“Urban Ranger” Professor Jenny Price will deliver a presentation on “L.A.’s River – Reviving America’s Most Forgotten River” at D&R Greenway Land Trust on Nov. 5.
On Nov. 5, “Urban Ranger” Professor Jenny Price, Ph.D, will visit the D&R Greenway Land Trust to deliver a lecture on “L.A.’s River – Reviving America’s Most Forgotten River.”
Price, a Visiting Professor with Princeton Environmental Institute and the Lewis Center for the Arts, is an environmental historian and author who’s known for leading legendary tours of the elusive L.A. River.
President & CEO Linda Mead chose Professor Price’s presentation to celebrate D&R Greenway’s 25th anniversary year. The fate of water catalyzed the land trust’s1989 founding, to conserve the D&R Canal. “Los Angeles has lessons to share with us,” Ms. Mead declares. “The revitalization of the L.A. River emphasizes the importance of water protection, and demonstrates that the impossible can become possible. Water protection was our founding principle 25 years ago. Professor Price and her fellow river activists are on the cutting edge of ‘creative place-making’. Price will share her expertise at emphasizing sense of place through the creative arts. D&R Greenway increasingly connects natural resource protection to the arts, unique in the land trust arena.”
Price comes to her visiting professorship here from The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. In addition to her significant array of books on aspects of nature and “saving the planet”, Price is a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post and New York Times. She is the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities, with PEI and the Lewis Center for the Arts. She maintains a satiric blog on matters environmental, Green Me Up, JJ.
The program will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at One Preservation Place, Princeton 08540 Following the program there will be a light reception where Price will answer questions. The evening is free and open to the public.
The event is co-sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute and D&R Greenway Land Trust. Call 924-4646 or register at rsvp@drgreenway.org.
