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DESCRIPTION:Join Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Enough, and Marcy 
 Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Society in a discussion of the 
 social and political implications of the new human biotechnologies. Humans 
 2.0: Will Your Grandchildren Be Genetically Modified? will be free and 
 moderated by Michael Pollan of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and 
 author of The Botany of Desire.   Humans 2.0: Will Your Grandchildren Be 
 Genetically Modified?  A conversation about the social and political 
 implications of the new human biotechnologies  Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 
 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm  University of California, North Gate Library, Hearst at 
 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley  Wheelchair accessible.  Directions: 
 http://journalism.berkeley.edu/directions.html  This is a free event.  
 About the speakers:  Bill McKibben's first book, The End of Nature, was 
 also the first book for a general audience about global warming. Excerpted 
 in the New Yorker, it is now available in 20 languages. His other eight 
 books include The Age of Missing Information and Hope, Human and Wild, as 
 well as his most recent: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. His 
 work appears regularly in Harpers, the Atlantic, the New York Review of 
 Books, the New York Times, Outside, and a variety of other national 
 publications. A scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, he has been the 
 recipient of Lyndhurst and Guggenheim Fellowships, and was the 2000 winner 
 of the Lannan Prize for Nonfiction Writing. A graduate of Harvard College, 
 his work has been collected in annual volumes of America's Best Nature 
 Writing, Science Writing, Spiritual Writing, and Travel Writing, as well as 
 in the Oxford and Norton anthologies of nature writing. His tenth book, 
 Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Region, Vermont's 
 Champlain Valley and new York's Adirondacks, will be published in April. He 
 is currently at work on a book about economy and scale.  Dr. Marcy 
 Darnovsky is Associate Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and 
 Society, a public interest organization working to encourage responsible 
 uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and 
 reproductive technologies. She has taught courses on the politics of 
 science, technology, and the environment at the Hutchins School of Liberal 
 Studies at Sonoma State University, and on the sociology of gender at 
 Hayward State University. She has written widely on subjects including the 
 U.S. environmental movement and the politics of human genetic technology, 
 and has worked as an activist in a range of progressive political 
 movements.  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 
 (Mansfield College), 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. 
 His first book, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (1991), and his most 
 recent, The Botany of Desire (2001), are among Pollan's many works that 
 examine the intersections between science and culture. Shorter work by 
 Michael Pollan has been anthologized in collections such as Best American 
 Essays and the Norton Book of Nature Writing.Pollan has given lectures on 
 environmentalism, gardening, and nature at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the 
 New York Public Library, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the New 
 York Botanical Garden, the New York Horticultural Society, the 
 Massachusetts Horticultural Society and Dumbarton Oaks.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/09/16/47023.php
SUMMARY:Bill McKibben & Marcy Darnovsky: Will Your Grandchildren Be Genetically Modified
LOCATION:Directions: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/directions.html
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