Environmental Lecture to Honor Bill Seeley
NORTH ADAMS – The Berkshire Environmental Resource Center at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will present the final installment of its series of 14 Green Living seminars on Thursday, April 24, at 7 p.m. with "Moving Toward a Sustainable Future” in Murdock Hall's Room 218.The series, "Achieving Energy Sustainability for the 21st Century: Choices and Challenges," is free and open to the public.
This last lecture coincides with MCLA's annual Professor Lawrence H. Vadnais Environmental Issues Lecture, which this year will be given in honor of the late William "Bill" Seeley, a physics professor who died in 2007. Immediately following the lecture, the college community will pay tribute to Seeley, whose 41-year career at MCLA began in 1966.
William Moomaw is the featured speaker. He is a professor of International Environmental Policy at Tufts University and was the convening lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001 and 2003.
He is the senior director of Tufts Institute of the Environment and co-director of the Public Disputes Program and Program on Negotiations. He also is on the board of directors of the Consensus Building Institute and a member of the Science Advisory Committee and Earthwatch. Moomaw holds a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a doctorate in physical chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Green Living series aims to inform students and the community about strategies for meeting our growing demand for energy and to encourage debate around several energy options, including those involving water, wind, hydrogen and nuclear power.
For more information, go to www.mcla.edu or contact Elena Traister at 413-662-5303.
