Mon 9.14.09| Awake and Respond

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Awake and Sing!, by Clifford Odets, at Aurora Theatre

Eric Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason Nation Books, 2002

Some Longings Survive Death, by Dario Robleto

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Clifford Odets was called before HUAC in 1952; one of his first plays was about unionized workers choosing to strike. Walt Odets talks about his father's life and work. Also, Dario Robleto's sculptures in the UC Berkeley Art Museum exhibition Human/Nature address multiple phenomena, among them melting glaciers, extinction, and mourning.

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Wed 6.03.09| If We Disappeared

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Alan Weisman

It's a grand thought experiment rooted in one man's passion for the environment. In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman asks, What would happen if humans suddenly disappeared? Which human creations would last, and which would not? And would nature ever fully recover?

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Mon 3.02.09| Globalization from Below

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"'Globalization From Below' Tackles the 'Great Recession '"

"Why China Matters: Labor in the Era of Globalization"

What's unprecedented about the current economic meltdown? Can national governments effectively address the crisis, or are people's movements a better source of ideas? And why should the situation of workers in China matter to people everywhere? Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, co-directors of the Global Labor Strategies project, share their ideas.

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Wed 2.25.09| Energy, Ecosystems, Warming

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Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy (RACE)

Glen Martin, "Taking the Heat: Bay Area Ecosystems in the Age of Climate Change" Bay Nature

Must liquefied natural gas be imported to meet California's, or this nation's, energy demand? Rory Cox of Pacific Environment talks about the threats LNG poses to the environment and to communities. And Lester Rowntree describes the impact climate change is having, and could have in the future, on Bay Area ecosystems.

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Mon 1.26.09| Forests & Rivers

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ForestEthics

International Rivers

Forests serve vital ecological functions and sequester huge amounts of carbon. But can they survive the activities of wood products companies like Sierra Pacific Industries? Joshua Buswell links logging to climate change and a host of other environmental concerns. And Aviva Imhoff describes plans to build huge dams on the Mekong River.

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Mon 11.03.08| Warnings on Warming

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Radical Philosophy Association Conference

Steve Vanderheiden, ed., Political Theory and Global Climate Change The MIT Press, 2008

George Gonzalez, Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital SUNY Press, 2009

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Urban sprawl results in more fossil fuel consumption, which accelerates climate change. George Gonzalez has investigated US elites' role in spurring suburbanization and harming the planet. And Larry Bogad uses political pranks and street theater to highlight official inaction on, among other things, global warming.