This year’s Terry speaker series was great, and now the SCQ is pleased to announce that summaries are available for all three (as well as the audio of the entire speech). Follow the links, and seriously people – be inspired.

Summaries by Peter Ottis from News 101, CITR 101.9FM

Dr. David W. Orr is Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies at Oberlin College. He is best known for his recent work in ecological design including his efforts to build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Centre at Oberlin College. He also maintains a presence in the environmental literacy scene with four books and over 120 articles in scientific, social science, and popular journals.

Stephen Lewis is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, a post he has held since June 2001. He is a Commissioner for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, and a Senior Advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. Mr. Lewis is also Director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is dedicated to easing the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa. He has received many accolades including 22 honorary degrees, a Companion of the Order of Canada, Maclean’s Magazine 2003 “Canadian of the Year,” and in April 2005, was listed as one of the “100 most influential people in the world” by TIME magazine. Recently, he was the 2005 CBC Massey Lecturer, the first of which was held at UBC last year.

David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster; and is well known to millions as the host of CBC’s popular science television series, The Nature of Things. An internationally respected geneticist, David Suzuki was a full Professor at the University of British Columbia from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. Currently, he is a professor emeritus with UBC’s Sustainable Development Research Institute, and through his role as chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is widely recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. David Suzuki has received numerous awards for his work, including a UNESCO prize for science, a United Nations Environment Program medal and the Order of Canada. He has 15 honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, the US and Australia. As well, for his work in support of Canada’s First Nations people, David Suzuki has received many tributes and has been honoured with five names and the formal adoption by two tribes. He is the author of more than 40 books, the most recent of which is entitled David Suzuki. The Autobiography (April 2006).