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Reading and Talk - Carol Spindel
4:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Carol Spindel's book In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove describes life in a remote, tribal village in West Africa where she learned the customs, potting techniques and language of the Ivory Coast women. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Film: Environment Under Fire
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Central American activists and officials and US environmentalists describe the links between war, poverty and the destruction of the environment. This award-winning film by the Environmental Project on Central America demonstrates the desperate ecological and political plight of Central America. Part of the World Affairs Series

ISU's Role in the Global Environment - David Glenn-Lewin and Eugene Takle
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Glenn-Lewin, professor and chair of the ISU Botany Department, is a member of the newly formed Council on Global Change. Eugene Takle, ISU Agronomy Department and Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Department, is chair of the Council. Gary Atchinson, coordinator of the ISU Environmental Studies Program and professor of Animal Ecology, will moderate. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

The Warming Earth: Scientific Puzzle and Political Dilemma - George M Woodwell
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - George M. Woodwell is founder and director of the Woods Hole Research Center which addresses global environmental problems through research, participation in public affairs and education. He is currently involved in a detailed study of the role of plants and animals in the global carbon budget. He also founded and directed the Ecosystems Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Technological Literacy - A National Imperative - Richard Bray
4:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Richard Bray is president of the International Technology Education Association. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism - James O'Connor
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - James O' Connor is a co-founder of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology and author of The Meaning of Crisis, Accumulation Crisis, The Fiscal Crisis of the State and other books. He is a professor of Sociology and Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches graduate seminars on capitalism and nature and the sociology of the environment. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Film: Banking on Disaster
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This documentary covers what may be the century's worst environmental disaster-the destruction of the Amazon rain forest. Part of the World Affairs Series

Lands, Trees and Justice: Politics and the Environment - Alexander Cockburn
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Alexander Cockburn writes columns for The Nation, Wall Street Journal and many other major and alternate publications. He has appeared on Nightline and The Phil Donahue Show and his books include Political Ecology and The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. Raised in Ireland and educated at Oxford, his father was the distinguished radical journalist Claud Cockburn. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Aggressive Nonviolence and the Environment - Paul Watson
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Paul Watson is a founding member of Greenpeace. He also founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society which enforces international regulations against the illegal slaughter of whales, dolphins, and seals. He is author of two books: Cry Wolf and Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Seals. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Preserving Biodiversity - Anne Ehrlich
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Anne Ehrlich is associate director of the Center for Conservation Biology and senior research associate in Biological Sciences at Stanford. She serves on the boards of the Center for Innovative Diplomacy, the Pacific Institute and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. She has coauthored a half-dozen books including Eco-science; Population, Resources, Environment; Extinction; and Earth. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis