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Join us at Delaware Valley College's series of multi-disciplinary sustainability symposia, where we will explore how we can adapt human networks to reduce and reverse trends of environmental degradation, economoic instability and social disparities.
In 2010, we held the first in a series of sustainability symposia. The Precarious Alliance series was established by College President Dr. Joseph S. Brosnan as a way to encourage civil dialogue between people from all sides of the issues. The events bring together interdisciplinary perspectives to seek solutions.
Delaware Valley College is pleased to host its second Precarious Alliance Symposium titled The Ethics of Water—everything flows from here, October 11-12, 2012. This interdisciplinary symposium aims to bring together academics, educators, business leaders, policy makers, environmental advocates, planners, engineers, attorneys and farmers to discuss issues of sustainability and regeneration. The 2012 event explores the ethics of water, looking at the uses and abuses of water systems, technology to improve our stewardship of those water supplies, as well as our relationship to this life sustaining resource. How can we meet our needs today without compromising the ability of future generations and other non-human communities to meet their own needs?
Using the ethics of water as its organizing principle, the symposium will address three distinct, though interrelated tracks: The Tap and Technology; The Earth; and the Idea.