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Ecology Emerges Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Click HERE for a pdf of the 11x17 poster designed by Mona Caron Events hosted by Jon Christensen, Executive Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University |
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1. Evolution of
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. |
2. Bay Area as Incubator
Examining the Bay Area as a demonstration area and incubator of experiments that shaped the national and international ecological movements. What is the relationship of San Francisco to its region? The region to the state, to the continent, to the oceans, and to the planet? |
3. Nature in Cities
Considering urbanization as a global crisis/an opportunity. Understanding the restorative, regenerative, and imaginative possibilities of a new integration of urban and rural through local agriculture, human-powered transport (e.g. walking, biking), etc. |
4. Economies of Nature Can there be "sustainability" within a growth-based, capitalist economy? Do "ecosystem services" and "natural capitalism" lead away from our current path, or do they only reinforce it? How does the Utopian imagination affect the narrow push for Green Survivalism? |
More Information: (415) 881-7579 |
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Berkeley Daily Gazette, March 1, 1971
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