SUSTAINABLE FUTURES SPEAKER SERIES

August 29, 2018

As part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Dr. Robert Gottlieb will present "From Resistance to Transformation: 50 Years of Environmental & Social Justice Action Research."

Robert Gottlieb is the founder and former director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute and an emeritus professor at Occidental College. He is the author of thirteen books, including Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China (with Simon Ng), and Forcing the Spring, Environmentalism Unbound, and Food Justice (with Anupama Joshi). He is the editor of two series at the MIT Press: “Urban and Industrial Environments” and “Food, Health, and Environment.”

In 2012, Gottlieb received the Carey McWilliams Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Studies Association. A longtime environmental and social justice activist, he has researched and participated in social movements for more than 50 years.

The Sustainable Futures Speaker Series is sponsored by the Schatz Energy Research Center, the Environment & Community graduate program, and the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at Humboldt State University.

The presentation will take place Thursday, September 6, at 5:30 p.m. in Siemens Hall 108. 

Questions? Phone the Environment & Community Program at 707-826-3653 or email envcomm1@humboldt.edu.

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