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SUMMARY:Food + City Expo\, Student Challenge\, And Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:From Food + City –\nFood+City Expo\, Student Challenge & Speaker Series at UT \nJoin us for this exciting event on the University of Texas at Austin Campus. We will kick off the afternoon’s events with your chance to network with all 14 startups participating in this year’s Startup Challenge. Then we will watch pitches from three innovative student startups founded at UT Austin\, and the judges will award a winner. We will conclude the event with our Speaker Series guest Dr. Johanna Mendelson Forman. \n  \nMendelson Forman is a Scholar in Residence at American University’s School of International Service where she teaches Conflict Cuisine: An Introduction to War and Peace around the Dinner Table. Connecting war and food is something that came from her recognition that in Washington you could tell where there were wars by the number of new ethnic restaurants that opened here. This inspired her recent work on conflict cuisines as tool for teaching how food is a form of Smart Power as well as a driver of conflict. It also linked two subjects\, food and conflict\, in a new interdisciplinary way that makes it easier to understand why in zones of conflict food becomes central to both survival and resilience. An expert on the post-conflict transition and democratization issues\, she has regional expertise in the Americas\, with a special focus on the Caribbean\, Central America and Brazil. She also has had extensive field experience in the U.S. government on transition initiatives in Haiti\, Iraq\, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her deep experience as a policy maker on conflict and stabilization efforts from Haiti to Rwanda led her to this effort to connect food with conflict. \nWe are excited to announce our amazing sponsors for this event; Jaime’s Spanish Village\, Peatos\, and Tiff’s Treats. Make sure to grab some chips & salsa\, a cheesy Peatos snack bag\, and/or a warm cookie while networking with our Startup teams\, watching the student pitches\, and listening to Johanna Mendelson Forman’s inspiring talk. \nSchedule of Events \n4:00pm – Networking with the 2019 Food+City Cohort\n5:00pm – Student Challenge Pitches\n5:30pm – Speaker Series with special guest\, Dr. Johanna Mendelson\, followed by winner announcement! \n\nThe remaining pitches and rewards will take place at Startup Challenge Showcase the following day on Monday\, March 11th. \nParking options: \nPlatinum Parking\, 2438 Guadalupe St\, Austin\, TX 78705 – 5 minute walk \nUniversity Co-op Parking Garage\, 2214 San Antonio St\, Austin\, TX 78705 – 6 min walk \nSan Jacinto Garage\, 2400 San Jacinto Blvd\, Austin\, TX 78705 – 10 min walk \nStreet parking is limited\, but there are Pay to Park ($1/hr) spaces along Dean Keeton.
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Under the Stack
DESCRIPTION:From the Sierra Club –\nSCHEDULE:\n5:30 pm to 6:30 pm – food and refreshments \n6:30 pm – film screening \n7:40 to 8:30 pm – Discussion \nMeet the directors and join us for a screening of Anne Fischel and Lin Nelson’s documentary\, “Under the Stack.” Following the film\, Fischel will facilitate a panel discussion featuring Nelson\, Kelly Haragan\, director of Texas Law’s Environmental Clinic\, Dave Cortez\, senior organizer of the Sierra Club\, and community activist Carlos Rodriguez. What began as a class project for Fischel and Nelson\, two professors from Evergreen State College\, grew into a multi-media project that documents the experiences of three communities with prolonged relationships with the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO). Through research\, film\, photography\, oral history\, analytical writing\, a website\, and their documentary\, Their Mines\, Our Stories document the experiences and struggles of these communities\, left to deal with the fallout of ASARCO smelter’s decades of unregulated pollution once they closed their doors and filed for bankruptcy. \nCarlos Rodriguez is an ex-ASARCO worker. A lifelong resident of El Paso\, he worked for the company for 32 years as an electrician\, while serving as chief steward for his union\, the United Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Carlos was a leader in the struggle to prevent ASARCO from re-opening in El Paso. Since its final closure\, he has been active in seeking medical monitoring and compensation for ASARCO’s workers. \nDave Cortez is the Senior Organizing Representative for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in Texas. He is in his 6th year with the organization and previously served as the Club’s coordinator for the Texas BlueGreen Alliance – a coalition of labor and environmental groups advocating for family-supporting green jobs. He now serves as a lead organizer working to retire the several coal mines and coal-fired