Char Miller ’75

Spotlights

Mother Nature’s Signal Flares

Char Miller '75Char Miller ’75 teaches in the Environmental Analysis Program at Pomona College. In this piece for the Spring/Summer 2018 Participant, he writes, "My first brush with the life-threatening nature of western wildfires came on a sizzling-hot day in October 1973."
July 27, 2018
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New Book by Pitzer Alumnus and Environmental Historian Char Miller ’75 Examines Sustainability in California

Not So Golden State book coverClaremont, Calif. (September 26, 2016)—Pitzer College alumnus Char Miller ’75 digs deep into California’s environmental history and the dark side of the sunny state’s ecology in his new book, Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream. In this collection of essays, Miller examines California’s critical environmental dilemmas through the lens of a natural [Read More...]
September 26, 2016
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New Anthology Edited by Pitzer College Alumnus Examines Impact of Climate Change on Land Management

Book cover, Forest Conservation in the AnthropoceneClaremont, Calif. (September 1, 2016)—Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene, a new anthology co-edited by Pitzer College alumnus Char Miller ’75, explores the environmental crises triggered by climate change and examines how land managers plan to address the shifting ecological landscape in North American forests. The anthology probes the central dilemmas that ecologists, forest land managers, [Read More...]
September 1, 2016

Pitzer College Alum Char Miller ’75 Convenes Symposium on Oil and Gas Consumption in So Cal

Claremont, Calif. (October 6, 2014)—This weekend, the symposium PetroLA: Energy and the Development of Southern California will probe the profound impact of the production, refining, and consumption of oil and gas in Southern California. Pitzer alumnus and W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College Char Miller ’75 helped organize the conference and [Read More...]
October 6, 2014
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Pitzer College Alumnus Char Miller ’75 Publishes Book about Water, Immigration and a Sense of Place in the Borderlands

Claremont, Calif. (March 18, 2013)—Pitzer College alumnus Char Miller ’75 has authored On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest, a collection of essays about the American Southwest. With an environmentalist’s eye and a story-teller’s voice, Miller delves into the troubling issues that shape life in the US-Mexico border region. On the Edge [Read More...]
March 18, 2013