An Evening with Guy Mc Pherson ~

Subject: An evening with Guy McPherson - Saturday night 2/18

Little Artshram and the Continual University Series, along with several other Michigan communities and organizations has invited Professor Emeritus Guy McPherson, of the Dept. of Natural resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona to deliver presentations and talks in Michigan. His scholarly work, focused primarily on conservation of biological diversity, has produced 10 books and more than 100 articles. After researching environmental degradation, climate change, and fossil fuel dependency, he discovered that traditional conceptualizations of sustainability are woefully inadequate.

Dr. McPherson left his tenured faculty position after recognizing the extremely untenable, unsustainable pathway we are on is dangerously close to collapse. He now lives in a straw bale house, and is increasing his self sufficiency through organic farming and community resilience. He advises individuals, groups, and communities on how to increase their resilience in the face of economic depression, increasing energy prices, and climate change.

Join Little Artshram and Continual University, and our organizational partners, as we welcome Dr. Guy McPherson to Michigan for a two-week stay ~ for more information on his tour and on Continual University: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TransitionMichigan/permalink/10150513654852046/ ~ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/TransitionMichigan/permalink/10150513654852046/)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sustainable Michigan:

Guy McPherson is a terrestrial plant ecologist, with primary interests in developing and creatively applying ecological theory within the context of biological conservation. His research focuses on basic ecological relationships in savannas, grasslands, and deserts of the southwestern United States. Guy left academia after becoming more and more focused on Sustainability, the environment and the ideas represented in relocalization, permaculture/peak oil and transition thinking. He has been focused on his writing and developing a well grounded intentional and sustainable community. Some of you may have seen Guy when he spoke at the recent The International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change: Vision, Action, Leadership (VAL) 2011.

Guy is on a large speaking tour of Michigan and has agreed to spend an evening with us Saturday 2/18 so we're trying to work out all of the details on this. More info to come ~ This will likely be at The Gilbert Residence - Living Room/Community Room ~ a pleasant venue we've used many times before. If you can help with this event - that would be wonderful, please contact me! (734) 485-9196 and leave a message.

Link to video (http://youtu.be/4mk55aJCI1Y) trailer with some more about Guy McPherson.