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Public lectures and events

No Free Lunch: Individual, Government, and Corporate Responsibilities for Sustainability

Sat, 07 Sep 2013 1:30 PM
Industrial age

How can we work for a sustainable future? If “they”—our neighbours, the government, and corporations—are living with their heads in the sand, how can we make a difference? Most individuals follow the herd, and repeat the same things even when they have failed before.

We will explore personal, governmental, and corporate responsibilities for a sustainable future. We will also examine science, politics, religion, and the need to look at how our world differs from that of our grandparents, considering how this matters to us and to future generations. Are any unsustainable responses to today’s environmental and business issues really viable?

Date(s): Sat, Sep 7, 2013, 1:30–3 pm

Location: Room 1900, SFU Vancouver

Admission: Free and open to anyone of any age, but please register. Register

Related topic(s): Liberal Arts and Sciences

Lecturer

  • Dean Gingrich

    Dean Gingrich is recently retired from the energy industry where he has been a project geophysicist, chief geophysicist, a Native corporation hired expert and environmental planner, mainly working in Alaska.  He holds degrees in geophysics from the University of Minnesota and in Millersville State College in Pennsylvania, and since the year 2000 has authored four papers in technical journals.

    With a strong passion for the not-for-profit sector, Gingrich has served on and been an officer of several not-for-profit boards including the Food Bank of Alaska and the Geophysical Society of Alaska and Dancing Bears, Inc.  He has been a trainer for the staff and volunteer boards of non-profit organizations through the United Way training group, the Foraker Group.

Questions?

Email: csreg@sfu.ca

Phone: 778-782-8000