Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Things to Do, April 12-19

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.

Arctic vegetation spread could boost climate change

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.

Debate focuses on fracking and future of energy

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.

Expo features flyers, hoverers, soarers and wind catchers

The first on-campus Aeronautics/Alternative Energy Expo March 28 showed visitors the power of flight and wind.

Disease-resistant tomatoes fight lethal pests

Plant breeder Martha Mutschler-Chu has developed a variety of tomato that deters pests and counters the killer viruses they transmit.

Environmentalist E.O. Wilson to give Olin Lecture

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.

Classes use energy dashboard to study conservation

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.

Student founds sustainable seafood program

Katharine Leigh '15 is following her passions for seafood and marine biology through an outreach program, Green Catch: Sustaining the Blue by Catching Green.

Faculty stir up solutions at climate change forum

About 100 faculty members and graduate students from fields ranging from the physical and natural sciences to economics and the humanities gathered March 28 at the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Forum.