Archive for the ‘Environmental Issues’ Category
“Botanical Interventions: Rebuilding Landscapes, Reshaping Communities” — Oliver Kellhammer & Jennifer Burns Levin
| May 9, 2013 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
Hendricks Hall
Hearth Rm (1st floor)
1408 University St., UO campus
A Fireside Conversation with Oliver Kellhammer, a permaculture artist, writer, and teacher specializing in ecological restoration and land art, and Jennifer Burns Levin, who teaches literature in the UO Clark Honors College. The two will talk about Kellhammer’s interest in the shifting power relationships within public urban spaces and his own work on ”botanical interventions,” land art that facilitates the healing processes of damaged landscapes and creates opportunities for more productive, mutually beneficial relationships between people and the environment.
Voices of Environmental Justice: A Panel Discussion
| April 12, 2012 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
John E. Jaqua Academic Learning Center
1615 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus
FREE and open to the public
A panel discussion about environmental justice in Eugene and Lane County.
Moderator: Lisa Arkin, Executive Director of Beyond Toxics
17th Annual Grassroots Environmental Justice Conference
| April 7, 2012 |
The Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER) is proud to announce its 17th Annual Grassroots Environmental Justice Conference on Saturday April 7th, 2012. No registration is required. Please join us for a great weekend of free food and free knowledge at the University of Oregon (EMU Fir Room (Keynotes and Artistic Panel) and River Rooms (all other events)).
Here is the schedule:
- 1030: Light Breakfast River Rooms
- 11:00 EJ workshop led by CAER River Rooms
- 12:00 Lunch Keynote: Breeze Harper Fir Room
- 1:30 Free Time/Games/Networking River Room
- 2:00 Local Eugene Panel River Room
- 3:00 NW Dirty Energy Panel River Room
- 4:00 Food Justice Panel River Room
- 5:00 Free Time/Games/Networking River Room
- 5:30 Dinner Keynote: Michelle Williams Fir Room
- 7:00 EJ Art Workshop: Favianna Rodrguez Fir Room
“Too Many P’s”? Personal, Political, Publics and Potatoes — a conversation about the politics of food and kinship with novelist Ruth Ozeki
Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Fir Room, 1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus FREE & open to the public
Ruth Ozeki will read from her novel, All Over Creation, and will be joined at the table by an interdisciplinary panel of scholars. We will talk about public engagement with agricultural technoscience, genetic modification of crops, nonviolent direct action, and the creative use of generative metaphors. We will tease out some relationships between genes, gender and genre along the way.
Thursday Panelists