Awareness
To raise awareness, CSES periodically hosts events about current environmental issues. By working with other Rice Departments, Centers, and non-Rice organizations, CSES has expanded its network to better serve and reach the Houston community. Through this page we advertise our events and keep a record of past events. If you would like to be added to our events and news mailing list send us an email to cses@rice.edu
Unless otherwise announced, ALL OUR EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
HUICHOLES: THE LAST PEYOTE GUARDIANS
At the event, Director Hernán Vilchez, and the two traditional village shamans (main protagonists of the film) will be in person for a Q/A moderated by Dr Paul Liffman from El Colegio de Michoacán.
Wednesday November 5th 7pm; U.S. premiere at Rice Cinema!
(Argentina-Mexico, 2014, 110 min.)
The event is co-sponsored by Rice University Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, Rice Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences, RIce Left,Rice Anthropology Department The Américas Research Center, and T.E.J.A.S. (Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Service).
Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians is a story about the Wixárika People, one of the last living Pre- Hispanic cultures in Latin America, and their struggle to preserve Wirikuta, their most sacred territory and the land where the peyote grows, the traditional medicine that keeps alive the knowledge of this iconic people of Mexico.
The documentary speaks about an uneven and controversial fight, which stimulates the complex global debate between ancestral cultural values, the exploitation of nature and the inevitable development of the peoples.
FREE ADMISSION AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Donations Welcome – CDs and DVDs for sale at the event.
DIRECTIONS
Rice Cinema is located in the Rice Media Center which is across the street from the Rice Police and next to the baseball stadium. Entrance #8, University and Stockton Dr.
SOCIOHORTICULTURE
by Dr. Joe Novak
Wed. March 19; 12 Noon; Duncan Hall 3092 (map)
Dr. Joe Novak coined the term “sociohorticulture” to describe the role of gardens in improving quality of life. He examines the ways gardens affect children and heal adults as well as the connections between nature, contemplation and the creative process. Novak has retired from A&M and now plans to develop the Houston Horticulture Center to study the role of gardens in rejuvenation of neighborhoods and in improving quality of life. Co-sponsored by the Real Food Revolution Club. Lunch will be provided by CSES to those who RSVP to cses@rice.edu CSES only offers veggie lunches and water; please bring your own cup.
The Long Term History of Earth’s Climate and CO2
a talk by Dr. Mark Pagani, Director of Yale Climate & Energy Institute
February 14, 12:00pm, Duncan Hall 3092 (map)
Dr. Pagani applies the isotopic compositions and abundances of organic molecules (biomarkers), and records of stable isotope- and trace-element compositions of species-specific foraminifera to constrain the physical and environmental conditions of ancient oceans, terrestrial systems, and the atmosphere.
TOXIC TOUR:
Rice Environmental Club is holding its 3rd semi-annual Toxic Tour this Sunday February 9th. The Toxic Tour is a biking tour led by members of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS) to communities and neighborhoods in Houston that are negatively impacted by industry. This semester we will be taking a new route north of downtown around and near the 5th ward. We will be leaving Rice around 10am and will return by 4pm at the latest. Plenty of lunch and snacks will be provided! It’s a great event for anyone interested in the environment, social justice, or urban planning, or anyone just interested in seeing an area of Houston they might not have been to before. You don’t need to be a Rice student to attend- just someone who is interested! For more information check out the facebook event and if you would like to attend please fill out the form. If you have any questions about the event feel free to email afc3@rice.edu
More than Honey (movie)
Wednesday January 15, 2014. 6:30pm reception, 7:00pm screening. Rice Media Center (Rice University)
Come for the screening of “More than Honey”, a movie about the global decline of the bee population, the probable causes and consequences. A discussion panel will follow the screening with Eugene T. ash (TAMU beekeeper), Dean Cook (Houston beekeeper), and Walter Schumacher (Honey Bee Kind, Austin); moderated by Jay Crossley (Houston Tomorrow). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Environment and Society, the Swiss Consulate, the rice Environmental Club,Transition Houston and the Green Film Series.
Click on lecture title to learn more!
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Date |
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| March 19, 2014 | Lunchtime colloquium “Sociohorticulture” | Joe Novak, PhD. Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M |
| February 14, 2014 | Lunchtime colloquium “The long term history of Earth’s climate and CO2” | Mark Pagani, PhD. Director of Yale Climate and Energy Institute |
| January 15, 2014 | Screening and discussion panel “More than Honey” | Discussion panel: Eugene T. ash (TAMU beekeeper), Dean Cook (Houston beekeeper), and Walter Schumacher (Honey Bee Kind, Austin); moderated by Jay Crossley (Houston Tomorrow) |
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2014 |
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| November 20, 2012 | Lunchtime colloquium “Bayou Greenways update” | Jen Powis, Houston Parks Board, Advocacy Director |
| November 15, 2013 | Lunchtime colloquium “Trips for the Environment: experiences from two undergrads” | Caleb McBride, and Tierra Moore |
| October 25, 2013 | Lunchtime colloquium “Genetically Engineered foods” | Gregory Jaffe, Director of Biotechnology, Center for Science in the Public Interest |
| October 23, 2013 | Lunchtime colloquium “How IPCC assesses climate change?” | Dr. Dominique Raynaud |
| October 8, 2013 | Public talk with Rob Hopkins; part of “The Sustainable Development of Houston Districts: The Health of the City” | Rob Hopkins, founder of “Transition Network” |
| October 8, 2013 | Lunchtime colloquium “Transition movement with Rob Hopkins” | Rob Hopkins, founder of “Transition Network”, and Jason Roberts from “Better Block” |
| April 17, 2013 | Panel and lunch “Keep Texas Parks Open” | Bill White, former Houston Mayor; George Bristol, TX Coalition for Conservation; Ian Davis, Keep Texas Parks Open; Anne Olson, Buffalo Bayou Partnership |
| April 14-19, 2013 | Penrose/Chapman Conference talk: “Coral reef growth, back-stepping, and demise during last Deglaciation: Clues on how fast sea level has risen in the past, and could rise in the next centuries” see abstract HERE | Andre Droxler, CSES director and Earth Science Professor. |
| April 1, 2013 | Lunchtime colloquium “Trips for the Environment: experiences from two undergrads” | Marion Donald, Will Rice Junior. And Skye Kelty, McMurtry Junior |
| March 19, 2013 | Info session “The Woods Project” | Maira Dos Santos, Director of Operations and Brittany White, Director of Programs |
| February 13, 2013 | Screening “American Meat” and discussion panel | Discussion Panel: Geoffrey Smith (Farmer, The Barry Farm), David McDonald (Senior Business Director of housing and Dinning at Rice), Sena McCrory (President of the Real Food Revolution club), Claire Cummins (Bon Appetit) Graham Meriwether (film director). Elizabeth Long was the moderator |
| February 12, 2013 | Public lecture “The Gulf of Mexico: Exploring and Caring for the Ocean that Unites Three Countries” WATCH THE VIDEO HERE  |
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D. World renowned Oceanographer and Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society |
Events from 2005 to Fall 2012
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2005 |
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| Spring 2005 | Book presentation “Toxic Ecology: at the limit of the entrepreneurial city” | Lars Lerup (Rice University Professor) | |
| Spring 2005 | Colloquium on the life of Edward Abbey | Jim Cahalan (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, English Professor) | |
| Spring 2005 | Lecture on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | Terrell Dixon (University of Houston English Professor) | |
| Fall 2005 | Public lecture on the Environmental Kuznet’s Curve | Matthew Kahn (Environmental Economist and Associate Professor at Tufts University) | |
| Fall 2005 | Book presentation “The Long Emergency: surviving the converging catastrophes of the twenty-first century” | James H. Kunstler | |
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2006 |
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| Spring 2006 | Out of Gas: the end of the age of oil | Dr. David Goodstein (Professor of Physics, Cal Tech) | |
| Spring 2006 | The Past and Future of the San Antonio Water System | Dave Chardavoyne (President and CEO, SAWS) | |
| Fall 2006 | The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: a guide to the debate | Alex Dressler (Assistant Professor of Meteorology, TAMU) | |
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2007 |
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| Spring 2007 | Swimming in Circles: aquaculture and the end of wild oceans | Paul Molyneaux (freelance journalist) | |
| Spring 2007 | Seen “Inconvenient Truth”: now what? Focus the Nation on Solutions to Global Warming | Eban Goodstein (Professor of Economics, Lewis and Clark College) | |
| Summer-Spring 2007-2008 | Common Reading “Field Notes from a Catastrophe” by Elizabeth Kolbert | ||
| October 24th, 2007 | Free and subsidized tickets for a lecture on climate change were offered to Rice students, faculty and staff | James Hansen | |
| October 24th, 2007 | Talk on Sustainability at Rice | Richard Johnson | |
