For Immediate Release Contact: Barbara K. Laskin
March 15, 2004 Doug Stone
(651) 696-6203

Noted Environmentalist to Speak at Macalester
Tuesday, March 30, 2004

St. Paul, Minn. - The 2004 Macalester College Environmental Studies Distinguished Speaker, noted Indian scholar, author, and activist Vandana Shiva, will speak at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 30, in the Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, Minn. The talk is free and open to the public.

Shiva's talk, "From Corporate Globalization to Earth Democracy," will cover the impacts of current patterns of globalization on human and ecological sustainability. Shiva is also the founder and director of Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology (RFSTE).

Internationally recognized for her contributions to the fields of women and the environment, biodiversity, biotechnology, intellectual property rights and ecological issues related to agriculture, Shiva is the author of more than a dozen books and over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. Among her best known books are Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India; Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge; Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply; and her most recent book, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit.

A trained physicist with a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Western Ontario, Shiva has been a visiting professor and lectured at universities around the world, including Mt. Holyoke in the U.S. and York University in Canada.

Shiva has served as an advisor to governments and many non-governmental organizations and has been instrumental in starting many grass roots movements for sustainability. Time Magazine identified Shiva as an environmental hero in 1993 and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia.

Macalester is a private liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,810 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, diversity and service to society.

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