Lecture: Environmental Activist Jenny Price, “Enact a Sustainable City!"

This event is part of "Focusing on Sustainability," an exhibit and series of Environmental Lectures at CSUF.

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Clockwise from top left are: Susan Straight, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jenny Price and William deBuys.

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This artwork by Betsy Lohrer Hall will be on exhibit.

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What:

A prize-winning environmental historian, California’s poet laureate, an environmental activist, a novelist and an exhibit will draw attention to pressing environmental problems, during a Sustainability Lecture Series that begins March 20 at Cal State Fullerton. The free, public lectures and exhibit are funded by a $30,000 University Mission and Goals grant.

When/Where/Who:

March 20 —Conservationist William deBuys, author of several books on the environment, will present “Hotter and Dryer: Life in 21st-Century Southern California.”
11:30 a.m. in the Titan Student Union’s Gabrielino Room

April 10 — Author Susan Straight will share “Notes From a Native Daughter: Sustainability, Sense of Place and the Meaning of Home.”
12:30 p.m. in the Titan Student Union’s Alvarado Room

April 23 — California’s Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will talk on “Sustain the Heart First — The Key for Deep Change.”
Noon in the Rotary Club of Fullerton Room in the Pollak Library

May 1 — Environmental activist and historian Jenny Price will discuss “Enact a Sustainable City! Adventures in the Brave New World of Environmental Art Actions.”
Noon in the Titan Student Union’s Titan Theater

Exhibit:

“Earth Body: The Art of Sustainability,” an art exhibit and reading room featuring hundreds of books on sustainability topics — from art and the humanities to science and technology — will be open from March 20 through May 20 in the Pollak Library Atrium Gallery. “The books and artworks will be displayed to encourage serendipitous discovery, to stimulate cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations, and to spark imagination in our university and community’s quest for sustainability,” said librarian Jie Tian, the exhibit’s organizer. Among the artists whose works will be displayed are CSUF art faculty members Elizabeth Holster and Betsy Lohrer Hall. Also on display will be work by artist Echo Baker, book sculptures by artist Kitty Maryatt, letterpress books from the Scripps College Press and poetry broadsides from the Center for Book Arts in New York.

Library hours are 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and closed on Sunday.

Why:

“The pressing issues of global warming, water, energy, food shortages, overpopulation, pollution, air quality and much more will be discussed, and the many meanings and applications of the overarching concept of sustainability as a general solution will be explored by each speaker,” said Michael Steiner, professor of American studies and one of the lecture series organizers. “From their various angles of vision — environmental history, science, philosophy, activism, creativity — these speakers and the accompanying exhibit will point the way toward achieving a fuller, healthier, more enduring way of life for people, both locally and globally. In Robert Frost’s words, these writers, artists, poets, academics and public intellectuals will help us learn ‘how to crowd but still be kind.’ ”

More Info: Contact the event organizers: Steiner (msteiner@fullerton.edu) at 657-278-3640; Tian (jtian@fullerton.edu) at 657-278-2569; or John C. Carroll (jcarroll@fullerton.edu), chair and associate professor of geography, at 657-278-3189. More info at http://news.fullerton.edu/2013sp/Sustainability-Lectures-Exhibit.asp

Cost: Free.

Parking: $2 per hour or $8 for a daily permit Monday through Friday; free after 5 p.m. Friday and on weekends. Details are available online (http://parking.fullerton.edu/Parking).

Media Contact: Mimi Ko Cruz (mkocruz@fullerton.edu), 657-278-7586