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- Guest Speakers: Greater Boston Food Bank CEO and COO 8:00 am
- Psychology Dissertation Defense of Ruth E. McKenzie9:00 am
- Morbidity and Mortality Conference11:30 am
- Federalism by Exception: The Future of Economic Governance in the Euro-area: A luncheon discussion with Henrik Enderlein12:00 pm
- CTSI Presents Study Electronic Data Capture: StudyTRAX12:00 pm
- Focus on Allergies12:00 pm
- MSE MS Thesis Presentation of Jiakai Liu1:30 pm
- MSE PhD Final Oral Defense of Jiapeng Xu2:45 pm
- Hariri Institute for Computing Distinguished Lecture: Benjamin Lubin3:00 pm
- “A New Honeymoon: Turkish-American Relations in the Age of Arab Awakening, NATO Weakening and the Asian Pivot”3:30 pm
- Addictions and Gender: Research Symposium3:30 pm
- Annual IPR Colloquium on the Philosophy of Religion: Levinas in His Context5:00 pm
- Speaker Panel-An Autism Awareness Week Event6:30 pm
- The Climate Crisis: Divestment, Solutions, and Smoothies7:00 pm
The Climate Crisis: Divestment, Solutions, and Smoothies
Please join DivestBU for an informative teach-in session on the urgency of the climate crisis, the viability of clean energy, fossil fuel divestment, and the rapidly accelerating climate movement. Learn about the movement that is currently rocking our nation and get pumped to join in! Speakers: Nathan Phillips - BU Professor of Earth & Environment "Certainties and uncertainties in climate change; Natural gas: bridge fuel, or fossil on-ramp?; Achieving fossil free humanity" Shea Riester - Campus Divestment Coordinator, Better Future Project, 350.org "Fossil fuel divestment, and how it can help grow the climate movement" Free pizza and smoothies will be served! The event will be powered by completely fossil free energy!
| When | 7:00 pm on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Building | Stone Science Building (Room 442), 675 Commonwealth Ave |
| Contact Email | DivestBU@gmail.com |
| Contact Organization | DivestBU |
| Fees | Free |
| Speakers | Nathan Phillips, Shea Riester |