| November 29th, 2007 | Lunchtime colloquium | William Calvin (Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle) | |
| December 2007 | Dorm Energy Challenge | ||
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2008 |
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| January 31st, 2008 | CO2 Forum and sustainability fair | Multiple speakers and Rice organizations involved | |
| February 29th, 2008 | Lunchtime colloquium and talks | Johannes Lehmann (Associate Professor of Soil Fertility Management and Soil Biogeochemistry at Cornell University) | |
| March 17th, 2008 | BioTour | ||
| April 9th, 2008 | Colloquium on sea level rise and Seminar “Next Century Forecasted Sea Level Rise: What Does It Mean for Houston?” | Anny Cazenave (French scientist and member of the French Academy of Sciences); Philip Bedient and Birnur Buzcu-Guven (Rice University) and Alan Clark (H-GAC) | |
| April 24th, 2008 | Research project: “Fever Pitch or Chilly Climate?: Assessing Rice Student Attitudes toward Environmentalism” | CSES sponsored a lunchtime colloquium for the research group to present their findings | |
| May 2008 | Greene Prize | 23 participants (essays) | |
| 2007-2008 | CLEAN movies | Five environmentally related films were presented by a Rice member or an expert form the Houston community | |
| August 2008 | O-Week | CSES Coordinator at CSES stand | |
| October 24th, 2008 | Lunchtime colloquium | Dr. Adil Najam (director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and Professor at Boston University) | |
| Oct 27th – 30th 2008 | ThinkSwiss Climate Trail Exhibit | Exhibit at the Farnsworth Pavilion, open to the public | |
| October 30th, 2008 | Swiss Symposium on Global Climate Change | Urs Ziswiler (Ambassador of Switzerland in Washington, DC.), Neal Lane, André Droxler, and Marc Robert (Rice Professors) | |
| November 18th, 2008 | Colloquium “The sustainable campus: food, policies, and place” | Peggy Barlett (Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology; Faculty Liason to the Office of Sustainability Initiatives Emory University) | |
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2009 |
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| January 6th, 2009 | Town Hall Meeting “The Pickens Plan” | T. Boone Pickens (Founder, Chairman and CEO BP Capital, L.P.) | |
| February 2009 | A Major Affair | CSES Coordinator at CSES stand | |
| February 12th, 2009 | Lunchtime colloquium “Climate, life & the Amazon-The seriousness of the crisis” | Peter Bunyard (Senior Advisor of Living Planet Foundation) | |
| March 2-4th, 2009 | The DeLange Conference “Transforming the metropolis: creating sustainable and humane cities” | Various Speakers | |
| March 24th, 2009 | Lunchtime Colloquium on Environmental Justice | Robert Bullard (Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University) | |
| March 24th, 2009 | Lecture Growing smarter: Achieving Environmental Justice and Livable communities | Robert Bullard (Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University) | |
| April 7th, 2009 | Electric Car Award Ceremony | Special guests: Richard Johnson (Rice University), Ken See (Miles Electric Vehicles), Eugene Radulescu (Director of Administrative Services), Josh Rutenberg (winner of scholarship and car) | |
| July 18th, 2009 | O-Week | CSES Coordinator at CSES stand | |
| November 7th, 2009 | Green Team America | Dr. Andre Droxler (Rice University); Dr. Steven Pei (University of Houston), ; Carolyn Klein (GTA Natl Faculty Advisor), Janice and Gary Dunham (GTA co-founders) AJ Sheppard, Fei Ji, and Darrell Grant (ACE) | |
| November 11th, 2009 | Public Seminar “Climate Change in the Next Century,effects on the Maldives and the Belizeand Australian Great Barrier Reefs” | Claudio Leoncavallo (Swiss Consul General) and André W. Droxler (Rice University) | |
| November 20th, 2009 | Lunchtime colloquium “The transition movement: building community resilience” | Zaida Amaral (Transition Movement) | |
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2010 |
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| January 22nd, 2010 | Lunchtime colloquium “Impressions from Copenhagen” | Dr. Pedro Alvarez, Chair of the Department of Civil an Environmental Engineering, and students that accompanied him to Copenhagen. | |
| January 27th, 2010 | Public debate “The great climate change debate: global climate models and the evidence”WATCH THE VIDEO HERE |
Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT and member of the National Academy of Sciences; and Dr. Gerald North, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography at Texas A&M | |
| March 4th, 2010 | Presentations and discussion panel “The Challenges of Communicating Climate Change” | Tim Reeder, Regional Climate Change Program Manager, U.K. Environment AgencyMark Maslin, Ph.D., Director of the Environment Institute and Head of the Department of Geography, University College LondonDavid Vaughan, Ph.D., Science Leader, British Antartic SurveyAndre Droxler, Ph.D. (moderator) Professor, Department of Earth Science and Director of CSES, Rice UniversityIntroductions by Neal Lane, Ph.D. Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Malcolm Gillis University Professor; and May Akrawi, Ph.D., Consul for Science and Innovation, British Consulate General-Houston | |
