Speeches

CURRENT SPEECH TOPICS

* GLOBAL WARMING AND THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE: WHAT ARE THE FACTS AND WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

* LIVING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. Nature has always changed and change is natural. When we confront a problem like global warming, the underlying issue is how to with deal with rapid change in our surroundings. Nature can be our guide, and we have to watch carefully for other kinds of guides that can lead us astray.

* The Solution to Our Energy Crisis. Based on a forthcoming book, Energy Forever: A Voter’s Guide to Energy, by Daniel B. Botkin.

* Forecasting Effects of Global Warming on the Earth’s Biological Diversity.

If you would like to invite Dan to speak to a group, contact him through this website.

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UPCOMING SPEECHES

September 10 to 13, 2008 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT.  For a list of speeches there, see the college’s website.

October 23-24, 2008.  Keynote address to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Invasive Species Worshop, Washington, D. C.

November 2 to 7, 2008, The first Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Long Beach Aquarium, Long Beach, CA.  Nov. 3rd 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Climate Change and Biodiversity;  Nov. 4th 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Energy from the Sea.

RECENT SPEECHES BY DANIEL B. BOTKIN

  • MORPH THE MOOSE, AFRICAN ELEPHANTS, AND THE FUTURE OF PROFESSIONAL FORESTRY , Society of American Foresters annual conference, Pittsburgh , PA.
  • MORPH THE MOOSE, AFRICAN ELEPHANTS, AND THE FUTURE OF PROFESSIONAL FORESTRY Keynote dinner speech to the Lousiana and Mississippi chapters of the Society of American Foresters, Natchez, Mississippi.
  • May 6 to 12, 2007 Oxford University Astor Lectureship, several speeches on a variety of topics, including a speech May 9, 4:00 pm, Discordant Harmonies: Climate Change, Steady State Models, and Western Ideology.
  • NO MAN’S GARDEN: THOREAU AND A NEW VISION FOR CIVILIZATION AND NATURE, Keynote speech, Nature Now Conference, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.
  • THE FOLKLORE BEHIND ECOLOGY, American Folklife Center Lecture Series, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
  • The Natural History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Summer Scholar Series at the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center , Great Falls , Montana , also presented at the National Park Service’s “Tent of Many Voices” in Montana.
  • IS THERE A NORMAL FIRE REGIME IN AN ALWAYS CHANGING ENVIRONMENT? Keynote speech to the International Association of Wildland Fire, Portland , Oregon
  • PRINCIPLES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RIVERS, Keynote speech to Coastal Conference on Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Management in the Southeast Region, a five-state conference, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
  • DOES SCIENCE MATTER IN SOLVING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS?, Hudson River Foundation, New York City.
  • LEWIS AND CLARK AS GUIDES TO NATURE IN THE AMERICAN WEST, speeches as part of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial celebration, Astoria Oregon and Long Beach , Washington.
  • DISCORDANT HARMONIES: HOW ANCIENT IDEAS BLOCK OUR ABILITIES TO SOLVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor , Maine .
  • LEWIS AND CLARK: GUIDES TO THE ECOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Keynote Speech to the Ecological Society of America’s annual conference, Portland , Oregon.
  • NATURE IN THE AMERICAN WEST FROM LEWIS AND CLARK TO TODAY, St. Louis Arch of the National Park Service.
  • LEWIS AND CLARK’S LEGACY: TWO CENTURIES OF CHANGE IN THE DELAWARE AND COLUMBIA WATERSHEDS, Academy of Natural Sciences , Philadelphia.
  • THE FUTURE OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, Cosmos Club, Washington , D. C.
  • HOW TO APPLY SCIENCE TO SOLVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS, GRID, Arendal, Norway.
  • PRESERVING NATURE WHEN NATURE ALWAYS CHANGES George Wright Society.
  • WHO WILL REPLACE SMOKEY BEAR AS THE SYMBOL OF NATURE?, Oregon State University , Corvallis , Oregon .

Please contact me to request that I give a speech, or if you would like more information about these or other topics or about future speeches, seminars, or conferences.