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Subject: [HEALUtah] Upcoming
events: The World Without Us + The Sustainability Conversation Series
For your enjoyment, some upcoming events from our friends at
the Wallace Stegner Center and the U of U’s Office of Sustainability:
The Wallace Stegner Center
presents
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
New
York Times Bestseller and TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007
"Alan Weisman has produced, if not a bible, at least a
Book of Revelation.”
—Newsweek
Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
University of Utah Libby Gardner Concert Hall
Tickets are $10 through the Kingsbury Hall Ticket Office,
801.581.7100
In one of the most audacious thought experiments of our
time, Alan Weisman imagines what might happen to the Earth if humans vanished. The
World Without Us shows us humanity’s true impact on the environment in a
wholly original way, and challenges each of us to re-imagine our planet—and our
place within it.
“How would the rest of nature
respond if it were suddenly relieved of the relentless pressures we heap on
it?” Alan Weisman asks. “How soon would, or could, the climate return to where
it was before we fired up all our engines? Could nature ever obliterate all our
traces?" These questions are explored and brilliantly answered in The
World Without Us, his refreshing—and ultimately hopeful—look at how humans
can lead fully engaging lives without destroying the natural world in the
process.
Principal Funding provided by the Cultural Vision Fund
Sponsors include the Utah Museum of Natural History, the
College of Humanities, the Sierra Club, and The King’s English Bookshop.
For
more information, call 801-585-3440 or visit www.law.utah.edu/stegner
Plus, the U’s Office of Sustainability is kicking off its conversation series
on transportation planning and policy with a discussion on October 9th:
The Sustainability Conversation Series
Benefits
and Barriers to Bicycle Commuting in the Salt Lake Valley
October
9th, 2008 at 7:00PM
4th Floor
Conference Room of the Salt Lake Main Library Downtown
Mayor
Ralph Becker, Mayor of Salt Lake City
Alma
Allred, Commuter Services Director for the University of Utah
Jonathan
Morrison, Executive Director of the Salt Lake Bicycle Collective
Travis
Jensen, Transportation Consultant with Jacobs Engineering
Dr.
Craig Forster, Moderator, Director of Office of Sustainability
Come join
the conversation with these key players from around the greater Salt Lake
Valley. Learn more about the benefits and barriers to using your bike to get
around SLC. Share your own insight.
Visit www.sustainability.utah.edu
to see the advertisement on the main page.
John Urgo
HEAL Utah, Outreach Director
68 S. Main St, Suite 400
SLC, UT 84101
(801) 355-5055
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