2017
November 2017
Tuesday 7 November 2017
Tue 7 Nov, 6 pm. Western park ranger turned environmental journalist Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial and the Fight Over Controlling Nature, who also works in film and magazines, will lecture on how we share scientific knowledge in an era of alternative facts, when even park rangers are constrained in their campfire circle talks (making environmental communication that much more important).
Sponsored by UF’s departments of History and Journalism, with additional support from the Center for the Humanities in the Public Sphere and the George A. Smathers Libraries. Smathers 100, UF Main Campus, Gainesville, 32611. 352-392-1864x255. Florida Climate Institute - [floridaclimateinstitute][email][events]
Thursday 9 November 2017
Thu 9 Nov, 3 pm. The FCI at UF will be hosting Shaun Martin, Senior Director, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience at World Wildlife Fund, and Mac Stone, Conservation photographer, author and educator. The event will explore conservation efforts both in the US and abroad. Reitz Union Grand Ballroom, Gainesville, 32611. 352-392-1864x255. Florida Climate Institute - [floridaclimateinstitute][email][events]
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Wed 15 Nov, 2 pm. Rolling Stone's Jeff Goodell, who writes on climate change for the magazine including the controversial cover story Goodbye, Miami, will visit UF to talk about his latest book, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Little, Brown Oct. 24th 2017). Sponsored by the Florida Climate Institute and CJC’s Department of Journalism. Emerson Alumni Hall, UF Main Campus, Gainesville, 32611. 352-392-1864x255. Florida Climate Institute - [floridaclimateinstitute][email][events]