Sustainable!
Food, Environment, Economics
Spirituality and Activism Conference
The Science and Politics of a Sustainable Future
Justin Podur, York University professor of environmental studies, teaches landscape ecology and geographic information systems, focusing on managing resources in light of climate change, urban forestry, and ecological restoration. He also is a writer and editor for ZNet, part of Z communications, an alternative-media organization dedicated to political analysis and support for movements for social change.
Presentation
Related Information
Climate Change Politics and Science: edited transcript of Justin Podur’s March 27, 2008, lecture for the Senior Fellows Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
An entertaining grassroots story of how one farmer went organic.
Workshops
Workshops were offered by:
- Envision Central Texas
- Livable Cities
- Save Our Springs Alliance
- Sustainable Food Center
- Texas Interfaith Power and Light
- Center for Public Policy
- Dick Richardson, professor, University of Texas
- Edible Austin
Free Film Screening
12:15 p.m. July 5
Overspent American:
Why We Want
What We Don't Need
Juliet Schor
questions the search
for happiness and
identity through
consumption
July Guest Speakers
5th Barbara McCarty
12th Tom Spencer
19th Chuck Freeman
26th Neil Blumofe
