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Lecture - "Saving Plants, Saving Ourselves"
A Lecture by Peter H. Raven, PhD
President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden
Sunday, May 15, 2016 - 1:00pm
ONLINE TICKET SALES CLOSED
DAY OF THE EVENT TICKET SALES:
$20 Members (Day of the Event)
$40 Non-Members (Day of the Event)
You can purchase your ticket day of the event at Heronswood from 10:30am - 11:30am.
Or at the Point Casino Event Center starting at 12:15pm.
Lecture is at 1:00pm
Special Offer: In addition to the lecture, ticket holders are invited to tour Heronswood Garden and meet Dr. Raven prior to the lecture (10:30am-Noon) on May 15.
We depend absolutely on plants for food, many medicines, building materials, ecological services, absorption of pollutions, regulating global warming and climate generally in countless ways. We know very little about the role that uncommon ones play in the structure of communities. We do know, above all in the Pacific Northwest, that plants illuminate our lives with their beauty, provide an inspiration for our art, and help to make our days wonderful. More than two centuries into the Industrial Revolution, however, the explosive growth of the human population, the even more rapid growth of our desire for consumption, and the inequities that are so obvious throughout the world are driving many plants to extinction before they are even discovered. How can we achieve the kind of global sustainability that will allow us and our descendants to appreciate plants fully in the context of a civilized world for decades to come? Perhaps they will help to show us the way and inspire us to take the necessary actions to save ourselves.
Dr. Peter Raven is among the worlds most renown botanists and evolutionary biologists. He is possibly best known for his work Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution however his pursuits during a lifetime devoted to the natural sciences, the need for biodiversity and conservation has taken him down many academic paths. His widely used college textbook, Biology of Plants, is in its 8th edition.
One of the most celebrated scientists of our time, Dr. Raven has received countless awards from academic societies and universities around the globe. In 2000, President Bill Clinton presented him with the U.S. National Medal of Science. In that same year, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists established the Peter Raven Award in his honor to be conferred to authors with outstanding contributions to plant taxonomy and for exceptional efforts at outreach to non-scientists
It is Raven's ability to educate and inspire non-academicians within the realm of the majesty of the plant kingdom that has made him one of the most sought after public speakers of our day.
The lecture will benefit the restoration of Heronswood Garden in Kingston, WA. The garden is owned and operated by the Port Gamble S"Klallam Tribe and managed by the Port Gamble S'Klallam Foundation.
Biography
Peter H. Raven, a leading botanist and advocate of conservation and biodiversity, is president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden and George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition, Dr. Raven is a Trustee of the National Geographic Society and Chairman of the Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. He also serves as Chairman of the Board for the Center for Plant Conservation, a national organization. For more than 39 years, Dr. Raven headed the Missouri Botanical Garden, an institution he nurtured to become a world-class center for botanical research, education, and horticultural display. In 2001, Dr. Raven received the National Medal of Science, the highest award for scientific accomplishment in the United States. He is a of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1977, and also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, of the academies of science in a number of other countries, including China, Russia, India, the U.K., Brazil, and Australia. Dr. Raven was co-editor of the Flora of China, a joint Chinese-American international project that resulted in the production of a contemporary, 49-volume account on all the plants of China, 31,500 species, and was completed in 2014. He has written numerous books and publications, both popular and scientific, including coauthoring Biology of Plants, the internationally best-selling textbook in botany (8th edition 20110 and Environment (also 8th edition, 2011). Dr. Raven received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1960 after completing his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships during the course of his career.
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LocationThe Point Casino Event Center (View)
7989 NE Salish Lane
Kingston, WA 98346
United States
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