Van Jones Speaking at UCSC - February 21
Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy, and in 2009 was appointed by President Obama as the first Special Advisor for Green Jobs. As part of a collaboration between the African American Resource Center, Cultural Arts & Diversity, Brain, Mind and Consciousness Society, the Student Environmental Center, Education for Sustainable Living Program, American Indian Resource Center, and the Sustainability Office, Van Jones will be speaking in the Stevenson Event Center from 7-9 PM on February 21. Find out more about Van Jones here. For more information about the event, please contact Malia Bradley
Monday Night Speaker Series
The ESLP Speaker Series is incorporated into both ESLP courses and is held every Monday night during Spring Quarter. The Speaker Series is open to all members of the Santa Cruz community. ESLP brings lecturers in from all over the country and the world. In the past, ESLP has played host to many amazing speakers including: Vandana Shiva, Derrick Jensen, Van Jones, Paul Stamets, Debra Rowe, and so many more. Check out the speakers for this spring below!
4/2 - Intro
4/9- Jim Garrison
4/16-Semillas Group - Mayan Agriculture and Community
4/23- Bob Markowitz & Desalination Alternatives ( Santa Cruz Community Group)
4/30- Julie Guthman
5/7- Josiah Raison Cain - Design ecology
5/14 - Anim Steel - Social Justice in the Food System
5/21- Dan Shugar - Policy & Government AND Don Aitken - Community Organizing (School for Environmental Change)
5/28- No Class (Memorial Day)
6/4 - TBA
6/11- ESLP Final Presentations Night!
4/9- Jim Garrison
4/16-Semillas Group - Mayan Agriculture and Community
4/23- Bob Markowitz & Desalination Alternatives ( Santa Cruz Community Group)
4/30- Julie Guthman
5/7- Josiah Raison Cain - Design ecology
5/14 - Anim Steel - Social Justice in the Food System
5/21- Dan Shugar - Policy & Government AND Don Aitken - Community Organizing (School for Environmental Change)
5/28- No Class (Memorial Day)
6/4 - TBA
6/11- ESLP Final Presentations Night!
Spring 2011 Speaker Series
April 4th- Mark Lakeman:
Grassroots organizing, Place-making, and Building Sustainable Community
Grassroots organizing, Place-making, and Building Sustainable Community
Mark Lakeman is a co-founder and sustainer of numerous city-changing initiatives and organizations, including The City Repair Project, the Village Building Convergence, Communitecture, Inc, Dignity Village, and the new Planet Repair Institute. Each of these entities is an aggressive, multi-disciplinary creative culture, working in partnership with numerous others. All of Mark's work engages and inspires place-based communities to creatively transform the social and environmental infrastructure of the public commons and private realms where people live. Often featuring permaculture or natural building techniques, each local initiative builds relational networks while leaving gorgeous footprints on the path to a better world.
City Repair’s Placemaking Guidebook: BOOK SIGNING
City Repair’s Placemaking Guidebook: BOOK SIGNING
April 11th-Leith Sharp & Ari Lesser:Sustainable Relationships on Campus & Political Hip-Hop
Leith Sharp has worked with universities for the last 18 years to achieve organizational change in the pursuit of environmental sustainability.In 1999 Harvard recruited Leith to be the founding director of Harvard’s Office for Sustainability. Under Leith’s leadership by 2008, Harvard had the largest green campus organization in the world including a $12 million revolving loan fund and over 50 LEED buildings. Leith has presented internationally, has consulted to over 100 organizations, and continues to teach at Harvard. She is currently the Executive Director of the Illinois Green Economy Network, a partnership of 48 community colleges coordinating large-scale green workforce training. She is also the Chair of the Sustainability Futures Academy, an international collaboration to accelerate the capabilities of executive leaders to drive sustainability into the core business of higher education. Leith has a bachelor of engineering (environmental engineering) from the University of New South Wales and a Master of Education (human development and psychology) from Harvard University.
Ari Lesser writes and performs intelligent, conscious, and often political Hip Hop music. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Ari Lesser is a spoken word artist and MC, performing at some of the best festivals in the Northwest. This multi-talented performer has recorded with Grammy -winning producers in LA and Miami and is one of the most approachable artists on the scene. Ari is not to be missed.
