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| Wes Jackson to Lecture on Sustainable Agriculture |
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| Start Date: | 4/14/2011 | Start Time: | 7:00 PM |
| End Date: | 4/14/2011 | |
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Event Description
Wes Jackson is a leading voice in the sustainable agriculture movement. He describes his work as an attempt “to solve the 10,000 year problem of agriculture.” For 35 years Jackson and his team of plant scientists at the Land Institute have sought to create perennial, poly-cultural grain crops that mimic prairie ecosystems. Their results have been published in Science, Nature, and Scientific American, and featured extensively in the popular media including The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, National Geographic, Time Magazine, The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." Life magazine named Wes Jackson as one of 18 individuals they predict will be among the 100 "important Americans of the 20th century." In the November 2005 issue, Smithsonian named him one of “35 Who Made a Difference” and in March, 2009 Jackson was included in Rolling Stone’s “100 Agents of Change.” |
Location Information:
Union College - Nott Memorial (View Map)
42.817252,-73.929921
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StudentsFacultyStaffAlumniParentsProspectives (students/parents)Open to Public (external) |
Event Type:
Seminar/Lecture |
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