October 30, 2013
What is your dinner doing to the environment?
By: Bijal Trivedi
From: New Scientist
October 30, 2013
What is your dinner doing to the environment?
By: Bijal Trivedi
From: New Scientist
This talk will cut through the heated rhetoric and discourse and provide the naked truth about these new agricultural products and their impact on our food and the environment. It will summarize the benefits and risks of engineered crops during their first decade and give insights into the challenges and issues that face this technology in the coming years. The talk will provide a unique consumer perspective that will make sense of this controversial topic as well as inform the audience about what role the federal government in Washington should play regarding those products.
Come join us for lunch and conversation!
RSVP by email to cses(at)rice.edu
Dominique Raynaud (French National Center for Scientific Research, and Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble) is one of the most internationally renowned French scientists for his research on Antarctic ice cores to reconstruct atmospheric and to understand the link between greenhouse gases and climate. Dr. Raynaud has received many distinctions, including sharing with the IPCC team the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Besides his numerous publications, he is the co-author of the book “The White Planet”.
Come join us for lunch and conversation!
RSVP by email to cses(at)rice.edu