Lecture presented at Humboldt State University by Laurie Richmond, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Management at Humboldt State University, on April 18, 2013. Part of the Sustainable futures speaker series sponsored by the Schatz Energy Research Center and the Environment and Community Program.Laurie Richmond's research "focuses on developing collaborative relationships with natural resource-dependent communities to examine how they navigate both political and ecological changes in their resource systems. She has worked with the Alaska Native village of Old Harbor Alaska, and with indigenous communities in New Mexico, Hawai`i, and the Commonwealth of the Norther Marianas Islands (CNMI) on natural resource issues."--Flyer from Humboldt State web site