{"id":592,"date":"2008-10-23T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=592"},"modified":"2012-04-23T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T03:02:10","slug":"alan-weisman-uww-1027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/592","title":{"rendered":"Alan Weisman @UWW 10\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><font color=\"navy\"><strong>Alan Weisman<\/strong><\/font><\/big>, journalist and author of <em>The World Without Us<\/em>, will speak on <strong>Mon., Oct. 27, 2008, at 7 pm in the Irvin Young Auditorium<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/wwu.jpg\" alt=\"World Without Us cover\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bOBB-veGda8C&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The World Without Us<\/em><\/a> imagines what the Earth would be like if humans vanished. It&#8217;s an interesting way to examine our impact on the environment. Your University Library has the book in the &#8220;McNaughton&#8221; Collection (2nd floor, near the Cafe) and it is also available from other UW libraries through the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;PAGE=dbPage\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service.<\/p>\n<p>Weisman&#8217;s 2005 essay for <em>Discover<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=aph&amp;AN=15672874&amp;site=ehost-live\">Earth Without People<\/a>&#8221; was selected for Best American Science Writing 2000-2007.<\/p>\n<p>This should be a thought-provoking talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Weisman, journalist and author of The World Without Us, will speak on Mon., Oct. 27, 2008, at 7 pm in the Irvin Young Auditorium. The World Without Us imagines what the Earth would be like if humans vanished. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[324,178,32,353],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-environment","tag-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}