This is his description of the presentation: “As economic reforms have transformed the People’s Republic of China over the past several decades, rapid industrial development has resulted in air and water pollution problems that threaten the health of China’s citizens and damage the environment. This presentation, based on recent fieldwork in an industrial township in Sichuan Province, examines community perceptions of pollution and the regulatory decisions of pollution monitoring and enforcement officials. The presentation discusses the values, goals and priorities in China’s environmental bureaucracy and their implications for sustainable development.”

Bryan Tilt is an assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University. His research focuses on sustainable development in China, with emphasis on the implications of industrial pollution for human health and ecological sustainability.

Deer Drink the Moon is a collection of work by poets from across the state. The publisher, PSU’s Ooligan Press, describes it as follows: “In this collection, thirty-three of Oregon’s most esteemed poets write about the state they call home. Arranged by eco-region and accompanied by maps, these ageless poems let readers travel the state with the poets, pausing at places of inspiration. Connection with nature and the importance of family are just two of the themes readers will find along they way.”

Moore is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, where she teaches Environmental Ethics and the Philosophy of Nature. She is best known as the author of nature essays that explore our cultural and spiritual connections to the natural world–Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water, Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World, and her most recent book The Pine Island Paradox. She is at work on a new book about the moral significance of wonder. At OSU, Moore directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.

St. Clair is a writer and co-editor with Alexander Cockburn of the political newsletter CounterPunch. His reporting specializes on environmental and military issues. He has lived in Oregon since 1990 when he moved here to edit the influential environmental magazine Forest Watch, published by libertarian economist Randal O’Toole.

In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA’s ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras. This was followed by A Field Guide to Environmental Bad Guys (with James Ridgeway), Five Days that Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond, Al Gore: a User’s Manual, and Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature.