Make a committment to Reduce your Impact on the Environment by choosing 3 actions from the Live Green Pledge. By choosing 3 actions you will significantly reduce your impact as well as Double your efforts because CU Administration has committed to match each pledge with $5 towards Sustainability Initiatives on campus. This is a HUGE opportunity to hold the University accountable as well as yourself. Together we can make a difference. Sign the pledge at ecenter.colorado.edu/livegreen
For more information contact Sarah Dawn or Jesi at the Environmental Center UMC 355 or visit ecenter.colorado.edu/livegreen
Lester Brown: Plan B 4.0, Transition to a New Energy Economy
Wednesday, November 18th Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law 6 pm
Free and Open to the Public; Plan B 4.0 books will be available for sale and book signing will follow the lecture.
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the industrial revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and how it will affect our daily lives.
Lester R. Brown is president of Earth Policy Institute, an organization dedicated to building a sustainable future. Described by the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers,” Brown started his career as a tomato farmer. Shortly after earning a degree in agricultural science, he spent six months living in rural India, where he became intimately familiar with the food/population issue. Brown later became head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's International Agricultural Development Service. In 1974 he founded the Worldwatch Institute, leaving in 2001 to found the Earth Policy Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 50 books, the most recent of which is Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, and has received 24 honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the 1987 United Nations Environment Prize, a MacArthur Foundation “genius award,” and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize.
Interesting webinar hosted by the Environmental Center and Planning and Design. Learn about carbon neutral campus buildings!
An interactive webcast produced by the Society for College and University Planning, this investigation of cutting-edge learning environment projects that are carbon-neutral and beyond will focus on three projects (Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, Baraboo, WI; Okanagan College, Penticton, B.C. Canada; and Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY) which push the limits of design to create high-performance environments that are also exemplars of pedagogical and aesthetic excellence. The web program moderator is Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic for The New York Times, and panelists include an architect and client from each project.
