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Leopold Center hosts fall lineup:
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October 10, 7 p.m., James
Howard Kunstler, Sun Room, ISU Memorial Union,
Ames
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October 22, 7 p.m.,
Keeney Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr.
Robert Lawrence, Center for a Livable Future,
ISU Curtiss Auditorium, Ames
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October 26-27, Rural
Youth Summit: Revitalizing Rural America, ISU
Scheman Building, Ames
James Howard Kunstler, October 10
The Leopold Center, in collaboration with the Center
for Energy and Environmental Education at the
University of Northern Iowa, is bringing
best-selling author and social critic James Howard
Kunstler to Iowa. He will present "The Long
Emergency: The Coming Global Oil Crisis and Climate
Change," based on his latest book of the same name.
Kunstler is perhaps best known for The Geography
of Nowhere, a history of suburbia and urban
development in the United States. He is a regular
contributor to the New York Times Sunday
magazine and op-ed page, where he has written on
environmental and economic issues.
Co-sponsors include the ISU
Departments of English and Creative Writing,
Landscape Architecture, and Community and Regional
Planning; the Institute for Design Research and
Outreach; ISU Bioethics Program; ISU College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences Miller Lecture Fund; and
the ISU Lectures Program funded by GSB. While in
Iowa, Kunstler also will speak in Cedar Falls and
meet with ISU sustainable agriculture graduate
students.
Keeney Lecture hosts doctor and
environmental researcher, October 22
The Leopold Center will honor former director Dennis
Keeney by hosting the Keeney Distinguished Lecture.
Guest speaker will be Dr. Robert Lawrence, founding
director of the Center for a Livable Future at the
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in
Baltimore, Maryland. He will present, "The
Agriculture-Public Health Connection." Lawrence, a
medical doctor and environmental researcher, will
discuss the obesity epidemic, the problems
associated with antibiotic resistance, the problems
of food security and the contribution of industrial
agriculture to global climate change. He has written
extensively on the environmental and human health
problems associated with current food production
practices and farm policy.
Rural youth options and
obstacles, October 26-27
The Leopold Center is a planning team member for a
two-day conference designed to connect young people
from rural communities around the country to
exchange ideas on the challenges and opportunities
of living in rural areas. University students,
beginning farmers, new Americans, technical college
students, young professionals, high school students,
entrepreneurs, rural youth advocates, and people
under age 35 who dream of living in rural areas are
invited to participate.
Highlights include a 2008
Presidential candidate forum, presentations by and
for rural youth, leadership training and youth
roundtable discussions, and networking
opportunities. The event is organized by the
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in
Minneapolis. Find more information on the IATP web
site,
www.iatp.org, or from ISU contact Carol
Williams, willico@iastate.edu, (515) 294-6735. |