Peter Goldmark
Environmental Defense
So You Want to Change the World?
Or: Hammering on the Cliff in the Sun
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 12:00-1:30 pm
Orfalea Center Seminar Room – 1005 Rob Gym
(office wing at Ocean Road in front of Rob Gym, left side)
Peter Goldmark currently directs the Climate and Air program for Environmental Defense. Prior to joining Environmental Defense, he was Chairman and CEO of the International Herald Tribune. Peter has had exceptional careers in both the public and private sectors. His public service was highlighted by his tenure as Budget Director for the State of New York during the 1970s city- and state-wide fiscal crisis where he was an architect of its rescue; and as Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey through to 1983. He served as president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1988 to 1997, encouraging its involvement in environmental issues, particularly as they related to energy.
Mr. Goldmark was also a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1982-1988), member of Board Overseers and Chair of Harvard University’s Finance Committee (1984-1990), director of Knight Ridder Inc. (1991-1998), director of the Dreyfus Third Century Mutual Fund (1992-1998), member of the National Commission on Civic Renewal (1997-1998), trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (2000-2007) and trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. In addition, he serves as a board member of Lend Lease Corporation (1999-present), and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Goldmark is a recipient of the Wilson Wyatt National Award for Urban Revitalization and a member of the Legion of Honor, France. He has taught courses at the JFK School of Government, Harvard; Yale College; The New School; Brandeis University and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University as Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Talk: The Future of Humankind and the Role of Green Chemistry
Robert Peoples, Ph.D.
Director of the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute®
The Future of Humankind and the Role of Green Chemistry
February 18th, 2010 @ 7:00-8:30pm
SB Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
FREE
Sustainability is a word that is being used more and more these days. What does it really mean and do we understand what it will take to truly be sustainable? This talk will focus on macroscopic issues facing the developing world and the resulting sustainability challenges they present. We will look at the role green chemistry can play in meeting those global challenges and provide examples of green chemistry and engineering in action. Dialog will be strongly encouraged throughout the talk.
Presented by Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS), and The Green Initiative Fund. http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/lars
For more information, contact: kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu
Director of the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute®
The Future of Humankind and the Role of Green Chemistry
February 18th, 2010 @ 7:00-8:30pm
SB Public Library, Faulkner Gallery
FREE
Sustainability is a word that is being used more and more these days. What does it really mean and do we understand what it will take to truly be sustainable? This talk will focus on macroscopic issues facing the developing world and the resulting sustainability challenges they present. We will look at the role green chemistry can play in meeting those global challenges and provide examples of green chemistry and engineering in action. Dialog will be strongly encouraged throughout the talk.
Presented by Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS), and The Green Initiative Fund. http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/lars
For more information, contact: kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Talk: Oil, Water, and the Sacred: Super/Natural Resources in Francophone Postcolonial Fiction
TALK: Oil, Water, and the Sacred: Super/Natural Resources in Francophone Postcolonial Fiction
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington)
Wednesday, February 17 / 1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone postcolonial fiction has always served as a means of figuring the properly political relationship between France and its former colonies and highlighting the resource-extractive politics of colonialism and neo-colonialism, but that it has recently come to signify broader cultural and eco-philosophical differences between metropole and postcolony. Bessora's Petroleum represents with equal emphasis the social and environmental externalities of the oil boom in postcolonial Gabon and the spiritual conflict that it provokes.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, Community Environmental Council and American Cultures and Global Contexts Center.
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington)
Wednesday, February 17 / 1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone postcolonial fiction has always served as a means of figuring the properly political relationship between France and its former colonies and highlighting the resource-extractive politics of colonialism and neo-colonialism, but that it has recently come to signify broader cultural and eco-philosophical differences between metropole and postcolony. Bessora's Petroleum represents with equal emphasis the social and environmental externalities of the oil boom in postcolonial Gabon and the spiritual conflict that it provokes.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series, Community Environmental Council and American Cultures and Global Contexts Center.
