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Nature and New York:

A Conference on Why Nature Matters to New Yorkers

When:  Friday, December 2nd, 2005; 9AM – 4PM; with reception following 
Where: LeFrak Hall, Queens College, Flushing, New York

Nature plays a special role in the life of New York’s metropolis. Indeed, the compromising of nature in urban settings magnifies its importance. CIRCE, the CUNY Institute for Research on the City Environment, at Queens College (founded with major financial support by Theodore Kheel and the Nurture Nature Foundation), will hold periodic conferences on issues related to New York City’s environment. CIRCE’s first conference will explore why nature matters to New Yorkers by posing this question to prominent natural history and urban history writers, including:

Tony Hiss, author The Experience of Place, co-author Highlands to Ocean Report 

William Kornblum, author At Sea in the City

Mark Kurlansky, author Cod, Salt, and forthcoming The Big Oyster: New York on the Half Shell

Phillip Lopate, author Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan and Seaport: New York’s Vanished Waterfront

Anne Matthews, author Wild Nights: Nature Returns to the City

David Rosane, author forthcoming The Nature of New York 

Robert Sullivan, author Rats and The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
 

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