MCLA: Boston College Professor to Discuss Militarization, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. —Dr. Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department, will give a talk titled "Guns Versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Impact of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions" at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12 at the MCLA Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121.

This presentation will investigate how and why national militaries shape the impact of economic growth on carbon pollution.

This event is free and open to the public as part of MCLA's Green Living Seminar series.

About Dr. Andrew Jorgenson

Dr. Andrew Jorgenson teaches sociology and environmental studies at Boston College. He also coordinates the Global Environmental Sociology Lab and works in the areas of environmental sociology, global political economy, the sociology of development, and sustainability science more broadly. In 2020, Dr. Jorgenson received the Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Environmental Sociology for his innovation, publication, and service in the field of environmental sociology.

This year, he is on track to complete the Fifth National Climate Assessment as an appointed author by the US Global Change Research Program. Dr. Jorgenson is also a new member of the National Advisory Environmental Health Science Council for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Dr. Jorgenson's research focuses on human dimensions of global and regional environmental change in regard to how development, inequality, and the structure of global production and trade networks contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, industrial pollution, land cover change, and relationships between environmental conditions and population health.

MCLA's annual Green Living Seminar Series continues through April 19, presenting a series of lectures on the theme of "Capitalism and the Environment." Every semester, the Green Living Seminar Series centers around a different topic, timely and relevant to current sustainability issues. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.

The 2023 series is a presentation of the MCLA Environmental Studies Department. Podcasts will be posted online following each presentation: http://www.mcla.edu/greenliving

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North Adams Inauguration Set for New Year's Day

Staff Reports10:04AM / Wednesday, December 31, 2025

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city's new government will be sworn in on Thursday, Jan. 1, at 11 a.m. in Council Chambers.

The inauguration and organization of government is open to the public and may be broadcast on Northern Berkshire Community Television.

City Clerk Tina Leonesio will be in charge, calling the council to order and administering the oath of office until the new president is elected and sworn in. Once the council is issued its committee and liaison assignment, the School Committee members and McCann School Committee representatives will be sworn in.

The president will select two councilors to draw seat numbers for the next term and two to escort Mayor Jennifer Macksey to council chambers, where she will be sworn in and will address the city.

This ceremony has become something of a recent New Year's Day tradition, though the adoption in 1965 of the Plan A form of government has the mayor take office on the first Monday in January. However, the council takes office on Jan. 1.

As far back as 1913, the swearing in was a Monday in council chambers. The first mayor elected under Plan A, James Cleary, took the oath along with the nine councilors on Monday, Jan. 1, 1968. This continued through Mayors Francis Floriani, Joseph Bianco and Richard Lamb.

The date was shifted for the first inauguration of John Barrett III in 1984. The ceremony was moved to Drury High School on a Sunday night, Jan. 1, to allow for the event to be open to the public. It was the first time it had been broadcast on radio (WMNB) and television (cable Channel 7). (Macksey also held her first inauguration at Drury in 2022 because of expected attendance.)

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