The Program on the Global Environment

Upcoming Events

• November 4, 2009

  Workshop on the Global Environment

  Poetry cannot save the earth: the problems and promises of Kenneth White's 'geopoetics'

  Jon Geltner, Graduate Student, Department of English

• November 5-6, 2009

  Environmental Policy, Social Movements, and Science for the Brazilian Amazon

  A landmark conference will assess the last twenty years of social, environmental, and developmental processes in the Amazon and explore prospects for the future.

• November 18, 2009

  Workshop on the Global Environment

  Combining Economics and Ecology to Address Invasive Species

  Reuben Keller, Henry Chandler Cowles Lecturer in Environmental Studies

• December 2, 2009

  Workshop on the Global Environment

  Indoor air pollution from burning biomass: Implications for Maternal and Child Health in the Developing World

  Sola Olopade, Professor of Family Medicine and Medicine Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Chicago; Clinical Director, Global Health Initiative