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How Serious Are The Problems Facing Our Species?
February 7, 2008, Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin M549,
Fifth Floor W)
Moderated by: Richard Brenne
Featured Panelists:
How Serious Is Peak Oil?
March 20, 2008, Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin M549,
Fifth Floor W)
Moderated by: Richard Brenne
Featured Panelists:
How Serious Is Climate Change?
April 17, 2008, Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin M549,
Fifth Floor W)
Moderated by: Richard Brenne
Featured Panelists:
Bibliography for the “How Serious Is.
. .” Series
Books:
Brenne, Richard. The Truth About Everything. Forthcoming 2008.
Diamond, Jared M. Collapse: How Societies Choose
to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Group (USA), 2005.
Norlin Stacks HN13.D5
2005
Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New
York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Norlin Stacks HM206.D48
2005
Diamond, Jared M. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future
of the Human Animal. New York: HarperCollins Publishers,
1992.
NORLIN STACKS GN281 .D53 1992
Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. New York: Basic
Books, 2003.
Business Library TN805.A5
F857 2003
Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of
Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. New York: Rodale,
2006.
Math/Physics
Library QC981.8.G56 G67 2006
Heinberg, Richard. Peak Everything: Waking up to the Century
of Decline. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers, 2007.
Business Library GF47.H45
2007
Henson, Robert. Climate Change. New York: Rough
Guides, 2006.
Henson, Robert. The Rough Guide to Weather. London: Rough
Guides, 2007.
Kunstler, James Howard. The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging
Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Grove/Atlantic,
2005.
Engineering Library TP355 .K86 2005
Lomborg, Bjorn. Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide
to Global Warming. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Math/Physics Library QC981.8.G56
L657 2007
Meadows, Dennis et al. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. White
River Jct., VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004.
Norlin Stacks HD75.6.M437
2004
Perlin, John. A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization. Woodstock,
VT: Countryman Press, 1989.
SCIENCE STACKS SD418 .P47 1989
Vaclav, Smil. Energy in World History. Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1994.
Engineering Library TJ163.5.S623
1994
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 2007.
NORLIN STACKS GF75 .W455 2007
Zinn, Howard. People’s History of the United States. New
York: HarperCollins, 1995.
NORLIN STACKS E178 .Z75 1999
Films:
An Inconvenient Truth. Paramount Classics, 2006.
What a Way to Go: Life at the
End of Empire. VisionQuest Pictures.
Tuvalu:
That Sinking Feeling Global warming, rising
seas. Blue Marble Production. December, 2005.
Atlantis
Approaching. Milwaukee, WI: Blue Marble Production, 2006.
Norlin
DVD Collection Call #: DVD 07-345
The Disappearing
of Tuvalu: Trouble in Paradise Gilliane Le Gallic Color, France. April, 2004.
On the Web:
The Edible Schoolyard
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html
Audio broadcast
from OpenNewsNet:
The
Edible Schoolyard: Alice Waters and Jim Busch
Furger, Roberta. “Garden
of Eating: Schoolers Grow Their Own Lunch.” Edutopia,
March 2004.
Are We Getting the News? A Discussion on the State of News Media
April 17, 2008, Center for British and Irish Studies
(Norlin M549, Fifth Floor W)
Presented with support from the Boulder Junior Chamber International and CU
Boulder Friends of the Libraries
Moderated by: Polly McLean – associate professor
in the CU School of Journalism and Mass Communication. McLean teaches courses
in media theory, culture and society. She has vast international experiences
in applied research having worked as a consultant for UNESCO, USAID, and the
Academy for Educational Development and Pathfinder International. In 1999 and
2000, she was awarded a Fulbright to the University of Namibia in teaching
pedagogy and curriculum development in media studies. She has taught at Howard
University, Washington, D.C., University of Zambia-Lusaka and at the University
of Namibia, Windhoek.
Featured Panelists:
- Mike McDevitt – associate professor at the CU School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, teaching journalism and theory courses in media ethics
and political communication. Prior to his teaching career, he worked for
8 years as a reporter and editorial writer for newspapers in the San Francisco
Bay Area. His research interests include political communication, political
socialization, and journalism sociology. In the area of journalism sociology,
McDevitt is conducting research on how anti-intellectualism in news media
functions in social control through depictions of political dissent. Findings
are derived from a case study on newspaper coverage of Ward Churchill.
