Exploring International Career Opportunities and Internships by invitation from International Affairs Program (IAFS), University of Colorado, Boulder, April 1, 2011.

Social Media, Environmental Movements, and the Future of Journalism

Social Media, Environmental Movements, and the Future of Journalism by invitation from School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 31, 2011.

University of Colorado 3CG Conference

Discussant and Facilitator The Reinventing Governance Conference brought together over 600 students and members of the public in pre-conference and conference activities. Fourteen different countries were represented, along with over twenty CU-Boulder departments and academics from CU-Denver and CU-Colorado Springs. Voices as diverse as the United Nations, the World Bank, Shell Oil, Aveda Corporation and over a hundred different organizations and community groups actively deliberated on critical governance issues of our time.

Lecture by Invitation from the Alexander Dawson School

United We Draw – A fundraiser and lecture on teen suicide, Lecture by Invitation from the Alexander Dawson School, October 19, 2010, Lafayette, CO

University of Colorado Boulder

Sustainable Development and Global Commodities: Senior Critical Thinking Seminar Department of Geography Researching, developing, writing, and editing the lesson plans for a semester-long (16 week) coursefocused on the commodities that we consume: coffee, bananas, sugar, platinum, etc.

Coffee, Social & Environmental Challenges of a Central American Commodity

Coffee: The Social and Environmental Challenges of a Central American Commodity by invitation from the program:Developing Areas Research and Teaching (DART), University of Colorado, Boulder, April 7, 2010.

Expeditions Abroad, Adventures in Undergraduate and Graduate Learning

Expeditions Abroad: Adventures in Undergraduate and Graduate Learning by invitation from the Center for Global Education, Law Colloquy, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 3, 2010.

Distinguished Alumnus Lectureship in Politics and Law

From God and Oil into the Forest Distinguished Alumnus Lectureship in Politics and Law, Henry KendallCollege of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of Tulsa, OK, March 3, 2010.

CU Leeds School of Business MBA Program, Topics in Sustainable Development

Developing Corporate Best Practices for Social and Environmental Responsibility by invitation from the Leeds School of Business (MBA Program), Department of Management, Topics in Sustainable Development, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 31, 2009.

Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder Lecture

Discourses of Sustainable Development by invitation from the Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, November 7, 2008

University of Denver, Department of Geography Guest Lecture

Analyzing Environmental Conflicts by invitation from the University of Denver, Department of Geography, October 23, 2008 Denver, Colorado

Colorado Conservation Summit

Facilitator for Water Quality Sub-Comittee WATER QUALITY AND FLOWS The Water Sub-Committee is one of five that participated in the Colorado Conservation Summit October 6 – 8, 2008. Status, Trends, and Vision Many of the pressures on future stream flows and water quality are associated with population increases, increase in demand for domestic and commercial water, the transfer of agricultural water rights to domestic and commercial uses, pressures created by recreational uses, inappropriately managed land, sedimentation deposition in our waterways, climate change, higher threat of catastrophic fires, point and non-point chemical introduction, heavy metals from disturbed watersheds and unnatural water temperature variations, aquatic and vegetative invasive species, among others.

Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

Co-mediated Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (Coal-bed methane water quality permitting);

SRA International Consultant

Consult on Water Related Projects and Develop Relations with NOAA

United States Southern Command and the United States Army War College

Institution Building for Environmental Security, Environmental Security Dialogues by invitation from the United States Southern Command and the United States Army War College, July 23, 2008 Miami, Florida

Art and the Natural World: Exploring Andy Goldsworthy

Art and the Natural World: Exploring Andy Goldsworthy, Presentation Invitation from the Board of Directors of the Capital Hill Arts Workshop, 21 June 2008 Washington D.C.

George Washington University

Research, wrote, and taught: Environmental Quality and Management in the Developing World

Center for the Study of Globalization, The George Washington University

Who Ate the Tropical Forests: the “yumminess of discontent”, Presentation by Invitation from the Center for the Study of Globalization, The George Washington University, Globalization Week Guest Lecturer, 25 March 2008 Washington D.C.

The George Washington University, Department of Geography Guest Lecture

Contested Neoliberal Economic Futures: southern Honduras 1973 – 2006, Presentation by Invitation from The George Washington University, Department of Geography, November 28, 2007 Washington DC

AAG College Geography and Education Committee

College Geography and Education Committee, Association of American Geographers July 2007 – July 2009