What’s your “food print”? The hidden costs of our food choices

with “Earthling” Ed Winters

6:30 p.m., International Lounge + webinar (hybrid)

Snacks will be served

Please note: the in-person event is for Brandeis community members only.

To keep up with the demand for animal products without compromising the environment, we need drastic changes in our food systems. Educator, public speaker, author, and filmmaker “Earthling” Ed Winters will tackle the complexities of this topic and challenge the view that we are solely consumers. Instead, Ed argues we have to become food citizens, aware of the origin of our foods and the damage caused by our everyday choices. Drawing on the latest science and most up-to-date research, this talk will analyze the impact our food choices and ask the question, what will the future of food look like?

Co-sponsored by the Boston Vegetarian Society and the Center for German and European Studies 

12-1:30 pm

Tuesday, October 18, 2022  

Zoom Webinar (registration required)

The scientific facts about the climate and ecological crisis have been known for a long time, and yet societies have not been able to take action at the necessary scale. In this lecture Lea Dohm presents the psychological mechanisms beneath the insufficient action, and possible strategies to respond in a healthy way.

Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies 

Thursday:

Refining Canadian Oil Today: Four Methods

October 20, 2022

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Mandel Center for the Humanities Reading Room (303)

Join us for this talk by Jordan B. Kinder, a settler-British and Métis scholar of environmental humanities and media studies from a resource town in what is now called northern British Columbia, Canada. He is an incoming 2022-23 Postdoctoral Fellow with the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Brandeis Department of English

Next dinners: November 1, 15 & 30

6-8pm

Hassenfeld Conference Center (Sherman)

Are you interested in climate justice & policy? Have you ever wanted to learn how to advocate for climate action? Join us!

Eben Bein, the Massachusetts Field & Education Manager for Our Climate will lead several trainings (over dinner!) for students on how to advocate for the science-based, equitable, and intersectional climate justice policies we need.

Our Climate is a national organization that empowers young people to advocate for the science-based, equitable, and intersectional climate justice policies that build a thriving world.