Events--
ETSU
Environmental Studies Minor
last update: Sep 2, 2009
Click
here for past event listings: Spring 2009;
Fall 2008
Fall
2009
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1. Environmental Film Series--Click here for
MORE ABOUT THE FILMS!
All
films start at 7pm in Ball Hall auditorium (rm 127).
Thurs
Sep 24
"National
Sacrifice Zone: Colorado and the Cost of Energy Independence" 2007, USA, 59 min.
Tues
Sep 29
"Coal
Country" 2009, USA, 84 min.
Thurs
Oct 1
"Blue
Gold: World Water Wars" 2008, USA,
90 min.
Mon
Oct 5
"Milking
the Rhino" 2008, USA, 83 min.
Weds
Oct 7
"Children
of the Amazon" 2008, USA, 72 min.
Tues
Oct 13
"A
Sea Change" 2009, Norway, 83 min.
Thurs
Oct 15
Two
short films about locals who get active when their environment is destroyed by
large-scale extractive industries:
"The
Real McCoys" 2009, USA, 21 min.
"ˇJusticia
Now!" 2008, Ecuador, 31 min.
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2. Larry Gibson will speak in the Culp Center
Auditoriium (rm 127). 7pm, Thurs Nov
5.
His
topic: Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia.
Larry
Gibson's family has lived on or near Kayford Mountain since the late 1700's.
More than 300 relatives are buried in the cemetery on Kayford Mountain. Larry
and his family used to live on the lowest lying part of the mountain, and
looked "up" to the mountain peaks that surrounded them. Since 1986,
the slow motion destruction of Kayford Mountain has been continuous -- 24 hours
a day, seven days a week. Eighteen years after the "mountain top
removal" project began, Larry Gibson now occupies the highest point of
land around; he is enveloped by a 12,000 acre pancake in what was previously a
mountain range. Click here for more information.
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3. Orrin Pilkey will speak in Ball Hall
Auditorium (rm 127). 7pm, Tues Nov 10.
"Rising
Seas and Shifting Shores: Global Warming and Expanding Oceans."
Pilkey
is co-author of The
Rising Sea (Island Press, 2009), which he'll be signing after the talk. He
also recently published "Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists
Can't Predict the Future," and other notables include "The Corps and
the Shore" and "The Beaches are Moving."
Orrin
H. Pilkey is a research professor, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Earth
& Ocean Sciences, and Director Emeritus of the Program for the Study of
Developed Shorelines (PSDS) within the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences in
the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University.