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Door County Climate Change Forum
The third annual Door County Climate Change forum this year will be addressing opportunities for forging a healthier, more prosperous world. The event is intended to increase awareness of the impacts of climate change on Door County and to foster discussion among community leaders and interested members of the public on cooperative action to address…
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Weston Sustainability Roundtable Lecture: Nico Larco
While sustainable urban design has been developed and richly debated in the last few decades, it is still largely a dispersed subject covering a broad range of disciplines and scales. Much of the discussion regarding sustainable urban design have either focused on narrow aspects of it, or, when discussing the field at large, have failed…
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Global Health Challenges – Sri Lankan Experience:Dr. Vinya S. Ariyaratne
Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne is the General Secretary of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement which is Sri Lanka’s largest non-governmental grass roots development organization. Dr.Ariyaratne also serves at the Director General of the newly established Sarvodaya Institute of Higher Learning (SIHL) and as a board member of Sarvodaya Development Finance (SDF), the economic empowerment arm of the…
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Global health through the lens of a social scientist at UW
When the deadly Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2014, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency. Groups of global health experts marched to the frontline, a University of Wisconsin scientist was one of them.
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PHS Monday Seminar:The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice
In this presentation, Dr. Hutson will discuss his recently published book, The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice: Deepening Their Roots (Routledge, 2016), where he documents residents’ resistance to gentrification in four cities—Boston, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Malo André Hutson is an academic scholar and practitioner in the areas…