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David Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Senior Adviser to the President of Oberlin College. His career as a scholar, teacher, writer, speaker, and entrepreneur spans fields as diverse as environment and politics, environmental education, campus greening, green building, ecological design, and climate change. He is the author of six books, including the widely praised Ecological Literacy (1992) and Earth in Mind (1994/2004); his most recent book is Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse.
In 1996 David organized the effort to design the first substantially green building on a U.S. college campus. The Adam Joseph Lewis Center was later named by the U.S. Department of Energy as "One of Thirty Milestone Buildings in the 20th Century." His recent projects include a two year, $2 million project to define a 100-days climate action plan for the Obama administration. David is Trustee of the Rocky Mountain Institute and Bioneers.
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr will talks about the US-based Oberlin Project and how it can inspire communities to work collaboratively with other groups to create a greener future. The Oberlin Project is a collaborative venture, developed by David, between Oberlin College, the City of Oberlin, Oberlin city schools and private sector and arts organisations to build a post-fossil fuel based economy.
Due to our refusal to live within the Earth’s natural limits, we now face a multitude of problems that will have a severe negative impact on human civilization. David Orr, an expert on environmental literacy and ecological design, further argues that political negligence, an economy driven by insatiable consumption and a disregard for future generations are only adding to our plethora of environmental challenges. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California, on November 11th, 2009.
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It is commonly assumed that our national security depends only on our capacity to project military power beyond our borders and has little to do with how we organize the internal business of the country. The nation’s … >>
For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological … >>
Post Carbon Fellow David Orr and his work at Oberlin College were featured in this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. From the article: The architect of the plan is David W. Orr, a professor of environmental … >>
Richard Heinberg explains why we've hit the end of economic growth as we've known it, and what life can be like after growth.
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