The Connecticut College's Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment sponsors biennial conferences on various environmental topics. This year's theme, Smart Growth? Environmental and Social Implications, focuses on the impact of development patterns and smart solutions to urban and suburban growth. Join Frances Moore Lappé as she delivers her speech, "From Famine and Froot Loops® to Food Democracy: Turning Crisis into Liberating Action," for a pre-conference event.