power plants across Texas. Building on his previous environmental justice work against the ASARCO copper smelter in his hometown of El Paso\, Dave is currently working to incorporate anti-poverty and anti-racist principles and organizing strategies into Austin’s and Texas’s environmental advocacy communities. \nAnne Fischel is a documentary filmmaker and member of the faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington where she teaches programs in Documentary Media and Community Studies. She is co-director of No Borders: Work\, Environment and Justice in ASARCO-impacted Communities\, and has worked extensively with local communities\, unions and environmental groups. \nKelly Haragan is a clinical professor and Director of the Environmental Clinic at Texas Law. Prior to joining the Clinic\, Haragan worked as legal counsel for national nonprofits including: the Environmental Integrity Project in Washington DC\, Environmental Defense Fund in Austin\, and Public Citizen’s Austin office. She also worked at the Austin firm Henry\, Lowerre\, Johnson\, Hess & Frederick\, representing citizen and environmental groups in permitting and enforcement matters. Kelly specializes in Clean Air Act permitting and enforcement. \nLin Nelson is a writer\, researcher and faculty emeritus at the Evergreen State College\, where she taught programs in Environmental Health and Community Studies. She is co-director of No Borders: Work\, Environment and Justice in ASARCO-impacted Communities. Lin has served on the board of the Washington Toxics Coalition and is the former co-director of the Central New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. \nSupporters \nPresented by the Humanities Institute\, with support from the Rapoport Center\, Environmental Clinic\, Sierra Club\, and Evergreen State College
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson Reading
DESCRIPTION:From the University of Texas at Austin –\nScience Fiction writer and thinker Kim Stanley Robinson reads from his fiction and discusses how science fiction can represent environmental issues. Presented by UT Austin Department of English and Texas Institute for Literary & Textual Studies (TILTS): Environmental Humanities. \nRobinson is one of the most well­-known and respected science fiction writers in the world\, with a reality ­based approach in the spirit of Isaac Asimov that has made him a social thinker speaking “for the future and from the future.” \nHis work has received 11 major awards from the science fiction field\, and has been translated into 23 languages. His Mars trilogy (Red Mars\, Green Mars\, and Blue Mars) was an international bestseller\, and continues to be one of the most widely read works of science fiction\, a benchmark in discussions of humanity in space. His environmentalist work closer to home was the basis for him being named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” in 2008. He has worked with the U.S. National Science Foundation\, and was part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers program in 1995\, when he spent two months in Antarctica courtesy of NSF. He was part of the Sequoia Parks Foundations’ artist program in 2008. His articles and stories have been published in Nature\, The New York Times\, Newsweek\, U.S. News and World Report\, The Washington Post\, The New Scientist\, and Wired. He was the guest of Honor at the 68th World Science Fiction Convention\, in Melbourne\, 2010. His 2012 novel\, 2312\, was a New York Times bestseller\, as were his 2013 novel Shaman and 2015’s Aurora. \nRobinson has a B.A. and a Ph.D. in literature from University of California\, San Diego\, and an M.A. in English from Boston University. He taught literature at the University of California\, Davis\, before becoming a full­-time writer and parent.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-reading/
LOCATION:Avaya Auditorium\, 201 E. 24th St.\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Building of a $2.5 Billion Cleantech Community in Central Texas
DESCRIPTION:Mitch Jacobson\, Co-Director of the University’s ATI Clean Energy Incubator\, will speak on The Building of a $2.5 billion Cleantech Community in Central Texas at Thursday’s UT Energy Symposium. \nAbout the UT Energy Symposium: \nThe popular guest lecture series sponsored by the Energy Institute\, now in its tenth semester\, provides an opportunity for students to interact with faculty and other energy experts representing a broad cross-section of perspectives in an informal setting. The lectures are open to both students and the public. \nOngoing themes for UTES include climate change policy\, innovation and diffusion of energy technologies\, low-carbon options\, and behavioral aspects of energy consumption. \n 
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/the-building-of-a-2-5-billion-cleantech-community-in-central-texas/
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