Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes human rights lawyer Oronto Douglas, advisor to the President of Nigeria, for a discussion of the impact of the major oil companies on the ecology and politics of Nigeria. Drawing on his experience as a native of the Niger Delta and a leader of
the environmental movement there, Oronto Douglas traces the struggle for environmental justice in his homeland. He analyzes the problems facing the new President of Nigeria and discusses his own role in the new administration. Oronto Douglas then analyzes the BP disaster in the American Gulf Coast and compares that tragedy to the experience of the Niger Delta. He discusses the impact of the BP spill on global consciousness and identifies the conditions necessary for a global response to the devastation of the environment resulting from the voracious global appetite for oil.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
http://conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/
http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1721
Electrical Engineering 123, 001 - Spring 2015
Digital Signal Processing - Shimon Michael Lustig
Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Science for Parks, Parks for Science: The Next Century
10:15 am:
Plenary: “Seas the Day!”
Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
10:55 am:
Plenary: “Expand or represent? Restore or protect? Manage or expand? Conundrums in protected area policy”
Hugh Possingham, Professor and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland
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Pollan reads from his work, is interviewed about his writing process, and answers questions from the audience.
Michael Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School and director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. He is a contributing writer at the "New York Times Magazine", and the author of three books: "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World"; "A Place of My Own"; and "Second Nature". For many years he served as Executive Editor of "Harper's Magazine". His writing has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the Humane...