The 2007 biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) will officially begin with an evening reception and plenary on Tuesday, June 12, 2007. For the first time ASLE will be offering morning...
1. The Importance of the Local -- John Lane, co-editor of The Woods Stretched for Miles and one of the founders of Hub City Writers Project (Spartanburg) talked about literature of place and why every place matters. The written...
NOVEMBER 7 – 9, 2008
COLUMBIA, NORTH CAROLINA
The Southeastern United States faces multiple environmental challenges, from deforestation, drought, and development to climate change. Orion writer/activists Jan DeBlieu, Janisse Ray, and Erik Reece will...
April 11, 2008
EESAT Building, University of North Texas
On April 11, 2008 Writing a Wide Landscape: A Texas Nature Writing Conference will bring together for the second time major writers, editors, and interested...
The webcast of Robert Michael Pyle's keynote address at the Texas Nature Writing Conference at the University of North Texas will take place 6-7 pm CDT on April 11. This presentation is free for all...
The following lecture was presented on January 24, 2008, as the Founders' Day Lecture marking the 223rd anniversary of the signing of the charter of the University of Georgia.
I want to...
Nature and Environmental Writers - College and University Educators (NEW-CUE), a non-profit, environmental education organization, will offer its Fifth Environmental Writers' Conference in honor of Rachel Carson at The Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor,...
During the fall of 1957, Texas writer John Graves spent three weeks canoeing on the Brazos River — alone except for his dachshund puppy. The Fort Worth writer wanted to make one last trip on...
Photographer and activist Vivian Stockman leans out of the airplane and points at the mining site, a pale gray, black and red sore where a green mountain had been this time last year. The...
The Southwestern states’ boundaries (Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and
Arizona) create a unique situation of having large areas of varying
landscape as well as ethnically and culturally diverse populations on
each side of the 100th...
On April 4, 2007 the Texas Nature Writing Conference will bring together for the first time major Texas writers, editors, photographers, and experts in their field. This literary symposium is designed to reach out...
I set out with my students from Wofford College on our Cornbread and Sushi road trip to look for the changing South, and driving through Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Roanoke, and Charlottesville we found it -—...
Welcome to SNP. It’s been a little over a month since we launched this project on October 10th 2006 at a lecture by the Wormsloe Foundation’s Craig Barrow on the campus of the University of...
The Southern Nature Project website is designed to:
-- Create a resource that will enable people to more
easily locate Southern nature writers.
-- Provide a venue to showcase the work...
The information superhighway can be a busy, congested place, and we're all trying to navigate it without becoming roadkill.
One of the best ways to navigate anything, I've found, is to simply slow...
We were on Ossabaw Island for a short weekend to talk about Southern nature. We were taking on the big issues—species diversity, wild places, democracy, our own lives, “writing in place”. It was Saturday morning...
ASLE 2007 Plenary Sessions
A List of Confirmed Speakers and Panel Discussions
8:00 - 9:30 pm Tuesday, June 12. Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is one of the preeminent environmental writers in the United...