MCLA Green Living Seminar Series Presents ‘Carbon Farming in Urban and Suburban Areas’ with Dr. Nathan Phillips April 6

NORTH ADAMS, MA— Dr. Nathan Phillips, a professor in Boston University’s Department of Earth and Environment, will give a talk titled “Carbon Farming in Urban and Suburban Areas” at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6 at the MCLA Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121.

 

Part of MCLA’s Green Living Seminar series, this event is free and open to the public. Please note that masks are required in all buildings on MCLA’s campus.

 

About Dr. Nathan Phillips 

Nathan Phillips is a physiological ecologist who studies land-climate interactions in terrestrial ecosystems and human-dominated environments, including exchanges of energy, water, and greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide exchanged between the air and leaves, soil, buildings, humans, and pipelines. He works with advocates, community members and policymakers to apply his research to advance sustainable communities and a habitable planet.

 

MCLA’s annual Green Living Seminar Series continues through April, presenting a series of lectures on the theme of “Greening the City.” Every semester, the Green Living Seminar Series centers around a different topic, timely and relevant in current sustainability issues. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. until April 20.

 

The series is a presentation of the MCLA Environmental Studies Department and MCLA’s Berkshire Environmental Resource Center.

 

Presentations will also be broadcast on Northern Berkshire Community Television Channel (NBCTC) 1302 at the following times:

• Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
• Fridays at 4 p.m.
• Saturdays at 3:30 p.m.
• Sundays at 11:30 a.m.
• Mondays at 5:30 p.m.

 

Recordings will also be available on the College’s YouTube channel.

 

For more information, visit www.mcla.edu/greenliving or contact Professor of Environmental Studies Elena Traister at (413) 662-5303.

 

About MCLA:
At MCLA, we’re here for all — and focused on each — of our students. Classes are taught by educators who care deeply about teaching, and about seeing their students thrive on every level of their lives. In nearly every way possible, the experience at MCLA is designed to elevate our students as individuals, as leaders, communicators, fully empowered to make their impressions on the world. In addition to our 125-year commitment to public education we have fortified our commitment to equitable academic excellence. For eight of the last 10 years, MCLA has been named a Top Ten College by U.S. News and World Report. MCLA also appears on the organization’s list of top National Public Liberal Arts Colleges, as well as on the top 50 schools in U.S. News’ Social Mobility Ranking, which measures how well schools graduate students who receive Federal Pell Grants.

For more information, go to www.mcla.edu.