Monday April 20, 2009 @ 7 p.m.
Center for Energy & Environmental Education (CEEE) Auditorium
Events Leading to a 50-year farm Bill
Wes Jackson, The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas

Wes Jackson, president of The Land Institute and an international leader in 
the sustainable agriculture movement, will discuss "The 50 Year Farm Bill," 
looking at key ideas in agriculture as well as environmental studies. 
Jackson founded The Land Institute in his native Kansas in 1976. He is the 
author of several books including "New Roots for Agriculture" and "Becoming 
Native to This Place." He was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar, in 1992 
became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2000 received the Right Livelihood Award 
(called the "alternative Nobel prize".)

For more information contact Kamyar Enshayan at 319-273-2573.

The CEEE is located at the SE corner of Jennings Drive and Campus Street, 
south of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC) on the UNI 
campus.

ORGANIZED BY: Center for Energy & Environmental Education at the University 
of Northern Iowa 

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