May 30: Brian Tilt

On Wednesday May 30th, Dr. Bryan Tilt will share state-of-the-art findings of his research in China. His presentation will examine values, goals, and priorities in China’s environmental bureaucracy and their implications for sustainable development. The event will be held in the Gregory Forum and is open/free to the public.

This is his description of the presentation: “As economic reforms have transformed the People’s Republic of China over the past several decades, rapid industrial development has resulted in air and water pollution problems that threaten the health of China’s citizens and damage the environment. This presentation, based on recent fieldwork in an industrial township in Sichuan Province, examines community perceptions of pollution and the regulatory decisions of pollution monitoring and enforcement officials. The presentation discusses the values, goals and priorities in China’s environmental bureaucracy and their implications for sustainable development.”

Bryan Tilt is an assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University. His research focuses on sustainable development in China, with emphasis on the implications of industrial pollution for human health and ecological sustainability.

May 31: Deer Drink the Moon

Reading and book signing: May 31, 7-8:30, in RR 220 on the main CCC campus, featuring Barbara Drake, Judith Barrington, Liz Nakayama, Barbara LaMorticella, Diane Averill, and James Grabill.

Deer Drink the Moon is a collection of work by poets from across the state. The publisher, PSU’s Ooligan Press, describes it as follows: “In this collection, thirty-three of Oregon’s most esteemed poets write about the state they call home. Arranged by eco-region and accompanied by maps, these ageless poems let readers travel the state with the poets, pausing at places of inspiration. Connection with nature and the importance of family are just two of the themes readers will find along they way.”

Podcast: Kathleen Dean Moore (5/17/2007)

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May 17: Kathleen Dean Moore

Writer, philosopher and environmentalist Kathleen Dean Moore will read at noon on Thursday, May 17 in the CCC Literary Arts Center (Rook 220). The reading is open and free to the public.

Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, where she teaches Environmental Ethics and the Philosophy of Nature. She is best known as the author of nature essays that explore our cultural and spiritual connections to the natural world–Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World, and her most recent book The Pine Island Paradox. She is at work on a new book about the moral significance of wonder. At OSU, Moore directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.

Mace Vaughan: April 25

Mace Vaughan, Conservation Director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, will give a talk at noon in the McLoughlin Auditorium. Mr. Vaughan has led the Xerces Society’s Agricultural Pollinator Conservation program for the last four years. He supervises research and outreach on habitat restoration for crop pollinating native bees, develops and presents educational materials to policy makers, land managers, and growers, and collaborates extensively with scientists researching the role and habitat needs of crop-pollinating native bees. He has written articles on the conservation of bees, butterflies, invertebrates, and insects, and is co-author of the Pollinator Conservation Handbook and Farming for Bees: Guidelines for Providing Native Bee Habitat on Farms. He has worked stints as an insect wrangler for PBS Nature.

April 26: Clem Starck

Poet Clem Starck will read from his work at noon in Rook Hall, Room 220. Starck is the author of Journeyman’s Wages, for which he received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry in 1996 and the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award. His other books include China Basin and Studying Russian on Company Time.

Jeffrey St. Clair: April 18

Investigative journalist, writer and Oregon City resident Jeffrey St. Clair will speak on Wednesday, April 18 from noon to 1 p.m. in the McLoughlin Auditorium.

St. Clair is a writer and co-editor with Alexander Cockburn of the political newsletter CounterPunch. His reporting specializes on environmental and military issues. He has lived in Oregon since 1990 when he moved here to edit the influential environmental magazine Forest Watch, published by libertarian economist Randal O’Toole.

In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA’s ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras. This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, Al Gore: a User’s Manual, and Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature.

Spring 2007 Events

We are delighted to announce the 2007 schedule of events.  Click here for full details.  You can also  download a printer-friendly flier here (PDF).

Podcast: Curtis White (Mar 14 2007)

Novelist and social critic Curtis White gave a talk and read from his recent Orion essay, “The Idols of Environmentalism,” on March 14.  The Sustainability Project co-sponsored the event and recorded White’s talk, which you can download by clicking here.

Podcast: Mark Hixon (Feb 6 2007)

On February 6, Oregon State University professor Mark A. Hixon lectured on biodiversity and ocean warming to a standing-room-only crowd in CCC’s Literary Arts Center. Click here to listen to an MP3 recording of his talk and again here to download his Powerpoint presentation (broadband connection highly recommended).