SPEAKER SERIES
Environmental Forum Spring 2008 Speaker Series
All presentations will be held in the Activities East Building, Room #321, Wheelock College (unless otherwise noted)
January 30th, 5:30pm
“The Science Behind Climate Change”
Michael Berger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Simmons College
February 6th, 5:30pm
“Impacts of Climate Change on New England”
Stephen C. Nodvin, Ph.D.
Head, Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Science
Wentworth Institute of Technology
February 11th, 12-1pm
"Zoonoses and Climate Change”
Jess Gonynor, M.S.
Research Assistant, Boston University Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology
Adjunct Professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology
February 25th, 12-1pm
"The Public Health Impact of Climate Change”
Sylvia Hobbs, MPH
Director of Research & Evaluation
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Office of Emergency Medical Services
March 3rd, 12-1pm
“Solving Global Warming: An overview of state and federal action to avoid the worst impacts of global warming by capping the pollution that causes it and speeding the transition to a new energy future”
Frank Gorke, Director of Environment Massachusetts
Mr. Gorke directs statewide campaigns including efforts to clean up dirty sources of electricity, promote clean and renewable power, and protect and reinvest in the Commonwealth's forests, parks and beaches. He recently spearheaded Environment Massachusetts' successful effort to set improved efficiency standards. He is currently working to reduce global warming pollution from power plants in Massachusetts and to improve policies that spur the development of cleaner energy sources such as solar and wind power. He has co-authored and advised on several reports including "More Heat than Light: Global Warming Pollution from The Northeast’s Dirtiest Power Producers" and "A Blueprint for Action: Policy Options to Reduce Massachusetts' Contribution to Global Warming."
For more information on Environment Massachusetts, please visit www.environmentmassachusetts.org
March 20th, 4pm
"Kenya's Rural Women: Sustainability, Climate Change, and Arid Lands Challenges"
Agnes Wakesho Mwang’ombe, PhD and DIC
Principal, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya; Active researcher in agriculture, with sub-specialties in pant pathology, with emphasis on plant resistance to diseases, pathogens specialization, seed borne pathogens and diseases; Founder and Director of the Arid and Semi Arid Lands Foundation (ASALFO), a Kenya-based NGO; expert in agriculture, environment, and tertiary education; and agricultural sustainability; active researcher and scholar in agriculture; agricultural sustainability in arid lands; climate change and agriculture in arid lands. Integrates gender issues in agricultural and education activities.
Please rsvp to vhudson@wheelock.edu for this event.
April 2nd, 5:30pm
“Renewable Solutions: How We Can Fight Global Warming, Prevent Energy Wars & Transition to a Sustainable Future”
Sajed Kamal, Committee Coordinator, Solar Fenway
A slide-talk presentation, including a global survey of renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaics, wind turbines, hydroelectric generators, solar thermal systems, biogas plants and solar cookers. Explore the revolutionary scope of these technologies to transform the global economy. Thinking globally and acting locally, what you can do—individually or collaboratively—to fuel the transition.
Sajed Kamal teaches "Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development" in the Sustainable International Development Program at Brandeis University. With more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, he has been a speaker and consultant on renewable energy internationally, setting up pilot projects in the USA, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Armenia and El Salvador. His work has also provided a basis for projects in other countries in Latin America, Europe and Africa. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics and Education from Northeastern University and his doctorate in Humanistic Studies from Boston University. He is a former faculty member at Northeastern University, Boston University and Antioch New England Graduate School. Currently he is the president of the International Consortium for Energy Development, a Boston-based nonprofit corporation promoting renewable energy education internationally, a Board member of the Boston Area Solar Energy Association, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Coordinator of the Solar Fenway Committee of the Fenway Community Development Corporation in Boston. A published author of several books and articles in areas including renewable energy, environment, education, literature, translation, arts and poetry, his forthcoming books include Renewable Solutions: How We Can Fight Global Warming, Prevent Energy Wars & Transition to a Sustainable Energy Future. In 2007, he was awarded Boston "Mayor's First Annual Green Award for Community Leadership in Energy and Climate Protection."
April 7th, 12-1pm
“Campus Sustainability and Green Campuses”
John Pearson
Solar Fenway
For more information about Solar Fenway, please visit www.solarfenway.org
April 9th, 5:30pm
“Role of non-profits in environmental work”
Jim Bourque
Regional Campaign Director, Earth Share of New England
(CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
For more information about Earth Share New England, please visit http://www.greenfornewengland.org
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