Environmentalists to speak at UW

The UW’s Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs brings two provocative environmental thinkers to Seattle next week.

Joseph E. Taylor III speaks on campus Tuesday, March 14, about his new book, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis.

Published by University of Washington Press, the book documents how prevailing strategies have perpetuated, rather than resolved, the salmon’s decline. It was named “best book in environmental history” by the American Society for Environmental History.

Taylor is an assistant professor of history at Iowa State University. His talk, sponsored by the Evans School’s Northwest Forum, begins at noon in the Parrington Hall Forum.

On March 15, The Progress Project hosts Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, on Finding Balance: Environment, Capitalism and Community.

Lovins, a MacArthur Fellow and experimental physicist, founded the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute in 1982 to explore the sustainable use of resources as a path to global security.

He will be appearing at 7:30 p.m. at downtown Seattle’s Town Hall at Eighth and Seneca, sponsored by The Progress Project, an initiative of the Evans School and the Glaser Family Foundation. As with all Progress Project events, it will be Webcast live at http://www.progressproject.org. ¶