- Richard Brenne - author of the forthcoming book The
Truth About Everything.
Brenne has organized and moderated a series of discussions in Norlin Library
highlighting Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Renewable Energy issues. He earned
his bachelor’s degree and a master of fine arts from the UCLA film
school. For more than three decades he’s been a successful screenwriter,
winning the Jack Nicholson Award for Screenwriting and writing screenplays
most recently produced by HBO and Warner Brothers. He has also had work published
in The Christian Science Monitor, Sports Illustrated and other national newspapers
and magazines.
- Sue Salinger - an alternative participatory journalism for
the past few years collaborating with citizen journalists and grass-roots
social change organizations. She produced a newsweekly for national distribution
on Free Speech TV for two years. She is an active member of the Media Consortium,
a working group of independent, progressive publishers and producers that
include The Nation and Mother Jones. Prior to this, she worked for two decades
in mainstream radio and television in Detroit, Miami, San Francisco, Boston
and Los Angeles.
- Juliet Wittman - instructor in the CU Program for Writing
and Rhetoric, as well as the theatre critic for Westword, a Denver weekly.
She contributes regular book reviews to the Washington Post. She began her
journalism career with an anti-war newspaper in San Diego, worked as an investigative
reporter for Westword, and served as an editor, reporter, and columnist for
the Boulder Daily Camera for over 12 years.
Websites of Interest:
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org/index.php
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) -- Broadening Public Discourse
http://www.accuracy.org/
Project Censored - Media Democracy in Action
http://www.projectcensored.org/
Media Education Foundation
http://www.mediaed.org/
Robert McChesney.com (Author of "Rich Media, Poor Democracy")
http://www.robertmcchesney.com/
Media Consortium
http://www.themediaconsortium.org/
Media Transparency: The money behind conservative media
http://www.mediatransparency.org/
Center for Media and Democracy | Publishers of PR Watch
http://www.prwatch.org/
Accuracy In Media - For Fairness and Balance in News Reporting
http://www.aim.org/
Pew Research Center: Journalists Weigh Future of Industry
http://pewresearch.org/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=496
Getting Duped: How the Media Messes with Your Mind: Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=getting-duped
"Affirmative Action: Institutionalizing or Eliminating Racism?"
February 20, 2008, Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin M549,
Fifth Floor W)
Click here to download a PDF of the
handout from the event
Moderated by: Eric Juenke
Featured Panelists:
Other suggested Affirmative Action resources:
In the Library:
Dale, Charles V (2002) Affirmative action revisited : a legal history
and prospectus / Charles V. Dale , [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress ; [Bethesda, MD] : Distributed by Penny Hill
Press
GOVPUB US LC
14.17:RL30470
Douglass, John Aubrey (2007) The conditions for admission : access,
equity, and the social contract of public universities / John Aubrey Douglass
, Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
NORLIN STACKS LB2351.2
.D68 2007
Kellough, J. Edward (2006) Understanding affirmative action : politics,
discrimination, and the search for justice / J. Edward Kellough, Washington,
D.C. : Georgetown University Press
NORLIN STACKS KF4755.5
.K45 2006
The Supreme Court revisits affirmative action [electronic resource] :
will Grutter and Gratz mean the end of Bakke? : [Washington, D.C.] : U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, [2003] http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS58296
On the web:
American Association for Affirmative Action (http://www.affirmativeaction.org/index.jsp )
is the association of professionals managing affirmative action, equal
opportunity, diversity and other human resource programs. Founded
in 1974, the American Association for Affirmation Action (AAAA) is a national
not-for-profit association of professionals working in the areas of affirmative
action, equal opportunity, and diversity. We help our members to be more
successful and productive in their careers. We promote understanding and
advocacy of affirmative action to enhance access and equality in employment,
economic and educational opportunities.
The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative (CoCRI) is dedicated
to giving the people of Colorado the opportunity to end preferential treatment
based on race, gender, ethnicity, or national origin by state and local
governments. http://coloradocri.org/
Government Publications Subject Guide to Affirmative
Action and Civil Rights
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/us/affact.htm
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