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SUMMARY:Building Green Communities Conference and Trade Expo
DESCRIPTION:The theme of the sixth annual conference, which coincides with
  the 40th anniversary of the best-seller Limits to Growth, is “Adaptati
 on: Creating a Resilient Future.” \n\nThe HSU symposium in the Kate Buc
 hanan Room will be anchored by top specialists in the field who will exam
 ine the effects of climate change on energy and transportation systems, f
 ood production, economics and natural resources. \n\nThe conference combi
 nes the symposium on campus Thursday and Friday, July 19-20, and an Expo/
 Trade Show and tours from the Arcata Community Center on Saturday, July 2
 1. Attendance at the expo is free and open to the general public.\n \nNat
 ionally recognized authors and experts at the Humboldt State symposium wi
 ll probe the development of strategies and technologies that can foster a
 daptation to a changing climate. Headline speakers are:\n    \n·        
 Bill McKibben, famed educator, environmentalist and author of The End of 
 Nature, The Global Warming Reader and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communi
 ties and the Durable Future and founder of 350.org, an advocacy organizat
 ion for grassroots global climate solutions\n\n·        Jorgen Randers, 
 one of the original authors of The Limits to Growth, now a professor of c
 limate strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School and writer of a new b
 ook, 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next 40 Years\n\n·        Richard H
 einberg, Post-Carbon Institute senior fellow and author of more than 10 b
 ooks on energy policy\n\n·        James Howard Kunstler, author of The L
 ong Emergency and Too Much Magic and a specialist in suburban sprawl and 
 diminishing global oil supplies\n\n·        Rob Hopkins, co-founder of t
 he Transition Town movement and of the Transition Network, author of The 
 Transition Handbook— From Oil Dependence to Local Resilience and The Tr
 ansition Companion\n\nHumboldt speakers will include Lonny Grafman, HSU e
 nvironmental engineering professor and founder of Appropedia, an online s
 ource of collaborative solutions in sustainability, appropriate technolog
 y and poverty reduction; Michael Furniss of the Redwood Science Lab, who 
 will discuss the impact of climate change on redwood forests; and Aldaron
  Laird of Trinity Consulting, author of the Humboldt Bay Shoreline Invent
 ory and Inundation Assessment.
LOCATION:Kate Buchanan Room
URL:http://humboldt.edu/events/2012/07/19/1342/
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