CU Sustainable Energy Forum: Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions at CU

Friday, September 29
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Old Main Auditorium
Free Pizza!! (most likely)

Continuing on with the success of last year’s Sustainable Energy Forum series, this event will focus on the state of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at CU and the surrounding area, look at what we are doing do to reduce GHG emissions currently, and examine what additional actions we could take in the future.

Audience participation is encouraged after presentations from a panel of experts working on this issue. The panel will feature:

Moe Tabrizi, Campus Conservation Office, Facilities Management
Dave Newport, Director of the CU Environmental Center
Carl Koval, Director of the CU Energy Initiative
Will Toor, County Commissioner and former Mayor of Boulder

Moderated by Lakshman Guruswamy, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES), University of Colorado School of Law.

This event is held in conjunction with the screening of “An Inconvenient Truth," Thursday, September 28 at 7 and 9:15 pm in the Muenzinger Auditorium. A panel discussion about the movie that will immediately follow the 7 pm showing of “An Inconvenient Truth” in Muenzinger Room E0046, sponsored by the CU Energy Initiative.

SPONSORS

Established in 1970, the CU Environmental Center educates, activates, and inspires the campus community to understand and engage in local and global environmental issues. For additional information on the CU Environmental Center, please visit www.colorado.edu/cuenvironmentalcenter.

An interdisciplinary center at the University of Colorado Law School, the mission of CEES is to facilitate progress toward a global sustainable energy future through the innovative use of laws, policies and technology and information solutions. To that end CEES serves as an enabling environment for teaching and research into the impact of laws and policies on the scientific, engineering, sociopolitical, and commercial dimensions of sustainable energy.