Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, January 26, 2006
“Consuming U: How We Consume (at) College—and Why”
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, October 20, 2009
The Nature of Our Lives: Environmental Histories of College Culture”
2009 selection for the college’s Portier Lecture in History
St. John’s University and College of St. Benedict, August 18-19, 2010
“The Nature of Our Lives: Sustainability and College Culture”
Opening Faculty and Staff Meeting, workshop on sustainability across the curriculum
St. John’s University, September 9-10, 2010
“College Fun and the Moral Ecology of Everyday Life”
St. John’s University and College of St. Benedict, November 18, 2010
Reading groups on The Nature of College
University of Wisconsin, River Falls, March 23-24, 2011
Speaker and co-facilitator for “`Big Idea:’ a workshop promoting faculty leadership in sustainability, co-sponsored by AASHE
Luther College, April 3-4, 2011
Keynote Speaker and co-facilitator for conference sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest on “Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum
University of Minnesota, Morris, April 20-21, 2011
Lecture on The Nature of Our Lives” and faculty workshop in Environmental Studies
Macalester College, St. Paul, May 17, 2011
“The Nature of Our Lives” and faculty workshop on sustainability across the curriculum
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, September 22, 2011
“College Culture and the Imagination of America”
Keynote for undergraduate participants at the Imagining America Conference
University of Minnesota, Morris, September 23-24, 2011
“Social Networks and Ecological Communities”
Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability Conference
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Pittsburgh, 2011
“Campus Ecology and the Nature of College”
St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, November 16, 2011
“The Nature of Our Lives: St. Olaf’s Environmental Values”
Macalester College, St. Paul, November 17, 2011
Class visit and EnviroThursday speaker
Northland College, Ashland Wisconsin, January 18-19, 2012
Hulings Lecture, “The Nature of Our Lives: Sustainability and College Culture”
University of Minnesota, Crookston, April 18-19, 2012
Earth Week keynote speaker, faculty workshop on integrating sustainability into the curriculum
Iowa State University, Ames, May 15-16
Facilitator for Tall Grass Prairie faculty development workshop
Concordia College, Moorhead, October 3-5, 2012
Visiting Writers Festival (nonfiction)
Central College, Pella, Iowa, November 15, 2012
Lecture for first-year Intersections program