o2 alta: Global Energy Perspective: Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology

28.2.08

Global Energy Perspective: Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology

Event Date
2008-04-17 19:30
Location
MacEwan Ballroom, third floor MacEwan Student Centre
Description
Dr. Nathan Lewis has served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. His presentation will describe and evaluate the challenges – technical, political and economic – involved with widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies.

Presenter/Speaker
Nathan Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
Tickets
Free but reserve a seat: iseeespk@ucalgary.ca or call 210-9786

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o2 alta is part of the o2 Global Network, an international network for people interested in sustainable design. The network is made up of the o2 Global Network foundation, regional hubs, local groups, liaisons and individuals (called o2's). It has currently more than 70 country contacts. o2 ("Oxygen") was founded in 1988 in Milan by Niels Peter Flint, Thierry Kazazian, Jorgi Scheicher, Jeremy Quinn and others. o2 Groups in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom followed. Six years later (5 July 1994) Iris de Graaf and Willem Hanhart founded the o2 Global Network foundation, or in short, the o2 Global Network. o2GN, as it became to be known, was set up as an independent organization. Its first home page appeared in November that year, and by August 1995 the network had hosted its first web broadcast, live from Rotterdam.

For nearly two decades o2 has pioneered solutions to a central problem of the made environment: how to foster sustainability while having a good quality of life. The people in this forum have been wrestling with the problems of a throw-away culture, formulating non-polluting production methods, sourcing nontoxic, sustainably managed materials, innovative sustainable product services, sustainable lifestyles, behavior and consumption, and crucially, passing on the knowledge.

The basic idea of the o2 Global Network is "global thinking and local action". Global information and knowledge is exchanged and discussed. Local groups, mostly non-governmental organizations, or o2 individuals organize lectures, projects, workshops and distribute newsletters to promote, educate and implement design for sustainability with all of its facets in mind.

The network involves people with a background in engineering, design, industrial design, architecture, graphic design, arts, fashion, innovation, as well as people from academies, universities, public authorities, companies or knowledge centers.

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Global Energy Perspective: Scientific Challenges in Sustainable Energy Technology

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