[SustainableTompkins] Re: Subject for debate - black carbon

[Allison L H Jack]

Hey Karl,

Sounds like a great topic for discussion! NWAEGCHAT-L is primarily a way to 
post information (readings and meeting times) for our bookgroup. It's not 
necessarily an online discussion forum. Since so many of us spend all day 
and all evening sitting in front of our computers, we save our in depth 
discussion of the issues for our face to face book group meetings where we 
hash out details for two hours on Wednesday evenings. We still have spaces 
available in our schedule this semester. Would you consider re-submitting 
all of these links as the "assigned reading" and facilitating the 
discussion? We usually have from 5-10 people attend who do the reading and 
come prepared to really discuss the ins and outs of a particular issue. Our 
group is a lively mixture of graduate students, undergraduate students and 
community members interested in political and social aspects of 
agroecology. I think this topic would make for a fabulous lengthy 
discussion over snacks on a Wednesday evening!

I'll also take this opportunity to invite the readers of Sustainable 
Tompkins since we were going to post our finalized schedule to their 
listserve anyway. For more information on our book group including links to 
previous readings please see www.rso.cornell.edu/nwaeg/bookgroup.html.

Below is our Fall schedule:

Please let me know if you're interested/ available for facilitating.

Thanks!

Allison
NWAEG Treasurer

p.s. I think Julie is still in Manaus, Brazil teaching a class on molecular 
techniques for soil microbial ecology so you might not get an answer from 
her right away.

9/13/06
MOVIE NIGHT: The Accountant and The Gleaners and I
Host: Dilmun Hill

9/27/06
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Facilitator: Charles Hyland, Host: Please volunteer!

10/11/06
Roots of Rebellion- Land and Hunger in Central America?
Facilitator: Please volunteer!, Host: Meagan Schipanski

10/25/06
Wendell Berry selection
Facilitator: Justin Rich, Host: Thor Oescher (including a tour of Thor's 
organic grain farm near Newfield)

11/8/06
To Inherit the Earth: the landless movement and the struggle for a new 
Brazil by Wright and Wolford
Facilitator: Jennifer Gardner, Host: Charles Hyland

11/22/06
OPEN for suggestions
Facilitator: Please volunteer!, Host: Please volunteer!

12/6/06
Taming globalization: essays from The Nation
Facilitator: Meagan Schipanski, Host: Jennifer Gardner


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Allison L H Jack
Graduate Student
Department of Plant Pathology
Cornell University
335 Plant Science
Ithaca, NY 14850
607.273.5762
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