John Elder, professor emeritus of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, gave a lecture at the Monterey Institute entitled “Field Stories: Learning Beyond the Campus” on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. In this lecture John reported on his recent experiences of pursuing the goals of liberal education through work off campus and outside the traditional [...]
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I conducted an informational interview in preparation for the Economics of Happiness Conference, which took place in Berkeley in March 2012. Listen for his thoughts on how our globalized capitalist system and constructed social norms impact our lives in profound ways. Steven Gorelick is the US Program Director for the International Society for Ecology and Culture [...]
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CSU Monterey Bay hosted an evening with activist and writer Winona LaDuke on the topic Environmental Justice from an Indigenous Perspective. LaDuke is a member of the Mississippi Band Anishanaabekwe who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations in Northern Minnesota and the executive director of Honor the Earth, a native-lead organization concerned with [...]
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Peter Hayes, Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, talks about the implications of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the rest of East Asia. He also addresses security linkages such as early warning, rapid response, spent fuel relocation, and the role of civil society networks. The lecture [...]
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Tom Philpott is the Food and Ag blogger for Mother Jones, and the former editor of the online environmental news site Grist. He spoke at the closing plenary of the 2012 EcoFarm Conference at Asilomar Conference Center. Listen to his compelling treatment of America’s regulatory regimes and biotech agribusiness companies versus organic and sustainable agriculture. He [...]
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The twenty-second annual Bioneers Conference took place in San Rafael, California, with thousands of attendees. The weekend focuses on Bioneers’ manifesto, which is “to inspire a shift to live on earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other, and future generations.” The year’s theme was “From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Transforming Civilization in [...]
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I had the opportunity to interview Andy Kimbrell, the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety, at the recent Justice Begins with Seeds Conference in San Francisco. CFS currently has five cases in the courts to regulate or restrict GM crops. As Kimbrell says, “at CFS we don’t get passive aggressive, we just get [...]
As part of my Environmental Policy Masters program I am researching the industrial food system, conventional versus organic agriculture, and developed an interest in genetically modified organisms. I attended the first Justice Begins With Seeds Conference to deepen my understanding of the issue. This feature highlights some of the activists I interviewed, and their concerns. [...]
Developing Effective Strategies: Addressing Food Security, Climate Change and Agriculture with value driven narratives Listen to Journalist and Communications Director for the Global Justice Economy Project Jeff Conant discuss four GMO story arks he finds in the media, and alternative narratives. Conant says the common narratives are: Feeding the World is only possible with Biotech, Innovation versus Fear (which [...]