Campus Sustainability: in the Great Lakes Colleges Association: What Works? What's Next?
A one-day conference for faculty, students, staff and administrators

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Burton D. Morgan Center
Denison University
Granville, Ohio

 Conference agenda and registration

Annie Leonard is the Director of The Story of Stuff Project and narrator/host of The Story of Cap & Trade. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Story of Stuff, from the Free Press imprint of Simon & Schuster (March 2010). The Story of Stuff, her 2008 film, has been viewed over 8 million times on-line and in thousands of schools, churches, community centers and theatres around the world.  

Annie Leonard Lecture
Thursday January 28
4:30 p.m.
Slayter Auditorium

Watch The Story of Stuff online now 

Juliet Schor is the co-founder of Center for a New American Dream a professor in the Department of Sociology at Boston College, a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient; author of The Overworked America; The Overspent American; and Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture.

Juliet Schor lecture
Thursday February 4
4:30 p.m.
Slayter Auditorium
Part 1 of a 2-part examination of Economics and Consumer Culture in the U.S.  

Stephen Marglin, holds the Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and is author of How Thinking Like an Economist Ruins Communities

Stephen Marglin Lecture
Tuesday February 9
4:30 p.m.
Slayter Auditorium

Part 2 of a 2-part examination of economics and consumer culture in the U.S. and part of the Campus Sustainability Theme.

Curt Ellis, co-producer  feature documentary, King Corn about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from.  With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil.  But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

Big River:  The Director's Cut:  A screening and discussion with filmmaker and environmental activist Curt Ellis, co-creater and star of King Corn and Big River
Thursday February 11, 2009
7:30 p.m. 
Burton Morgan Lecture Hall

EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER & FLIGHT CANCELLATION.  EVENT WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED LATER IN SPRING 

Of note:  The film King Corn is available at the Denison Library.  Curt Ellis will also also host the  Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association Conference Film Festival on Saturday February 13th in Granville. 

Among his more than twenty books are novels, collections of stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put, Writing from the Center, and Hunting for Hope. His latest books are A Private History of Awe, a coming-of-age memoir, love story, and spiritual testament, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and A Conservationist Manifesto, his vision of a shift from a culture of consumption to a culture of caretaking.

His writing examines the human place in nature, the pursuit of social justice, the relation between culture and geography, and the search for a spiritual path.

Scott Russell Sanders lecture
Thursday February 25
Time TBD
Higley Auditorium

Sanders was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1945. His father came from a family of cotton farmers in Mississippi, his mother from an immigrant doctor’s family in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Tennessee and his school years in Ohio. He studied physics and English at Brown University, graduating in 1967. With the aid of a Marshall Scholarship, he pursued graduate work at the Cambridge University, where he completed his Ph.D. in English in 1971. From 1971 until his retirement in 2009, he taught at Indiana University, from 1995 onward as Distinguished Professor of English.

Michael Pollan is the author of more than a half dozen books, including In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and The Omnivore's Dilemma, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Pollan appears in Food, Inc. a documentary on the food industry, and The Botany of Desire, recently broadcast on PBS. Pollan is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. 

Michael Pollan Lecture
Wednesday April 14, 2010
8 p.m.
Swasey Chapel  

John Francis, Ph.D. founded Planetwalk in 1982 when he began his walking and sailing pilgrimage around the world. To date, Dr. Francis has walked across the U.S., sailed and walked through the Caribbean, and South America from Venezuela to Argentina and a walk in Cuba. Currently, he is continuing a walk backtracking his first walk  from Cape May NJ. to Point Reyes CA.

John's stirring memoir, Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking; 17 Years of Silence was published in 2008 by the National Geographic Society.

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