
Our Sustainable Future - CSU, Chico
This Way to Sustainability Conference VI
Keynotes and Featured Speakers this year include:
A Multimedia Presentation: Climate Change in the Himalayas |
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This presentation is part of the On the Creek Lecture Series, and is co-sponsored by the Institute for Sustainable Development at CSU, Chico and Chico Performances. This lecture is also part of the This
Way to Sustainability Conference VI. (Download flyer, pdf)
Orville SchellAuthor and Journalist, Expert on China and Tibet |
David BreashearsAccomplished filmmaker, adventurer, author, mountaineer, and professional speaker. |
While best known as one of the country's most well informed and thoughtful observers on China, Orville Schell has also been a ship-hand, a war correspondent in Indochina, a rancher, a journalist reporting for such magazines as The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The New Yorker, TIME, Wired, and Foreign Affairs. He has been a contributor on China for PBS, NBC, and CBS, where a 60 Minutes program of his won an Emmy. He has also served as a correspondent for several PBS/Frontline documentaries on China and Tibet and covered the war in Iraq for The New York Review of Books. |
David Breashears is an accomplished filmmaker, adventurer, author, mountaineer, and professional speaker. Since 1978, he has combined his skills in climbing and filmmaking to complete more than forty film projects. |
Don't miss the Schell-Breshears pre-lecture Open Forum
Friday at 3:00 in Student Services Center Rm. 150
Rivers of Ice: Are the Glaciers of the Himalayas Melting?
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Paul Rowland Paul Rowland is the Executive Director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Paul was the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Idaho and also Dean of the School of Education at The University of Montana. He was one of the founders of the Ponderosa Project – a faculty development project focused on integrating sustainability throughout the curriculum. |
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- SESSION CANCELED - Jerome Ringo became National President of the Apollo Alliance in 2005, working diligently as a dedicated champion of environmental justice and a vocal advocate of clean energy. Jerome inspires audiences around the world to create a new clean energy economy. |
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Debra Rowe Debra has been professor of energy management and renewable energy at Oakland Community College. Dr. Rowe is the President of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development. She helps higher education associations and institutions integrate sustainability into mission, curricula, research, student life, purchasing and investments, facilities and operations, and community partnerships. At CSU, Chico Campus in BMU 210: |
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David Cobb David Cobb was the Green Party nominee for President of the United States in 2004. David is the Campaigns Director for Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County and is a Fellow with Liberty Tree: The Foundation for the Democratic Revolution. His entire legal career is dedicated to challenging illegitimate corporate power and to creating an active democracy movement in the United States. Don't miss his workshop to follow at 11:00 in the Bell Memorial Union Rm 314: |









