Organizer of Nationwide Climate Change Initiative to Speak at Yale

Eban Goodstein, organizer of a major initiative engaging over a thousand educational institutions around the country in a discussion on climate change will speak September 19, at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

An economics professor at Lewis & Clark College, Goodstein will talk at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium at Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street on the topic “Seen An Inconvenient Truth? Now What? Climate Stabilization in the 21st Century.”

Goodstein spearheads Focus the Nation: A Global Warming Educational Initiative, which is coordinating teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges, universities and high schools in the United States to participate in a nationwide, nonpartisan discussion on climate stabilization. The project also includes the participation of religious, civic and business organizations, and will culminate on Jan. 31, 2008, in a one-day symposium to be held simultaneously on campuses across the country.

“Focus the Nation could be a catalyzing event on par with Earth Day 1970,” said Goodstein. “It could help turn the national conversation about global warming from fatalism to constructive engagement.”

Goodstein’s current research focuses on the economics of global climate change. He is the author of a college textbook, “Economics and the Environment,” and “The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment.” He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment, is on the steering committee of the Center for the Applied Study of Economics & the Environment, and is a member scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform.

Goodstein’s talk is sponsored by the Yale F&ES Project on Climate Change. For information about Focus the Nation, visit http://www.focusthenation.org/index.html