The Rosenmeier Board for State and Local Government will sponsor a presentation by Anishinabe and Ojibwe activist Winona LaDuke entitled "Energy and Food Policies for a
Sustainable Lakes Region: Economics for the Seventh Generation." LaDuke is the executive director of the website, Honor The Earth and was Green Party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader's choice for running mate twice.
The forum will be at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Dryden Theater on Brainerd's Central Lakes College campus.
Rosenmeier President Eric Klang said "We're looking forward to hearing Ms. LaDuke's ideas on state and local public policy as it relates to food and energy and her thoughts about economics and sustainability. We hope people in the Brainerd lakes area and Little Falls area are interested as well."
LaDuke is a member of the Ojibwe Mississippi Band and lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. LaDuke has advanced degrees from Harvard and Antioch Universities and has done graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. LaDuke is a rural development economist, has authored six books and hundreds of articles.
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The forum will be at 7 p.m., Sept. 29, in the Dryden Theater on Brainerd's Central Lakes College campus.
