Past Wrigley Lecture Series
2009-2010
What I Learned in New York and Copenhagen
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Senior Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Fellow, American Society of Agronomy
Leader, Metro East Coast Climate Assessment
February 18, 2010
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Institutional Entrepreneurs: Building Resilience in Socioecological Systems
Frances Westley
J. W. McConnell Chair, Social Innovation, University of Waterloo
February 8, 2010
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Feeding the World, Maintaining the Planet: Meeting the Challenge by 2050
Jason Clay
Senior Vice President Market Transformations, World Wildlife Fund
January 20, 2010
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Why We Hate the Oil Companies
John Hofmeister
Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy
Retired President, Shell Oil
November 18, 2009
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Copenhagen, Schwarzenegger, A Merchant Bank, and Pallets: What Do They Have in Common?
Craig Cogut
Founder and Co-Managing Partner, Pegasus Capital Advisors
Co-founder, Pegasus Sustainable Century MB, L.P.
November 9, 2009
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2008-2009
Progress Report on San Francisco's Sustainability Efforts
Jared Blumenfeld
Director, Department of the Environment, City of San Francisco
April 28, 2009
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EcoMap Project »
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom discusses EcoMap »
Progress, Impact, and Future Directions of the Tyndall's Centre's Integrated Assessment Facility
Jim Hall
Civil and Environmental Engineer, Newcastle University
April 15, 2009
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The Business Strategy of Climate Change
Andrew J. Hoffman
Holcim (US) Professor, Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan
Associate Director, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
March 19, 2009
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Culture
Mitch Thomashow
President, Unity College
March 6, 2009
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Living in the Unity House
Cindy Thomashow
Executive Director, Center for Environmental Education, Unity College
March 6, 2009
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What Would Nature Do? Biomimicry as a Path to Sustainability
Janine Benyus
Author and President, Biomimicry Institute
February 10, 2009
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Ecological Restoration and Restoration Ecology: Using Streams as a Case Study
Margaret A. Palmer
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
January 23, 2009
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Beyond Universal Remedies for Good Water Governance: A Political and Contextual Approach
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
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International Climate Change Policy: 10 Precepts for the New Administration
Daniel Bodansky
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Emily and Ernset Woodruff Chair in International Law
School of Law, University of Georgia
November 13, 2008
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Beyond Taboo: The Interdisciplinary Imperative in Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Bron Taylor
Professor, Department of Religion, University of Florida
November 6, 2008
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The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Author
October 29, 2008
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Strategic Global Significance of China and Brazil's Coke and Steel Supply Chains
Karen Polenske
Professor of Regional Political Economy and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 24, 2008
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A Declaration of Energy Independence
Jay Hakes
Director, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
September 11, 2008
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2007-2008
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
Laureate Professor, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne
April 28, 2008
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The Weather Makers
Tim Flannery
Professor, MacQuarie University
April 9, 2008
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From The Dusty Soil: What a Village in India Taught Me About the Global Village
Jeff Biggers
Writer, educator, radio correspondent, and community organizer across the United States, Europe, India and Mexico
February 21, 2008
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Greening the Grid: the Next Revolution in Electricity Regulation
Timothy P. Duane
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture and Planning
University of California at Berkeley
February 4, 2008
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The Future of Biodiversity
Sir Peter Crane
The John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, University of Chicago
Thomas E. Lovejoy
President, The Heinz Center
January 31, 2008
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The Slippery Slope to Slime or A Mutiny for the Bounty?
Scientific Knowledge Informing Today’s Choices and Tomorrow’s Ocean
Jane Lubchenco
Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology and Distinguished Professor of Zoology
Oregon State University
January 18, 2008
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Some Like it Hot... Lots More Don’t
David Orr
Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College
James March Professor-At-Large, University of Vermont
January 14, 2008
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Local Approaches for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Portland Story
Susan Anderson
Director, City of Portland Office of Sustainable Development
November 29. 2007
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Social Capital and Natural Resources
Sir Partha Dasgupta
Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Fellow, St. John's College, Cambridge
November 14, 2007
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Sustainability: The Evolution of a Contemporary Myth
Stuart Walker
Research Professor and Co-Director of Imagination@Lancaster, Lancaster University
Visiting Professor of Sustainable Design, Kingston University
October 15, 2007
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Towards Sustainable Land Architecture: A Grand Challenge for Sustainability Science — The Southern Yucatán Example
Billie Lee Turner II
Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society
Director of the Graduate School of Geography
Clark University
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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2006-2007
How Much Can Technology Do to Achieve a Truly Sustainable World of 7 Billion Humans?
