JWAC events for the 2011-2012 season:

Place and time details are determined as events approach, and events are added to the schedule throughout the season. Check back often for new information, and be sure to join our e-mail notifications list to receive regular updates. You can also find us on Facebook.

All of our speaker events are free and open to the public, so come on over, we'd love to see you.

'Energy Security Without Going Broke, Destroying the Climate, or Militarizing the Arctic Ocean' with Albert Bates

Wednesday, May 30th| 5:00 PM | JACC Gallery Room

Albert Bates is the author of 14 books including The Biochar Solution: Carbon Farming and Climate Change, The Post Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook, and Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do. He is the cofounder of three organizations, including Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology (which he has headed for 35 years); the Ecovillage Network of the Americas, and the Global Ecovillage Network. GVI channels resources to forward-looking social movements worldwide, including a peace-through-permaculture project in Israel and Palestine, a municipal landfill arts project in Mexico, and the Sail Transport Network, moving fair trade goods along coastal routes. Albert appears frequently as a public speaker, commentator and on podcasts, and is a regular blogger and tweeter.

'The Coming Renaissance in North American Oil' with Lou Pugliaresi, KTOO Re-broadcast

Friday, June 1, | 8:00 PM | on KTOO TV

[Re-broadcast] Lucian (Lou) Pugliaresi has been President of the Energy Policy Research Foundation (EPRINC) since February 2007, and managed the transfer of PIRINC from New York to Washington, DC. Since leaving government service in 1989, Mr. Pugliaresi has worked as a consultant on a wide range of domestic and international petroleum issues. He has served in a wide range of government posts, including the National Security Council at the White House, departments of State, Energy, and Interior, as well as the EPA. He has written various articles on energy issues published in the Oil and Gas Journal and other journals on Russian petroleum, energy security and energy Policy.

'The Facts Matter' with Howard Weaver, KTOO TV Re-broadcast

Friday, June 15 | 8:00 PM | on KTOO TV

[Re-broadcast] Howard Weaver is an author, editor, and reporter who has been in the newspaper and journalism industry for decades. His most recent book is 'Write Hard, Die Free: Dispatches From the Battlefields and Barrooms of the Great Alaska Newspaper War.'