In the opening talk of the 2016-2017 La Colectiva Lecture Series, Dr. Priscilla Solis Ybarra will speak to the growing Latina/o population and the worsening environmental crisis, highlighting unique ideas and useful strategies that emerge from the Mexican American community. The lecture will include insights from the recently published book Writing the Goodlife: Mexican Americans and the Environment as well as a preview of new research on a leading environmental activist family, the Aldo and Estella Leopolds.