Young Environmental
Issues Symposium
Colorado School of Mines
About the Young Symposium
The Young Symposium was established for the purpose of creating a forum for serious dialogue concerning critical issues regarding the environment and society. The program is held on an annual or more frequent basis and emphasizes the ways that scientists, engineers, lawmakers, public agencies, industry leaders and environmental leaders can work together to create a sustainable environment while maintaining a healthy economy.
An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lecture and Discussion, “Justice for Land” with a reading from Braiding Sweetgrass.
April 17, 2025 at 5:30pm-7pm in Bunker Auditorium, Colorado School of Mines
(Appetizers at 5pm. Event begins promptly at 5:30pm)
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.
She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
History of the Young Environmental Issues Symposium
The Herbert L. and Doris S. Young Environmental Issues Symposium Fund was established in 2007 at the Colorado School of Mines to support ongoing discussions on critical environmental issues. Herbert and Doris Young, deeply concerned about environmental degradation, created the fund to promote sustainable practices and ethical use of technology through annual symposiums.
The fund brings together scientists, industry leaders, environmental advocates, and community members to engage with questions of how we live with – and within – nature. The Youngs’ legacy lives on through these dialogues, which encourage both academic and public engagement with environmental sustainability.
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Parking
Parking on the Mines campus is free after 5pm. The 18th street parking garage is now open and will have plenty of room for this event! For more information on parking on the Mines campus, please click on the map below
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Our funds would be used to support speakers with valid environmental interests to discuss the philosophy and ethics needed to live in harmony with nature, and create a sustainable-oriented society.
~ Herbert L. and Doris S. Young