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 We tend to take for granted the presence of Brown University right here in Providence, but all of us who live in the area have a great opportunity to get educated for free, when Brown attracts world-class speakers to the campus. A series of seminars are scheduled this fall on topics relating to "Energy and the Environment," and all of them are free and open to everyone.
The seminars are targeted to a general audience, not academic specialists, and should be excellent. For more information on these events please contact 401-863-3032 or click here. For a quick listing of the dates and topics, click "read more."
Thursday, October 11, 7 pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
167 Thayer Street, Providence, RI
"Fire and Water: Energy Efficient Technologies for Poor Communities in the Developing World," with Ashok Gadgil, Senior Staff Scientist and Group Leader in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Gadgil is group leader in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an inventor who also pursues technical, economic, and policy research on energy efficiency and its implementation. He has several patents and inventions to his credit, among them the "UV Waterworks," a technology to inexpensively disinfect drinking water in the developing countries, for which he received the Discover Award in 1996 for the most significant environmental invention of the year, as well as the Popular Science award for "Best of What is New - 1996"
Tuesday, October 30, 7 pm
MacMillan Hall Room 115
"Do Biofuels Make Sense? Their Impacts on Food, Energy and the Environment," with David Tilman, Regents' Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota.
Thursday, November 29, 7 pm
MacMillan Hall, Room 115
"The Emergence of a Bioeconomy," with Robert Brown, Director, Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies (CSET), Iowa State University.
via: Apeiron
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