When: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 4:00-5:00 PM Where: University of Rochester Medical Center, Helen Wood Hall Auditorium (1-304) Who: Nsedu Obot Witherspoon is the Executive Director of the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN), a national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect children from environmental health hazards. Ms. Witherspoon’s talk will describe CEHN’s efforts […]
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When: Thursday, February 19, 2015, 4:45-5:45 PM Where: University of Rochester, Simon Business School, Gleason 318/418 What it takes to make it in a burgeoning field. Rachel Madan ’99, Sustainability Officer, International Finance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
When: Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 7:00-8:30 PM Where: Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618 Community-Academic Partnerships to Address Industrial and Hydrofracking Emissions in Ohio. Dr. Erin Haynes is from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health. This talk will provide an overview of research conducted by […]
Films to inspire audience to create sustainable changes in their own lives and communities When and where? March 17 to March 21, 2015 Go to www.greentopia.org website for film titles, locations and prices
When: Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 7:00 PM Where: King’s Bend Park Lodge, 170 West Jefferson Road, Pittsford, NY Kate Winnebeck, Senior Environmental Health and Safety Specialist at the NYS Pollution Prevention Institute at RIT. Learn about how toxic chemicals in our cosmetics and cleaning products can affect our health and pollute our […]
When: Sunday, March 22, 2015, 2:00 to 3:30 PM Where: Pittsford Library, 24 State Street, Pittsford, NY 14534 Presentation followed by discussion “This Changes Everything” is a hard-hitting, no-nonsense look at what WE need to do NOW to prevent extreme climate disruption, and system collapse. Free and open to the public, all invited. Sponsored by […]
The Alliance for a Green Economy, a Syracuse-based group that has questioned the economic wisdom of a deal to prop up the Ginna nuclear power plant, is hosting public meetings Thursday, January 15, 2015 and Friday, January 16, 2015. The first will be at 7 pm Thursday at Frist Unitarian […]