General Public

Each year Stanford experts from a range of disciplines meet to discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity‘s needs for and use of food, energy, water, and the effect they have on climate and conflict.  These experts will illustrate and evaluate some of the ways in which decisions in one resource area can lead to trade-offs or co-benefits in others, and discuss opportunities to make decisions that can have positive benefits in one area while avoiding negative or unintended consequences in other areas.  This year, in celebration of our 5th anniversary of Connecting the Dots,

Join Office of Sustainability and more than 30 campus partners for the annual Celebrating Sustainability Activity Festival on April 22, from 12-2pm! The annual Earth Day celebration brings students, staff and faculty from across campus together to educate, inspire and empower the community to engage with sustainability at Stanford.

Nancy L. Sauer
Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University 

The Crimean crisis and developments in Ukraine has once again brought the shores of the Black Sea and debates about a resurgent Russia's flexing its muscle into the limelight. In this extremely volatile political context, this public lecture aims to focus on the changing dynamics of Turkish-Russian relations, as well as the energy politics of Eurasia. The current global political economy is characterized by the growing economic interaction of BRICS and near BRICS economies, with emerging powers increasingly exercising greater influence in their neighbouring regions.

Aaron Bernstein, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital, will examine the interwoven threads of energy, food, and health, and share his prescription for a small, hot, and hungry world.

Sold out. General admission seating is available on a first come, first basis only until we reach capacity.

The Daniel Pearl Foundation and Hillel at Stanford are proud to present the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Thomas L. Friedman.

Earth Matters is co-sponsored by Stanford’s School of Earth Sciences and Stanford Continuing Studies. This series addresses global problems, facts, and myths; explains potential solutions based on the latest research; and engages the local community in a lively discussion.

A Matter of Degrees

In light of today’s pressing environmental issues, the need to engage individuals and communities in positive environmental behaviors is more critical than ever. Yet questions persist around how best to motivate environmental behavior, both individually and collectively.

Panel:
Thomas Jaramillo, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Michael McGehee, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
David Lobell, Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science
Ram Rajagopal, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Speaker: Admiral Jim Ellis, Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution