Thriving forest, rich soil,clean air, fresh water, bountiful oceans--these are our common heritage. But in this thoroughly commodified and increasingly privatized world, the commons is everywhere diminished. Our challenge is to re-imagine the commons. How might our society be inspired to share both the gifts of the commons and the responsibility for their long-term well being?
(except Tuesday, FEBRUARY 5th and Friday, February 15th - see below for details)
Jan. 17
Devon Pena, environmental anthropologist, University of Washington, author,
Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra y Vida
Jan. 24
Eric Freyfogle, legal scholar, University of Illinois, author,
The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good
Tuesday, Feb. 5
SPECIAL EVENT -- Campus Carbon Challenge Kick-Off: Gary Braasch, photographer,
Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World - 7:00 pm, Withycombe 109
Feb. 7
Ted Jojola (Pueblo), Regents Professor of Community and Regional Planning,
University of Mexico
Feb. 14
Mark Hixon, marine biologist, Oregon State University; chair, Marine Protected Areas
Federal Advisory Committee
Friday, Feb. 15
SPECIAL EVENT--Ann Pancake, novelist, Strange as this Weather Has Been, 7:00 pm, Valley Library Rotunda
Feb. 21
Kim Stanley Robinson, novelist, the Mars Trilogy; Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below
Zero, and Sixty Days and Counting
Feb. 28
Mary Wood, environmental law, University of Oregon, author,
Nature's Trust: A Legal Paradigm for Protecting Land and Natural Resources for Future Generations
March 6
Local Commons' Advocates
March 13
David Korten, Co-founder, Positive Futures Network; author,
The Great Turning: From Earth Empire to Earth Community
Sponsored by: The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word;
and the OSU Department of Philosophy
For more information: The Spring Creek Project, 737-6198; Spring.creek@oregonstate.edu