“Sustainability Mondays”
A Proposal for the
2001-2002 Sustainable Forestry Partnership
Discovery Seminar & Brown Bag Lunch Series
Each year the Sustainable Forestry Partnership (SFP) hosts a seminar and brown
bag lunch series to encourage dialogue about innovative aspects of sustainable forestry.
The events are open to students, faculty, staff, and members of the greater forestry
community. A total of 314 people attended the 6 seminars and 10 brown bag lunches this
past year.
A unique feature of this program is the inter-departmental involvement that goes
into it, including overall leadership by an interdisciplinary team of graduate students.
Members of the SFP have selected two themes for the 2001 seminar series. Speakers and
topic areas will be selected from the following lists for each theme:
Theme #1: Local Perspectives on Sustainability
Proposed Fall Term Brown Bags:

The Global Economy: Before and After the Sept. 11th Attack – Steve
Lawton

Making Forest Sustainability Work on the Ground- Sarah Deumling,
Forest Stewards Guild

Oregon’s Efforts to Capture Carbon: Jim Cathcart, ODF

The Coming Age of Thought-Intensive Forestry – Steve Radosevich,
Bill Emmingham, and Loren Kellogg

Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Forestry – Peter List

A Comparison of Certification Systems and the Oregon Forest
Practices Acts – Rick Fletcher, Paul Adams, Steve Radosevich
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Theme #2: Non-Traditional Forest Products
Proposed Winter Term Discovery Seminars (we will offer about 4 of these – the rest may
become brown bag lunch topics):

Sustainable Architectural Design – William McDonough, Institute for
Sustainable Design, University of Virginia (local contact Jim Lloyd,
facilities manager)

The Role of National Monuments in a Sustainable Landscape –
Dominick DeLasala, World Wildlife Fund (Rick)

Bio Fuel Production Possibilities- California Energy Commission
(Ben) and Steve Kelly, National Renewable Energy Program/Council
(Tom) and Malheur Co. Commissioner (Tom)

Wood and Its Alternatives- future fiber options for sustainability.
Wood vs. steel, plastics, and mixes of wood and non-wood fibers in
products and building materials – Al Wong, Abrokem (Ben), and Jim
Wilson (for life-cycle analysis), and Jim Boyer (Tom)

Timber Management as a Corporate Investment: Trends in forest land
ownership among large corporations (ie. Kodak) – Donald Reed,
World Resources Institute, Washington D.C.

Trillium Corporation and Lenga Sustainability in Tierra del FuegoJerry Franklin, UW

Rural Community Viability – Diane Snyder, Wallowa Resources,
Joseph, OR and Sustainable Northwest programs there (Ben), and
Maia Enzer, Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities, Sustainable
Northwest (Amy)

The Global Flow: Tracking (imported and exported) wood product
production and sales worldwide – Eric Hansen, and CINTRAFOR,
UW, and Darius Adams, and David Brooks, FSL
Theme #3: Global Challenges to Sustainability
Proposed Winter and Spring Term Brown Bags:

Makjng Forest Sustainabilty Work on the Ground – Rick Holley, CEO
Plum Creek Timber, Chairman SFI Advisory Board
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
In Search of the Top 10 Sustainable States – Resource Renewal
Institute, CA – published recent study, OR came out #1

Carbon Sequestration – Tim King, Carbon Technology Transfer
Center, Spokane, WA (Ben)

Fiber farming vs. Oil in China – Bill Ferrell and others

Graduate Forestry Sustainability Programs: A New Vision – Michael
Washburn, Yale University

Summer Sustainability Institute being done under a Critical Issues
Grant- Leon Liegel and others from the SFP

The Challenge of Invasive Exotics to Ecosystem Health- Steve
Radosevich
Proposed format and timeline
The series will be held on Mondays. We will offer brown bag lunch discussions
during fall, winter and spring terms and the Discovery Seminars will be offered during
winter term, and possibly spring. The format of the Discovery Seminars will vary so that
some weeks one speaker will present multiple perspectives and other weeks several
speakers will each present a single viewpoint. Our goal is to provide food for thought and
spark dialogue, while avoiding debate, on several rather controversial topics.
Connections that will be fostered
Sustainable forest management requires working together with others. In that
light, we aim to bring several people into the process of selecting, planning and
advertising the topics for the 2001-2002 program series. Whenever possible, we plan to
make arrangements for our visiting speakers to give a presentation in a related class while
on campus. We will contact professors, such as Peter List in the Department of
Philosophy, who teach courses about sustainability to make these arrangements.
A list of courses with which we could potentially connect is included at the end of this
proposal.
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We also plan to foster connections between the topics of the Starker Lecture
series and our fall brown bag lunches in order to extend the Starker Lecture
conversations. We have also selected topics that will tie in with conferences that will be
offered throughout the year (ie. the Sustainability Conference scheduled for September
and the Environmental Marketing Conference scheduled for winter term).
Building from the College of Forestry Strategic Plan
The new strategic plan for the College of Forestry (COF) provides another
opportunity to connect SFP programs with other COF programs. One of the main goals
stated in the strategic plan is that the College will work to “broaden and diversify our
interests and programs from the (current) base.” Another goal in the strategic plan is to
“strengthen and diversify the college’s resources of people, facilities, properties, finances,
partnerships, and public support.” Hosting sustainable forestry seminars and brown bag
lunch discussions will assist the College in reaching these goals.
The strategic plan also identifies seven major factors that will influence the
College’s future. These are “globalization, demographic change and urbanization, rising
resource demands and conflicts, technological revolutions, dynamic career prospects for
faculty, staff and graduate students, changing public perceptions of forestry, increased
diversity in society, competition for funding, and the aspirations of the larger University
in which we exist.” The topics that the SFP has selected for the 2001-2002 Discovery
Seminar and brown bag lunch series touch upon all seven of these factors.
Courses with which to Connect
AREC 433/533
International Agriculture Development
AREC 434
Environmental and Resource Economics
AREC 454/554
Rural Development Economics and Policy
ANTH 481/581
Natural Resources and Community Values
BA 547
International Business
CSS 395
World Soil Resources
CSS 425/525
Sustainable Soil Productivity
CSS 475/575
Ag Management of OR Soil Resources
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ENSC 479
Environmental Case Studies
ENSC 520
Environmental Analysis
FW 340
Multiple Perspectives in Natural Resources
FW 442
Problem Definition and Analysis in Fisheries and Wildlife
FW 453/553
Forest Management and Wildlife Conservation
FW/SOC/PS/FOR 485/585
Consensus & Natural Resources
FOR 460/560
Forest Policy
FOR 462/562
Natural Resource Policy and Law
FOR 564
Private Forests in Society
FS/SOC/PHL 491/591 Sustainable Forestry: Multiple Perspectives
FE 451
Forest Operations Design II
FE 456
International Forestry
INTL 407
International Forest Resource Issues – Winter Term
PHL 340
Science, Policy and Society
PHL 440/540
Environmental Ethics
PHL 443/543
World Views and Environmental Values
PS 474
Natural Resource Policy and Bureaucratic Politics
PS 475
Environmental Politics and Policy
RNG 477/577
Agroforestry
RNG 568
International Rangeland Resource Management
SOC 475/575
Rural-Urban Sociology
SOC 481/581
Society and Natural Resources
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