| March 31st, 2010 | Public Lecture “Bringing Nature Home” | Dr. Douglas Tallamy, Chair of the University of Delaware’s Entomology and Wildlife Ecology Department. | |
| April 5-9th, 2010 | Exhibit on Sustainable Transportation | Swiss Embassy. The Science Attache, Christoph Ebell, gave a talk on Thursday, April 8th related to the exhibit | |
| April 8th, 2010 | Public lecture ‘On track to the Future: sustainable transportation”WATCH THE VIDEO HERE |
Christoph Ebell, Counselor for Science and Technology, Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C. | |
| April 9th, 2010 | Lunchtime colloquium “Greenland Ice Sheet and dynamic response to global warming” | Dr. Konrad Steffen, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder | |
| Friday, April 9th, 2010 | Public Lecture “Greenland Ice Sheet and dynamic response to global warming”WATCH THE VIDEO HERE |
Dr. Konrad Steffen, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder | |
| Friday, August 27th, 2010 | Lunchtime colloquium “Enivironmental Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” | Dr. John Kessler, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M | |
| Friday, October 8th, 2010 | Lunchtime colloquium “Gender and forest conservation” | Bina Agarwal, Director and Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. | |
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2011 |
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| January 12th, 2011 | Lunchtime colloquium “All you ever wanted to know about biochar (and other fire-derived soil organic matter) but were afraid to ask” | Dr. Michael Schmidt, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, Zurich University | |
| January 21st, 2011 | Lunchtime colloquium “Rigs-to-Reef: Decommissioning of Shell’s Eugene Island 331A Platform” | Randall Abadie, Offshore Structures Technical Authority, Marine Technical Authority, and Diving Technical Authority for Shell Upstream Americas | |
| January 27th, 2011 | Panel “The City and the Environment in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Perspective” | Dr. Carrie Masiello (Earth Science Dept., Rice University); Dr. Javier Auyero (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology, University of Texas, Austin); Dr. María Marta Fidalgo (Chemical Engineering Dept., Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA), Argentina); Dr. Gisela Heffes (Hispanic Studies Dept., Rice University) | |
| March 8th, 2011 | Public talk “The Long thaw: how humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth’s climate” | David Archer, University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences | |
| April 13th, 2011 | ENST 179 class final presentations “The Ocean Commons” | Ryan George, Rob Hoffman, Jo Ohm, Michelle Kerkstra, Emily Liljestrand, Maria Meza-Lopez, Amanda Shelton; Stuart Luyckx, Erin Mattson, and Arya Mokhatarzadeh. | |
| September 30th, 2011 | Lunchtime colloquium “Lionfish invasion” | Dr. Michelle Johnston, Research Ecologist at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary | |
| October 26th, 2011 | Food Day 2011, Downtown Houston | Farmer’s Market at Downtown | |
| November 30th, 2011 | Lunch with Swiss Consul and Swiss-American Artist John Berhard | Attended Claudio Leoncavallo and wife (Swiss Consul General in Atlanta) Andre Droxler (Earth Science professor and CSES Director) Christophe Ebell (Swiss Science Attaché in Washington DC); Margrit Young (Honorary Swiss Consul in Houston); Johny Bernhard (Swiss-American Artist); Ann Stool Kasman (Executive Director, Museum of Printing History) Amanda Stevenson (curator of the Museum of Printing History); Sibylle Hagmann (Art Associate Professor at UH); Scott Orgish (Swiss Trade Commissioner); and Andrea Galindo (CSES coordinator) | |
| November 30th, 2011 | Art exhibit Blue Marble and presentation from ESCI 107 class (taught by Andre Droxler) | Johnny Bernhard, Claudio Leoncavallo (Swiss Consul General in Atlanta) Andre Droxler (Earth Science professor and CSES Director) and students from the ESCI 107 class | |
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2012 |
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| February 3, 2012 | Lunchtime colloquium “Society’s Growing Vulnerability to Natural Hazards and Implications for Weather and Climate Research” | Julia Slingo, Ph.D., Met Office Chief Scientist | |
| March 9, 2012 | Lunchtime colloquium“Impressions from Antarctica” | Alex Kirshner and Lorenza Haddad | |
| April 11, 2012 | Public talk “The art of identification” at the United Way of Houston | David Allen Sibley. American ornithologist. He is the author and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds, considered by many to be the most comprehensive guide for North American field identification. | |
| April 18, 2012 | Screening of “Interesting times” at EREAD | Stephen Klineberg. Director of the Kinder Institute | |
| April 20, 2012 | Lunchtime colloquium “The Role of Women in Science” | Dr. Julienne Stroeve. Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CO | |
