Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
Energy and Environment Forum

The Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers, and students from outside their own discpline but who have a common interest in environmental and energy issues. We invite four to six speakers each semester from fields such as ecology, economics, urban planning, atmospheric chemistry and sociology to present on occasional Thursdays at 3:30pm in the Baker Center's Toyota Auditorium.

Click on "Topic" of past speakers' for a link to video of their talk.

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 2013
24	Karen Seto, Associate Professor, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies	Rethinking Urbanization and Sustainability: Lessons from China and India
31	Douglas MacLean, Professor, Philosophy, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	Risk Analysis and the Ethics of Risk Distribution
February 2013
21	George Crabtree, Senior Scientist, Distinguished Fellow and Associate Division Director in the Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory	Energy: The Next 50 Years
March 2013
14	Zyg Plater, Professor, Law, Boston College	The Endangered Species Act, 40 Years On
April 2013
11	Paulina Oliva, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara ALTERNATE LOCATION: Min Kao 404	Does the Effect of Pollution on Human Health Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City ALTERNATE LOCATION: Min Kao 404
24	Bill Richardson , Former Governor of New Mexico and 9th United States Secretary of Energy ALTERNATE TIME: 6:00pm	What Policies America Should Follow to Protect the Environment ALTERNATE TIME: 6:00pm

Fall 2012 speakers

Spring 2012 Speakers

Fall 2011 Speakers