Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of our Wild Ocean
| Date/Time: | Friday, 29 Mar 2013 at 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Pioneer Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures Live Green |
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Following her reading, Whitty will discuss the ethics of writing about threatened places and endangered species.
Whitty's other books include The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific and A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga: Short Stories. Whitty is an environmental correspondent for Mother Jones magazine and a blogger at The Blue Marble and Deep Blue Home. Her more than seventy nature documentaries have aired on PBS, Nature, The Discovery Channel and National Geographic.
The Future of Water is a series of invited lectures, creative readings, interdisciplinary panel discussions and a documentary film about the secret life and turbulent future of the world's fresh and salt water supplies.