Monday, 24 Oct 2011
Open forum: LAS dean candidate
Albert Boggess, professor and former head of the mathematics department at Texas A&M University, College Station. A reception follows the forum.
Panel: Consumers and Healthy, Sustainable Food Production
"The Role of Consumers in Promoting Healthy Affordable Food Produced in a Humane Sustainable Manner," Fred Kirschenmann, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture; Angie Tagtow, Iowa Food Systems Council; David Swenson, ISU economics; and moderator Gretchen Zdorkowski, ISU agronomy.
9 Billion People + 1 Planet = ?
Andrew Revkin covered global environmental issues for the New York Times for fifteen years and continues to write for their Dot Earth blog. He is currently a senior fellow at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Sciences. The 2011 Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture.