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At this truly amazing juncture in human history, we face an immediate global public health emergency as well as a slower, but monumental, global climate crisis.
Our special Earth Institute Live conversation with Columbia University experts, alumni, and students reflects on what environmental science and activism accomplished since the first Earth day. It also examines today’s challenges and opportunities and charts pathways to a more sustainable, equitable, resilient future for humanity through the next 50 years and beyond.
Host: Alex Halliday, Director, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Moderator: Andrew Revkin, JS ‘82, veteran environmental journalist; Founding Director, Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability
Leading the Way on Earth and Climate Research
Maureen Raymo, GSAS ‘89; Bruce C. Heezen/Lamont Research Professor; Director – Core Repository, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Birth of a Movement: Earth Day 1970
Michael Gerrard, CC ‘72; Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Law; Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, School of Law
Fred Kent, CC ‘67; Co-Founder, Placemaking Fund, PlacemakingX, and the Social Life Project
The Next 50 Years: Building a Sustainable Planet into the Future
Maria Chart, SEAS ’21; Co-chair, Columbia Eco-reps Living Green Committee
Alex Halliday, Director, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Narayan Subramanian, SEAS ‘13, Law ‘20; Fellow, Data for Progress and SAIS-ISEP
The Earth Institute at Columbia University is the world leader in interdisciplinary climate and sustainability research, policy and teaching. Under the directorship of pioneering geochemist Alex Halliday, PhD, the Earth Institute brings together a community of earth and environmental scientists, economists, lawyers, public health specialists, and business and policy experts to seek solutions to the planet’s most pressing challenges.
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