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Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Friday, January 23 at 8:00pm - Sustainability Symposium
Sandstone III Conference Room; Stro...
Monday, October 20 at 8:00pm - Enduring Questions: The Mark C...
Kulas Musical Arts Building
Monday, October 20 at 8:00pm
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Enduring Questions: The Mark Collier Lecture Series 2008-2009
Producer and director of the groundbreaking documentaries The Way Home and Light in the Shadows, Dr. Shakti Butler is an inspirational facilitator and lecturer, and is a power...
Host:Sustainability at Baldwin-Wallace College
Time:8:00PM Friday, January 23rd
Location:Kleist Center for Art & Drama
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Sustainability at Baldwin-Wallace College
The two-day B-W Sustainability Symposium went extraordinarily well, bringing together leading experts in the sustainability area in our region and creating significant energy among participants.To listen to the full keynote address given by Stuart Hart, a leading authority on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism for business strategy, visit http://real.bw.edu/ramgen/bus/dkrueger/s
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Wendell Berry's "17 rules for sustainability" continued...
15. Be aware of the economic value of neighborliness -- as help, insurance, and so on. They must realize that in our time the costs of living are greatly increased by the loss of neighborhood, leaving people to face their calamities alone.
16. Be acquainted with, and complexly connected with, community-minded people in nearby towns and cities.
17. Cultivate urban consumers loyal to local products to build a sustainable rural economy, which will always be more cooperative than competitive.”
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Wendell Berry's "17 rules for sustainability" continued...
11. Invest in the community to maintain its properties, keep it clean (without dirtying some other place), care for its old people, and teach its children.
12. Arrange for the old and the young to take care of one another, eliminating institutionalized "child care" and "homes for the aged." The young must learn from the old, not necessarily and not always in school; the community knows and remembers itself by the association of old and young.
13. Account for costs that are now conventionally hidden or "externalized." Whenever possible they must be debited against monetary income.
14. Look into the possible uses of local currency, community-funded loan programs, systems of barter, and the like.
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Wendell Berry's "17 rules for sustainability" continued...
6. Develop properly scaled value-adding industries for local products in order not to become merely a colony of the national or the global economy.
7. Develop small-scale industries and businesses to support the local farm or forest economy.
8. Strive to produce as much of their own energy as possible.
9. Strive to increase earnings (in whatever form) within the community, and decrease expenditures outside the community.
10. Circulate money within the local economy for as long as possible before paying it out.
Sustainability at Baldwin-Wallace College
Wendell Berry is one of our nation's most well-known environmentalists. He has outlined "17 rules for sustainability" that are are applicable to any organization or community.
Supposing that the members of a local community wanted their community to cohere, to flourish, and to last, they would:
1. Ask of any proposed change or innovation: What will this do to our community? How will this affect our common wealth?
2. Include local nature -- the land, the water, the air, the native creatures -- within the membership of the community.
3. Ask how local needs might be supplied from local sources, including the mutual help of neighbors.
4. Supply local needs first (and only then think of exporting their products, first to nearby cities, and then to others).
5. Understand the ultimate unsoundness of the industrial doctrine of "labor saving" if that implies poor work, unemployment, or any kind of pollution or contamination.
Check back for more "rules for sustainability."
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Faculty / Program Directors
Dr. David Krueger
(440) 826-5923
dkrueger@bw.edu
Dr. Sabina Thomas
(440) 826-2268
sfthomas@bw.edu
In addition to the program directors, this interdisciplinary program utilizes faculty from multiple departments across campus.
A multi-faceted, interdisciplinary topic, sustainability seeks to identify effective ways in which society can transform itself for the future of humanity and the natural worl...
Host:Sustainability at Baldwin-Wallace College
Time:8:00PM Monday, October 20th
Location:Sandstone III Conference Room; Strosacker College Union
Sustaining Humanity: Sharing Spaces/ Sharing Places
Join us for a modern perspective on the timeless questions of humanity with renowned speakers from across the range of academic disciplines. What would it mean to live in a ...
Host:Sustainability at Baldwin-Wallace College
Time:8:00PM Monday, October 20th
Location:Kulas Musical Arts Building
Sustainability at Baldwin-Wallace College