Showing posts with label environmental seminar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environmental seminar. Show all posts

Sunday, June 8, 2014

RiverLink Offers Final Session of Friday Salon this Week

June 20 at 3 PM. at the RiverLink office (170 Lyman Street across the street from 12 Bones) the Friday Salon with Dr. Frank Kalinowski concludes. During the 2014 series entitled "The American Constitution: The Logic of Law and the Consequences for the Nation",  Dr. Kalinowski has been sharing excerpts from his upcoming  book with attendees for the past two years.  According to executive director, Karen Cragnolin, "he makes history come alive and the current polarity in our society more understandable and in fact predictable".

The purpose of these interactive lectures is to explore a deeper understanding of environmental issues and to attempt the placement of these issues in a larger social, political and historic context.

The final topic is "Two Dreams and a Nightmare: The Environmental Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison".

The Friday Salon series is free and open to the public.


Frank Kalinowski is a retired and popular professor from Warren Wilson College and the author of numerous articles and treatises that are thought-provoking and informative about the complex world in which we live today. Parking is available in the Wedge parking lot.

Located in Asheville's River Arts District, RiverLink is a regional organization spearheading the economic and environmental revitalization of the French Broad River watershed as a destination where everyone can work, live and play.


Saturday, January 12, 2013

Asheville's RiverLink will Host Fourth Friday Salon Series Environment Lectures

Asheville, NC -- RiverLink is kicking off 2013 with a stimulating five-part seminar series by Frank Kalinowski. The first seminar will be held at the RiverLink offices on Friday, Jan. 25 starting at 3 p.m.
Kalinowski is a retired and popular professor from Warren Wilson College and the author of
Dr. Frank Kalinowski
numerous articles and treatises that are thought provoking and informative about the complex world in which we live today.

The purpose of these interactive lectures is to explore a deeper understanding of environmental issues and to attempt the placement of these issues in a larger social, political and historic context.

The first seminar is titled "A Practical Solution to the Environmental Crisis: The Scope and Range of Environmental Politics." 

The dates for Salon Series are February 22, March 22, April 26 and May 31. Future topics include "The Constitution and the Environment," and "Two Dreams and a Nightmare: The Environmental Legacies of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison." 
This series is free and open to the public but reservations are required call 828-252-8474, ext. 10 to reserve a spot. RiverLink is a regional non-profit working to revitalize the French Broad River as a place for everyone to live, work and play. The RiverLink office, the site for this series, is at 170 Lyman Street in the River Arts District of Asheville.
 
Located in Asheville's River Arts District, RiverLink is a regional organization spearheading the economic and environmental revitalization of the French Broad River watershed as a destination where everyone can work, live and play.