E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Days-March 2 & 3rd
The E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce our upcoming “Biodiversity Days” on March 2nd and 3rd at The Carolina Theatre and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This year’s theme is “Half-Earth.”
Biodiversity Days are focused on cultivating awareness and promoting understanding as a key foundation for engagement, action and inspired care of our planet.
Half-Earth is E.O. Wilson’s call to save half the Earth for the rest of life. Join the Half-Earth Project program partners and Half-Earth Council at The Carolina Theater and the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University for two full days of public lectures, roundtable discussions, and film screenings about how the Half-Earth Project will bring this grand vision and important goal to life.
Highlights include:
• Thursday, March 2, 7:00 pm – E.O. Wilson, The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Distinguished Lectureship in Biodiversity: “Half-Earth: How to Save the Natural World” with panel discussants Thomas Lovejoy (George Mason University), John Seager (Population Connection), and Louie Psihoyos (Oceanic Preservation Society) and joined by singer, Paul Simon, for a special appearance and announcement (The Carolina Theatre, Durham, NC)
• Friday, March 3, 9:00 am — Tom Friedman (The New York Times), “Uprooted and On the Move.” Film and discussion followed by Q&A with E.O. Wilson (Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC)
• Friday, March 3, 4:30 pm — Closing Event: Lecture by Jeff Sachs, “Forging Global Cooperation to Save the Biosphere” followed by a reception featuring book signings with E.O. Wilson (Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life) and Jeff Sachs (Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair and Sustainable), tropical conservation student posters, and refreshments (Field Auditorium, Environment Hall, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC)
E.O. WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION PRESIDENT & CEO PAULA EHRLICH PREVIEWS BIODIVERSITY DAYS 2017 ON WRAL