Talk: Water, Oil, and the Global Production of Islamic Sacred Space: Mecca in Modernity
TALK : Water, Oil, and the Global Production of Islamic Sacred Space: Mecca in Modernity
Juan Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, February 10 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities - Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research, Campo’s illustrated talk will track the interrelationships of the growth of the Kingdom’s oil revenues, the transformation of these two religious centers, and the annual hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. His analysis will include an examination of how water supply and distribution intersects with these developments and place the subject in comparative perspective relative to the rise of Dubai and the development of Muslim sacred spaces in other localities, including Iraq, Iran, India, and Pakistan. Juan Campo teaches in UCSB’s Department of Religious Studies. His most recent book, Encyclopedia of Islam, was published in 2009 by Facts-on-File.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Juan Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, February 10 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities - Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research, Campo’s illustrated talk will track the interrelationships of the growth of the Kingdom’s oil revenues, the transformation of these two religious centers, and the annual hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. His analysis will include an examination of how water supply and distribution intersects with these developments and place the subject in comparative perspective relative to the rise of Dubai and the development of Muslim sacred spaces in other localities, including Iraq, Iran, India, and Pakistan. Juan Campo teaches in UCSB’s Department of Religious Studies. His most recent book, Encyclopedia of Islam, was published in 2009 by Facts-on-File.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Screening: Trouble the Water
SCREENING: Trouble the Water
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, February 9 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters fill their world and the screen, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film their harrowing retreat to higher ground and the dramatic rescues of friends and neighbors. The filmmakers document the couple's return to New Orleans, the devastation of their neighborhood and the appalling repeated failures of government. Weaving an insider's view of Katrina with a mix of verite and in-your-face filmmaking, Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes--two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday, February 9 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors trapped in the city. As the hurricane begins to rage and the floodwaters fill their world and the screen, Kim and her husband Scott continue to film their harrowing retreat to higher ground and the dramatic rescues of friends and neighbors. The filmmakers document the couple's return to New Orleans, the devastation of their neighborhood and the appalling repeated failures of government. Weaving an insider's view of Katrina with a mix of verite and in-your-face filmmaking, Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes--two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
Food Studies RFG Paper Workshop
WORKSHOP: Food Studies RFG Paper Workshop
Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB)
Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB)
Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM
SSMS 3122
Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in Santa Barbara County amidst a climate of politically charged food movements that challenge gender inequality within the global-industrial food system.
Stefanie Stauffer will present “Towards a Gated Community of Food or a Rustbelt Revival?: A Story of Decay, Renewal, Hope, and Urban Farming in Southeast Michigan.” This project investigates the present crisis of food access and equity while also documenting the unique and innovative strategies individuals, communities, and organizations are adopting to counteract the local impact of the crisis in Michigan and elsewhere.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG, the Dept. of Sociology, the Dept. of Anthropology, and the Dept. of History.
Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB)
Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB)
Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM
SSMS 3122
Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in Santa Barbara County amidst a climate of politically charged food movements that challenge gender inequality within the global-industrial food system.
Stefanie Stauffer will present “Towards a Gated Community of Food or a Rustbelt Revival?: A Story of Decay, Renewal, Hope, and Urban Farming in Southeast Michigan.” This project investigates the present crisis of food access and equity while also documenting the unique and innovative strategies individuals, communities, and organizations are adopting to counteract the local impact of the crisis in Michigan and elsewhere.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG, the Dept. of Sociology, the Dept. of Anthropology, and the Dept. of History.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Discussion: Accelerating the Adoption of LED Lighting
Executive Roundtable Discussion:
Accelerating the Adoption of LED Lighting
February 9, 2010 5:30 PM
Corwin Pavilion, UC Santa Barbara
Please join us for a ninety minute executive roundtable discussion that explores public policy measures for accelerating the adoption of LED lighting. This discussion will be moderated by Noah Horowitz, Principal Scientist of the National Resource Defense Council; participants include executives from Industry, non-profits, government, and academia.
The discussion will review possibilities to fact-track widespread adoption of LED lighting, identify current policy inhibitors of adoption, and propose new solutions for accelerating adoption of this energy saving technology. Participants will be called upon to provide insight into these issues in a roundtable setting that promotes dialog between and among participants.
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu
Accelerating the Adoption of LED Lighting
February 9, 2010 5:30 PM
Corwin Pavilion, UC Santa Barbara
Please join us for a ninety minute executive roundtable discussion that explores public policy measures for accelerating the adoption of LED lighting. This discussion will be moderated by Noah Horowitz, Principal Scientist of the National Resource Defense Council; participants include executives from Industry, non-profits, government, and academia.
The discussion will review possibilities to fact-track widespread adoption of LED lighting, identify current policy inhibitors of adoption, and propose new solutions for accelerating adoption of this energy saving technology. Participants will be called upon to provide insight into these issues in a roundtable setting that promotes dialog between and among participants.
For more information: http://iee.ucsb.edu
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