The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking

presents Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak on “Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future”

Tuesday July 28, 02009 at 7:30 pm at the Cowell Theater

Long Now Members can reserve a seat HERE

You can purchase tickets for $10 HERE

 We recommend purchasing or reserving your seats in advance as our Seminars can sell out. There is room for 100 walk-ups (60 seats) for the free simulcast in the Lobby; this is a separate line, so get there early!

About this Seminar:
She’s the head of a plant genetics lab at UC Davis; he teaches organic farming there. They’re married, and they coauthored Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food.

“To meet the appetites of the world’s population without drastically hurting the environment requires a visionary new approach: combining genetic engineering and organic farming.”

Hear their groundbreaking ideas explored in-depth at this Seminar.

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The latest Seminars About Long-term Thinking are now available as audio downloads or podcasts and in hi-res video for Long Now members.

*Paul Romer on “A Theory of History, with an Application” - audio and video now available

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Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

Presented with the Long Now Foundation

Wednesday June 10, 02009
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Tickets are $15, purchase HERE
Long Now Members tickets are $10

Long Now is co-sponsoring this lecture with the David Brower Center in Berkeley, a new space committed to creating a just and ecologically sustainable society.  Long Now Members will get an email with the discount code for the tickets.

Originators of a whole systems perspective in the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (often referred to simply as “the Harrisons”) have worked for almost 40 years with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development.  This event will provide a rare look into their visionary work and process.

David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way,
Berkeley, CA 94704
directions

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Stewart Brand was on Ira Flatow’s Science Friday show on NPR today discussing nuclear power and climate change.  You can listen here.

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Long Now Foundation Seminar host and board member Stewart Brand, as well as former Seminar speaker Clay Shirky will be presenting on June 3rd at the US State department in their first mini TED conference. It looks like those of you in the press might be able to get a pass, otherwise it will be posted on the TED site at some point in the future.

update:  The talks were also mentioned on the White House Blog along with a mention of Long Now.

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We’ll be Twittering the Maker Faire this weekend from @longnowlive - Long Now staff and guest Twitterer @mikl_em will keep the updates coming all weekend long.Two of our Board Members will also be speaking at Maker this year, follow @longnowlive for live updates from their presentations.Esther Dyson:
Stage A , Saturday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM, PST

Chris Anderson:
Stage A , Saturday 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM, PST

And if your coming to the Faire this weekend, stop by and see us at booth #121 in the Expo Hall, next to the Tesla Coils on the East side of the Hall - we’ll be demonstrating the first full sized Clock part - an 8′ wide Geneva Wheel.

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 This week Brian Eno transformed Sydney Opera House with mega projections of his 77 Million Paintings… (Stunning images from this DailyMail piece)  Here is a note from Brian on how it was achieved:

They’re enormous projectors - 14 on that side alone - and very carefully masked so there’s no fringing. And the image is double projected - so every area is covered by two identical images carefully registered on top of each other to boost power. The projectors are 3000 watts each, and they project from across the other side of the harbour - a throw of about 500 metres.

It was done by first of all photographing the building from each projector position, using a lens identical to that in the projector - and then cutting precise masks based on the photos.

 

 

 

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Follow @longnowlive on Twitter for live updates from Long Now events, including tonight’s Paul Romer Seminar which starts at 7:30 PST. Our special guest live Twitterer today is @mikl_em.

We encourage anyone else who would like to live twitter about the event to use the #longnow tag on their posts so that anyone can track the aggregate postings.

If you’d like to send in questions to @longnowlive, we’ll try to get them into the mix.

Please note that all the pre-sale tickets are sold out for the Romer talk, but we will have a walk up line that will be first come first serve to try and fill as many un-claimed seats as possible.  There is also room for 100 walk-ups for the free simulcast in the Lobby - this is a separate line, so get there early!

Feel free to comment on this post with your twitter handle if you want others to know about your live twittering of this event…

PS: For those those of you wondering what Twitter is… here is a video that explains it.

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The latest Seminars About Long-term Thinking are now available as audio downloads or podcasts and in hi-res video for Long Now members.

*Michael Pollan on “Deep Agriculture” - video now available

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The latest Seminars About Long-term Thinking are now available as audio downloads or podcasts and in hi-res video for Long Now members.

*Michael Pollan on “Deep Agriculture” - audio now available

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