A talk by Dr. Firooza Pavri, co-hosted by Anodyne Bookstore, the Parsonage Gallery and the Maine North Atlantic Institute, University of Southern Maine, will be held Saturday, Sept. 13, from 4 - 5:30 p.m., at Anodyne Bookstore, 175 West Main Street, Searsport.

Dr. Pavri teaches and conducts research in environmental geography, with a focus on society-environment interactions, natural resource conservation and policy, sustainable development, and geospatial technologies, including remote sensing. More recently her research has explored the socio-economic, environmental, and policy issues related to sustainable wind energy production. She is co-author on a forthcoming book, Wind Energy Landscape: Principles, Techniques, History, under contract with Wiley. 

The talk will provide global context for the discourse about the future of wind power in Maine, particularly on Sears Island, which is a potential site for wind port development. It is scheduled in conjunction with the Intersecting Ecologies exhibition, a two-person show by Paula Gerstenblatt and Jan Piribeck that explores the personal, social and environmental dimensions of ecological change, on view at the Parsonage Gallery through November.

The work in the Intersecting Ecologies exhibit is situated in Sears Island, Maine, Long Island, Maine, and Greenland where Gerstenblatt and Piribeck have worked as artists, researchers, and community practitioners. The artists combine physical materials (oil sticks, markers, acrylic paint) with digital processes (layering, scaling, printing) to create an environment and vocabulary that explores the principles of interdependence, the transience of phenomena in all aspects of life, and complex collective and individual narratives from a deep ecology perspective.

The talk and the exhibit are free and open to the public.

More Information: Dr. Aaron Rosen, aaronrosen@parsonagegallery.org.