Upcoming Events
- September 16, 2008
Talk: “Moment of Opportunity”
DAVIS BOOKHART
Davis Bookhart is the manager of Energy Management and Environmental Stewardship at Johns Hopkins University and the Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Sustainability Committee. Davis Bookhart will be speaking to the campus and wider community about ways in which changes in practices, environments, and policies are feasible and can be made—and made today. His talk is sponsored by SEARCH, the Solomons Environmental and Archaeological Research Consortium.
Did You Know . . . ?
. . . that there are over 20,000 species of edible plants in the world, yet fewer than 20 species now provide 90% of our food. However, there are hundreds of less well-known edible plants from all around the world that are both delicious and nutritious.
Drawing by Sarah Claggett '08
St. Mary's Project Spotlight
Adam Peterson’s SMP draws from his experiences living and working in an isolated community in Caribbean Costa Rica. His project is intended not only as a creative piece, but as ethnographic writing that gives insight into another culture. The story itself is largely fictional; however, it illustrates a common experience of Jamaican immigrants in Costa Rica and the role in their lives of the nesting Leatherback, Hawksbill, Green, and Loggerhead turtles.
Upcoming Events
- September 16, 2008
Talk: “Moment of Opportunity”
DAVIS BOOKHART
Davis Bookhart is the manager of Energy Management and Environmental Stewardship at Johns Hopkins University and the Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Sustainability Committee. Davis Bookhart will be speaking to the campus and wider community about ways in which changes in practices, environments, and policies are feasible and can be made—and made today. His talk is sponsored by SEARCH, the Solomons Environmental and Archaeological Research Consortium.
- October 2008
Artist Installation and Talk: “Bitten By Butterflies”
SHARON WYRRICK AND JANE INGRAM ALLEN
Sharon Wyrrick is a theater artist working in and across theater, opera, dance, and mixed
discipline performance. Jane Ingram Allen is a sculptor/installation artist and hand papermaker. The two will be residing in the Artist House during October and collaborating to create an installation initially inspired by the life, written works and butterfly collecting of Vladimir Nabokov. 
Wyrrick and Ingram Allen want to expand the content to include other butterfly collectors. Their collaboration is informed by a love of the natural world and interest in environmental themes, especially those of preservation of the natural world.
- March 2009
Talk: TBA
NALINI NADKARNI
Dr. Nalini Nadkarni is on the faculty at The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington, where she teaches in the Environmental Studies program. She co-founded and is president of the International Canopy Network, a non-profit organization that fosters communication among researchers, educators, and conservationists concerned with forest canopies. She carries out her field research in tropical and temperate forest canopies in Washington state and in Monteverde, Costa Rica. While she has published two books and over 55 scientific articles in the area of forest canopy ecology and forest ecosystem ecology, she spends a great deal of energy on public outreach to the general public. A new project she initiated involves the creation of a multi-disciplinary Forest Canopy Walkway project on The Evergreen State College campus. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue her interests in communicating research results to non-scientists with collaborations of artists, musicians, physicians, sports figures, and religious leaders. The interdisciplinary nature of her work will be the topic of her talk.
