University of New England

Environmental journalist Mark Hertsgaard to speak on global warming April 20th
 
World-renowned environmental journalist Mark Hertsgaard will discuss ways we can survive global warming in a lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, 2006 at the University of New England in the Simard-Pettapiece-Wescott Rooms at the Campus Center.

The lecture, “Living through the Storm: How We Can Survive Global Warming,” is free and open to the public.
 
Hertgaard has covered the global warming story all over the world and written a popular book about the subject, Earth Odyssey, which has brought about worldwide reforms and is taught in UNE’s Introduction to Environmental Issues course. An independent journalist and author, he currently serves as the environmental correspondent for The Nation and has also written for The Atlantic, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. The current issue of Vanity Fair features Hertgaard’s exploration of how global warming snuck up on us and what we can do to fight it.

He has taught non-fiction writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Berkley, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale and Stanford Universities.

This lecture, part of UNE’s observance of Earth Day (April 22), is co-sponsored by Earth’s ECO, UNE’s student environmental club, the Department of Environmental Studies and the Department of Sociology.

(Press release issued April 10, 2006)