The Future of Here is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present. Consider what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now. What artifacts might people of that future time produce,…
A web dashboard to visualize emissions from business travel is being developed as a Campus as a Living Lab research project to support the goals of Johns Hopkins' Climate Action and Sustainability Plan. You are invited to join a human-centered-design workshop where faculty and staff participants will chart a course for the dashboard to achieve positive change at the…
Climate change is already shaping the lives of young people around the globe. How should education respond to climate change as a lived reality rather than a possible future? This talk outlines the practical, moral, and pedagogical reasons why it makes sense to focus on adaptation, resilience, and transformation (ART). It clarifies the challenges posed…
What remains possible when so much seems to be coming apart at the seams? What does it mean to live in the shadow of the ruined promises of the past? Consider the many despoiled landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay and our Jones Falls and Patapsco watersheds: junk heaps, rotting piers, spoil basins, and the many…
From the delicious to the deadly, fungi—which share 50% of our DNA—present a wide range of benefits, and threats, to human health, many of which remain unexplored. Could fungal pathogens outsmart us before we find ways to combat them? Dr. Arturo Casadevall takes up this question and discusses his latest book, What If Fungi Win?, in conversation…
What might a language for the future – or for this very moment, shapeshifting as it is – look like when imagined from the bodies, experiences, desires, of the other-than-human world, as it stands and as it may yet be? Join this all-genre workshop to explore the materials of our local landscape and their possible…
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Christine Folch (Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University), for her talk on the cultural history of Yerba Mate. From Sacred Brew to Global Commodity: Anthropology, Yerba Mate, and the Changing Geographies of Consumption Brewed from the dried leaves and…
The program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a lecture on IN DEFENSE OF THE LAND: AGAINST ECO- & ACOUSTIC COLONIALISM IN 21st CENTURY PLURILINGUAL POETRY OF ABIAYALA The environmental humanities have advanced persuasive arguments that explain…
Join moderator Rachel Issacs, Program Coordinator for the MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy and MS in Geographic Information Systems programs, as she welcomes energy market professional Parag Nathaney for an engaging discussion on the adoption of Green Hydrogen (H2) as a decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate sections like heavy-duty trucking, steel, and refining. Nathaney will…
Join us for a book discussion on Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore by Nicole Fabricant. We will explore the impacts of the Baltimore incinerator on the Curtis Bay community in South Baltimore, examining how toxic pollution has shaped the lives of residents and sparked a powerful youth-led…
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a workshop on ECOPOETRY/ECOPOETRY: THE AFFORDANCES AND PITFALLS OF ECOLOGICALLY ENGAGED POETIC PRAXIS This workshop presents three theoretical entryways to the concept of ecopoetry—understood broadly as ecologically engaged poetic…
Do we know what a river is? Is a river necessarily part of nature? Do we know what nature is? Does a focus on nature necessarily occlude politics, or are we restricted to a mere politics of nature? Or, thinking with Benjamin, can we imagine a natural politics, as he does natural history? What does…
Our next Local Partner Tour trip will be to on Friday, March 14 right before spring break. We will be visiting Taharka Brothers from 10:45 am – 12: 15 pm. Transportation will be provided. Registration is required and space is limited! Each semester, Hopkins Dining visits one of our local partners (i.e. produce suppliers, bakeries…
Nature journaling is one method to disrupt the regular current of daily life and access a flow more in sync with the natural rhythms around us. Nature journaling is an ancient practice which combines elements of scientific inquiry, drawing, writing and mindfulness to connect with the wonders of the natural world around us. Nature journaling…
Meaningful, place-based sustainability education benefits from a strong ecosystem of partners each with unique resources, expertise, and context. Baltimore city educators and Johns Hopkins University faculty, students, and staff with an interest in environmental and sustainability education are invited to attend this casual relationship-building event. This is an informal gathering to raise awareness about the…
