Webinar: Taking Lessons from Nature

How to Observe our World

Tuesday, June 4, 2019 - 1:00pm EDT

Webinars

How long should a leaf live? When should blueberries ripen? Utilizing the knowledge of the natural world takes practice and observational skills. The real question is, why is it important to listen?

This webinar discusses the importance of listening to the natural world to deepen our understanding. We'll feature panelists with a wide range of knowledge that will offer both a broad ranging and practical, on the ground perspective about learning in and from nature itself.

The webinar is in partnership with Nature Camp.

Panelists include:

John Pastor, author of What Should a Clever Moose Eat?: Natural History, Ecology, and the North Woods
Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow at Worldwatch and Director of EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet
Jason Mark, Editor at Sierra Magazine and author of Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man

Moderated by Philip P. Coulling, Executive Director of Nature Camp.

View the presentation here.

Participants

Jason Mark

Jason Mark's writings on the environment have appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, The Nation, and Salon.com, among many other publications. He is the editor in chief of SIERRA magazine, was the longtime editor of Earth Island Journal, a quarterly magazine, and is a co-founder of San Francisco's largest urban farm. Time has called him "a rebel with a cause." For more, visit jasondovemark.com.

Erik Assadourian

Erik Assadourian is a Senior Fellow at the Worldwatch Institute, where he has studied cultural change, consumerism, economic degrowth, ecological ethics, corporate responsibility, and sustainable communities over the past 11 years. Erik has directed two editions of Vital Signs and four editions of State of the World, including State of the World 2013.

John Pastor

John Pastor is an ecologist and professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, where his teaching and research focus on the natural history and ecology of northern ecosystems. Pastor is the author of Mathematical Ecology of Populations and Ecosystems, is co-editor of Large Mammalian Herbivores, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Conservation, and has authored or coauthored 22 book chapters and over 120 papers, mostly about the North Woods. He is co-chair of the Natural History Section of the Ecological Society of America.