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Earthstock 2013: April 15–19

 
This week-long, campus-wide event, is free and open to the public. Environmental organizations, participants with an earth-friendly message, and local schools will celebrate on the Academic Mall, Friday, April 19 (Rain Location: Student Activities Center).Stony Brook University is at the vanguard of the sustainability movement. Our commitment to a green future is evident everywhere on our 1,400 acres: from reducing our carbon footprint, to advocating recycling and using recycled materials whenever possible, to promoting alternatively fueled transportation. Take the Green Pledge!


Program Highlights

Wednesday, April 17

dear governor cuomo

 

 

Film & Discussion: Dear Governor Cuomo
Humanities 1006, 4:00 pm

On a rainy night in May of 2012 a coalition of musicians, scientists and activists gathered in Albany on the governor’s front doorstep, calling for a ban on hydraulic-fracturing. The film–a unique blend of The Last Waltz and An Inconvenient Truth–was written and directed by Jon Bowermaster and filmed under the direction of Academy Award winning doc-maker Alex Gibney.

 
Friday, April 19

student research 

Earthstock Environmental Student Research Exhibition
SAC Ballroom A, 6:30 pm

Undergraduate and graduate student research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities as they relate to issue related to the environment, energy conservation, engineering and sustainability will be featured in a poster session preceding the Keynote Lecture.

 
Wally Broecker Keynote Speaker: Wallace S. Broecker
Wang Center Auditorium, 7:30 pm

Between 1990 and 2010, annual CO2 emissions rose from 20 to 30 gigatons. Considering the new discoveries of oil and gas, we are unlikely to run short of fossil fuels for many decades to come. To stop the rise we must cut annual emissions to 4 gigatons. Hence, we are gliding into a CO2 trap. So what might we do? To find out you will have to attend the lecture!  

 

 


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