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Book Talk with Stephanie Kaza

Elisabeth Jones Art Center 516 NW 14th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Who: Stephanie Kaza What: Author of the book, Conversations with Trees- An Intimate Ecology, former professor, environmentalist, and Buddhist, Stephanie Kaza will share her thoughts on ecology, spirituality, climate change, and having conversations with trees. Lithographs by David Te Selle, Stephanie's husband, are currently exhibiting at the Elisabeth Jones Art Center.  When: Sunday, June 9th from 6pm to 7pm Where: The Elisabeth Jones Art Center 516 NW 14th Ave, Portland, OR 97209 Cost: Free! Contact: Shae Uisna shae@elisabethjones.art 503.286.4959. More information about Stephanie Kaza: Kaza is a long-time lover of trees, a practicing Zen Buddhist, and an environmentalist. A native of Oregon, Kaza spent many years in Burlington, Vermont, as professor and program director of the Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Her books explore timely questions of the challenging issues in climate, sustainability, and humanity facing…

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Treelines: A Generative Collaboration with the Sisters Yuknavitch

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WITH: Brigid Yuknavitch and Lidia Yuknavitch WHEN&WHERE: Saturday April 3rd and Sunday April 4th, over Zoom. 10am-1pm PST both days. HOW MUCH: $450. Twenty person cap. Payment plans are always available, contact Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com. SCHOLARSHIPS: Click here to apply. What are the trees saying in their ways and what might we say? How many trees have been nearby in your life, standing as you were cradled and and then walked and then moved into the world? Did you see them touch them, hide inside them, or behind them? Did their smells come onto your skin as if you were a tree? Did you hear wind through them or watch the light flicker? How have you been with trees? In this generative writing workshop we…

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Suzanne Simard in Conversation With Aaron Scott

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she’s been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. Now, in her first book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Knopf), the world’s leading forest ecologist brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths — that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through…

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Lyndsie Bourgon in Conversation With Ed Jahn

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves (Little, Brown Spark), Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree poachers, law enforcement, forensic wood specialists, the enigmatic residents of former logging communities, environmental activists, international timber cartels, and indigenous communities along the way. Old-growth trees are invaluable and irreplaceable for both humans and wildlife, and are the oldest living things on earth. But the morality of tree poaching is not as simple as we might think: stealing trees is a form of deeply rooted protest, and a side effect of environmental preservation and protection that doesn't include communities…

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