"Nature in Cities" with Peter Berg - Ecology Emerges Talk Series
This great green event is over now!
| Date: |
Wed April 28 2010
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Wed April 28 2010
Wednesday, 7:30 pm |
| Where: |
CounterPULSE
1310 Mission Street (at 9th Street in SoMa)
San Francisco
California, 94103 [ Map it!] |
Event Type: |
Lectures/Talks/Book Signings |
| Web Site: |
http://shapingsf.org/ecology_emerges.html |
Considering urbanization as a global crisis/an opportunity...
Join Planet Drum Foundation Director, Peter Berg at this NATURE IN CITIES presentation at CounterPULSE in San Francisco. Mr. Berg, Miya Yoshitani of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and Jason Mark of Earth Island Journal and Alemany Farm will discuss urbanization as a global crisis and as an opportunity, with a view toward understanding the restorative, regenerative, and imaginative possibilities of a new integration of urban and rural peoples/communities through avenues such as local agriculture, human-powered transport (walking, biking), etc.
Free admission.
For more information about Planet Drum Foundation, email: mail@planetdrum.org, phone 415-285-6556, or visit the website: www.planetdrum.org
This event is part of the Shaping San Francisco Talk Series, Ecology Emerges series. For more information, see website, linked above, or call 415-881-7579. Events hosted by Jon Christensen, Executive Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University.
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Past event (first in series, March 18th):
Evolution of Eco-Activism..With Jerry Mander (International Forum on Globalization), Karen Pickett (Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters), and Carla Pérez (Movement Generation)
Exploring the evolution of nature and ecological activism, how we thought about it 40 years ago vs. how we think about it now. Following the compelling shift from conservation to environmentalism to environmental/social justice over the last half-century.
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