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Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America Eban Goodstein Organizer of Nationwide Climate Change Educational Initiative to Speak at UC Irvine The organizer of a major initiative that is engaging over a thousand educational institutions around the country on climate change will speak on Wednesday, March 21st, at the UCI department of Earth System Science. Eban Goodstein, an economics professor at Lewis & Clark College, will discuss “Seen Inconvenient Truth: Now What? Focus the Nation on Solutions to Global Warming” at 2 p.m. in Croul Hall 3101. Goodstein is organizing Focus the Nation: A Global Warming Educational Initiative, which is coordinating teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges and universities and high schools in the United States to participate in a nationwide, nonpartisan discussion on the theme of climate stabilization. The project will also include the participation of religious, civic and business organizations, and will culminate on Jan. 31, 2008, in a one-day symposium to be held simultaneously on campuses across the country. “Focus the Nation could be a catalyzing event on par with Earth Day 1970 that could help turn the national conversation about global warming from fatalism to constructive engagement,” said Goodstein. Goodstein’s current research focuses on the economics of global climate change. He is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, published by John Wiley and Sons in 2004 and now in its fourth edition, and \emph{The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment}, published by Island Press. He serves on the editorial board of Environment, Workplace and Employment, is on the steering committee of the Center for the Applied Study of Economics & the Environment, and is a member scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. For more information about Focus the Nation, visit www.focusthenation.org. Eban Goodstein is a Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland Oregon. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Professor Goodstein is the author of a college textbook, Economics and the Environment, (John Wiley and Sons: 2004) now in its fourth edition, as well as The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. (Island Press: 1999), and is finishing a new book called Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Change the Future. Goodstein’s current research interests focus on the economic impacts of global warming, especially in the Pacific Northwest. His work has been featured in, among other media, Scientific American, The New York Times, The Economist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and USA Today. He has two daughters and a dog named Betty. [ Back ] | ||