some of y'all may wonder why i keep sending eco/green stuff to the geowanking list... it is relevant - really :-)
anyway i noticed michael pollan is speaking at SALT -> try go - me ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stewart Brand <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:48 PM Subject: [SALT] Michael Pollan next TUESDAY May 5 (for forwarding) To: [email protected] [Note that this event is at the Herbst Theater in the Civic Center (not at Ft. Mason).] Eat sunlight instead of oil, and eat as if your health depended on it. American agriculture and food marketing can be reorganized around those goals. The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food lays out the program, from the fields to your palate... "Deep Agriculture: Resolarizing the Food System to Fight Climate Change and the Health Care Crisis," Michael Pollan, Herbst Theater, Civic Center, San Francisco, 7pm, Tuesday May 5. The show starts promptly at 7:30pm. To be sure of a seat, become a Long Now member and reserve a seat or order an advance ticket ($10) . Some SALT talks have overflowed, and latecomers had to be turned away. To head off the problem, here's the arrangement: Long Now Members can reserve a seat HERE (Use "discount code" from your email and on the "Events" tab on the Long Now Member's site.) You can purchase tickets for $10 HERE Please Note: Priority seating for Long Now Members will start at 7pm. Members and ticket holders: if you arrive after 7:25 we may not be able to seat you in the theater. Seating is limited and subject to availability; purchase or reserve your seat early. Please allow time for traffic, parking, walking to the theater and check-in. Talks coming up: May 18 (MONDAY) - Paul Romer, "A Theory of History, with an Application" July 28 (TUESDAY) - Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak, "Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future" Aug. 17 (MONDAY) - Wayne Clough, "Smithsonian Forever" Sep. 14 (MONDAY) - Arthur Ganson, "Machines and the Breath of Time" Oct. 9 (Friday) - Stewart Brand, "Rethinking Green" Nov. 18 (WEDNESDAY) - Sander van der Leeuw, "The Long and Short of It" High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits (such as guaranteed seats) are available to Long Now members. Membership, which costs $8/month ($96/year), helps support the series and other Long Now projects. Joinable here. This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Free audios and my summaries of all previous talks are available for download here (or stay up to date with the Podcast here). You'll find a range of long-term thinking items on our Blog (RSS). If you would like to be notified by email (like this one) of forthcoming talks, go here to sign up online. Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now--- 415-561-6582 x1, [email protected]. You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be interested. --Stewart Brand Stewart Brand -- [email protected] The Long Now Foundation - http://www.longnow.org Seminars & downloads: http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/ * Twitter - up to the minute info on Long Now tickets and events * Long Now Blog - daily updates on Long Now events and ideas * Facebook - stay in touch through our fan page * Long Now Meetups - join one or start your own -- anselm 415 215 4856 http://hook.org http://makerlab.com http://meedan.net _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
