This interdisciplinary speaker series, established in September 2005, is intended to stimulate cross disciplinary discussion, debate, and collaboration around issues related to energy, the environment, and society. The series is sponsored by SERC and the Environment & Community Graduate Program.
** Unless otherwise noted, all events are Thursdays at 5:30pm in Founders Hall 118**
Zoe Hammer is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University and teaches courses in Cultural and Regional Studies at Prescott College for the Liberal Arts and the Environment. A long-time anti-prison and human rights activist, Dr. Hammer is a member of the U.S.-Mexico Border & Immigration Task Force, sits on the Board of Directors of the Border Action Network and the Criminal Justice Steering Committee of the American Friends Service Committee in Arizona, and the Criminal Justice Working Group of the Progressive Communicators Network. She is currently working on turning her dissertation, Criminal Alienation, into a book analyzing relationships between border militarization, immigration enforcement, prison expansion, and human rights organizing on the Arizona/Sonora border.
Matthew St. Clair is the first Sustainability Manager for the University of California's Office of the President. While a graduate student at UC Berkeley, he spearheaded a successful student campaign to get the UC Board of Regents to adopt a comprehensive green building and clean energy policy. Matt has a Masters degree from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and a Bachelors degree in economics from Swarthmore College.
Betsy Hartmann is the director of the Population and Development Program and associate professor of Development Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. A longstanding activist in the international women‚s health movement, she writes and speaks frequently on the intersections between reproductive rights, population, immigration, environment and security concerns. She is the author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (Boston: South End Press, 1995) and a political thriller about the Far Right, The Truth about Fire (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002). She is co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (London: Zed Books; San Francisco: Food First; and Delhi, India: Oxford University Press India, 1983) and a co-editor of Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). With Joni Seager she is co-author of the report Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assessment and Early Warning: Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities (United Nations Environment Program, Division of Early Warning and Assessment, 2005). Her novel Deadly Election will be published by White River Press in early 2008.
Rick Duke is the Director of NRDC’s Center for Market Innovation. The Center works with government and corporate leaders to accelerate market uptake of clean technologies and practices. Prior to joining NRDC, Rick was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey, where his projects included developing a hedging strategy for the world’s leading originator of Clean Development Mechanism CO2 credits and managing a major assessment of global greenhouse gas reduction opportunities that was published by both McKinsey and the EU utility Vattenfall. Rick has also worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, managed a small renewable energy company in Honduras and consulted for the International Finance Corporation. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University where his doctoral work focused on the economics of public investment to deploy emerging clean energy solutions.
John M. Meyer is associate professor and chair of the Department of Government and Politics at HSU. He teaches courses on political theory and environmental politics. He is the author of Political Nature: Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought (MIT Press, 2001), is co-editing a book (with Michael Maniates) exploring the role of ideas of "sacrifice" in contemporary environmental politics and is at work on a second project entitled, "Environmentalism as Social Criticism."
H.I. Bud Beebe is Regulatory Affairs Coordinator for SMUD, Sacramento California’s Electricity Utility. Mr. Beebe has extensive experience in the field of energy and environmental policy for the electric utility sector. For more than fifteen years, he has been active in climate change issues, greenhouse gas accounting development, and renewable energy resource planning. Mr. Beebe is also experienced in the management of engineering projects and new product development. In this regard he has worked principally with advanced electric generation concepts and renewable energy based electrical generation technologies including: Fuel cells, Photovoltaics, Central Station Solar Thermal, Microturbines, Hydrogen as an energy carrier, and Wind Turbines.
Mr. Beebe has 40 years of professional engineering experience in many facets of power plant design, construction, licensing, operation, and electric utility planning and management. A Registered Mechanical Engineer in the State of California, he received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.
Allison Rogers, Go Green! Global Warming Awareness
Andrea Tuttle, California Climate Protocols and Politics- Through the Lens of Forest Carbon
Peter Lehman, Hydrogen in a Renewable Energy Future
Michael Shellenberger,
Beyond Environmentalism: Creating a Politics Capable of Dealing with Global Warming and Other Ecological Crises
Alex Farrell, The Race for 21st Century Fuels
Morgan Varner,
Changing Climate, Changing Fires: Predicting Future Fires in a Carbon-rich Atmosphere
Jeffrey Jacobs,
Future Fuel Sources: Options and Opportunities
Holmes Hummel,
Interpreting Technology and Policy Implications of Global Energy Scenarios for the 21st Century
Anna Zalik, Clean Energy and Armed Insurgency: Representing Security and Threat from the Nigerian Delta to the Mexican Gulf
Evon Peters,
Indigenous Peoples Rights and Environmental Justice
Evan Mills,
The Specter of Fuel Based Lighting
Patrice O'Neill,
The Fire Next Time: Using Film to Address Community Conflict
Sarah Goldthwait,
Plankton and CO2: The Role of Marine Organisms in Global Climate
Ashanti Alston, All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party and Beyond
Tyrone Hayes , From Silent Spring to Silent Night: What do hermaphroditic frogs tell us about environmental and human health?
Roundtable- Sustainable Community Design: Why Does it Matter? How do we do it?
Victoria Sturtevant
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Collaborative Planning for Wildfire: Community Matters
Arne Jacobson,
Connective Power: Solar Electrification and Social Change in Kenya
Mark Lakeman,
The Village Lives
Carolina Simunovic,
Environmental Health in the San Joaquin Valley
Alan Lloyd, The Fight for Air Quality in California: A 30 Year Retrospective and Visions for the Future
Jim Zoellick, Humboldt County's Energy Picture
Joan Ogden, The Outlook for Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier
Michel Gelobter, The Soul of Environmentalism
Mark Hankins, Approaches to Rural Electrification in East Africa: Donors, Projects, Rural Electrification
