Southern Plains Conference
For the past twenty years Ogallala Commons has presented an annual Southern Plains Conference. Each conference has dealt with a global issue on a regional level with topics ranging from global climate change and renewable energy to local foods and the Dust Bowl. The annual Southern Plains Conference is usually a two day event, with an evening gathering the night before the full day conference.
This year’s conference
Black Sunday — April 14, 1935 — was not the worst of the dust storms, but it is the one that people remember as it tore away the topsoil from the Dakotas to Texas, even depositing some of its dust as far way as Washington DC. Our conference will look back to that day to more clearly understand what ecological, economic, and social conditions are again massing to ignite a 21st Century Dust Bowl—and what practices we can enact to counter or mitigate another series of Black Sundays.
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Past conference topics
Download a pdf of all past years conference topics.
Download PDF "1990-2009: 20 Years of Southern Plains Conferences"
