bbc-e-mail-nature-loss-dwarfs-bank-crisis/ See you at 5 on the Marsh Lawn for TGIF! Bring a vessel for drinking and a couple of bucks. Does anyone have a football? http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood/ The Connecticut Geospatial Information Systems Council will be hosting an event with the Geographic Information Science Club and the Geography Department of SCSU for GIS Day on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut Events will take place from 10:00 am to 3:30 at the Michael J. Adanti ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/gis-day-and-its-in-new-haven/ I don't really have time to go apple-picking this weekend, but if anyone *is* going and has the desire to bring back some extra macouns, I would make it worth your while. By which I mean I would pay you. I'd take as many as you care to ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/apples/ Posting this on sageboy is cheap and not very artful, but for those of you out there who have taken Skelly's Landscape Ecology and are still holding onto the midterm, I would love to borrow it.  I will pay you in some sort of delicious cookie form, if you would like.  ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/2nd-yrs25-yrsdoctoral-students-landscape-ecology-midterm-needed-cookies-in-it-for-you/ A Snowmobile for George Plus Q&A with filmmaker Todd Darling! Wednesday, October 15 at 6PM in Bowers Auditorium Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street Sponsored by Environmental Justice at Yale (EJAY). When President Bush reversed regulations that would have banned the two-stroke snowmobile, filmmaker Todd Darling asked the question: why would he bring back a ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/a-snowmobile-for-george-screening-and-filmmaker-qa/ It's going to be beautiful, and Yale will let you play for $25 if you're a student, or $13 for nine holes. Hit me up if you're interested. Ilan 434-238-0409 / ilan.gutherz@yale http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/anyone-up-for-some-golf-this-weekend/ This just in! CT supreme court ruled that a ban on same sex marriage is unconstitutional!  The opinions were just posted here: http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/supapp/aro.htm#supreme  (they're the "Kerrigan" ones). JP http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/same-sex-marriage-ruling-in-ct/ PMF apps are due Wednesday yo. I'm goin' out of town (3 day weekend! you know you want more of 'em: come work for the gov't!), so if you email me a question (paula.randler [at] aya.yale.edu), you should also ring the cell: 203-848-9561. I'm happy to assist. See y'all at Halloween :) http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/for-a-good-time-writing-your-pmf-app-call-paula/ If you lost an iPod in Sage, I have it for safekeeping.  Let me know the size/color etc, and it's yours. JP john dot jewell at yale dot edu http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/found-your-ipod/ SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, OCT 23 @ 4:00pm, Bowers TOWN HALL TOPICS NEEDED:  By OCT 15. Email sac@panlists.yale.edu or place anonymous comments in Jude Wu's Sage mail folder. Your very own TOWN HALL meeting is coming up soon!  Save the date and send us topics for discussion. You ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/10/submit-topics-for-your-fes-town-hall/ Ever wanted to drop everything and move out to rural Iowa to grow an acre of corn? Well, some fellow Yalies have already completed the task for you. This is their story: KING CORN Thursday, October 16th @ 8pm Bowers Auditorium Join CAFE (Coalition on Agriculture, Food, and the Environment) for a screening of Ian Cheney ('02 and ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/09/king-corn-is-coming-to-you/ What: Microsoft Access Level 1 When: October 15 & 16, 5:30-8:30 PM (this is a two part course, both sessions are required) Where: The Yale Learning Center, 155 Whitney Ave. Limited enrollment: 14 Use Microsoft Access to learn data management basics. This course provides the essentials needed to begin using this powerful, yet flexible, ... http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/09/psm-microsoft-access-level-i/ Green Tea at Sage Lounge, 5 p.m today (Thursday). Rosi Kerr will be here to talk about the financial crisis, and we'll discuss the ramifications of this on our daily lives, and on America's global status. And on everything else. Tea will be provided, as will great conversation. http://environment.yale.edu/sageboy/2008/10/09/come-one-come-all/