David Orr — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Emeritus at Oberlin College and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University.
Authored seven books, including "Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse" (2009) and "Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World" (1992).
Headed the effort to design, fund, and build the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College, which an AIA panel named "the most important green building of the past thirty years" in 2010.
Co-founded the annual Atlanta Environmental Symposium in 1973 and 1974, which focused on limits to growth and land-use.
Serves as a Trustee for Bioneers, Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, and the WorldWatch Institute.
Awarded a Lyndhurst Prize (1992), a National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation (1993), and a Benton Box Award from Clemson University (1995).

Biography

David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics Emeritus at Oberlin College and a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. He also holds the title of Senior Adviser to the President at Oberlin College. Orr is a prolific author, having written seven books, including "Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse" (2009), and co-edited three others.