"No Degrees of Separation: MHC Speaks Out on Global Warming"

Faculty, Staff, and Alumnae of Mount Holyoke College present a kaleidoscopic experience, interpreting global warming in a new and
deeper way. The topics for the evening will shift from history to politics to economics to chemistry, etc. to illustrate the various perspectives and impacts of climate change.

Following Q & A and discussion with the panelists, the audience will break into groups to discuss what they've heard and what specific actions our campus community might take to contribute to climate solutions.  The ideas that emerge from these breakout discussions will feed into the MHC "Focus the Campus" initiative this spring semester.  

 The overall goal of Focus the Nation is to both inform and engage our MHC community on this critical issue.

Opening, Mount Holyoke Glee Club, "This We Know"
Directed by Kimberly I Dunn Choral Director and Visiting Lecturer in Music

Welcome by Joanne V. Creighton, President of the College

Introduction by Sandra Postel,  Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Center for the Environment

Jeremy King - Associate Professor of History
"The French Revolution, the Holocaust, Climate Change?"

Angela F Dickens -  Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry
"The Geological Context of Atmospheric CO2"

Corinne Demas -  Professor of English
"Aesthetics, Hemlocks, and the Woolly Adelgid"

Persa Batra -  Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
"Creative Solutions: Geoengineering"

Joseph Smith -  Associate Professor of Art & Chair of Art and Art History
"Afraid of the Dark"

Doug Amy -  Professor of Politics
"Some Reasons for Optimism"

Mary Jo Maydew  - Vice President for Finance and Administration
"Easing MHC's Carbon Footprint"

Jill Bubier -  Marjorie Fisher Associate Professor of Environmental Studies & Chair of Environmental Studies
"Climate Impacts on Northern Ecosystems"

Lisa Brunie'06 - Cannon Corporation
"A Corporation Responds to the Call"

Jens Christiansen - Professor of Economics 
"Can We Afford to Cut CO2?"

Sean Decatur -  Marilyn Dawson Sarles, M.D. Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Chemistry & Associate Dean of Faculty for Science Chemistry
"Reflections on Science, Society and Climate Change"