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Teaching and Learning Conference 2007, Transforming Learning into Action: Sustainability Initiatives in Higher Education

Aug 16 to Aug 17, 2007

Tamara Ramirez will represent NAU's Program in Community, Culture, and Environment at the 2007 Teaching and Learning Conference. This year's conference theme is "Transforming Learning into Action: Sustainability Initiatives in Higher Education." Tamara's presentation, "Learning 'Sustainability' through the Arts: the Aesthetic Imagination and the Sustainability Narrative" will focus on investigating sustainability through the arts in curriculum. For full...

Tony Grahame: The 2006 International Energy Conservation Code- Resource Efficient, Durable and Cost Effective Housing Using Buil

Aug 15, 2007 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Please join Tony Grahame as he addresses the big question: “Should we, or should we not, adopt the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC)?” Tony’s presentation will review specific building envelope requirements for climate zone 5 (northeast Arizona) for compliance with the 2006 IECC. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions during the presentation. Some of the specific topics will include: Indoor Air Quality and fresh air ventilation, whole house...

Colorado Plateau Summer Art Workshops

Jun 5 to Aug 3, 2007

Explore the Colorado Plateau through the visual arts this summer! The Program in CC&E joins Coconino Community college in presenting workshops in glass, drawing, pastel, painting,textiles, and ceramics inspired by the breathtaking Colorado Plateau. Workshop housing is available on the NAU campus. For details and a full workshop schedule, please visit:

http://www.coconino.edu/finearts/2007/index.htm

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Northern Arizona Book Festival 2007

Apr 15 to Apr 23, 2007

The Program in CC&E is a proud supporter of the 2007 Northern Arizona Book Festival! Among the artists featured at this year's festival are:

Billy Collins, Marilyn Hacker, Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), Shonto Begay, Jeff Biggers, Lori Carlson, Chuck Cheesman, Ann Cummins, Matthew Henry Hall, Geri Keams, Michael Lacapa, Auerlie Sheehan, Leora Skolkin-Smith, Mary Sojourner, Jean Rukkila, Joe Sorren, Steve Willis and the S.E. Willis Band and others!

Endgame: A Lecture by Derrick Jensen

Apr 10, 2007 - 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Hailed as the philosopher poet of the ecological movement, best-selling author Derrick Jensen will speak on his latest works, Endgame, Volumes 1 and 2, at 7:30pm, April 10th in the duBois Ballroom at Northern Arizona University.

In Endgame, Jensen presents a passionate forecast of how industrial civilization, and the persistent and widespread violence it requires, is unsustainable. His intricate weaving together of history, philosophy,...

Reconstructing Home

Feb 16 to Apr 7, 2007

Reconstructing Home explores ways of addressing the evolving elements of place and belonging. Siegner, of Edmonton, Alberta and Edgerton, NAU School of Art adjunct faculty, discuss and debate connectedness to locale vs. connections to emotions through video and traditional installations, digital works, text, and storytelling. The exhibit is a collaborative investigation into the concept of home through differences in culture, gender perspectives, movement and stability, family dynamics and...

The Long Emergency: A Lecture by James Howard Kuntsler

Mar 5, 2007 - 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. On March 5, 2007, this noted innovator comes to Flagstaff. His lecture that evening, based on his latest book, will take place at 7:30pm in Northern Arizona University’s Cline Library Auditorium.

In...

Places of the Heart 2007

Feb 9 to Feb 24, 2007

Through four previous exhibits, Places of the Heart has celebrated Flagstaff’s most treasured sites in locally-produced visual art and creative writing. In 2007, the exhibit will expand to include displays on a number of place-based projects, each of which use the written, spoken, visual, and audio-visual arts to explore what the Flagstaff region means to us:

Places of the Heart 2007 will feature:

A collection of artwork that “maps” our...

The Economics of Happiness

Nov 28, 2006 - 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Just back from travels in China, Japan, and Little Tibet, Helena Norberg-Hodge reflects on how a shift toward local economics can increase environmental, social and psychological well-being. Norberg-Hodge directs the International Society for Ecology and Culture, a non-profit organization concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity, and preserving cultures in the face of globalization. She also directs the Ladakh Project, renowned for its...

Smithsonian CultureFest, Flagstaff: A Celebration of the Night

Nov 10 to Nov 11, 2006

Join us for two days of performances, lectures, exhibits, and tours that celebrate the beauty of Flagstaff's naturally dark night skies and fields of brilliant stars.

Through a CultureFest Grant from the Smithsonian and support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, CC&E will partner with Flagstaff Cultural Partners, the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition, and the Flagstaff Convention and Visitors Bureau to present this series of events.

Visit the Flagstaff...

	Coconino County Sustainable Economic Development Initiative (SEDI) As a participant in Coconino County's Sustainable Economic Development...
	Flagstaff WIN (Weatherization Initiatives Network) The Flagstaff WIN project will launch immediate, effective, collaborative and...
	Giving Voice to Flagstaff Neighborhoods (GVFN) Through Giving Voice to Flagstaff Neighborhoods, CC&E facilitates on-the-ground...
	NAU Faculty Senate Dr. Romand Coles, McAllister Chair in Community Culture & Environment, has been...
	2009-2010 One Community Sustainable Living Lecture Series (OCSSLS) The One Community Sustainable Living Lecture Series is a partnership among local...

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