Date/Time
Date(s) - March 26, 2019
12:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Location
Grand Ballroom, Lory Student Center

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Join Colorado State University’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability Tuesday, March 26 from 12-6:30pm in the Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom C as we celebrate 10 years of sustainability research, education, and engagement. Enjoy an afternoon with plenary and keynote speakers, panel discussions, creative performance, and reception with displays. Free and open to the public. Registration required.

 

AGENDA:

12:00-1:00pm – PANEL DISCUSSION

The Future of Sustainability: Perspectives from Early Career Scientists

Sustainability Leadership Fellows, School of Global Environmental Sustainability

 

1:00-2:00pm – PLENARY

Sustainability Transitions: Linking Science with Action at Scales that Matter

Pamela A. Matson, Goldman Professor, Department of Earth System Science and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

 

2:00-3:00pm – PANEL DISCUSSION

The Green New Deal: Bold Path Forward or Idealistic Pipedream?

Ed Barbier, Professor, Department of Economics; Senior Scholar, School of Global Environmental Sustainability

Doug Cloud, Assistant Professor, Department of English; Affiliate Faculty, School of Global Environmental Sustainability

Maggie Fox, School of Global Environmental Sustainability External Advisory Board member

 

3:00-3:10pm – PERFORMANCE

Thinning of Species – A performance

Ed Hall, Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, and other members of “Crisis in Creativity,” a School of Global Environmental Sustainability Global Challenges Research Team

 

3:30–4:30pm – KEYNOTE  

Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss: Implications for Global Efforts to Achieve Sustainability

Sir Robert Watson, Chair, Intergovernmental Platform of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services

 

4:30-5:30pm – PANEL DISCUSSION

Sustainability Leadership: Lessons from Academia, Business, Government, and Science

Tony Frank, President, Colorado State University

Kim Jordan, Former CEO, New Belgium Brewing; Member; CSU Board of Governors; former member, School of Global Environmental Sustainability External Advisory Board

Tom Lovejoy, Professor, George Mason University; School of Global Environmental Sustainability External Advisory Board member

Bill Ritter, Jr., Former Governor of Colorado; Director, CSU Center for a New Energy Economy; Senior Scholar and member, School of Global Environmental Sustainability External Advisory Board

Diana Wall, Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability; CSU University Distinguished Professor

 

5:30-6:30pm – RECEPTION and DISPLAYS

Light refreshments and cash bar