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2010-2011

April 5, 2011
Hurrying History: Can the World Adopt a Fast Path to Low-Carbon Energy?
Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development; Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
March 9, 2011
Responsible Stewardship of U.S. Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Development
Michael R. Bromwich, Director, U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement
March 2, 2011
Energy for the War Fighter
Sharon Burke, Director of Operation Energy Plans and Programs, U.S. Department of Defense
February 22, 2011
In Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling in the U.S.
Cherry A. Murray, Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences andMember, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
February 3, 2011
Solar's Fit in Energy's Future
Bruce Sohn, President, First Solar
October 25, 2010
The Innovation Equation at Tata
Sunil Sinha, CEO, Tata Quality Management Services, Tata Group

 

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2009-2010

April 27, 2010
The Future of Energy: Five Things We're Excited About
Marvin Odum, President, Shell Oil Company
April 13, 2010
Building a Green Energy Economy through Accelerated Innovation
Kristina Johnson, Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
April 2, 2010
Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air
David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK
February 24, 2010
Natural Gas: Fueling America's Clean Energy Future
Aubrey McClendon, CEO, Chesapeake Energy
November 17, 2009
America’s Energy Future: Challenges and Opportunities
Maxine Savitz, Vice President, National Academy of Engineering; retired general manager, Technology Partnerships, Honeywell, Inc.
October 13, 2009
Promise and Challenges of Renewable Energy
Michael Skelly, CEO, Clean Line Energy Partners; former head of development, Horizon Wind Energy
September 22, 2009
Climate Engineering: A Necessary Tool for Managing Climate Risks
David Keith, Director, Energy and Environmental Systems Group, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy, University of Calgary


2008 - 2009


February 3, 2009
The Vital Role of Clean Coal in Securing our Energy Future
Steven Leer, CEO, Arch Coal, Inc.

February 25, 2009
New Forms of Wind Power and the Incentive for Out of the Box Thinking on Energy
Saul Griffith, President and Chief Scientist, Makani Power

April 15, 2009
A View of Nuclear Power in the World’s Energy Future
Richard Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus

December 3, 2008
Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation
Amory B. Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman & Chief Scientist, the Rocky Mountain Institute
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November 19, 2008
Energy, Security, and the Long War of the 21st Century
R. James Woolsey, venture partner, VantagePoint

October 6, 2008
In Pursuit of a Sustainable Energy Future
John Rowe, Chairman, President & CEO, Exelon Corp

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2007 - 2008


May 5, 2008
Sustainable Mobility: An Automaker Perspective on Transportation Energy & Climate Policy
Susan Cischke, Senior Vice President, Ford Motor Company

April 21, 2008
Reclaiming U.S. Leadership on Global Warming
Rep. Edward J. Markey

March 12, 2008
Watch in RealPlayer
Anne Lauvergeon, CEO, Areva

September 25, 2007
Geothermal Energy: Harnessing the Fire Inside
His Excellency Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of the Republic of Iceland


2006 - 2007


View presentations from 2006-07 Future of Energy series


2005 - 2006


View presentations from 2005-06 Future of Energy series

 

 

2010-2011

April 20, 2011
Fungal Diversity, Global Change, and Ecosystems
Kathleen Treseder, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
March 24, 2011
Maintaining and Restoring Biodiversity in a Human-Dominated World
John Chase, Professor of Biology and Director, Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis
February 16, 2011
Forests in a Changing Climate
Paul Moorcroft, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
November 10, 2010
The Ecology of Fear and the Ecosystem: How Predation Risk Drives Ecosystem Nutrient Dynamics
Oswald J. Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, Yale University
October 18, 2010
Biological Networks and the Scaling of Plant Form, Function, Diversity, and Ecology
Brian Enquist, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona & The Santa Fe Institute
September 30, 2010
How to Conserve a Large Tropical Wildland Through Biodiversity Development: Costa Rican Example
Daniel H. Janzen, Thomas and Louise E. DiMaura Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Pennsylvania

