Gary E. Machlis on Sustainability for the Forgotten

J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, Utah

Sustainability for the Forgotten is an incendiary book that confronts the history, policies, and practices of sustainability. It interrogates the usefulness of current sustainability approaches for the poorest of the poor, the chronic underclass, victims of natural disasters, refugees, the oppressed, and asks, how can...

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Gary E. Machlis Sustainability for the Forgotten Book Signing

The King's English Bookshop 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

TKE welcomes Gary E. Machlis, who will discuss and sign his new book: Sustainability for the Forgotten. This in-person event is open to the public and will take place at the bookshop. Registration is required for this free event. RSVP below! Copies of the book will...

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Stories from the Arches with Jeff Nichols

Salt Lake City Public Library 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, Utah

The extraordinary landscape of what we now call Arches National Park thrills millions of visitors every year. But people have also lived and worked in the area since long before it was a park. Jeff Nichols shares stories from the Arches, featured in the new...

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Western History Association (WHA)

Kansas City, MO

The 64th Annual WHA Conference will be hosted at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center from October 23-26 (Wednesday-Saturday). The 2024 conference will be held concurrently with the Southern Historical Association.  The 2024 WHA President is Kelly Lytle Hernández, a professor of History, African American Studies,...

A Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag

S.J. Quinney College of Law and Virtual Event

The American West has long been seen as a place of rugged landscapes presenting endless opportunities. But the land is more fragile and resources more finite than popular perceptions admit. We are presenting a volume of essays, A Watershed Moment, that explores tensions between a culture of economic...

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Betsy Howell – Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest

Village Books and Paper Dreams 1200 11th St, Bellingham, WA, United States

Join Village Books and North Cascades Institute in the last Nature of Writing event of 2024 with Betsy Howell as talks about her new book Wild Forest Home: Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest! Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Betsy Howell spent her childhood...

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