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- Date:
Saturday, February 14, 2009
- Time: 2:00PM
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- Speaker: Dr. Michael Toman
- Topic: "Energy alternatives and
global issues of environment and warming.”
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- About the Speaker: Dr. Michael
Toman is Director, Environment, Energy, and
Economic Development Program, RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment.
Dr. Toman was Senior economist, Environment
Division, Sustainable Development at the
Inter-American Development Bank, Senior
Fellow, Resources for the Future, and Senior
Staff Economist, Council of Economic
Advisers, Executive Office of the President.
Dr. Toman has his B.A. in economics and math
from Indiana University, his M.Sc. in
applied mathematics from Brown University,
and his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the
University of Rochester; He is co-editor of
the book Economic Development and
Environmental Sustainability: New Options
published by Oxford University Press in
2006.
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SummAry:
- Dr. Michael Toman's area of expertise are
climate change mitigation, sustainable development,
energy markets and energy security, and
environmental policy. His recent work has been in
the
areas of energy and national security, expenditure
and greenhouse gas implications of increased
renewable energy use in the United States, and
options for effective and publicly accepted policies
for reducing greenhouse gases in the United States.
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Location and Time:
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
at 2:00pm in the Indian Wells Theater.
Admission: Free
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Parking:
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Parking is available behind the theater.
- Note: Parking for this event prepaid by
Friends of the Palm Desert Campus.
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Attendance:
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The Series is open to our entire desert community.
Students, faculty and staff of all the desert's
educational institutions with current ID are welcome
to attend at no charge.
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- This Series is
Presented by:
- World Affairs Council
of the Desert
http://www.worldaffairsdesert.org
- College of the Desert
http://www.collegeofthedesert.edu/
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Palm Desert Campus
http://pdc.csusb.edu
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Palm Springs Institute for Environmental
Sustainability
http://pdc.csusb.edu/PS_Environmental_Sustain.htm
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For more information
phone:
World Affairs Council of the Desert at 760-322-7711
California State University Palm Desert at 760 341-2883
x78107
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- California State
University San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus
- 37-500 Cook Street Palm Desert, CA 92211
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