{"id":3628,"date":"2015-03-24T18:23:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/24\/earth-week-teach-in-takes-place-march-25\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:30:10","slug":"earth-week-teach-in-takes-place-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/earth-week-teach-in-takes-place-march-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Week Teach-In takes place March 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/earthweek-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17145 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/earthweek-image.jpg\" alt=\"earthweek-image\" width=\"165\" height=\"207\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 165px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 165\/207;\" \/><\/a>Furman University will sponsor an \u201cEarth Week Teach-In\u201d event on Wednesday, March 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Hill\u00a0Atrium of the Trone Student Center.<\/p>\n<p>The public is invited to attend.<\/p>\n<p>According to Michele Speitz, Ph.D., an assistant professor of English at Furman, the teach-in is \u201cmeant to be both informative and provocative. Ideally such a gathering of speakers is meant to attract attention, educate the audience, and galvanize action. The main idea is to bring our sustainability-centered work to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is the lineup for Wednesday\u2019s event:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bill Ranson, Earth and Environmental Science<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSustainable Connections: Energy, Water, Land, Biodiversity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">12:30-1:30 p.m.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Simmons, Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd God Saw That It Was Good: Religion and Environmental Activism\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>1:30-2 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michele Speitz, English<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt in the Anthropocene: Politics &amp; Ecopoetics\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2-2:15 p.m.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greg Lewis, Biology<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLand Cover and Water Quality in Streams of the South Carolina Upstate\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2:15-2:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Inabinet, Communication Studies<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarth for Dummyz: The Need for Sustainable Advocacy\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>3-4 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keynote Guest Speaker<\/p>\n<p>Robert Musil, CEO of the Rachel Carson Council<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Dr. Speitz at 864-294-3619 and <a href=\"mailto:michelle.speitz@furman.edu\">michele.speitz@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman will sponsor an \u201cEarth Week Teach-In\u201d event on Wednesday, March 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Hill Atrium of the Trone Student Center. The public is invited to attend. According to Michele Speitz, Ph.D., an assistant professor of English at Furman, the teach-in is \u201cmeant to be both informative and provocative. Ideally such a gathering of speakers is meant to attract attention, educate the audience, and galvanize action. The main idea is to bring our sustainability-centered work to life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,51,37,31,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-biology","category-communication-studies","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-english","category-philosophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}