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Environmental Leadership Center
Warren Wilson College
Campus Box 6323
P.O. Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

828.771.3006

Please refer comments or questions about this website to Phillip Ray Gibson @ pgibson@warren-wilson.edu.

Upcoming Presentations

Anita Brown-Graham on September 14, 2010 @ 7 PM will present in the Warren Wilson College Chapel.

Anita Brown-Graham will open our 2010 Sustainability Speakers Series. Since 2007, as director of North Carolina’s Institute for Emerging Issues, she has worked alongside state leaders like Governor Jim Hunt to focus citizens from the mountains to the coast on the state’s most pressing issues. From energy and climate change to creativity and innovation, Brown-Graham understands North Carolina’s threats and its opportunities and works to inspire and educate the state’s leaders to collaborate on behalf of a thriving and resilient quality of life for all its citizens. Brown-Graham, an attorney, has also conducted significant training and written books and articles focused on developing the economic base of distressed communities.

Bill McKibben on October 6, 2010 @ 7 PM will present in the Warren Wilson College Chapel

Bill McKibben, one of America's best known environmentalists, serves as the Headwaters Gathering speaker for 2010, a partnership event of Warren Wilson, The Wilderness Society and Orion magazine. In 2010 the Boston Globe called him "the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist.” Over the last quarter century, his books have shaped public perception and public action on climate change, alternative energy, and the need for more localized economies. McKibben is founder of 350.org, a global grassroots climate change initiative which spawned thousands of events in most of the world's nations on October 24, 2009. His most recent book is Eaarth…Making A Life On A Tough New Planet.

Lester Brown on November 11, 2010 @ 7 PM will present in the Warren Wilson College Chapel

The Washington Post called Lester Brown "one of the world's most influential thinkers." The Telegraph of Calcutta refers to him as "the guru of the environmental movement." In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers noting that his writings "have already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources." In May 2001, Brown founded the Earth Policy Institute to provide a vision and a road map for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy. In November 2001, he published Eco Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, which was hailed by E.O. Wilson as "an instant classic." His most recent book is Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.

AUDIO RECORDINGS FROM PAST SPEAKERS

Michael Brune - Author of "Coming Clean: Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal"

Click here for audio and video links

Environmental Leadership Center 10th Anniversary

Click here for Ray Anderson's presentation - it is approximately one hour and 30 minutes long

Heartstone 2006 Event

Warren Wilson College Orchestra - Opening of the 2006 Heartstone Evening Event

Warren Wilson College Orchestra - wade in the water

Warren Wilson College Chorale - bring me little water Sylvie

Warren Wilson College Chorale - river was dry

Warren Wilson College President Dr. Sandy Pfeiffer - remarks at the Environmental Leadership Center luncheon, October 16, 2006

Fiddle solo - by Matthew Turino at the Heartstone evening celebration

Janisse Ray - remarks at the Environmental Leadership Center's Council of Advisor's luncheon on October 16, 2006.

Janisse Ray - reading of her contribution (her first poem) to Heartstone

Julia Kernitz - student observations of her four years at Warren Wilson College and the role of the Environmental Leadership Center in her college career

Sadie Adams - student of Warren Wilson College sharing her experiences with the Environmental Leadership Center

Dr. John Casey - remarks by Warren Wilson College Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

Ann Turkle - Chair of the Warren Wilson College undergraduate creative writing program - reading at the Heartstone evening celebration

John Lane - reading by author at the Heartstone evening celebration

Gary Lilley - faculty of Warren Wilson College - reading by author at the Heartstone evening celebration

Catherine Reid - author reading at the Heartstone evening celebration

Sebastian Matthews - reading by author - joined by the Warren Wilson College Chorale at the Heartstone evening celebration

Thomas Rain Crowe - reading by the author at the Heartstone evening celebration

Thomas Rain Crowe - performing with flute at the Heartstone evening celebration

MariJo Moore - author reading at the Heartstone evening celebration

Warren Wilson College Chorale - come now and gather at the green

Recordings found on this page were recorded and edited by Phillip Gibson of the Environmental Leadership Center of Warren Wilson College. No reproduction or use of these recordings are permitted without written consent.