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New class: “Readings in Science Journalism: Four Great Books on Science and How the Authors Wrote Them”
The Readings: Michael Pollan, Botany of Desire Richard P. Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman John McPhee, Basin and Range Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine The Particulars Science and Agriculture Journalism 4301 (section 2), Journalism 4301 (section 5) or Journalism 7050 Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 to12:15 for five weeks only! (Aug. 21 – … Continue reading
Free Mizzou Event: See “The Work of 1000″ and meet Marion Stoddart, the film’s inspiration
By Steve Johnson, director of the Missouri River Communities Network The Work of 1000 is a 30-minute documentary film that tells the inspiring story of Marion Stoddart, a citizen leader committed to a lifetime of grassroots organizing and coalition building around her local Massachusetts river. The movie will be shown Tuesday, January 17 at 7:00PM … Continue reading
Summer: great for eating and reading about food
This list of summer sustainability recommendations comes from Dr. LuAnne Roth, who serves as the education coordinator for Mizzou Advantage, which has sustainability initiatives including one called “Food for the Future.” She says she has been gathering book recommendations in hopes of someday having a Mizzou Advantage component of Mizzou Reads. Of course, it’s not … Continue reading
Eight books, one novel and a brand new class: science journalist Bill Allen’s summer reading list
This month we asked some environmentally minded stars at Mizzou what they suggest for a little summer reading. MU journalism professor Bill Allen, knows his environmental writing. In fact, he wrote a book on tropical dry forest restoration in Costa Rica called Green Phoenix. While we wait for the author’s 10-year update on Green Phoenix … Continue reading
Dr. Soren Larsen’s summer reading picks
If you’ve climbed all the trees, watched all the movies and swam all the creeks you can handle, maybe it’s time for a good book. This week, we asked some environmentally minded stars at Mizzou what they suggest for a little summer reading. Here’s what Dr. Soren Larsen, MU professor of geography, has to share: … Continue reading
Sarah Stone’s summer reading picks for food
If you’ve climbed all the trees, watched all the movies and swam all the creeks you can handle, maybe it’s time for a good book. This week, we asked some environmentally minded stars at Mizzou what they suggest for a little summer reading. Sarah Stone, technical director for MSA/GPC tech and advisor to the Student … Continue reading
Ben Datema’s summer reading picks for sustainability and the environment
If you’ve climbed all the trees, watched all the movies and swam all the creeks you can handle, maybe it’s time for a good book. This week, we asked some environmentally minded stars at Mizzou what they suggest for a little summer reading. Ben Datema, director of Student Sustainability offers this “killer” list of three … Continue reading
Discussion on “Contemporary criticisms of the received wilderness idea”
This week, Environmental Reading and Media group is taking a look at J. Baird Callicott’s “Contemporary criticisms of the received wilderness idea.” “I am not here criticizing the places we call “wilderness.” Quite the contrary. Rather, I criticize a name, a concept, the received wilderness idea. I am as passionately solicitous of the places called … Continue reading
Free Showing of Carbon Nation
The Columbia Office of Sustainability is co-hosting a showing of Carbon Nation at Ragtag Cinema this Thursday 5:30-7:30. Carbon Nation breaks away from the gloom and doom of climate change by documenting positive solutions that keep our air and water clean, reduce greenhouse gases, and protect our national security while providing economic savings and opportunities. … Continue reading
A note on nuclear energy and safety
This is an opinion column written by a Sustain Mizzou member which became part of a discussion during our latest Environmental Reading and Media Group. Read to the end for a list of other articles we discussed. The recent disaster in Japan highlights the importance of building safety codes, disaster preparedness drills for areas prone … Continue reading
