> "Is Humanity  Sustainable?", William Rees 
> 
> Tuesday, Nov. 29, 7 p.m.
> 
> Room 207 Marston  Hall, ISU campus - 
> 
>  
> 
> Eminent ecologist,  Pofessor and the former director
> of the School of
> Community and Regional Planning at the University of
>  British Columbia in
> Vancouver..  He is best known for his work on the
> ecological footprint
> analysis, which provides a way to calculate the
> environmental impact of a
> country, city or individual.
> 
>  
> 
> FILM "The End of Suburbia - Oil Depletion and The
> Collapse of the American
> Dream"
> 
> Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7 p.m.  
> 
> Auditorium - Ames Public Library,
> 
> Since World War II North Americans have invested
> much of their newfound
> wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of
> space, affordability, family
> life and upward mobility. As the population of
> suburban sprawl has exploded
> in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of
> life become embedded in
> the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it
> promises, has become the
> American Dream.But as we enter the 21st century,
> serious questions are
> beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this
> way of life. With
> brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of
> Suburbia explores the
> American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet
> approaches a critical
> era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to
> outstrip supply. World Oil
> Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are
> upon us now, some
> scientists and policy makers argue in this
> documentary. The consequences of
> inaction in the face of this global crisis are
> enormous. What does Oil Peak
> mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket
> in the coming years, how
> will the populations of suburbia react to the
> collapse of their dream? Are
> today's suburbs destined to become the slums of
> tomorrow? And what can be
> done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid
> The End of Suburbia ?
> 
> (78 minutes)
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> James Sheppard 
> 
> "The Paradox  of Urban Environmentalism and the
> Values of/in Civic Design"
> 
> Thursday, December 1, 8 PM
> 
> Room 1414 Molecular Biology Building, ISU
> 
>  
> 
> Sheppard is a professor in the department of
> philosophy at the University of
> Missouri - Kansas City.  Sheppard's research and
> teaching focus on
> environmental ethics, politics, and policy, urban
> theory and policy, ethics,
> and social and political philosophy.  Sheppard
> serves as a member of and/or
> reviewer for a number of academic journals and
> professional and
> community-based organizations, is a member of UMKC's
> Center for the City
> Urban Taskforce, and is a member of The Urban League
> of Greater Kansas
> City's Think-tanks on Power and Economics. He
> currently is completing a book
> manuscript titled The Earth Beneath the Streets:
> Bridging Gaps in Urban
> Environments.  A reception will follow the lecture.
> Public parking is
> available behind the Molecular Biology Building. 
> For more information,
> contact Katy Reeder of the ISU Bioethics Program,
> (515) 294-2566,
> [log in to unmask], or Clark Wolf of the ISU
> Bioethics Program, (515)
> 294-3068, [log in to unmask] 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> The lecture is sponsored by the Bioethics Program,
> the Departments of
> Landscape Architecture and Community and Regional
> Planning, and the ISU
> Lectures Program funded by GSB.  
> 
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> 
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> 
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