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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS
Christina Gerhardt – “Sea Change” 6/28 @6pm
Christina Gerhardt will discuss her book Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. This event is in-person, located at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. Wednesday, June 28, 6-7pm Register here About the book: Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing....
Unpacking ESG: Is Corporate ESG “Woke” Capitalism? 6/21 @12pm
Unpacking ESG: Is Corporate ESG "Woke" Capitalism? Hosted by Stigler Center, Booth School of Business & Financial Times June 21, Virtual 12–1:15 p.m. CDT Register here As ESG has grown in popularity, so has the political backlash. In statehouses across America,...
Webinar: Transforming Education for Sustainable Development, 6/12 @1pm
Transforming Education for Sustainable Development: Engaging Youth in Universities and Beyond June 12, 1:00 - 2:00 PM CT, OnlineLed by Won Jung Byun, UNESCO, this webinar will discuss how transformative ESD approaches are being implemented in North America, what best...
U.N. COP28 UChicago Delegation Information Session 5/22 @ 5pm
The Energy Policy Institute at UChicago and Career Advancement have teamed up to lead the University's delegation to COP28. What is COP? The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP28,...
Scarcity: a history from the origins of capitalism to the climate crisis, 5/18 @ 5pm
"Our book offers a new interpretation of the idea of scarcity in economic thought. We explain how modern economics arrived at its influential axiom of scarcity - infinite wants in a finite world - and also why this peculiar definition has no claim to universal...
EPIC: How India Became the Most Important Country in the Climate Fight, 5/17 @ 5:30pm
May 17, 2023, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm CDT With a rapidly growing population and an economy growing even faster, India’s energy demand is set to double by 2030. If this increased demand is met with coal or other fossil fuels, it could make reaching global climate targets all...
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