April 18th- Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander & Tim Galarneau:Food Systems
Dr. Richard A. Oppenlander, Author of “Comfortably Unaware: Global Depletion and Food Choice Responsibility,” Dr. Oppenlander is a sustainability advocate, writer, and speaker committed to improving the health of our planet. Through literary work or in person, he brings an eclectic combination of experiences regarding this topic spanning the past 40 years. Since the early 1970's, Dr. Oppenlander has extensively studied the effect our food choices have on our health and the immense impact those choices have on our environment. He is president and founder of an organic vegan food production and education business, and has given hundreds of lectures, presentations, and open discussions on the topic of food choice. He has been a featured guest appearing on radio shows, in newspapers and magazines. With "Comfortably Unaware" as well as with his speaking engagements, Dr. Oppenlander addresses the fact that our current choices of foods are causing Global Depletion-the loss of our land, water, air/atmosphere, food supply, biodiversity, energy resources, and our own health. In compelling fashion, he reveals serious inefficiencies and unsustainable practices in our current food production systems and explores unique solutions. Along the way, Dr. Oppenlander challenges audiences with new insights regarding how this has happened- exposing our cultural, social, educational, governmental, and even media influences.
Comfortably Unaware: BOOK SIGNING
Comfortably Unaware: BOOK SIGNING
Tim Galarneau is a past Roots of Change Fellow who works as an education and research program specialist on social issues for the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) focusing on farm to institution, community food systems, and student education and empowerment. He also serves as an advisor to campus farm to college efforts as a Board member for the California Student Sustainability Coalition and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. In addition, Tim is a co-founder of the Real Food Challenge that is working to shift over $1 billion in annual food procurement and consumption in colleges and universities in the United States by 2020 toward greater sustainability. Most recently, Tim is part of a diverse network of young leaders across the country, known as Live Real, that are creating a new “move-entity” for empowering youth and vulnerable communities toward changing their food systems
April 25th- Dr. Kevin Danaher: Green Economy for Social and Environmental Justice
Dr. KevinDanaher is a Co-Founder of Global Exchange (1988), Founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001), and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center (2004). Dr. Danaher has spoken at universities and for community organizations throughout the U.S. He conducts workshops on issues ranging from the dynamics of the global economy to how we can replace the power of transnational corporations with local green economy networks. A longtime critic of the so-called "free trade" agenda, Dr. Danaher explains how we can create 'grassroots globalization', empowering local communities to create sustainable local economies. Dr. Danaher has published numerous articles and is the author and/or editor of thirteen books, including his two latest: "The Green Festival Reader: Fresh ideas from Agents of Change" (2008); "Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots" (2007).
Building the Green Economy: BOOK SIGNiNG
Building the Green Economy: BOOK SIGNiNG
May 2nd-Gage Dayton & Chris Lay:Natural Reserve System & Natural History
Gage Dayton is the administrative director of the Natural Reserve System (NRS). He has a B.S. in wildlife management from Humboldt State University and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Texas A&M University. Gage works with undergraduate and graduate students both in the classroom and in the field through the UC Natural Reserve System.
Chris Lay is the Senior Museum Scientist for the Museum of Natural History Collections, as well as a course instructor for the Environmental Studies department, California Natural History Field Quarter. Chris has a Masters of Science degree from San Jose State University where he completed his thesis on the distribution of the American badger (Taxidea taxus) in the San Francisco Bay area.
May 9th- Micah Posner & Tawn Kennedy: Transportation
Micah Posner has been a bicycle advocate in Santa Cruz for 20 years. He is currently the director of People Power- a grassroots group dedicated to sensible transportation in Santa Cruz with 500 members. He also serves on the Board of the Hub for Sustainable Transportation (housing the Bike Shack) and the Board of Friends of the Rail Trail. He has also served as the Bike to Work Day Coordinator and is a co-founder PedX- a local bike messenger company.
Micah has ridden across the United States and through Israel and Egypt. His most recent tour was through Japan with his wife and 3 year old daughter. He has lived happily without a car for the last 23 years.
Micah has ridden across the United States and through Israel and Egypt. His most recent tour was through Japan with his wife and 3 year old daughter. He has lived happily without a car for the last 23 years.
Tawn Kennedy has been teaching everything from math, to the hip hop arts, to environmental education and gardening for the past 8 years. He is the director of Green Ways to School, an education program dedicated to supporting local youth in developing healthy and active transportation habits. He is a former ESLP organizer and an alumnus of Santa Cruz High and UCSC.
