Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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 StatesEconomic 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…
Climate Change, Insect Biology, and the Challenges Ahead
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United StatesClimate 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 of the…
Solutions to Plastics
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United StatesSolutions 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 types of…
Strengthening the Great Blue Wall: The West Coast Response to Offshore Drilling
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , United StatesStrengthening 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…