By SZABOLCS KORDOS Sun Staff Reporter Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:48 AM CDT Gary Nabhan is invited to his cousin’s wedding in Beirut this fall. But now, the director of Northern Arizona University’s Center for Sustainable Environments doesn’t know if there will be a ceremony at all in the war-torn city. He can only hope [...]
In a press conference and World Oceans Day banquet in Washington, D.C. on June 7th, six prominent environmental organizations honored a grassroots effort of Native American youth for their protection and monitoring of endangered sea turtles that has been facilitated by Dr. Laurie Monti and Dr. Gary Nabhan from Northern Arizona University’s Center for Sustainable [...]
Copyright 2006 by Gary Paul Nabhan “Our ancestors need to hear from us.” Vivienne Jake, Kaibab Paiute elder It is well after midnight, and I have found myself in the backseat of a rented Lexus with a driver named Ahmed who is speeding 150 kilometers per hour along the shores of the Arabian Gulf. There [...]
New York Times News Service The largest university in Oregon is camouflaged, its many parts spread among the tight urban canyons of downtown Portland. But one building at Portland State University stands out. It has a roof of grass, plants and gravel, like a slice of the high desert on the wet side of Oregon. [...]
