The River and the Region: Environmental Issues and
Advocacy in the Hudson River Valley
Environmental Studies/Science Technology and Society Colloquium Series
2004- 05
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Friday, October 1, 2004, Titsworth Auditorium, 12:30 - 2 pm.
John Cronin
"The Hudson River Miracle: Changing the World from Our Own Backyards"
John Cronin is the Director of the Pace Academy for the Environment at Pace
University, where
he also serves as Resident Scholar in Environmental Studies in the Philosophy
and Religious Studies
Department. He is a key participant in the newly formed Environmental Consortium
of Hudson
Valley College and Universities (including Sarah Lawrence College). With Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr.,
John Cronin is the co-author of The Riverkeepers (Scribner), a frequent contributor
to the
environmental policy component of the Op Ed page of the New York Times. The
writer and
co-producer of The Last Rivermen, named one of the outstanding documentary
films of 1991 by the
Motion Picture Academy Foundation, Cronin served as New York’s Hudson
Riverkeeper for
seventeen years working on initiating and pursuing justice and sustainable
management practices
for the Hudson River and its inhabitants, human and non-human.
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Friday, November 12, 2004, Titsworth Auditorium, 12:30 - 2 pm.
Alex Matthiessen
"Indian Point Nuclear Facility: The Struggle to Shut it Down"
Alex MAtthiessen is Executive Director and Hudson Riverkeeper, former Special Assistant to Energy Secretary Bruce Babbit
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Friday, December 3, 2004, Titsworth Auditorium, 12:30 - 2 pm
Ruth Katz
"Just Food: Bio-regionalism, Open Markets, and the Poor"
Ruth Katz is Executive Director, Just Food NYC, a non-for profit oganization working on Community Supported Agriculture in the greater New York City and Hudson River Region.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005, Titsworth Auditorium, 12:30-2 pm
David Rosner
"Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Pollution in the Hudson River
Region"
David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health and Director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, School of Public Health, Columbia University, as well as author of Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in the Twentieth Century (with Gerald Markowitz) and Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution.
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Friday, April 8, 2005, Titsworth Auditorium, 12:30-2 pm
Brian Sahd
"Getting Down With It: New York Restoration Project Works Out in the
Big Apple"
Brian Sahd hold a Ph. D. and is Vice President ofCommunity Development for Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project
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The ES/STS Annual Colloquim Series is supported by the Marilyn Simpson Trust
and the Barbara B. and Bertram J. Cohn Professorship in Environmental Studies.
(Light Vegetarian Lunch and Refreshments will be Available at each talk.)