Following the success of the John Sawyer Seminars in Fall 2010, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment will continue to convene the John Sawyer Seminars at Boston University on Energy Transitions and Society for Spring 2010. The first seminar in this Spring 2011 series will […]
Pardee Center Communications Specialist, Cynthia Barakatt will serve as clerk starting January 2011 for the Silent Spring Institute Board of Directors. Based in Newton, Silent Spring Institute is a unique partnership of scientists, physicians, public health advocates, and community activists that works to identify the links between the environment and women’s health, especially breast cancer. […]
Dr. Pablo Suarez, Pardee Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, was featured in AlertNet for his work on games as learning tools for climate science. Saurez has just returned from facilitating two game-based climate change sessions yesterday at the UN conference in Cancun (one on linking forecasts with humanitarian decisions and another on insurance for risk reduction). The […]
The Report of the Pardee Center’s ‘Africa 2060: Good News from Africa’ conference was launched at a special Pardee House Seminar held on December 6, 2010. Panelists included Amb. Charles Stith, Director of the BU African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC); Prof. Timothy Longman, Director of the BU African Studies Center (ASC), and Dr. […]
On Friday, December 3, 2010, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the BU Department of Geography and Environment convened for the last Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions of the fall semester. The session, entitled The Business of Energy, featured Joseph Pratt, Martha Amram, and Paul McManus. Joseph Pratt, […]
Pardee fellow Pablo Suarez will appear in a documentary on geoengineering that premieres on November 25 at 9pm on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) News Channel. The film, entitled “Playing God with Planet Earth?”, explores the last ditch efforts of scientists and engineers trying to avert a planetary meltdown through solar radiation management and other techniques […]
The Pardee Center has recently published the conference report for the conference “Africa 2060: Good News from Africa”. As the capstone event of a research program called “Africa 2060”, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University convened a conference on April 16, 2010 called “Africa 2060: […]
The Task Force on Latin America 2060 – convened by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future in collaboration with the BU Latin American Studies Program – met at Boston University on November 18-19, 2010. On Thursday, November 18, 2010, a public symposium was held where the Task Force […]
On Monday, November 8, 2010, the John Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions and Society convened for its third meeting. The session entitled Energy and Development featured Joan Martínez -Alier and Paul Epstein, and was moderated by James McCann, professor of history at Boston University. Joan Martínez-Alier is a Professor at the Department of Economics and […]
Over a hundred people from across the Boston area gathered at Boston University on November 4, 2010, at a discussion on on the current situation with the devastating floods in Pakistan and the ongoing impacts of Haiti’s earthquake earlier this year, and in particular on the lessons that can be learnt from these two experiences […]