LOG LUNCH: Environmental Action & Activism

LOG LUNCH: “Action as a Choice vs Activism as a Label.” Environmental Activists Eban Goodstein ’82, Bard College Director of Grad Program in Sustainability & Masha Zabara, co-founder, Thrift to Fight. 

Log Lunch is a local-food, veggie lunch prepared by amazing students cooks; lunch is $3 (cash at the door); online reservations are required due to capacity limit. Sponsored since 1977 by CES–The Center for Environmental Studies.

Reserve here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e44aea728a3f9c07-loglunch1#/ 

Masha Zabara is an experienced filmmaker and entrepreneur with a focus on social innovation. Building Responsibility & Accountability into the retail industry via Thrift 2 Fight. Extensive professional background in music performance, acting, and public speaking. An immigrant, a rule-breaker, and a world-builder with a classic college drop out success story.

Eban Goodstein ’82: B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of Michigan. Prior to Directing the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Goodstein had a 20-year career as a Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark and Skidmore Colleges. From 2006-2009, Goodstein led the National teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, coordinating educational events at over 2500 colleges, universities, high schools and other institutions across the country. Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2007) now in its fifth edition, as well as The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999). His most recent book is Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming (University Press of New England: 2007). Articles by Goodstein have appeared in among other outlets, The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Ecological Economics, and Environmental Management. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Scientific American, Time, Chemical and Engineering News, The Economist, USA Today, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He serves on the editorial board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record and Environment, Workplace and Employment, is on the Steering Committee of Economics for Equity & the Environment, and is a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform.

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