Michael Pollan lecture
First Congregational Church
Portland, OR
"Oil, Water, and Agriculture"
Knight Professor of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan is the acclaimed author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (2001) and his forthcoming book The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006).
Michael Pollan, contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and author, has done a range of work in journalism, environmentalism, and architecture. Pollan, originally from Long Island, earned his college degrees at Bennington College, Oxford University, and Columbia University, where he received a masters in English in 1981. He served for many years as executive editor for Harper's Magazine and writes a column on architecture for House & Garden.
Pollan's writing examines the intersections between science and culture. Shorter work by Pollan has been anthologized in collections such as Best American Essays and the Norton Book of Nature Writing. Pollan has given numerous lectures on environmentalism, gardening, and nature.
Pollan received the Borders Original Voice Award for the best non-fiction work of 2001. Other writing awards earned by Michael Pollan include the John Burroughs prize for the best natural history essay in 1997, the QPB New Vision Award for Second Nature and the 2000 Reuters-World Conservation Union Global Award for Environmental Journalism for reporting on genetic engineering.
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| Start: | Thursday May 11, 2006 7:30 PM | | End: | Thursday May 11, 2006 9:00 PM |
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First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205
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