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Dec. 4: How China is Changing the WorldResearch
Dec. 6: Biofuels Opportunities, Challenges
Many Ways to View ‘Environment’
Ted C. Fishman, author of China, Inc., will address how China is changing, at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4, in Memorial Auditorium on the Stanford campus. First of four lectures; the next three take place at 7 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium on Jan. 23, Feb. 13 and March 6.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november29/china-112906.html
Academic, corporate and NGO experts from the U.S. and China will discuss opportunities and challenges surrounding biofuels on Wednesday, Dec. 6, from 4:15-5:15 p.m. in Room 550A, Building 550, on the Stanford campus. Panelists will be Kenneth Cassman, University of Nebraska; Jikun Huang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Mark Jacobson, Stanford; Jason Clay, World Wildlife Fund; and Ronald Christenson, Cargill, Inc. The panel is a follow-on activity to a workshop, “Environmental, Resource and Trade Implications of Biofuels,” hosted by Stanford.
During a Nov. 8-10 conference, “Imaging Environment: Maps, Models, Metaphors,” co-sponsored by the Woods Institute and the Stanford Humanities Center, scholars from disciplines as diverse as biology, history, architecture and geology shared their unique ways of representing the environment around us. Panelist Michael Pollan, right, a journalism professor at UC-Berkeley, spoke at the event (photo by L.A. Cicero).
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november15/image-111506.html
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Engineers Seek Sustainable Building Materials
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Working Solutions e-News provides highlights of activities and events from Stanford's university-wide Initiative on the Environment & Sustainability. It is distributed the first week of each month during the school year. Submissions are due on the 15th of each month. For more information, please see woods.stanford.edu, or contact us atenvironment@stanford.edu
A home builder can use a wide variety of materials to build a house that is durable, but virtually none of those choices will build a house that is sustainable. Researchers Sarah Billington, left, and Craig Criddle discuss their work in this article. The research is funded by the Woods Institute.