Daily Archives: November 26, 2018

Tuesday, December 4, 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The Ethics of Species Conservation

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Ronald Sandler, PhD, Chair and Professor of Philosophy; Director, Ethics Institute, Northeastern University, will speak at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University on Tuesday, December 4 at 7 pm.

Rapid ecological change, and climate change in particular, pose challenges to traditional conservation paradigms and strategies. It has also led some conservationists to endorse novel conservation techniques, such as assisted colonization, gene drives and even de-extinction.

This talk will explore the values and philosophies that underlie species conservation under conditions of rapid change. It will ask us to think about what is valuable about species and why we ought to try to conserve them. Free for Arboretum members, $10 for nonmembers.

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Tuesday, December 11, 9:00 am – 11:30 am – Holiday Floral Designs

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Lisa Oberholzer-Gee is a Cambridge based freelance floral artist. She has traveled widely and incorporates techniques from all over the world in her designs. She has a floral certificate of design from Longwood Garden, Pennsylvania and has taught floral classes at the New York Botanical Gardens as well as designed entrance arrangements for the MFA’s Art in Bloom exhibit. She will be demonstrating arrangements for the holiday season. Ms. Gee will give a demonstration on Holiday Floral Design for the Community Garden Club of Duxbury on December 11 at the Duxbury Bay Maritime School, 457 Washington Street, Duxbury, Massachusetts. Coffee and tea from 9am to 9:30am, Business Meeting from 9:30am to 10am, Program from 10am to 11:30am. Meetings are open to the public for a nominal fee of $5.00. Everyone is welcome.

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