[Scpg] Agroecology Expert to Speak April 23 at Cal Poly
Margie Bushman, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
sbpcnet at silcom.com
Thu Apr 19 11:57:15 PDT 2012
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 universitys 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; <mailto:wfrancis at calpoly.edu>wfrancis at calpoly.edu
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