[Green] Fw: SI Planning Committee announces 2018 Theme Speaker

[Rebecca Phillips]

The Summer Institute keynote speaker for next year is distinguished environmental writer David Orr.


Rebecca


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Subject: SI Planning Committee announces 2018 Theme Speaker


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:



David W. Orr is author of eight books, including Dangerous Years: Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward (Yale, 2016) and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (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 Building Design +Construction 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 Solutions.



More about Professor Orr can be found on the SI website.



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.



Sincerely,



Bruce Kent

Chair, 2018 SIPC






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