Peter Kareiva, Ph.D. '81, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, will deliver the 2013 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture, 'Overcoming Dogma and Prophecies of Doom to Save Nature,' April 22.
Events on campus this week include sustainability expert/graduate student Annie Leonard with 'The Story of Stuff;' the annual Pao Bhangra show; films about bees and AIDS; the 22nd Cornell Jazz Festival and a climate readiness conference.
Expansion of Arctic vegetation due to climate change has probably been underestimated, and increasing tree and shrub cover will accelerate climate change and possible adverse effects on wildlife.
Tom Wilber and Seamus McGraw offered their perspectives as writers tracking the issue at regional, national, and international levels at an April 4 public forum on campus.
Edward O. Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner often considered the father of the modern environmental movement, will deliver the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture Friday, April 19.
Thanks to a new online dashboard, facilities staff in the College of Human Ecology can view real-time data on water and energy consumption in the LEED Platinum-rated Human Ecology Building.
Katharine Leigh '15 is following her passions for seafood and marine biology through an outreach program, Green Catch: Sustaining the Blue by Catching Green.
