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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

The Costs of Global Warming - Laurent Hodges, Don Roberts and Ross Talbot
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Laurent Hodges, ISU Physics Department, has been teaching classes on the greenhouse effect since 1970 and is author of Environmental Pollution. Don Roberts, ISU Nuclear Engineering Department, is a member of the Environmental Studies Faculty Committee. Ross Talbot, ISU Political Science Department, has taught environmental politics and polices and was a faculty member of the Water Resources Program. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Transforming the Ecological Crisis - Barry Commoner
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Internationally recognized environmentalist Barry Commoner is director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems and professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Queens College, CUNY. He is president of the International Environmental Institute in Cervia, Italy; scientific advisor to the N>Y> State Legislative Committee on Science and Technology; and serves on the board of the Committee for Responsible Genetics. His books include:Science and Survival, The Poverty of Power, and The Politics of Energy. He received his doctorate in biology from Harvard University. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Film: If you Love this Planet & Greenpeace's Greatest Hits
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Environmental activist Helen Caldicott traces the development of atomic weapons and the immediate and long-term medical and environmental impact their use would have in the film If You Love this Planet. Footage from civil defense films and of the Hiroshima survivors is also included. Greenpeace's Greatest Hits shows the non-violent confrontational actions used by Greenpeace to stop the killing of endangered whales, the spread of man-made pollutants and other assaults on our environment. Part of the World Affairs Series