{"id":5461,"date":"2012-03-26T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:46:25","slug":"international-mother-earth-day-april-22-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/international-mother-earth-day-april-22-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mother Earth Day April 22, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/2012_4_DL-EarthDay-NASA.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/planet-earth-copy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5493\" title=\"planet-earth copy\" src=\"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/planet-earth-copy1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>FAU Libraries <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.fcla.edu\/fau\/oralhistory\" target=\"_blank\">Oral History Digital Collection<\/a> features the interviews of Dr. Leonard Berry who discusses his environmental work experiences and research contributions. This effort is in celebration of\u00a0 Dr. Berry&#8217;s\u00a0renowned career of teaching from a global perspective to foster an awareness of environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>In observance of International Mother Earth Day, FAU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.fau.edu\/depts\/digital_library\/collections.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Library<\/a> highlights the contributions of\u00a0\u00a0this Distinguished Research Professor, whose work spans three continents. In Africa and Asia,\u00a0Dr. Berry\u00a0studied tropical environments and assisted in regional planning for the Government of Tanzania. Since coming to the United States in 1970, he has worked on environmental and development training programs for the U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID), United Nations Development Program, and United Nations Environment Program. The British-born environmentalist also worked for the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility in a number of capacities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Founder and director\u00a0of\u00a0 FAU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ces.fau.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Environmental Studies<\/a>, Dr. Berry, who was also an FAU\u00a0Provost, is Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/floridaclimate.org\/expertfinder_research.php?get=10\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Climate Change Initiative<\/a> and principle investigator on several projects including a Florida Department of Transportation\u00a0study to assess the impact of sea level rise on transportation infrastructure. In 2010, he was named an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fau.edu\/mediarelations\/Releases0410\/041040.php\" target=\"_blank\">FAU expert <\/a>on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Listen or read <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.fcla.edu\/fau\/lberry\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Berry\u2019s interview<\/a> conducted as part of the Department of History&#8217;s Oral History project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAU Libraries Oral History Digital Collection features the interviews of Dr. Leonard Berry who discusses his environmental work experiences and research contributions. This effort is in celebration of\u00a0 Dr. Berry&#8217;s\u00a0renowned career of teaching from a global perspective to foster an awareness of environmental issues. In observance of International Mother Earth Day, FAU&#8217;s Digital Library highlights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,268],"tags":[64,91,28,63],"class_list":["post-5461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-library","category-electronic-resources","category-library-news","category-special-collections","tag-digital-collections-fau","tag-environmental-sciences","tag-gulf-coast","tag-oral-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5461"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5461\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}