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Our aim is to host a number of talks throughout the academic year by leading figures from the world of politics, economics, law, the media, academia, and many others. We are kindly supported by Professor Andrew Gamble, Head of the Politics Department at Cambridge.

All of our events are FREE and followed by FREE wine!

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33 upcoming talks and 968 talks in the archive: show first 500.

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: Green League Table Decomposed

UserDr Ben Russell, Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics (CCM).

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 11:45-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Economics of Happiness

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockSunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

How vulnerable is reindeer herding in the European Arctic?

Please note the earlier start time. Lent Term Lecture 2

UserGareth Rees.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 25 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Maria Russo, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 14:15-15:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Advanced Recycling

UserMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope

UserKaren Heywood (UEA, School of Environmental Sciences).

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

There and back again; the migration of the garden warbler

UserUlf Ottosson - A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Jos, Nigeria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Title to be confirmed

Lent Term Lecture 3

UserDavid Baillie.

HouseTrinity House, London.

ClockSaturday 10 March 2012, 18:45-00:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Finite volume fountains and dense vortices

UserGary Hunt (Imperial, Civil & Environmental Engineering).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Informal Theoretical Geophysics Lunchtime Seminars (DAMTP)

Polynyas

UserPeter Ford (DAMTP).

HouseCMS, MR14.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

British Antarctic Survey

Symposium: “Joining up the atmos-'spheres” organised by BAS and CCfCS

If you are external to BAS please email the organiser in advance

UserRichard Horne, Martin Jarvis, Howard Roscoe and John Pyle/Peter Braesicke.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockMonday 02 April 2012, 14:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Mario Montopoli, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Title to be confirmed

UserAlex Brearley (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

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