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Earth Day 2020 EI LIVE
Wednesday, Apr 22, 2020
Date: April 22, 2020
Time: 10:00AM – 11:30AM EST
At this truly amazing juncture in human history, we face an immediate global public health emergency as well as a slower-moving, but monumental, global climate crisis. Special Earth Institute LIVE conversation with Columbia University experts, alumni and students will reflect on what environmental science and activism accomplished since the first Earth Day. Then we will examine today’s challenges and opportunities. Finally we'll chart pathways to a more sustainable, equitable, resilient future for humanity through the next 50 years and beyond.
Viewers from around the world and on platforms from Facebook to Twitter can weigh in and watch this intergenerational conversation with:
Host: Alex Halliday, Director, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Moderator: Andrew Revkin, JS ‘82, veteran environmental journalist; Founding Director, Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability
Leading the Way on Earth and Climate Research
Maureen Raymo, GSAS ‘89; Bruce C. Heezen/Lamont Research Professor; Director — Core Repository, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Birth of a Movement: Earth Day 1970
Michael Gerrard, CC ‘72; Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Law; Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, School of Law
Fred Kent, CC ‘67; Founder, Project for Public Spaces
The Next 50 Years: Building a Sustainable Planet into the Future
Maria Chart, SEAS ’21; Co-chair, Columbia Eco-reps Living Green Committee
Alex Halliday, Director, the Earth Institute, Columbia University
Narayan Subramanian, SEAS ‘13, Law ‘20; Fellow, Data for Progress and SAIS-ISEP