Today, the conservation movement is grappling with the past and trying to forge a new path forward that will allow for greater diversity and inclusion. Presenter Dr. Dorceta Taylor is a professor at the Yale School for the Environment. She is a renowned scholar of environmental justice, who has published a wide range of influential works.
Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University, is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She is interested in the how the histories of people, ideas, places, and non-human species intersect.
Steven Beda, History, and 2020-21 OHC Faculty Research Fellow will give a Work-in-Progress talk “Strong Winds and Widow Makers: A History of Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country, 1900 to the Present."
Since 1995, the University of Oregon’s Ecological Design Center has hosted the annual HOPES Conference with a focus on environmental sustainability in architecture and design. Now in its 27th year, the conference is reimagined with HOPES X.
Join us for our annual day of service to commemorate Earth Week! For our typical Earth Day of Service, volunteers would be planting trees, removing invasive plant species, and tending to a garden with our community partners. This year we will be holding a hybrid (virtual AND in-person) event focusing on the theme of intersectional environmentalism!
The Landscape Architecture Department is delighted to host Diana Fernandez ASLA as the Spring 2021 McKeown lecturer. Building upon principles rooted in landscape ecology, landscape heterogeneity presents an opportunity to embrace the concept of difference to build resilient and community focused landscapes.
Tianna Bruno is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the intersection of Black geographies, environmental justice studies, and critical physical geography. Through her work, she aims to foreground Black life and relationship to place within spaces of present-day environmental injustice.
This year on April 22nd OSPIRG Students, NAACP, Beyond Toxics, Our Climate, others will be hosting a virtual Earth Day Youth Climate Summit to take action for our climate. A new generation of climate activists know we need to act now for 100% renewable energy.
The 2021 Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Lecture is part of the Environmental Justice Pathways Summit hosted by Beyond Toxics and the NAACP of Eugene-Springfield and features environmental, cultural and human rights advocate Sheila Watt-Cloutier.
Since 1995, the University of Oregon’s Ecological Design Center has hosted the annual HOPES Conference with a focus on environmental sustainability in architecture and design. Now in its 27th year, the conference is reimagined with HOPES X.
A virtual book launch with editors TJ Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee and authors Macarena Gómez-Barris, Lucy R. Lippard, Nomusa Makhubu, and Julie Sze.
Provost and Senior Vice President Patrick Phillips will serve as moderator of a panel discussing what the future holds in the aftermath of the 2020 Labor Day fires. The panelists will explore fire ecology, community preparedness, and the University of Oregon’s impact on recovery efforts in these areas.
