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<title>BUniverse: Videos tagged conservation </title>
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<title>Trouble at Tonle Sap Lake</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:30:47 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Professor Les Kaufman and a team of researchers from Convservation International and universities in the United States, France, and Canada, have gathered in Cambodia to examine and model the food webs at Tonle Sap Lake, the country's primary source for fish, rice, and protein.  With this data, they hope to present solutions that will allow the lake's pulse system to continue as it has for centuries, in spite of the effects of dam-building, modernization, and climate change.]]></description>
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<title>Green Roofs</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:51:26 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Director of sustainability Dennis Carlberg explains what the heat island effect is, and how 100 Baystate Road's new green roof aims to make BU's campus just a little bit more green.

Read the story on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/bu-green-roof/]]></description>
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<title>Geoffrey West Explains Universal Scaling</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:02:13 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Professor Geoffrey West explains how universal scaling laws found in biology can be applied to cities in this clip from the Frederick S. Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture given on April 4, 2013 and titled, Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Life from Cells to Cities: Are They Sustainable?http://www.bu.edu/pardee/]]></description>
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<title>The Urban Century: The Urban Metabolism</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:05:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pardee Faculty Fellow Nathan Phillips discusses "The Urban Metabolism" and how the information he gathers from tracking carbon dioxide from rooftops allows him to study cities as if they were organisms. 

Prof. Philips of the BU Earth and Environment Department gave this talk at the Frederick S. Pardee Study for the Longer-Range Future at Boston University House Seminar "The Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Mattersâ€ on Thursday, December 13. Paul McManus, director of Boston Universityâ€™s Sustainable Neighborhood Lab project, moderated the panel, and Prof. Susan Eckstein of the Sociology Department, and Steven Strauss, former head of economic development strategy in New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a 2012 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University also spoke. The entire seminar is available here: http://www.bu.edu/pardee/the-urban-century-seminar/]]></description>
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<title>Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:38:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[â€˜Invasive Species and Future Ecologies: Bugs, Viruses, Mussels, and Weeds," part of the â€˜Pardee House Seminarsâ€™ series, featured Professor Les Kaufman of the BU Marine Program and Conservation International as well as Professor Richard Pollack and Professor Richard Primack both of the BU Department of Biology. The seminar was moderated by Pardee Center Director, Professor James McCann.

The event included discussions of the implications of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria, insects and the diseases they bring with them and the study of the impact of climate change on the flowering times of plants and the spring arrival of birds. 

Hosted by The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on October 18, 2011.]]></description>
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<title>Ethiopia In Movement</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:07:18 -0400</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University Director ad interim James McCann led a four-person roundtable panel sponsored by the Pardee Center at the 18th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies in the city of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia on October 31-November 2nd. Ethiopia in Movement, made by award-wining Ethiopian filmmaker Aida Ashenafi captures the panelists in the heart of the city. Panelists include former Pardee Post-doctoral Fellow Heran Sereke-Brhan, Stefan Bruene, (Hamburg University and Intergovernmental Authority on Development), Masresha Fetene, Vice President for Research, (Addis Ababa University), and His Excellency Xavier Marchal, European Community Ambassador to Ethiopia. They raise issues that range from intellectual property, commercial farming versus conservation, use of longer-range perspectives to open dialogues between antagonistic state agenda, and the need for basic science education in regional higher education. http://www.bu.edu/pardee/]]></description>
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