Agroecology Expert to Speak April 23 at
Cal Poly
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly will host agroecology expert
Steve Gliessman from 11 a.m. to noon Monday, April 23. in Chumash
Auditorium in the University Union.
A professor or agroecology at UC Santa Cruz for more than 30 years,
Gliessman will share his experiences in the advancement of sustainable
food systems locally and globally and with the Community Agroecology
Network, the nonprofit he co-founded.
The free lecture is open to the public. It is sponsored by Community
Agroecology Network, the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental
Sciences’ Center for Sustainability and the Cal Poly Fair Trade
Club.
About Steve Gliessman
Steve Gliessman earned his doctorate in plant ecology at UC Santa
Barbara and then spent nine years teaching and managing agricultural
operations in Latin America. He joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz in
1980. He was founding director of the university’s Agroecology Program
and teaches natural history, ethnobotany and agroecology as an emeriti
faculty in the Department of Environmental Studies. He is the Heller
Endowed Chair of Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz and has been a Kellogg
Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. He is co-founder of the nonprofit Community
Agroecology Network and current co-director of the Sustainable Living
Center at UC Santa Cruz, where he also directs the undergraduate student
residential Program in Community and Agroecology. He has published
extensively on traditional agriculture in Mexico, agroecology, and
sustainable agriculture. His textbook “Agroecology: Ecology of
Sustainable Food Systems” is in its second edition and appears in four
languages. He lectures in agroecology worldwide. He and his family dry
farm organic wine grapes at their small ranch in the Cuyama Valley of
Central California.
Contact: Hunter Francis
805-756-5086;
wfrancis@calpoly.edu
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org
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