Monday, June 24, 7 pm
Grass Roots Books & Music, 227 SW 2nd Street
Adam Rome: "The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation"
In The Genius of Earth Day, the prizewinning historian Adam Rome offers a compelling account of the rise of the environmental movement. Drawing on his experience as a journalist as well as his expertise as a scholar, he explains why the first Earth Day was so powerful, bringing one of the greatest political events of the twentieth century to life.
Adam Rome teaches environmental history and environmental nonfiction at the University of Delaware. His first book, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the Lewis Mumford Prize.
VIDEO: Kathleen Dean Moore “Red Sky at Morning: Ethics and the Oceanic Crisis.”
Kathleen Dean Moore, Spring Creek Senior Fellow, October 3, 2012 at the “Nobel Conference 48, Our Global Ocean” in Minnesota. "Red Sky at Morning: Ethics and the Oceanic Crisis" CLICK HERE. Sky at Morning: Ethics and the Oceanic Crisis.” “Red Sky at Morning: Ethics and Oceanic Crisis.”
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.
The first annual Campus Creature Census has been a big success. We plan to do the Census every year from here to eternity. Keep your eyes and hearts open year-round and be thinking about what creature you'll introduce to the community next spring. Meanwhil...
Chosen for the Andrews Forest Residency: Jeff Fearnside (Corvallis, OR) and Michael Smith (Santa Fe, NM).
Chosen for the Collaborative Retreats at Shotpouch Cabin:
Visual artist Laura Young (Nashville, TN) and writer Michael Smith (Santa Fe, NM); and writers Beth Gilstrap-Barnes (Charlotte, NC) and Erin Rhodes (Syracuse, NY). Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to all who appliced.
Application deadline for Fall 2013 residencies is May 15, 2013.
OSU faculty members are invited to nominate graduate students in the humanities or environmental sciences for a writing retreat to work on a place-based writing and/or research project such as a thesis or dissertation project DETAILS HERE
Blue River Declaration: Ethics for a Changing Planet
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?read the full document
In A Sand County Almanac, conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote, “Nothing so important as a land ethic is ever written. It evolves in the mind of a thinking community.” Spring Creek and the OSU Environmental Humanities program hosted at Thinking Community event in October 2011 to 'ground truth' the new ethical insights presented in "the Blue River Declaaration" VIEW THE VIDEO of this event here (~60 mins).
Six OSU students have been chosen as winners of the second annual, "The Great Work: Re-imagining Humanity as the Planet Changes" contest. Congratulations and gratitude to Rob Blenk, Harmony Burright, Elliott Finn, Elizabeth Records, Zak Weinstein, and Alexis White.
The Great Work contest encourages students to imagine new ways to create a truly adaptive civilization, and to share stories that will empower us to respond to a changing planet and create environmentally and socially just communities.
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Other News
Kathleen Dean Moore and co-editor Michael Nelson have collected testimony by moral leaders from around the globe in the new book Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril.
Moral Ground brings together the writings by over eighty visionaries— theologians and religious leaders, scientists, elected officials, business leaders, naturalists, activists, and writers—to present a diverse and compelling call to honor our individual and collective moral responsibility to our planet.
FMI: http://moralground.com/
Forest Log
This month's feature from the H.J. Andrews Long Term Ecological Reflections Forest Log:
Gary Paul Nabhan
Light Gaps/Dark Gaps//Andrews Forest/Tumamoc Hill
I have been dreaming of dark gaps in the desert heat
& light gaps in the freezing shade of temperate rainforest....read more
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