Oregon Presentations by Peter Berg of Planet Drum Foundation
This great green event is over now!
| Date: |
Mon October 19 2009
to
Wed October 21 2009
Monday, Oct 19 & Wednesday, Oct 21 |
| Where: |
Ashland Branch Library
410 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland
Oregon, 97520 [ Map it!] |
Event Type: |
Lectures/Talks/Book Signings |
| Web Site: |
www.planetdrum.org |
Activist Peter Berg shares his thoughts and reads from his new book...in Oregon,
October 19-22, 2009!
Peter Berg (Director of Planet Drum Foundation) will be traveling to teach at the University of Oregon in Eugene during October 19-22. He will also be reading from his recently published book, Envisioning Sustainability - a collection of essays, manifestos, interviews, presentations and poems - during public appearances:
* Monday, October 19 in Ashland, Oregon at 7-8:30 pm
Ashland Branch Library, 410 Siskiyou Blvd.
Info: 541-774-6996
* Wednesday, October 21 in Portland, OR at 7 pm
In Other Words Bookstore, 8 NE Killingsworth St.
Info: 503-232-6003
**
Peter Berg has been a continuing source of innovative ideas for ecological activists for nearly forty years. Both enlightening and surprising, his writings are a primary source for the history of ecological thinking. Berg has been called the "father of bioregionalism" and "a thorn in the side of the environmental movement." His perceptive analyses are always exciting, pushing the limits of the ordinary. From his base in San Francisco, Berg has been an influential voice in North and South America, Japan, Europe, and Australia.
Envisioning Sustainability begins in the late 1960's and guides the reader through the awakening of both environmentalism and bioregionalism. The book discusses urban sustainability and ecological policy with vision, candor, and humor. In this collection are seminal essays that defined the bioregional movement and shaped the sustainability revolution including "More Than Just Saving What's Left", "Growing a Life-Place Politics" and "A Metamorphosis for Cities: From Gray to Green" as well as early ecstatic manifestos "Automated Rites of the Obsolete Future?", "Planetedge" and "Borne-Native in the San Francisco Bay Region." The book concludes with Berg's dynamic exhortation for eco-cultural consciousness at the 1996 conference Watershed: Writers, Nature and Community in Washington D. C.
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