May 16th- Dr. Flora Lu & Friends of CAN:
Fair Trade and Global Justice
Dr. Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UCSC. She received her B.A. in Human Biology with honors from Stanford University in 1993 and Ph.D. in Ecology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999. Specializing in Ecological Anthropology, she studies the interrelationships between human societies and the natural environment with a geographic emphasis in the Neotropics. Since 1992, Flora has been conducting research with the Huaorani Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon, a predominantly subsistence-based population of hunter-gatherer-horticulturalists. This work has been featured on two programs on the National Geographic Channel—“Inside Basecamp” in the Fall of 2002 and “Next Wave II” in Spring 2003. Using interdisciplinary approaches, she examines changes in resource use, household economic patterns, and social organization among indigenous rainforest communities in a context of rapid cultural, demographic, economic and ecological change. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, UNC Royster Society Fellow, and Lang Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University, Flora has published in journals such as Conservation Biology, Human Ecology, Journal of Ecological Anthropology and the Current Anthropology. She was awarded the UCSC Division of Social Sciences Teaching Award (the "Golden Apple Award") in Fall 2010.
With great honor, ESLP in collaboration with the Friends of the Community Agroecology Network welcomes
Eleven of cooperative members ranging from ages 15-28 from a variety of cities in Mexico and Nicaragua.
This amazing group of individuals are our peers and are participants in the very first 2 week long youth course taking place in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Agroecology Network (CAN) and generously supported the Green Coffee Roasting Company. These students have come to UCSC to learn about different ways of implementing agroecological systems and to share and exchange life experiences with our community.
Eleven of cooperative members ranging from ages 15-28 from a variety of cities in Mexico and Nicaragua.
This amazing group of individuals are our peers and are participants in the very first 2 week long youth course taking place in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Agroecology Network (CAN) and generously supported the Green Coffee Roasting Company. These students have come to UCSC to learn about different ways of implementing agroecological systems and to share and exchange life experiences with our community.
May 23 -Sage Lavine & Andy Couturier:
Self-Sustainability & Simple Living
Sage Lavine, MA, CLC is a gifted Speaker, Business Coach and Life Purpose Mentor. Sage is the CEO of Purpose2Prosperity and host of the Women on Purpose telesummit series. Sage speaks to groups all over the country and has helped inspire over a thousand people to clarify their Life Purpose and live it through creating a business they love. Sage helps women entrepreneurs define their divine right market and teaches them to use their authentic self as a magnet to attract clients who areperfect for them. Sage has presented alongside women like Janet Attwood, Reverend Deborah Johnson, Dr. Sue Morter and Loral Langemeier. Last year Sage hosted a telesummit called the Women on Purpose Entrepreneurial Telesummit which launched her business into the 6-figure world and helped her reach over 3000 women entrepreneurs in 17 different countries. Sage filled her practice and is having more fun in her business than ever before, speaking around the world and hosting retreats in Bali and California.
You can find out more about Sage’s work at www.purpose2prosperity.com
Andy Couturier, MA, is the author of A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance (Stonebridge Press, 2010) and Writing Open the Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free The Writing and the Writer (Ulysses Press, 2005). He is an essayist, a poet and a professionally-trained writing teacher. His writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines and literary journals including Adbusters, Creative Non-Fiction, The Japan Times, The North American Review, The Oakland Tribune, Kyoto Journal, Fiber Arts, The Writer, and others. One of his essays received an editor's nomination for a Pushcart Prize and another appeared in an anthology of ecological writings put out by MIT Press. He has taught writing at California State University, Hayward, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and JFK University
The website for his writing courses is http://theopening.org and the blog for his book on Japanese environmentalists is http://differentkindofluxury.com
Here are are the links to the Amazon order pages for the two book titles listed above http://amzn.com/193333083X http://amzn.com/1569754764 ].
Check out this blog: theopening.org
A Different King of Luxury: Book Signing
The website for his writing courses is http://theopening.org and the blog for his book on Japanese environmentalists is http://differentkindofluxury.com
Here are are the links to the Amazon order pages for the two book titles listed above http://amzn.com/193333083X http://amzn.com/1569754764 ].
Check out this blog: theopening.org
A Different King of Luxury: Book Signing
Remember to check out his book!:differentkindofluxury.com
