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Dr. Eban Goodstein, professor of economics and author of the
widely used textbook Environment
and Economics (now in its 5th edition) will be
speaking on “How
Today’s 20 Year Olds Will Become the Greatest Generation and Save the
Planet” on
Tuesday April 1, 7:30 pm, 109 S.
Kedzie on the campus of Michigan State University, Dr. Goodstein is also the founder and chief organizer of
“Focus the Nation”,
www.focusthenation.org
a national educational initiative on global warming solutions for
America, that involved more than 1,800 colleges, schools, churches and
communities this past January in local discussions around community responses
to climate change. He is author of several other books including The Tradeoff Myth: The Fact and
Fiction About Jobs and the Environment (1999) and Fighting for Love in the Century of
Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming
(2007) and many articles in both scholarly journals as well as the New York Times, Scientific American, Time and The
Economist. He received his PhD in economics from the His visit is part of MSU’s ongoing recognition of the
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. This speakers’ series
is generously sponsored by Residential Initiative for the Study of Environment,
Sustainable Michigan Endowed Project, Land Policy Institute, College of
Agriculture and Natural Resources, College of Social Science, Residential
College of Arts and Humanities, Center for Systems Integration and
Sustainability, and Community Agriculture Recreation and Resource Studies. The public is welcome and the event is free of charge. For
more information contact: Terry Link, Director Office of Campus Sustainability 412 Olds Hall 1-517-355-1751 (land-line) 1-517-432-1090 (fax) One planet, One family, One future |