Connect with Us! The Center for the Environment,

Ecological Design, & Sustainability

[CEEDS]

Garden Level, Wright Hall

413. 585. 3352

If you want to keep up with the many happenings at

CEEDS consider:

Visting our website

www.smith.edu/CEEDS

Following our Blog

http://smithceeds.wordpress.com/

Our blog [CEEDS] is maintained by Center interns and

provides information on student initiatives, CEEDS

happenings, and events.

“Liking” Us on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/SmithCollegeCEEDS

Or search for “Center for the Environment, Ecological

Design, and Sustainability Facebook.”

Following us on Twitter

http://twitter.com/

SmithCEEDS

You will receive Tweets about fun events, upcoming

opportunities, and important deadlines.

We are located on the Garden Level of the newly renovated Wright Hall

Our hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday-Friday

Please contact Sarah Loomis, Administrative Assistant

at sloomis@smith.edu with any questions

With environmental sustainability an increasingly dominant

issue of our day, CEEDS exists with one purpose: to

graduate women who excel at integrating knowledge

across disciplines in support of environmental decisions and

action. We meet this goal in a variety of ways, from

connecting students to green initiatives and academic

pursuits to supporting faculty desiring to deepen their

understanding of salient environmental issues of today.

CEEDS is about linking knowledge across the liberal arts and

critically applying this knowledge to real-world solutions. In

pursuit of these goals, the activities of the Center are

directed towards:

Enhancing the Curriculum

Integrating Environmental Resources and Information

Using the Campus as a Model

Sponsoring Integrative Environmental Projects

ABOUT CEEDS

Enhancing the Curriculum

CEEDS provides financial, human, and infrastructure resources to support our faculty and enhance our curriculum. Whether hosting a short-term learning community or providing additional funds for curricular exploration, CEEDS is constantly looking to find ways of fostering the already active environmental community here at Smith. Examples of past projects CEEDS has sponsored include: 1. A rapid assessment and planning project by Landscape Studies students for Northampton 2. A solar array designed by an engineering class 3. A collaboration between vertebrate biology and architecture studio classes to design birdhouses for MacLeish Field Station.

Additionally, CEEDS ran a year long faculty learning community on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Integrating Environmental Resources and

Information

Smith possesses tremendous resources relevant to the study of the built and natural environment, including the Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station, the Botanic Garden, and the Spatial Analysis Lab. As a Center - both virtual and physical- we help connect these resources for students, faculty, and the staff community.

Using the Campus as a Model

Smith’s buildings, grounds, and infrastructure present multiple opportunities to link our campus and operations with our academic efforts. The MacLeish Field Station comprises over 200 acres of mixed farmland and woodland just twelve miles north of campus. Besides existing as a site for numerous research projects, MacLeish is also the building site for our very own Living Building, a classroom which will adhere to the world’s strictest sustainable building measures. On our main campus, Facilities Management is embarking on a metering project that will reveal the heat and electricity use of each building on campus, and Smith’s recent adoption of a sustainability action plan offers a great opportunity for student projects and learning as the College pursues its twenty-year path to carbon neutrality.

Sponsoring Integrative Environmental Projects

A key activity of CEEDS is to sponsor integrative projects that put students on the front lines of environmental decision making and action. Students work closely with faculty to identify an area of interest that will achieve their academic goals while also benefiting the greater community. Examples of on-going projects include: The Mill River Greenway Initiative, the American Chestnut project, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid research, and projects studying the Avery Brook Watershed.