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Sandra Steingraber, scholar in residence at Ithaca College, will address fossil fuel extraction, including hydrofracking, during her talk at FLCC on April 12. (Dede Hatch)
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Writer and ecologist Sandra Steingraber will give a talk on protecting children from the effects of environmental damage at Finger Lakes Community College on Thursday, April 12.
The event begins at 7 p.m. on the third floor of the main campus library, 3325 Marvin Sands Drive, Canandaigua. It is free and open to the public. Steingraber’s talk is based on her book, “Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis," which takes inspiration from Elijah Lovejoy, a journalist and minister who called for the abolition of slavery in the 1830s.
Lovejoy argued that slavery, however beneficial to the economy, was destructive to families and young children. For his uncompromising position, he was assassinated by a pro-slavery mob in the free state of Illinois. Steingraber will "raise up" the ideas of Elijah Lovejoy for what she calls the central children's rights issue of our time: the environmental crisis.
She will explore environmental threats to children’s health and development, in particular from fossil fuel extraction, including hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, used to draw natural gas out of shale deep underground.
Curt Nehring Bliss, the event organizer and FLCC’s director of honors studies, said Steingraber will share her environmental convictions using both scientific analysis and personal experience.
“She’s a biologist who is called to take raw scientific data and render it especially relevant and meaningful,” Nehring Bliss said, referring to Steingraber’s use of personal anecdotes and extended metaphors to convey concepts. “As both a poet and a scientist, she draws from each discipline respectively to investigate and articulate complex ideas in real and inspiring ways.”
Steingraber also wrote “Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment,” which delves into the link between cancer and synthetic chemicals derived from petroleum and coal. Interviews with Steingraber have appeared in The Chicago Tribune and USA Today and on National Public Radio, “The Today Show” and “Good Morning America.” She is also a columnist for Orion magazine.
Steingraber, who has a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has been the keynote speaker at conferences on human health and the environment throughout the United States and Canada. She has testified in the European Parliament, before the President’s Cancer Panel, and has participated in briefings to Congress and before United Nations delegates in Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently a scholar in residence in Ithaca College.
For more about Sandra Steingraber, visit steingraber.com. For information about her FLCC visit, contact Curt Nehring Bliss at (585) 785-1367.
Lovejoy argued that slavery, however beneficial to the economy, was destructive to families and young children. For his uncompromising position, he was assassinated by a pro-slavery mob in the free state of Illinois. Steingraber will "raise up" the ideas of Elijah Lovejoy for what she calls the central children's rights issue of our time: the environmental crisis.
She will explore environmental threats to children’s health and development, in particular from fossil fuel extraction, including hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, used to draw natural gas out of shale deep underground.
Curt Nehring Bliss, the event organizer and FLCC’s director of honors studies, said Steingraber will share her environmental convictions using both scientific analysis and personal experience.
“She’s a biologist who is called to take raw scientific data and render it especially relevant and meaningful,” Nehring Bliss said, referring to Steingraber’s use of personal anecdotes and extended metaphors to convey concepts. “As both a poet and a scientist, she draws from each discipline respectively to investigate and articulate complex ideas in real and inspiring ways.”
Steingraber also wrote “Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment,” which delves into the link between cancer and synthetic chemicals derived from petroleum and coal. Interviews with Steingraber have appeared in The Chicago Tribune and USA Today and on National Public Radio, “The Today Show” and “Good Morning America.” She is also a columnist for Orion magazine.
Steingraber, who has a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has been the keynote speaker at conferences on human health and the environment throughout the United States and Canada. She has testified in the European Parliament, before the President’s Cancer Panel, and has participated in briefings to Congress and before United Nations delegates in Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently a scholar in residence in Ithaca College.
For more about Sandra Steingraber, visit steingraber.com. For information about her FLCC visit, contact Curt Nehring Bliss at (585) 785-1367.
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