Dangerous Years: Climate Change in the Long Emergency

David Orr

Monday, 29 Feb 2016 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

David W. Orr, a professor of environmental studies at Oberlin College, is a leader in the sustainability movement and known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy and ecological design. He serves as counselor to the president at Oberlin and is the Stephan Minter Fellow at the Cleveland Foundation. Orr is the author of more than seven books, including Down to the Wire, The Last Refuge, The Nature of Design, Earth in Mind, and Ecological Literacy, and is the co-editor of Hope is an Imperative. In an influential article in the Chronicle of Higher Education 2000 he proposed the goal of carbon neutrality for colleges and universities and subsequently organized and funded an effort to define a carbon neutral plan for his own campus. He also organized the effort to design the first substantially green building on a U.S. college campus. Part of the University Symposium on Sustainability and the Pearl Hogrefe Visiting Writers Series

The Symposium on Sustainability will host a poster display and reception prior to the lecture, 6:30-8:00pm, in the South Ballroom. Help celebrate sustainability efforts and accomplishments on and off-campus.

Cosponsored By:
  • Live Green Initiative
  • MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment
  • Office of Sustainability
  • Pearl Hogrefe Fund
  • The Green Umbrella
  • Writers' Guild
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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