 

Biodiversity, Ecology & Global Change

2009-2010

April 22, 2010
Food Webs in River Networks: Algal Mediated Linkages of Rivers to Watershed and Nearshore Marine Ecosystems
Mary Power, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley
April 12, 2010
Population Dynamics in Epidemic Malaria: Climate Forcing and Parasite Evolution
Mercedes Pascual, Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
February 17, 2010
Acute Infectious Diseases in Space and Time
Bryan Grenfell, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
February 4, 2010
Bioenergy, Biodiversity, Food and Global Change Mitigation: Can we have it all?
Stephen Long, Professor of Crop Sciences, Robert Emerson Professor, and Resident Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


2008 - 09


April 22, 2009
Assembling and restoring ecosystems in a rapidly changing world
Aaron Ellison, Harvard Forest

April 13, 2009
 A Case Study of Biological Invasion: a Global Threat to Biodiversity
Daniel Simberloff, Institute for Biological Invasions, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

April 3, 2009
 Sustainability in a Changing World: Concepts and Policy Strategies to Address Climate Change in Alaska
Terry Chapin, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

October 23, 2008
 The Impacts of Agriculture on Biodiversity: Lessons and Lies from Kenya and Borneo
David Wilcove, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University


2007 - 08


April 16, 2008
Modeling the Global Biosphere
Stephen Pacala, Petrie Professor of Biology; Director, Princeton Environmental Institute

March 11, 2008
Biodiversity Loss and the Rise of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Richard Ostfeld, Senior Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies

February 13, 2008
Seas the Day: Science Informing Today's Choices for Tomorrow's Ocean
Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology; Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University

December 5, 2007
Biodiversity and Global Change: Are We Yet a Predictive Science?
Peter Reich, F.B. Hubacheck Senior Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology, University of Minnesota

October 24, 2007
The Paradox of Priestly's Bell Jar
Shahid Naeem, Professor of Ecology, Columbia University

April 23, 2007
The Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity: Theory and Experimental Tests
David Tilman, Regents' Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota; Director of Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve


 

Green Conversations

2009-2010

April 6, 2011
What Americans and Massachusetts Residents Think About Climate Change – Attitude Formation and Change in Response to a Raging Scientific Controversy
Jon A. Krosnick, Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences; Professor of Communication, Political Science and Pyschology, Stanford University
February 9, 2011
World on the Edge
Lester Brown, Founder and President, The Earth Policy Institute
November 16, 2010
Why Developing Countries Urgently Need a Global Climate Deal... and why they shouldn't wait for one
Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank
November 2, 2009
Climate Change: Getting from Science to Law
Peter Lehner, Executive Director, Natural Resources Defense Council. This video is the first of two parts.

2008 - 09


April 29, 2009
 Heat Stroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
Anthony Barnosky, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California-Berkeley

April 9, 2009
The MPG Illusion
Richard Larrick, Associate Professor of Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

April 7, 2009
Southern New England's Future Thirst: An Approach to Sustainability
Tom Baron, Former Director of Operations, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Water System

March 18, 2009
The Population Bomb: Where We Stand Now
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University

November 3, 2008
Strategic Intelligence in an Age of Nonlinear Risks and Opportunities: The Challenge of Energy and Environmental Security
Carol Dumaine, Deputy Director for Energy and Environmental Security, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, U.S. Department of Energy
The presenter has requested to make available a corrected version of the slideshow in this presentation

October 16, 2008
The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
Max Page, Author, The City’s End

September 22, 2008
Climate Change: the Human Dimension
President Anote Tong, President of Kiribati

 

2007 - 08


March 6, 2008
Green Conversations with GridPoint Smart Technologies
Adam Dixon, Steven Hauser, Peter Corsell

February 22, 2008
Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
Lester Brown


Support for the Future of Energy; Biodiversity, Ecology, & Global Change; and the Green Conversations Speaker Series is generously provided by Bank of America.

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