November 30, 2005
Adam Markham to deliver Geller Lecture on Dec. 8
Adam Markham, executive director of Clean Air-Cool Planet, will deliver the Albert, Norma and Howard ’77 Geller lecture,
“Climate Leadership in the Northeast: Why do we need it and what does it look like?” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, December
8, in the Lurie Conference Room in the Higgins University Center at Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester.
Markham’s lecture will address how climate change is affecting New England and how the most innovative institutions are acting now to solve the problem.
Markham became executive director of Clean Air-Cool Planet, the region’s leading organization dedicated to finding and promoting solutions to global warming, in February 2000. Before that, he spent 12 years with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) helping to design and manage campaigns on tropical forests and toxic chemicals, work that took him to Switzerland and then the U.S. Most recently he served as director of the WWF’s international climate campaign, based in Washington D.C.
Prior to his work with the WWF, Markham contributed to acid rain and ozone layer campaigns for Friends of the Earth in London. He also worked as a journalist and has written and edited several books including A Brief History of Pollution (St. Martins) and Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems (Kluwer). Markham has published research on climate change and biodiversity in journals including Bioscience, Climate Research, Climatic Change and Parks.
Markham earned a B.S. with honors from the University of Wales at Swansea, in the UK, where he studied zoology.
The Geller Endowed Lecture Series, established in 2004 by Howard Geller and his parents Albert and Norma, addresses current topics related to areas of energy, environment and sustainability. Howard Geller graduated from Clark in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in physics. He is currently the executive director of the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), a new public-interest organization he founded in 2001, based in Boulder, Colo. A clean-energy entrepreneur, Howard has worked for more than two decades influencing national and international energy policy.
The Gellers have also established an endowed fund at Clark for research grants to support learning opportunities in environmental sustainability.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 508-793-7683.
Clean Air-Cool Planet is a science-based, non-profit organization that creates partnerships in the Northeast to implement solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions. CA-CP partners with campuses, communities, and companies to help reduce their carbon emissions. Through these partnerships, CA-CP is able to help people understand the impacts of global warming and its best available solutions through comprehensive outreach efforts celebrating commitment, innovation, and success in climate action.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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