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One for All and All for One

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 1 Sky, a coalition of 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.

Tarla R. Peterson, Boone and Crockett Chair of Wildlife and Conservation
Texas A&M University


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.