Focus the Nation Global Warming Solutions for America

Focus The Nation, an unprecedented educational initiative on global warming solutions, will take place at more than 1,000 universities and colleges in all 50 states on Jan. 31.

NMSU events, sponsored by the Honors College, will be held on Jan. 31, in the Corbett Center Auditorium. NMSU faculty members will be the primary presenters. Students and other attendees can hear speakers, address questions to panel members and see videos.

NMSU faculty may take part as speakers or panel members and can use a portion of class time that week to discuss global warming issues. Faculty who would like to make a presentation or participate in panel discussions should contact professors Connie Falk at cfalk@nmsu.edu, 646-4731, or Tim McKimmie at tim@nmsu.edu, 646-7483.

For more information on the national event, visit www.focusthenation.org.

Click here to download complete PowerPoint presentations from the event's presenters

Schedule

Wednesday January 30th: Webcast in Garcia Hall room 235B

6-8 pm – The 2% solution – Reducing CO2 emissions

Thursday January 31st Corbett Center Auditorium

8:30 am - Opening remarks

8:45 am - Global Warming 101: Don Neidig

9:30 am - The rhetoric of global warming in the media: Patti Wojan

10:15 am - The low-carbon, energy-efficient world: Vince Gutschick

11:00 am - Global Warming: basic principles and natural cycles: Curtis Monger

11:45 am - The NMSU President's Climate Commitment: Steve Loring

12:30 pm - Question and answer session for panelists

1:15 pm - Observations of arctic sea ice: Tom Schmugge

2:00 pm - Current and projected effects of GW on ecosystems: Heather Throop

2:45 pm - Renewable energy from the sun and wind: Robert Foster

Thursday January 31st:
Film Screenings: Creative Media Institute Theatre: Milton Hall

9:00 am - "An Inconvenient Truth"

10:45 am - "Evening's Cool"

12:30 pm - "The Story of Stuff"

1:00 pm - "What a Way to GO: Life at the End of Empire"

3:00 pm - "An Inconvenient Truth"

Note: all presenters are invited to the panel at 12:30