the Spring Creek Project Mission
The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word, to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, January 26, 7 pm, Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
Bill Porter / Red Pine
Bill Porter, whose renowned translations of ancient Chinese poetry and sacred texts appear under the name Red Pine, will share stories, poems and photographs from his extensive travels in China in search of Taoist hermits.
Porter has chronicled his travels in China in several prose books, Road to Heaven and Zen Baggage. His translations of such classics as Lao-tzu's Taoteching, and In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu have been honored with NEA translation fellowships, American Literary Translators Asian Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. PRESS RELEASE POSTER
Tricycle interview with Bill Porter
Friday, January 27, 7:30, MU Journy Room, OSU
Bill Porter and Eric Paul Shaffer
Poetry reading and book signing. POSTER
Bill Porter is a poet and translator well known for his work with Buddhist texts. Translating under the name Red Pine his work has been honored with a number of awards including two NEA translation fellowships, a PEN translation award, the inaugural Asian Literature Award of the American Literary Translators Association, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. After living for many years in Taiwan and Hong Kong, he now lives and writes in Port Townsend, Washington.
Eric Paul Shaffer is author of five books of poetry, including Lahaina Noon and Portable Planet. His poetry has appeared in such journals as North American Review, Slate, and The Sun Magazine. Shaffer received the 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, a 2006 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Book Award for Lahaina Noon, and the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. He lives on O‘ahu and teaches at Honolulu Community College.
Porter and Schaffer's reading is part of the Literary Northwest Series co-sponsored by OSU Department of English MFA program and the OSU Beaver Store.
Resources
The Blue River Declaration: Ethics for a Changing Planet -- read the full document
A truly adaptive civilization will align its ethics with the ways of the Earth. A civilization that ignores the deep constraints of its world will find itself in exactly the situation we face now, on the threshold of making the planet inhospitable to humankind and other species. The questions of our time are thus: What is our best current understanding of the nature of the world? What does that understanding tell us about how we might create a concordance between ecological and moral principles, and thus imagine an ethic that is of, rather than against, the Earth?
Blue River Declaration 3-panel brochure.pdf
The Great Work: Re-imagining Humanity as the Planet Changes
Read all the pieces and comment on The Great Work blog
“The Great Work: Re-imagining Humanity as the Planet Changes,” encourages students to imagine new ways of thinking about success, community, and happiness as climate destabilization and declining cheap energy lead to environmental, economic and social disruptions.
Kathleen Dean Moore video now on-line:
Spring Creek's director, Kathleen Moore gave this talk, " To Save the Future: New Alliances of Science and Ethics" in the OSU Geosciences Winter Seminar Series: Earth System Science for a Healthy Planet, in January, 2010
Vandana Shiva’s lecture video now available on-line:
Vandana Shiva spoke at OSU in October, 2009 as the final speaker in our symposium "Earth Democracy: Women, Justice, and Ecology."
the Spring Creek Project Mission:
The challenge of the Spring Creek Project is to bring together the practical wisdom of the environmental sciences, the clarity of philosophical analysis, and the creative, expressive power of the written word, to find new ways to understand and re-imagine our relation to the natural world.
