2007-2008 SeriesAll presentations are held at
7:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Auditorium.
No charge for any event
For more information, call (218) 723-5940 Tuesday, Oct. 9
"Nuclear Power is Not the Answer"
Dr. Helen Caldicott  Dr. Caldicott is co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. Their international umbrella group won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Caldicott also is the founder and president of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, whose mission is to facilitate ongoing public education campaigns about the dangers of nuclear weapons and power programs
Tuesday, Nov. 6
"Getting Along Without Oil"
Paul Roberts  The author of The End of Oil, Roberts writes on the complex interplay of economics, technology and the natural world. His work regularly appears in Harper's Magazine and The Los Angeles Times as well as in The Washington Post, Slate, USA Today, The New Republic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Outside magazine. He was a finalist for the National Magazine Award (1999) and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2005.
Tuesday, Jan. 29
"Bottomless Wells & Unlimited Energy"
Mark Mills 
Mark Mills is a technology strategist, energy consultant and cofounder and chairman of the board of ICx Technologies Inc., which develops and sells new and emerging technologies for homeland security and force protection. In his book, The Bottomless Well, coauthored with Peter Huber, he examines energy technology and policy. Mills has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes and has served as staff consultant to The White House Science Office under President Reagan, the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Wednesday, Feb. 20
"Surviving the Coming Catastrophes"
James Kunstler  Kunstler's latest book, The Long Emergency, is about the challenges posed by the coming global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century." In addition, he writes extensively on the urban landscape and architecture. And he is the author of nine novels including Maggie Darling and The Halloween Ball. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he writes on environmental and economic issues.
Tuesday, Feb. 26
"Northland Energy Futures"
This program features commentary from local voices: Barry Hanson, author of Renewable Energy Solutions; Eric Norberg, Minnesota Power executive; and David Podratz, general manager of Murphy Oil.
| Audio Archives Listen to audio archives from the 2007-2008 series Energy Futures Per his request, James Kunstler's speech
will not be available online.
Mark Mills
alt link - Mills Paul Roberts Dr. Helen Caldicott Listen to audio archives from the 2006-2007 Peace and Justice Series - Brand New Words on Biotech Kathryn Schulz Dr. James J. Hughes Edmund Pellegrino Joel Garreau Special Presentation:
Why Africa Matters"
Derrick Ashong |
Much of the programming in the 2007-2008 Alworth Peace & Justice Lecture series deals with the future of energy in the 21st Century. Many authoritative commentators argue that soon we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is readily available to us. Indeed, some say that the side effects of our dependence on fossil fuels are already taking their toll worldwide: higher prices at the gas pump, rising health problems, "energy wars" and long-term environmental damage. Conversely, others predict dramatic changes in technology that will lead to new energy supplies, higher productivity, more jobs and an expanding global economy. This lecture series will feature a variety of viewpoints on energy scenarios for the near and distant futures.