Interested in environmental advocacy? Committed to combatting climate change?

Consider attending this public program at 4:30 pm in Rocky 3 on Thursday Feb. 7:
"System Change Not Climate Change: Manifesto for a New Economy"

Join us for a PoliTALK dinner discussion
with Vermont Law School professor Gus Speth

6 pm Thursday in Morrison Commons

Please RSVP by noon Wednesay Feb. 6 via the Rocky Eventbrite website: http://bit.ly/11MZqDH


According to Yale Environment 360, "James Gustave Speth<http://e360.yale.edu/author/James_Speth/21/> is a professor at Vermont Law School and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization. A former dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, he also co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, was founder and president of the World Resources Institute, and served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. He is the author of six books, including the award-winning The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment."

If you're anxious to learn more, here are some of his articles you can take a look at:
Off the Pedestal: Creating a New Vision of Economic Growth<http://e360.yale.edu/feature/off_the_pedestal_creating_a_new_vision_of_economic_growth/2409/>
A New American Environmentalism and the New Economy<http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/publications/lectures/speth/gus/a-new-american-environmentalism>

Environmental Failure: A Case for a New Green Politics<http://e360.yale.edu/feature/environmental_failure__a_case_for_a_new_green_politics/2075/>