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Creating
a Life
Terry
Tempest Williams raises the big issue
Author Terry Tempest Williams drew an overflowing
crowd to the EMU Ballroom March 3 for her reflections on living and loving in an
overpopulated world.
A
Public Figure
Law student Courtney Brown told the packed
EMU ballroom Thursday that she thought Julia Butterfly Hill was "otherworldly."
Yet from the moment she delicately stepped onto the stage with her bare feet, Hill
seemed to be pleading with the Eugene audience to see her as a regular person.
Remembering
David Brower
For the first time in 18 years, David Brower's
tenor voice did not ring out to ignite the courage of his fellow activists. But the
cantankerous spirit of the 20th century's greatest environmental visionary, who died
of cancer last November at the age of 88, hung over the EMU Ballroom during a tribute
that drew the audience to its feet.
Ecotage
Sabotage
to save the Earth generates backlash
Extreme threats require extreme defenses,
says Craig Rosebraugh, spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).
Greens
Look Ahead
Green party leaders from the UO to the
national level were upbeat about both the past and the future at a Sunday morning
session at the EMU.
The
Side of Caution
A lawyer from North Dakota, a doctor from
Boston, and a scientist from Eugene spoke March 2 to a room crowded with activists
about a simple concept that could fundamentally change the way the world deals with
environmental degradation.
Living
an Earth-Sacred Life
Julia Butterfly Hill, Patagonia's Ron Calc,
and California environmental attorney Sharon Dugan gathered with a crowd of close
to 60 on March 2 to hash out the idea of living an "Earth-sacred" life.
Earthy
Women
Ecofeminism
incorporates issues of ecology, race and economics
The environment is a feminist issue,
as the procuring of natural resources is, throughout the world, traditionally
a woman's domain.
Weathering
Change
PIELC
panelists look ahead at energy, rhetoric and the power of litigation.
Our planet's carbon cycle is "fundamentally
out of balance due to human activity over the past 150 years," says Dan Ihara.
Eugene
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