Stan Cox
We are delighted that Stan Cox agreed to be our William Issa Speaker for the Fall Semester 2021. Stan joined us virtually during Common Dialogue Day on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at 12:45 p.m. via Microsoft Teams Meeting. A Youtube video of his presentation and a PDF of his slides can be found at the bottom of this page.
Stan Cox received his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from Iowa State University in 1983. He served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a wheat geneticist in the 1980s and 90s, and joined The Land Institute in 2000 as research coordinator. He is now a research scholar in Ecosphere Studies at TLI. His books include The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic (2021); The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can (2020); Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing (2013); Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (2010); and, with Paul Cox, How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe’s Path, from the Carribbean to Siberia (2016). His writings on the economic and political roots of the global ecological crisis have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, and in local publications spanning forty-three U.S. states. He lives in Salina, Kansas. Stan will speak about his new book The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic and about the Green New Deal and his ecosphere studies and research on perennial crops with the Land Institute.
Stan Cox received his Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from Iowa State University in 1983. He served in the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a wheat geneticist in the 1980s and 90s, and joined The Land Institute in 2000 as research coordinator. He is now a research scholar in Ecosphere Studies at TLI. His books include The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic (2021); The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can (2020); Any Way You Slice It: The Past, Present, and Future of Rationing (2013); Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (2010); and, with Paul Cox, How the World Breaks: Life in Catastrophe’s Path, from the Carribbean to Siberia (2016). His writings on the economic and political roots of the global ecological crisis have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, and in local publications spanning forty-three U.S. states. He lives in Salina, Kansas. Stan will speak about his new book The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic and about the Green New Deal and his ecosphere studies and research on perennial crops with the Land Institute.
The SHU Barnes and Nobles bookshop will have Stan's newest book The Path to a Livable Future: Forging a New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism that was just published available.
For Stan's commented slides, please click on the below picture!