| April 20, 2012 | Public talk “The Arctic on the Fast Pace of Change” | Dr. Julienne Stroeve. Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center, CO | |
| April 21, 2012 | Performance “Bella Gaia” | Kenji Williams presented “Bella Gaia” a film/dance/music performance to celebrate Earth Day | |
| April 22, 2012 | Environmental groups End of the year presentations | Environmental Club, RESET, Eco-Reps, SA Environmental Chapter | |
| April 22, 2012 | Beach Clean up (with the Environmental Club) | Environmental Club members | |
| April 25, 2012 | Screening of “Switch” | Discussion Panel: Dr. Daniel Cohan (Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University), James Coan(Energy Forum Research Associate , Baker Institute, Rice University) and Ralph Parrott (Alternative Power Solutions). Mark Juedeman was the moderator | |
| August 23-24, 2012 | Conference “Texas Coral Reefs: Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow” | Jesse Cancelmo, photographer, Author and Photojournalist; and Greg Stunz, Ph.D. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. | |
| September 28, 2012 | Lunchtime screening “Switch” and presentation by film director | Dr. Scott W. Tinker, film director | |
| October 26, 2012 | Lunchtime colloquium “Bayou Greenways Initiative” | Jen Powis, Houston Parks Board, Advocacy Director | |
| November 28, 2012 | Panel “The true cost of Environmental Injustice” | Senator Rodney Ellis, Matthew Tejada of Air Alliance Houston, Bryan Parras of T.E.J.A.S., and Dr. Jay Olaguer of the Houston Advanced Research Center. Moderated by Melissa del Bosque from The Texas | |
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February 14, 2014 |
Lunchtime colloquium “The long term history of Earth’s climate and CO2” |
Mark Pagani, PhD. Director of Yale Climate and Energy Institute |
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January 15, 2014 |
Screening and discussion panel “More than Honey” |
Discussion panel: Eugene T. ash (TAMU beekeeper), Dean Cook (Houston beekeeper), and Walter Schumacher (Honey Bee Kind, Austin); moderated by Jay Crossley (Houston Tomorrow) |
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2014 |
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November 20, 2012 |
Lunchtime colloquium “Bayou Greenways update” |
Jen Powis, Houston Parks Board, Advocacy Director |
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November 15, 2013 |
Lunchtime colloquium: Trips for the Environment: experiences from two undergrads |
Caleb McBride, and Tierra Moore |
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October 25, 2013 |
Lunchtime colloquium “Genetically Engineered foods” |
Gregory Jaffe, Director of Biotechnology, Center for Science in the Public Interest |
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October 23, 2013 |
Lunchtime colloquium “How IPCC assesses climate change?” |
Dr. Dominique Raynaud |
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October 8, 2013 |
Public talk with Rob Hopkins; part of “The Sustainable Development of Houston Districts: The Health of the City” |
Rob Hopkins, founder of “Transition Network” |
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October 8, 2013 |
Lunchtime colloquium “Transition movement with Rob Hopkins” |
Rob Hopkins, founder of “Transition Network”, and Jason Roberts from “Better Block” |
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April 17, 2013 |
Panel and lunch “Keep Texas Parks Open” |
Bill White, former Houston Mayor; George Bristol, TX Coalition for Conservation; Ian Davis, Keep Texas Parks Open; Anne Olson, Buffalo Bayou Partnership |
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April 14-19, 2013 |
Penrose/Chapman Conference talk: “Coral reef growth, back-stepping, and demise during last Deglaciation: Clues on how fast sea level has risen in the past, and could rise in the next centuries” see abstract HERE |
Andre Droxler, CSES director and Earth Science Professor. |
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April 1, 2013 |
Lunchtime colloquium “Trips for the Environment: experiences from two undergrads” |
Marion Donald, Will Rice Junior. And Skye Kelty, McMurtry Junior |
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March 19, 2013 |
Info session “The Woods Project” |
Maira Dos Santos, Director of Operations and Brittany White, Director of Programs |
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February 13, 2013 |
Screening “American Meat” and discussion panel |
Discussion Panel: Geoffrey Smith (Farmer, The Barry Farm), David McDonald (Senior Business Director of housing and Dinning at Rice), Sena McCrory (President of the Real Food Revolution club), Claire Cummins (Bon Appetit) Graham Meriwether (film director). Elizabeth Long was the moderator |
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February 12, 2013 |
Public lecture “The Gulf of Mexico: Exploring and Caring for the Ocean that Unites Three Countries” WATCH THE VIDEO HERE |
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D. World renowned Oceanographer and Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society |
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