Gernot Wagner

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Gernot Wagner

• Economist, Environmental Defense Fund

Wagner is the author of But Will the Planet Notice? How Smart Economics Can Save the World. In this talk, Gernot Wagner will argue that only economists—not recyclers—can stop global warming.

He serves as an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, teaches at Columbia University, and he graduated from Harvard and Stanford. He doesn't eat meat, doesn't drive, and knows full well the futility of his personal choices.

This event is co-sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business.

March 14, 2012
2:00-3:30 p.m.
(Refreshments will be served)
Memorial Union, Turquoise Room
Parking available in the Apache Boulevard structure – $2/hr.

William McDonough

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William McDonough

• McDonough Advisors / William McDonough + Partners Architecture and
• Community Design / McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry

William McDonough has been a leader in sustainable development since the 1970s. Trained as an architect, McDonough’s interests and influence range widely, and he works at scales from the global to the molecular. He has written and lectured extensively on his design philosophy and practice; 20 years ago, he wrote The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability, and 10 years ago, he and Dr. Michael Braungart co-authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Both are considered seminal texts of the sustainability movement.

McDonough served as Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture; he is also a Visiting Professor at the same university’s Darden School of Business and a Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He is a member of the board of trustees of ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability.

In this Wrigley Lecture, McDonough will discuss his co-authored book, Cradle to Cradle, which offers practical steps for innovating within today’s economic environment. Part social history, part green-business primer, part design manual, he argues that an industrial system that “takes, makes, and wastes” can become a creator of goods and services that generate ecological, social, and economic value.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
(Reception to Follow)
Neeb Hall
Arizona State University at the Tempe campus

Reservations are at capacity for this event. Please arrive early to ensure a seat.

Robin Morris Collin

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Robin Morris Collin

• Norma J. Paulus Professor of Law,
• Willamette University College of Law

Sustainability is often described as the three "E"s—ecology, economics, and equity. Modern, technological societies must face the challenges of equity in contemporary life. Environmental justice is an American-based movement challenging disparities in risk-exposure and access to benefits. Environmental justice and sustainability reflect a deep division along race and class lines. This talk will explore the need for collaboration and repurposing in both movements.

Morris Collin, who has taught law since 1984, came to Willamette after a distinguished 10-year career as a tenured faculty member of the University of Oregon School of Law. One of her latest publications is “Restoration and Redemption” in Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, a collection of testimonies by visionaries including Michael M. Crow, the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Barack Obama.

Thursday, November 17, 2011
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
(reception to follow)
Old Main, Carson Ballroom
Arizona State University, Tempe Campus

Frank Sesno

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Frank Sesno

• Director, School of Media and Public Affairs,
• The George Washington University
• Host and Creator, Planet Forward

Join us as Professor Sesno explores the deepening skepticism around climate science and the new roles that universities, media, and the concerned public must play if we are to move from stalemate to solutions.

A former anchor, White House correspondent, and interview host with CNN, Sesno is also a nationally renowned moderator, engaging some of the world’s leading personalities, from five American presidents, to Yasser Arafat, Margret Thatcher, and Walter Cronkite. He is also the host and creator of Planet Forward, an innovative web-television initiative as seen on PBS.

Thursday, September 22, 2011
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Reception to Follow at Engrained Café
Memorial Union, Turquoise Room
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
Parking: Apache Boulevard Structure ($2/hr)

Video

William Cronon

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William Cronon

• President, American Historical Association
• Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

William Cronon's work seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us. He is the author of several prize-winning books, including: Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England; Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West; and the soon-to-be published Saving Nature in Time: The Environmental Past and the Human Future.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
(reception to follow)
Wrigley Hall, Room 101

Andrew C. Revkin
Braden R. Allenby

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Andrew C. Revkin

• Author, The New York Times Dot Earth Blog
• Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies, Pace University

Braden R. Allenby

• Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
• Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, ASU

How do very complex systems—natural, human, built, technological—interact under rapidly changing conditions? Join us for a free-wheeling conversation between author Andy Revkin and ASU Sustainability Scientist Brad Allenby, as they discuss how we can build social, economic, and environmental sustainability in a highly unpredictable, contingent world.

One of America’s most honored science writers, Revkin has been reporting in print and on Dot Earth for The New York Times since 1995. He has spent a quarter century writing on the environment, covering subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon and the troubled relationship of climate science and politics. In his blog, Dot Earth, Revkin examines efforts to balance human affairs with the planet’s limits.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Carson Ballroom (Old Main, 2nd Floor)
Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Coffee & pastries will be served

Peter H. Raven

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Peter H. Raven

• President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Garden
• George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis

What is the future of biodiversity and what steps can we take to preserve it? Leading botanist and conservationist Peter Raven served as president of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Professor of Botany at Washington University, St. Louis, for 39 years. Analyzing estimates of extinction rates and the major factors leading to extinction, he will discuss a world faced with many choices of central importance for our future, emphasizing the role of global climate change.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.

(reception to follow)
Coor Hall, Room 170, ASU Tempe Campus

Van Jones

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Van Jones

• Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
• Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Princeton University

Our country is struggling in the face of an economic recession and ecological crisis. We need 9 million new jobs in the U.S., and they must be jobs that can support families and do no harm to the environment. America needs her best minds generating smart and innovative ideas to create more jobs.

Named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, Van Jones is a globally recognized pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy. He co-founded three successful nonprofit organizations, is the best-selling author of The Green-Collar Economy, and served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009.

Thursday, November 4, 2010
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Student Services Lawn and Amphitheater
Arizona State University at the Tempe campus
(Parking at Apache Structure)

Cynthia Rosenzweig

• Senior Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Fellow, American Society of Agronomy
• Leader, Metro East Coast Climate Assessment

February 18, 2010

Frances Westley

• J. W. McConnell Chair, Social Innovation, University of Waterloo

February 8, 2010

Jason Clay

• Senior Vice President Market Transformations, World Wildlife Fund

January 20, 2010

John Hofmeister

• Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy
• Retired President, Shell Oil

November 18, 2009

Craig Cogut

• Founder and Co-Managing Partner, Pegasus Capital Advisors
• Co-founder, Pegasus Sustainable Century MB, L.P.

November 9, 2009

Jim Hall

• Civil and Environmental Engineer, Newcastle University

April 15, 2009

Andrew J. Hoffman

• Holcim (US) Professor, Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan
• Associate Director, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise

March 19, 2009

Mitch Thomashow

• President, Unity College

March 6, 2009

Cindy Thomashow

• Executive Director, Center for Environmental Education, Unity College

March 6, 2009

Janine Benyus

• Author and President, Biomimicry Institute

February 10, 2009

Helen Ingram

• Professor of Planning, Policy & Design and the Drew, Chace and Erin Warmington Chair, School of Social Ecology
• Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences
• University of California, Irvine

December 4, 2008

Daniel Bodansky

• Associate Dean for Faculty Development
• Emily and Ernset Woodruff Chair in International Law
• School of Law, University of Georgia

November 13, 2008

Bron Taylor

• Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida

November 6, 2008