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One for All and All for One:
The Rhetoric of Climate Change and
Sustainability
Tarla R. Peterson, Texas A&M University
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Memorial Union, Campanile Room
8:00pm
This talk will examine the rhetorical strategies of StepItUp, 1 Sky, and
other self-identified movement builders in the early 21st Century; people who are
committed to sustaining Earth as the home planet by reigning in
anthropogenic climate change.
Tarla Rai Peterson holds the Boone and Crockett Chair in Wildlife
Conservation and Policy at Texas A&M University, where she is a Professor in
the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences. Her research focuses on
the intersections between communication, environmental policy, and
democracy. Her research goal is to provide a theoretically rich analysis of
environmental policy that is useful to those who seek to transform the ways
humans inhabit the planet.
Tarla has published the results of her research
in Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development
(1997, University of South Carolina Press), in her edited collection,
Green Talk in the White House: The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology
(2004, Texas A&M University Press), as well as in scholarly journals,
several book chapters, and symposium proceedings. Tarla earned both M.A. and
Ph.D. from Washington State University.
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 Tarla R. Peterson, Boone
and Crockett Chair of Wildlife and Conservation
Texas A&M University
Download Audio from
Tarla Peterson's lecture
Select Publications
Peterson, Tarla Rai. 2004. Green Talk in the White House: The
Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology. College Station, TX: Texas A&M
UP.
Peterson, Tarla Rai. 1997. Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of
Sustainable Development. Columbia, SC: U of SC Press.
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