Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970311164238.24805H-100000@cbs.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:44:07 -0600 From: kerry miller <mailto:astingsh@KSU.EDU> Subject: Herman Daly on Beyond_Growth: live on-line (fwd) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Don Roper <mailto:roper@csf.colorado.edu>ANNOUNCEMENT: Online Seminar with Professor Herman Daly to discuss his 1996 book, BEYOND GROWTH: The Economics of Sustainable Development.
The seminar will commence the morning of Monday March 17, 1997 which we hope will give interested parties sufficient time to purchase and read the book. The publisher, Beacon Press, is offering a 20% discount on the book to the participants of the seminar. See the specifics below.
The discussion will focus on the issues raised in the book. Anyone can submit comments or questions but the moderators will accept only those submissions that reflect familiarity with the book. Herman Daly will be online to give his input on some of the submitted questions or answers. We have a distinguished group of moderators and expect a superb discussion.
To participate or just listen to the discussion, please send an e-mail message of: sub isee-daly yourfirstname yourlastname To: mailto:LISTPROC@csf.colorado.edu
If you are interested in the seminar please subscribe now. There will be no traffic on the list until Monday morning, March 17. The discussion will last two weeks.
Herman Daly is the recipient of --the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order --the 1996 Heineken Prize for Environmental Science by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences -- the Right Livelihood Foundation award "to honor and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today."
According to David Orr, Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin College:
"For clarity of vision and ecological wisdom Herman Daly has no peer among contemporary economists. For everyone concerned about the transition to a sustainable and sustaining economy, BEYOND GROWTH is essential reading."
The seminar is co-sponsored by: ISEE: International Society for Ecological Economics CSF: Communications for a Sustainable Future _______________________________________________________________________
Beacon Press is generously providing a discount of 20% to participants of the ISEE-Daly discussion. There are a variety of ways to order the book: 1) Access Beacon's discount order form via the ISEE, CSF, or Beacon Websites, http://kabir.cbl.cees.edu/ISEE/ISEEhome.html http://csf.colorado.edu/ISEE http://www.beacon.org/Beacon/promo/hdaly.html
2) If you're ordering by credit card, fax the Web order form (available via the sites mentioned above) to Beacon at 617.723.3097.
3) Order by phone using a credit card. Call Beacon directly at 617.742.2110, ext. 596., and mention code ISEE.
4) Mail the Web order form, with your check or credit card info. to Beacon Press, 25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108, USA. _______________________________________________________________________
We look forward to a rigorous and stimulating discussion with Professor Daly and look forward to seeing you online.
Professor Don Roper Douglas Hinrichs University of Colorado ISEE Executive Director CSF-Editor ISEE Bulletin Editor mailto:roper@csf.colorado.edu hinrichs@cbl.cees.edu
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