If you're looking for things to do on the Friday before Thanksgiving, The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science is devoting an afternoon to the topic “Thoreau and environmentalism.” I don't think I'll be able to make it, but the program looks interesting:
Karbank Symposium in Environmental Philosophy
Thoreau and Environmentalism
Friday, November 16 , 2007, 1:00 p.m. - 5 p.m.
The Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Moderator: Charles Capper (Boston University)
Richard Primack (Boston University)
Thoreau as a Climate Change Scientist
Max Oelschlaeger (Norther Arizona University)
Thoreau's Anticipations of Human Agency in Ecological Context
William Rossi (University of Oregon)
Thoreauvian Science and the Environmental Subject
Alfred I. Tauber (Boston University)
Thoreau's Pantheism and the Birth of American Environmentalism