Please join us for tomorrow'sDoing Debating Development Speaker Series on Environmental Justice in Hunt 166 at 12:10PM: Arsenio Mataka, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs

California Environmental Protection Agency. His talk, Environmental Justice Inside Out, draws on his community and recent government experience. Mr. Mataka will discuss how inside out strategies can help identify, address and impede environmental justice issues. Next week's speaker: Alison Alkon, author of Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation). For a full list of speakers, please see.

THE SOUND OF RURAL CALIFORNIA

What does rural California sound like? What makes up the days (and what's on the minds) of people who live in our state's small towns? And how can reporters convey that accurately and evocatively to an urban audience? To complement the California Historical Society exhibition I See Beauty in This Life: A Photographer Looks at 100 Years of Rural California, five public radio reporters will share sounds and stories from across the state and discuss the joys and challenges of reporting in rural California. A panel discussion with reporters Lisa Morehouse, Dan Brekke, Julie Caine, Molly Samuel, and Michael Montgomery will be moderated by I See Beauty curator and writer/photographer Lisa M. Hamilton.

California Historical Society, 678 Mission (@ 3rd St.), San Francisco

Thursday, February 28, 6pm. FREE event. RSVP here: http://ruralsounds.eventbrite.com/#.

On Thursday-Saturday, March 7-9, 2013, join academics, practitioners, and community leaders for an interdisciplinary discussion about sustainability that bridges the environmental, economic, and social spheres within complex urban regions. The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University and Hofstra Cultural Center in partnership with the Columbia University Center for Sustainable Urban Development and New York University Center for the Sustainable Built Environment  present  a conference: From the Outside In: Sustainable Futures for Global Cities and Suburbs . The conference will be held at Hofstra University -- Hempstead, NY. For additional information, please call: (516) 463-5670.   

June 25-27, 2013. Co-sponsored by the University of Southern California's Center for Diversity and Democracy & Augsburg College's Center for Democracy and Citizenship.  Publicly engaged scholars, artists, and other community members are working with institutions of higher education in a wide variety of ways to revitalize and build an inclusive, citizen-centered democracy. Imagining America believes that tools and practices from broad-based community organizing offer a powerful means of strengthening this work. To advance the adoption of organizing tools and practices, they are offering a Summer Institute on Community Organizing. The Institute will provide a space for working teams of three to four campus and community leaders from a limited number of Imagining America's member institutions to engage in deep reflection and discussion about theories and practices of organizing that draw on the strengths of arts, humanities, and design fields. Participants will experience how storytelling and "public narrative" can be used to define and shape individual and collective roles in the work of institutional and social change. Each team will develop specific action plans to take what they've learned home. For more information, please contact us at ia@syr.edu.