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Tag: American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Friday, November 1, 6:45 pm – Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography

    Dr. Peter Crane, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany, Yale University, will speak on Friday, November 1 on Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography, at the meeting of the New England Botanical Club in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

    Dean Crane’s work focuses on the diversity of plant life: its origin and fossil history, current status, and conservation and use. From 1992 to 1999 he was director of the Field Museum in Chicago with overall responsibility for the museum’s scientific programs. During this time he established the Office of Environmental and Conservation Programs and the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, which today make up the Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo). From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of the largest and most influential botanical gardens in the world. His tenure at Kew saw strengthening and expansion of the gardens’ scientific, conservation, and public programs. Dean Crane was elected to the Royal Society (the U.K. academy of sciences) in 1998. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the German Academy Leopoldina. He was knighted in the U.K. for services to horticulture and conservation in 2004. Dean Crane currently serves on the Board of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

    For information visit www.rhodora.org.

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  • Thursday, April 25, 7:00 pm – Bill McKibben, Environmentalist

    Bill McKibben, an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming, will speak on Thursday, April 25, beginning at 7 pm at The Fenn School. 516 Monument Street in Concord, in a program sponsored by the Concord Museum.

    McKibben, raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him “the planet’s best green journalist” and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was “probably the country’s most important environmentalist.”

    The Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges and in 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. $15 ($10 if you are a member of the Concord Museum). Reservations necessary: 978-369-9763, ext. 216.

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