Ernst Ulrich Von Weizsäcker
Dean, Bren School for Environmental Science and Management, University of California-Santa Barbara
April 16, 2007
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Greasy Palms: Assessing the Resilience and Vulnerability of Bornean Landscapes to Agribusiness Expansion for Edible Oils and Biofuels
Lisa M. Curran
Professor of Tropical Resource Science and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
April 12, 2007
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Life Cycle Models and Metrics: The Sustainability Compass for Energy Systems, Products, and Technology
Greg Keoleian
Co-Director, Center for Sustainable Systems
Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
February 1, 2007
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New Policy for New Weather
John Byrne
Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, University of Delaware
January 25, 2007
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Assessing and Managing Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads
Lance Gunderson
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University
January 16, 2007
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Insights on Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, and in the Lab
Elinor Ostrom
Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science
Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington
Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
January 10, 2007
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Nitrogen: Too Much of a Good Thing
Global Nitrogen Issues and a Case Study from the Colorado Front Range
Jill Baron
Ecosystem Ecologist, US Geological Survey
Senior Research Ecologist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
December 1, 2006
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Urban Sustainability & Social Religious Conflict
Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar
Film personalities and social activists
November 21, 2006
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Behind the Gates: The Consequences of Secured Residential Communities in the Urban and Suburban United States
Setha Low
Professor, Environmental Psychology and Anthropology
Director, Public Space Research Group, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
October 12, 2006
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Natural Capitalism, Path to Sustainability in Education—And a Lot Else
Hunter Lovins
President/Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions
October 6, 2006
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2005-2006
Science to Solutions: Interdisciplinary Collaboration at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
James Reichman
Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Director, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
April 17, 2006
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Agricultural Intensification in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico: Is it Saving Land for Nature?
Pamela A. Matson
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
Victoria P. and Roger W. Sant Director of the Earth Systems Degree Program
Co-Director, Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Institute of International Studies, Stanford University
April 14, 2006
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The Future of Life
Edward O. Wilson
Research Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University
April 13, 2006
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Urban Sustainability and the Limits of Classical Environmentalism
Kai Lee
Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies, Williams College, Massachusetts
March 20, 2006
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COLLAPSE: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Professor of Geography, College of Letters and Science, Social Sciences Division, University of California-Los Angeles
February 2, 2006
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Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
Timothy Beatley
Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
November 17, 2005
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The Greening of Traditional Markets
Christine Ervin
President and CEO of the US Green Building Council
October 31, 2005
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What Do We Owe the Future?
Bryan Norton
Professor of Philosophy, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech
September 30, 2005
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Sustainability: The Global Perspective
Sir Crispin Tickell
Chancellor, University of Kent, Canterbury
Director, Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding, University of Oxford
Chairman, International Council of Scientific Unions’ Advisory Committee on the Environment
Chairman, Board of Directors of the Climate Institute, Washington, D.C.
September 28, 2005
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Lessons from the Cycles of Metals
Thomas E Graedel
Professor of Industrial Ecology
Director, Center for Industrial Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
March 9, 2005
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The Social Amplification of Risk: Two Decades of Social Science Research
Roger E. Kasperson
Director, Stockholm Environment Institute
Member, George Perkins Marsh Institute
February 14, 2005
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Food Webs: A New Look
Joel E. Cohen
Professor of Populations, School of International and Public Affairs
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University, New York
Head, Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities
February 11, 2005
Whither Geography: Humboldt’s Dream and Sustainability Science
Robert W. Kates
Geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine
University Professor (Emeritus), Brown University
Co-Convener of the International Initiative for Science and Technology for Sustainability
Executive Editor, Environment
Visiting Scholar, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
February 10, 2005
Ecological vs. Social Complexity: An Anthropological Perspective on Science and Sustainability
Joseph A. Tainter
Archaeologist and sustainability scholar, Cultural Heritage Research Project, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM
January 28, 2005
The Global Carbon Cycle and the Duke Forest Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Project
William H. Schlesinger
James B. Duke Professor of Biogeochemistry and Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
January 19, 2005