2008-09 Events & Speakers Calendar

Throughout the academic year, the Environmental Institute hosts many opportunities for students to explore the interplay among environmental issues, values, and other areas of intellectual inquiry and to put these ideas into practice with a variety of service projects. Upcoming events are now scheduled for:

Fall 2009 Events

• September
• October
• November

Past Events

Visiting speakers give students an opportunities to hear leaders in the field. In spring of 2000, the college hosted a symposium entitled "Environmental Activism for the New Millennium." Speakers included Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream, a book about human toll of environmental toxins; and Robert Cox, former head of the Sierra Club. Speakers present on timely issues, in 2005-6 Larry Gibson and David Cooper from the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition spoke on coal and Mountaintop removal, Thom Wilch spoke on Global Change, and Dulcey Simpkins from the Michigan Biomass Energy Program spoke on renewable energy sources.

Students get a chance to interact with all of our speakers. Here students from the institute converse with Robert Kennedy following his address.