Course Description

Instructor: George deMan

The Inscrutable Web - - how mindbogglingly complex Earth's ecological systems truly are, and how humanity screws them up, wittingly and unwittingly.

Bio: George is a published poet, essayist, and sculptor - - and has taught all three as interactive courses. His career was in advertising, but his major accomplishments are in the area of cultural developments: A Founder of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Co-chairman of Emory's MARBL Board, Pres. of Out of Hand Theater, and Friends of Emory Forests. He lives near Emory where he has solo maintenance of several acres of pristine forest, travels widely, continues to publish, and is a Teaching Consultant for Emory. George has taught numerous science courses for OLLI, and studied ecology at Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.