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Tue Feb 26, 2008. 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Baker Hall, Room 202A

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ICE

Tue Feb 26, 2008. 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
Baker Hall, Room 202A

Investigating Careers in the Environment (ICE) Series talk

Paula Palmer, Executive Director, Global Response

Sociologist and writer Paula Palmer lends her pen to the environmental causes of indigenous peoples throughout the world, helping them to carry out their own goals for a continued sustainable lifestyle. Unlike conservationists who might see humans as innately destructive of "wilderness", Palmer recognizes that traditional indigenous cultures have refined ways of living on the land without destroying valuable ecosystems. She has worked with indigenous and Afro-Caribbean residents of the Talamanca Coast of Costa Rica, and since 1996, been Executive Director of Global Response, an urgent action network that responds to environmental crises affecting indigenous people. Global Response is a non-profit organization focused on initiating environmental change through grassroots education and organization of people around the world. In the past, Palmer has been profiled in American Environmental Leaders From Colonial Times to the Present and has been honored with two regional awards for her activism.

Global response empowers people of all ages, cultures, and nationalities to protect the environment by creating partnerships for effective citizen action. At the request of indigenous peoples and grassroots organizations, Global Response organizes international letter writing campaigns to help communities prevent many kinds of environmental destruction. Global Response involves young people as well as adults in these campaigns to develop in them the values and skills for global citizen cooperation and earth stewardship.

All talks are free and open to all students. Join us to set your environmental career in motion! For more information on the talk or series, contact Dale Miller at 303-492-6629 (dale.miller@colorado.edu).

Co-sponsored by: Environmental Studies Program, Career Services, Environmental Center, Baker RAP, and CU Environmental Program.

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