LIVING WITHIN OUR NATURAL MEANS

(open to non-members)

Brenda Hull

Monday and Wednesday – July 14, 16, 21 and 23 (4 sessions)

1 - 3 pm

Maxwell 106

Cost: $13

Sustainability is the new buzzword around the world.  You’ll find many countries finding ways to solve the problem of humans impacting our natural environment.   In this class we’ll discuss sustainability around the world, in the U.S., the Southeast, and right here at home. How does the controversial topic of climate change link with our use of natural capital?  We’ll use the writings of Bill McKibben and others to help frame the discussion, so read ahead, especially “Deep Economy”. Then come and find out how you can live sustainably.

Brenda Hull teaches biology, ecology, vertebrate zoology, and marine science at Young Harris College. She holds degrees from the University of Tennessee and East Tennessee State. She’s been to Sri Lanka on an Earthwatch adventure, the Amazon River in Peru, Ireland with students, and to Costa Rica on sabbatical and has taken students on many trips to barrier island beaches studying those ecosystems. She revisited Ireland this March and is taking ten students to Charleston beaches this coming summer to study marine systems and nature writings in the natural setting.  This summer she assumes a new role at YHC as the Sustainability Coordinator.

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