Lifelong Learning Academy’s 2015 Winter Lecture Series
“This Spaceship Earth”
With Futurist David Houle and Planetary Ethicist Tim Rumage
Thursday, February 26, 3 p.m. § Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee
(Sarasota-Manatee, Florida) Lifelong Learning Academy (LLA) presents “This Spaceship Earth,” with futurist David Houle and planetary ethicist Tim Rumage, Thursday, February 26, 3 p.m., in Selby Auditorium at the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee, 8350 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. General admission is $15 per person; LLA members are admitted free. To register, visit www.lla-sm.org or call 941-359-4296 .
In “This Spaceship Earth, futurist David Houle and planetary ethicist Tim Rumage deliver a presentation based upon their new book, “This Spaceship Earth.” According to Houle and Rumage, it’s time for humanity to let go of the past, forgive ourselves for what we have done, face forward, and develop a new consciousness about Earth and what must be done to restore equilibrium in our relationship to the only home we know. Houle is an Emmy Award-winner and George Peabody Award winner. He is “Futurist in Residence” and a guest lecturer at Ringling College of Art & Design. Tim Rumage, an environmental ethicist, is a faculty member at Ringling College of Art & Design, where he founded the Environmental Studies program and teaches a series of courses related to ecology, environmental science, and environmental ethics.
Lifelong Learning Academy offers four course terms per year on the USFSM campus, at 8350 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, and at State College of Florida at Lakewood Ranch, 7131 Professional Pkwy. E., Sarasota. Most courses last six to eight weeks and classes meet for one hour and 20 minutes each week. For more information about the Lifelong Learning Academy, call 941-359-4296 or visit www.lla-sm.org.
