Economic Transition in the Anthropocene: Ensuring a Just and Sustainable Future for Humanity

Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United States

Economic Transition in the Anthropocene: Ensuring a Just and Sustainable Future for Humanity This conference will explore today’s political-economy and its role in shaping the Anthropocene and our future. We’ll explore questions relating to power, such as who gets what and why, how power becomes concentrated, and how can we increase opportunity and [...]

Climate Change, Insect Biology, and the Challenges Ahead

Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United States

Climate Change, Insect Biology, and the Challenges Ahead Our climate is changing. C02 levels in the atmosphere are growing at unprecedented rates and temperatures are increasing so quickly that in less than one hundred years humans will be living on a planet that will be hotter than at any time in the evolution [...]

Solutions to Plastics

Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United States

Solutions to Plastics Solutions to Plastics addresses the compelling problem of global plastic pollution. Plastic products are very cheap to make from petroleum but extremely difficult to extract from waste streams. 90% of plastics discharged by waterways come from only ten rivers, two of them in Africa and the rest in Asia. Different [...]

Strengthening the Great Blue Wall: The West Coast Response to Offshore Drilling

Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United States

Strengthening the Great Blue Wall: The West Coast Response to Offshore Drilling Strengthening the Great Blue Wall: The West Coast Response to Offshore Drilling October 8, 2018, 9 am to 5:30 pm Location: Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Strengthening the Great Blue Wall is a collaboration across Washington, [...]

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