<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif">The CEES Seminar Series and the Cardinal Sustainability </span></div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">Summit present:</span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ethan Tapper, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Forester and </span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:0.25in">Author</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cardinal Sustainability Summit </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Keynote Address</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><b><i><br></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><b><i>How to love a forest, </i></b></span><b style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:0.5in"><i><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">the bittersweet </span></i></b><b style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:0.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">work of tending a changing world</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">How to Love a Forest</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest, introducing us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, to the cryptic creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere. It helps us reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them. This world, Tapper writes, is degraded both by people who do too much and by those who do nothing. As the ecosystems that sustain all life struggle, we straddle a status quo that treats ecosystems as commodities and opposing claims that the only true expression of love for the natural world is to leave it alone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">In his tender and fearless literary debut, Tapper proffers a more complex vision. He writes that we must take action to protect ecosystems, and that the actions we must take will often be counterintuitive, uncomfortable, even heartbreaking. In striking prose, he shows how bittersweet acts—like loving deer and hunting deer, loving trees and felling trees—can be radical expressions of compassion. In this poetic and visionary book, Tapper weaves a new land ethic for the modern world, reminding us that what is simple is rarely true, and what is necessary is rarely easy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Countless decisions await. There are no perfect solutions; only endless bittersweet compromises. </span><i style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">How to Love a Forest</i><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> offers a clear-eyed, hopeful vision of a world in which so much is wrong and so much is worth saving</span><b style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><i>. </i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><i><br></i></b></p><div><b>Friday April 25th</b><b>  5:00</b><b>pm. </b><br></div><div><div><div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><div><b>Reception, book sales, and book signing prior to the talk at 4:30</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>You can add the full seminar schedule to your <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y18xMDhkNjVlMjY1ZGVmNjI5MTU3NDJhNzU0ZmQyMTE4ZjBhNmRhYmJjNDg2MDE0MGU3NmUwMTU0YzNiOGFmZTQwQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a><br></div></div><div><div><div>You can also get weekly updates by following our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SUNYPlattsburghCEES" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cees_sunyplattsburgh/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> pages<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please advertise broadly and distribute to anyone you think might be interested.</div></div></div></div></div><div><img src="cid:ii_m9jzbmpj0" alt="CEES seminar poster_Tapper_April25.jpg" width="475" height="356" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></div></div>