Presented by Dr. Doug Tallamy, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware
Thursday, April 2nd @ 7:30pm
Cordiner Hall
Everyone is Welcome!
Dr. Tallamy is the author of Bringing Nature Home, The Living Landscape (co-author Rick Darke), Nature's Best Hope, and The Nature of Oaks, and cofounder of Homegrown National Park (HomegrownNationalPark.org). He has received awards from numerous organizations (Garden Writers’s Association, Audubon, National Wildlife Federation, Western Carolina University, Garden Club of America, and American Horticultural Association). Doug lives with his wife, Cindy, on their restored property in Oxford, PA.
Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Choosing the right plants for our landscapes will not only address the biodiversity crisis but help fight our climate crisis as well. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.
Whitman College Department of Music presents:
EunAe Lee, piano
Playing works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, and Charles Trenet
