Environmental
Writers: A Public Speaker Series Environmental Writers is free lecture series open to the university community and general public. At least four talks a year are held at FAU's Jupiter (John D. MacArthur) Campus, 5353 Parkside Drive. The series is an extension of the Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment, a training program for professional journalists begun by FAU in 2006 and sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation. The entire 2008-2009 speaker series will be posted soon. For more information, or to be added to the event email list, please contact Alana Edwards. Mark your calendar for the 2008 - 2009 series:
Wednesday,
October 22, 2008, 7pm Download the invitation at: http://www.ces.fau.edu/scripps/PyleFlyerOct22.pdf Since the publication of Richard Louv's important book, Last Child in the Woods, parents and educators finally have a term for a situation they have been worried about for years: Nature Deficit Disorder. This idea contends that when children lose intimate contact with the out-of-doors and the plants and creatures that dwell there, their lives (and the culture as a whole) suffer for it in many ways. Dr. Pyle's concept of the "extinction of experience" is parallel: when common elements of diversity become extinct within our own easy reach, it says,the people become increasingly alienated from nature, and apathetic to its conservation--thus setting in motion a formidable cycle of loss. Together, Nature Deficit Disorder and the Extinction of Experience deliver a one-two punch that promises dire consequences for both humans and the land. His experience suggests that this downward spiral is reversible, if we can manage to reinstate deep experiences in the real world in the lives of our young--experiences like catching frogs, building forts, and chasing fritillaries, such as many of us took for granted in our own youth. Drawing from his life as a lepidopterist, a writer, and an educator, Dr. Pyle will show how getting our feet back on the ground and our heads in the leafy skies can bring us all back home. RSVP to this lecture! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Download the invitation at: http://www.ces.fau.edu/scripps/BurdickInvitation.pdf RSVP to this lecture! In today’s global world, exotic animals and plants are ending up in places nature never intended them to be. Burdick, author of the recent non?ction book Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, tours the front lines of ecological invasion—the environmental risks posed, the insights that “invasion biologists” have gleaned into how ecosystems work, and what alien species can teach us about our complicated, contradictory relationship to nature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday,
January 28, 2009, 7pm Download the invitation at: RSVP to this lecture! http://www.ces.fau.edu/scripps/CummingsInvitation.pdf An environmental journalist reports on the food system in a time of declining resources, growing populations, and economic and social unrest. Ms Cummings offers a critique of industrial agriculture and asks where we go from here: what do we need to feed ourselves? What do we need to know and what technologies will support sustainability? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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November 19, 2008, 7pm 
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March 18, 2009, 7pm