What: Shasta College Sustainability Conference
When: Friday (April 22), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Room 806, Shasta College Main Campus
Cost: Free and open to the public
Presentations include: Nuclear Power, Climate Change, Tools for Teaching Green, Farmers Facing Global Warming, and more. Contact information: 242.2248.
Here is the day’s schedule and speakers:
9 – 9:50 a.m. — “The Second Most Important Tool We Have for Teaching Green”
Architect James Theimer, AIA, LEED AP
10 – 10:50 a.m. — “Threatened Waters: Rivers, Lakes, and Aquifers”
Morgan Hannaford, Biology Professor / Shasta College
11 – 11:50 a.m. — “Farmers Facing Global Warming”
Opening by Dan Scollon, Geography Professor / Shasta College
Followed by local farmers: Jim Collins, Eco-Psychologist & Garden Manager / Shasta College Community Teaching Garden; Kalan Redwood, Redwood Seeds / local, organic seed supplier
12 – 1 p.m. — Lunch, on your own
1 – 1:50 p.m. — “Climate Change: Evidence, Denial, and Consequence”
Doug Craig, Clinical Psychologist and Radio Show Host
2 – 2:50 p.m. — “Geoengineering: What is it? Why should we care?”
Mauro Oliveira, Founder / SOL Communications, a non profit environmental/human rights organization
3 – 3:50 p.m. — “Sustainable Human Development”
Kathryn Gessner, English Professor / Shasta College
Member of the Board of Directors / Lotus Outreach International
4:00 – 4:50 p.m. — “Nuclear Power is Not the Solution to our Energy Problem because it IS a Problem Itself”
Divan Fard, Chemistry Professor / Shasta College
-from press release
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