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<p>The Summer Institute keynote speaker for next year is distinguished environmental writer David Orr.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Ohio Meadville District Summer Institute <admin@omdsi.camp9.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 29, 2017 6:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rebecca Phillips<br>
<b>Subject:</b> SI Planning Committee announces 2018 Theme Speaker</font>
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<p style=""><font style="font-size:14px" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222">The SIPC is pleased to announce that our 2018 Theme Speaker will be Professor David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics,
Emeritus at Oberlin College. Here’s who he is:</font></p>
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<p style=""><font style="font-size:14px" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222"><strong>David W. Orr</strong> is author of eight books, including <em>Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward</em> (Yale, 2016) and <em>Down
to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse</em> (Oxford, 2009) and co-editor of three others, and over 220 articles, reviews, book chapters, and professional publications. In the past twenty-five years he has served as a board member or adviser to ten foundations
and on the Boards of many organizations including the Rocky Mountain Institute, Bioneers, and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He is currently a Trustee of the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado and the Children and Nature Network. He has been awarded eight honorary
degrees and a dozen other awards including a Lyndhurst Prize, a National Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation, leadership awards from the U.S. Green Building Council (2014) and from Second Nature (2012), and a lifetime achievement award
from Green Energy Ohio. He has lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He headed the effort to design, fund, and build the Adam Joseph Lewis Center, which was named by an AIA panel in 2010 as
“the most important green building of the past thirty years,” as “one of thirty milestone buildings of the twentieth century” by the U.S. Department of Energy, and as one of “52 game-changing buildings of the past 170 years” by the editors of <em>Building
Design +Construction </em>in January, 2016. He was instrumental in the making of the Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center. He is the founder and Chair of the Board of the Oberlin Project and a founding editor of the journal <em>Solutions</em>.</font></p>
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<p style=""><font style="font-size:14px" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222">More about Professor Orr can be found on the SI website.</font></p>
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<p style=""><font style="font-size:14px" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222">We’ll be making further announcements in the near future. In the meantime, it’s still not too late to get to us your ideas for seminars and workshops. Help us make
this the best SI ever.</font></p>
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<p style=""><font style="font-size:14px" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222">Sincerely,</font></p>
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<p style=""><font style="font-size:14px" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222">Bruce Kent</font></p>
<p style=""><font style="font-size:14px" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#222222">Chair, 2018 SIPC</font></p>
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