Speakers and Events

Recent Speakers

• Holter Graham, actor and co-host of the television show "Wa$ted," spoke to the Knox community about, "My Planet, My Passion." Read the TKS coverage.
• Clive Hamilton, former director of the Australia Institute think tank and Australian National University Professor of Public Ethics, delivered a lecture to Knox students and faculty entitled, "Growth Fetishism and the Climate Crisis."
• John de Graaf, author of Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic, a book about the environmental consequences of over-consumption, and two related documentaries, Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza spoke to the Knox community about, "Time and Sustainability."
• Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream, a widely-known book on the links between the environment and health gave a talk at Knox about, "Sustainability on College Campuses."
• Nathan Engstrom, coordinator of the Office of Sustainability at Oberlin College, educated the Knox Community through his talk, "Sustainability: The Ultimate Liberal Art."

Green Events

• A culture of sustainability was created through The Green Solutions Expo 2009, where local companies and organizations showed how they're doing things in a more 'environmentally friendly' way.
• Spread the word on campus about sustainability through an EquiKnox picnic.
• Bricks were added to the campus prairie plot to help clearly define where the prairie ends and the lawn begins. The bricks will help keep non-native species from invading the prairie, ultimately helping the prairie plants establish themselves in the plot.
• The Community Garden was harvested and celebrated through a Fall Festival.