Community Corner
HNGR Symposium
The Human Needs and Global Resources (HNGR) program at Wheaton
College presents the annual HNGR Symposium February 27-28. Titled "From the
Ground Up: Social Movements and Soil Improvement," this year's symposium focuses
on the factors that start, spread, stifle, and transform initiatives to conserve
and improve soils.
The keynote speakers are Craig Sorley, an environmental missionary from Kenya
who was named among TIME magazine's 2008 Heroes of the Environment;
Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Executive Director of A Rocha Peru; and Norman Uphoff,
professor of government from Cornell University. Additional speakers include
representatives of HNGR partner programs from Latin America and a panel of
growers including the Chicago urban farmers who grow food for Wheaton College's
own cafeteria.
The keynote addresses will be held at 7 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday
evenings in Coray Auditorium.
Symposium panels and workshops are scheduled for Friday afternoon. All HNGR
Symposium events are free and open to the public. For updates to the schedule,
please check the HNGR website at wheaton.edu/hngr.
