| Lectures: Monday (M), Wednesday (W) 9:05 - 9:55 a.m | Plant Science 233 |
| Date | Day | Speaker | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janurary 22 | M | Mary Lou Zeeman | Intro: We only have one planet |
| January 24 | W | Jason Hamilton | Sustainability Introduction |
| January 24 4:30 p.m. Call Auditorium |
W | Donald Kennedy |
State of the Planet
Free and open to the public |
| Food and Water | |||
| January 29 | M | Per Pinstrup-Andersen | World hunger and politics |
| January 31 | W | Ross M. Welch | Farming for health. Agriculture & Human Health United: |
| February 5 | M | Rebecca Schneider | Global water scarcity; a framework for sustainable management |
| February 7 | W | Jac Guerts | What can models say? |
| February 9 | F | Mary Lou Zeeman | Modeling: What does the data predict? |
| Economics and Energy | |||
| February 12 | M | Stuart Hart | Creating sustainable value |
| February 14 | W | David Hammer | Fusion: The ultimate energy source |
| February 16 | F | Katy Payne | Flagship species: case studies of elephants and whales (an illustrated lecture) |
| February 19 | M | Zellman Warhaft | The engine and the atmosphere |
| February 21 | W | Paul McEuen | Nanotechnology and renewable energy |
| February 23 | F | Undergraduate student panel Dana Shapiro Kimberley Schroder Amy Frietag Rich Weidel Ethan Rainwater |
Student activism |
| Education and Value | |||
| February 26 | M | Eric Cheyfitz | Balancing the Earth: Native American philosophies and the environmental
crisis
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| February 28 | W | Thomas Eisner | Activism: A personal account. |
| March 2 | F | Richard Baer | Doing environmental ethics justly in a pluralistic society. |
| March 5 | M | Harry Greene | Evolution, esthetics, natural history, and nature appreciation |
| March 7 | W | John Fitzpatrick | The choice is ours: Why does it matter that humans live side-by-side with nature |
| March 9 | F | Thomas Gilovich | Ideological blindness |
| March 12 | M | Anurag Agrawal Lynn Leopold and Steve Strogatz |
Panel: Networks |
| Health and Disease | |||
| March 14 | W | Laura Harrington, David McCobb and Elaine Wethington | Panel: Global Change and Human Health
Harrington PowerPoint Presentation |
| SPRING BREAK | |||
| Global Change and Risk Assessment | |||
| March 26 | M | Art DeGaetano | Global warming and climate change |
| March 28 | W | Mary Lou Zeeman | Assessment: Can we risk it? |
| March 30 | F | DeWitt John Thomas F. Shannon Director of Environmental Studies Bowdoin College |
Attacking Wicked Problems |
| Government, Dissent, Conflict Resolution | |||
| April 2 | F | David McCobb | Making lemonade: An open-mike rethink forum |
| April 4 | W | David Wippman | International law and the war on terrorism |
| April 6 | F | Ted Lowi | Democracy, politics and environmentalism |
| April 9 | M | Andy Zepp | Local activism and land management |
| Activism Through Art | |||
| April 11 | W | Barbara Mink, Tom Eisner, Cathy Klimaszewski,and Steven Pond | Panel: Activisim in Art |
| Sustainability and Conservation | |||
| April 16 | M | Kurt Gottfried | Nuclear power as a global warming solution |
| April 18 | W | Tom Eisner | What's in a species? |
| April 20 | F | Bill Weber Senior Conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and co-author of In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land |
From gorillas to grizzlies: Global perspectives on wildlife conservation |
| April 23 | M | Jane Lubchenco 2007 Iscol Lecturer and Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University |
Q & A with students |
| April 25 | W | Liz Walker | Implementing a sustainable culture |
| April 30 | M | TBA | TBA |
| May 2 | W | Zeeman, Eisner | Closure |
