First Post-Workshop Blog Post

Thanks again to everyone who came to the first Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop. I hope you found it to be an engaging and useful event. I really enjoyed meeting with such a fantastic and interesting group of faculty. I was surprised to see that Steve Proctor (the fellow taking photos of us while we were walking about with David Richardson on the "tree tour") was able to get today's workshop into This Week at SMU. If you haven't already seen it, check it out!There were many occasions during the course of the day when I found myself saying "I'll have to post this on the blog". I think I probably have enough content to sustain this thing daily for at least a month! But that is great, and I would welcome more content to flow my way so please send me anything that is relevant to the blog and I would be happy to post it.

I thought I would give you a bit more information about David Orr, who I mentioned in my presentation today. You can learn a bit about him from his web site; I would encourage you to take a quick look at his site: he certainly is an inspirational individual. I mentioned his book "Earth in Mind" today and Anne Marie Dalton brought by a copy of his newest book, "Down to the Wire". I've discovered that the SMU library does not hold either of these, so I will get them both ordered through Geography right away.

And, you may want to take a minute to check out some of the links from the blog: some will be more useful and relevant to you than others. I find the environmental news links a great way to quickly stay on top of the leading environmental issues of the day.