The conversation on sustainability that was begun in 2006 continues throughout 2007 with a series of events, lectures, workshops, discussion groups, and more co-sponsored by area arts and community organizations. For more information, contact Anastasia Shartin, visual arts director, at 715/386-2305.

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Sustainability 301:
A Lecture by Kelly Cain

Friday, April 4, 7:00 p.m.
The Phipps Black Box Theater

Unlike its predecessors, Sustainability 101 and 201, presented in 2006 and 2007 respectively, which looked heavily at what sustainability is, what is driving it, and what communities can do, Sustainability 301 will focus more on the nuts and bolts of individual action in personal, professional, and civic life. The lecture will address a broad spectrum of choices in conservation, technologies, and advocacies that we all have available in our lives that can truly contribute to that which we know is “the right thing to do for the right reasons.” After all, it seems increasingly apparent that "What We Need Is Here."

Kelly Cain is director of the St. Croix Institute for Sustainable Community Development at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls, where he is also a professor in environmental science and management. He is also co-coordinator for the masters degree program in sustainable community development launched in May 2005, as well as co-coordinator for the on-line graduate certificate program in wildlife recreation and nature tourism. Dr. Cain teaches primarily graduate courses in sustainability-based planning and management. Besides his teaching duties, Cain is actively involved in community outreach and service in the St. Croix region, speaking and consulting on green design, and sustainability-based lifestyles, business models, and community development. His work in international projects ranges from China’s Tibetan Plateau to Nicaragua.

What We Need is Here is co-sponsored by Arcola Mills, ArtReach Alliance, Department of Environmental Science and Management (UW-River Falls), Festival Theatre, Hammond Arts Alliance, The Phipps Center for the Arts, River Falls Community Arts Base (CAB), River Falls Public Library, St. Croix ArtBarn, and the St. Croix Valley Community Foundation.

This project received funding from the St. Croix Valley Community Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

For more information, contact Anastasia Shartin, Phipps Visual Arts Director.