Showing posts with label UB RENEW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UB RENEW. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Distinguished Lecture: Global Warming and a Call to Action - How ice foretells the next systemic transformation

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Global Warming and a Call to Action: 
How ice foretells the next systemic transformation

Thursday, June 7, 2018
2:30pm - 5:00pm
Hotel at the Lafayette - Marquis Ballroom
391 Washington St., Buffalo

Sebastian Copeland will chronicle some of his seminal expedition crossings, and share impressions on what it means to spend three months of isolated travel in the most remote polar environments. Illustrated with award winning photographs, his anecdotes range from close encounters with polar bears, falling through the ice into the frigid Arctic ocean, surviving hurricanes in a tent, and traveling with severe frostbites, broken bones and food shortage. Copeland will explore the meaning of living in a truly antagonistic environment and how he learned to love everything about survival to find epiphanies and discover the true essence of self. More pointedly, Copeland makes the case that climate transformations taking place in the polar regions foretell global systemic chaos from anthropogenic activities, and their geopolitical consequences.

Following the lecture there will be a Fireside Chat hosted by Prof. Richard Alley and a Distinguished Lecture Recognition

Limited space available
Please RSVP by June 6, 2018 - Click here

Monday, April 16, 2018

Presentation: EARTH DEMOCRACY - Sustainability, Justice and Peace

RENEW Distinguished Lecture Series Presents


Dr. Vandana Shiva


LECTURE: Earth Democracy - Sustainability, Justice and Peace


Friday, April 20 at 3:00 PM


UB  Center for the Arts Screening Room, UB North Campus [Map]


Free and Open to the Public

RSVP if you plan to attend - Click Here

Although a Quantum Physicist by training, Dr. Shiva has spent her life on interdisciplinary work related to science, technology and environmental policy.  Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “hero” in 2003 and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia. Forbes magazine in November 2010 has identified Dr. Vandana Shiva as one of the top Seven most Powerful Women on the Globe.