Physics Cafe Presentation Will Explore Ithaca College's Plans To Go "Carbon Neutral"
ITHACA, NY — Now that Ithaca College has signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) — a pledge to produce a plan by September 2009 for the campus to completely mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions — the college will welcome building scientist, educator and entrepreneur Stan Wrzeski to campus on Thursday, Nov. 13, to discuss the college’s plans to go “carbon neutral.” Beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall, Wrzeski’s presentation is part of the Physics Café campus-wide lecture series. The talk, “Achieving Carbon Neutrality: It Is Our Choices That Show What We Truly Are, Far More Than Our Abilities,” is free and open to the public and will be followed by an informal talk-back session.
Signed by 582 colleges and universities across the country, the ACUPCC commits signees to model ways to eliminate global warming emissions and provide the knowledge to achieve climate neutrality. Wrzeski will review the process by which Ithaca College will sort through its options, delineating key trade-offs that will be part of the discussion. Low-carbon technologies and strategies employed on other campuses will be explored for their potential in Ithaca.
Wrzeski has three decades of industry experience in the public sector, private sector and academia, packaging numerous broad public-private partnerships to explore state-of-the-art design and technology innovations.
“As a building scientist, he’s had one foot in the architectural realm and the other in engineering,” said Beth Ellen Clark Joseph, associate professor of physics. “Both educator and entrepreneur, he works the interstitial spaces among professions, effecting cross-disciplinary collaborations that are critical to the evolving field of sustainable design.”
The Physics Café is a campus-wide lecture series sponsored by the Ithaca College Department of Physics. Intended for science and nonscience majors, it offers talks on exciting and accessible current topics in physics. Past Café lectures have featured the time-warping properties of black holes, the exploration of planet Mars, and the ways elephants communicate with each other.
For more information, contact Beth Ellen Clark Joseph at bclark@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3968.
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