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A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Southwest Brainpower & Brownbags lecture series
| date_range | June 16, 2011 |
| location_on |
113 Lincoln Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501 United States |
| schedule | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
NEW DATE: June 16
Noted environmental author William deBuys speaks on "A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Southwest," on Thursday, June 16, in the John Gaw Meem Room, 105 Washington Ave. (Enter via the museum's Washington entrance.) This Brainpower & Brownbags lecture is free and open to the public.
An avid environmentalist and the author of six books, including Enchantment and Exploitation; Salt Dreams; and River of Traps, which was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize. DeBuys received a 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellowship, and an excerpt from his most recent work, The Walk, won a 2008 Pushcart Prize.
A Great Aridness is the focus of his latest book project, which examines the precariousness of life in the Southwest and the likely impact of climate change, which promises to transform the Southwest as emphatically as it is already altering the Arctic.
DETAILS
June 16, 2011
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost:
No cost
Location:
113 Lincoln Avenue , Santa Fe, NM 87501 United States
CONTACT
Organizer:
Marlon Magdalena
