John Holdren on the Sustainability Challenge
January 10, 2009 at 08:20PM John Holdren, provided a comprehensive overview of the sustainability challenge during his plenary address to the 2007 AAAS annual meeting in San Francisco. Access it using the links below or go to the AAAS website: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/Annual_Meeting/2007_San_Fran/02_PE/pe_01_lectures.shtml
AAAS President's Address
John P. Holdren, Ph.D.
AAAS President; Director, The Woods Hole Research Center; Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard University
Trained in engineering and plasma physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, Holdren co-founded the graduate program in energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 after brief stints at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Caltech. At Harvard he teaches both in the Kennedy School of Government—where he Directs the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy—and in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. His work has focused on energy technology and policy, global environmental change, and nuclear arms control and nonproliferation.
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