MAY DINNER MEETING OF THE
CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON (CSW)
WASHINGTON SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

CSW 1080th Dinner Meeting Thursday, May 08, 2008

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Recreation Center Good Luck Road, Gate No. 13 Greenbelt, MD 20771

 

6:00 PM	SOCIAL HOUR (Open Bar) beer, wine and soda Meat balls, potato chips and pretzels
7:00 PM	BUFFET DINNER Choice of Entrée (Please specify choice with reservation) Prime Rib or Sliced Marinated Chicken Breast Over Rice Baked Potatoes Broccoli & Cheese Dish Tossed Salad, Rolls and Butter Dessert, Coffee
	Cost:  $22.00 Members & guests; $11.00 Students
8:00 PM	FEATURED SPEAKER Lester R. Brown "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"

Make reservations by Monday 12:00 noon, May 05, 2008, to the CSW office: csw@acs.org or 202-659-2650. Please designate the names of everyone in your party and inicate your entrée choice(s). The public is invited to attend. You may attend the talk only, but YOU MUST REGISTER.

Those who make a reservation but are unable to attend should send a check for the cost of their meal to The CSW office.

DIRECTIONS:    [ Map from Google.com]

Directions to the Recreation Center of Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center:
From I-95 (Beltway) take Exit 22A to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (toward Baltimore). From the Baltimore-Washington Parkway take the exit to Greenbelt Road (Route 193); this exit is just a short distance from the Beltway and is a right turn exit. Turn left onto Greenbelt Road and follow it to the East. Drive past the Main Gate of Goddard Space Flight Center on the left and go to the second traffic light at Good Luck Road. Turn left onto Good Luck Road. Go to the first traffic light on Good Luck Road (it has a left turn lane) and turn left into the gate (No. 13) for the Goddard Recreation Center (less than 0.5 mile from Greenbelt Road). The gate has the number 13 on it. There will be a security guard stationed just inside the gate who will check the names in your party against the attendance list.

EVERYONE, INCLUDING THOSE ATTENDING ONLY THE EVENING LECTURE, MUST CALL IN A RESERVATION TO THE CSW OFFICE SO THEIR NAMES WILL BE ON THE SECURITY LIST. THERE CAN BE NO WALK-INS.

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Lester R. Brown
President, Earth Policy Institute

Lester R. Brown is President of Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit, interdisciplinary research organization based in Washington, D.C., which he founded in May 2001. The purpose of the Earth Policy Institute is to provide a plan to build a sustainable future.

Brown has been described as "one of the world's most influential thinkers" by the Washington Post. The Telegraph of Calcutta called him "the guru of the environmental movement." In 1986, the Library of Congress requested his papers for their archives.

Some 30 years ago, Brown helped pioneer the concept of sustainable development. He was the Founder and President of the Worldwatch Institute during its first 26 years. During a career that started with tomato farming, Brown has authored or coauthored over 50 books and been awarded 24 honorary degrees. One of the world's most widely published authors, his books have appeared in more than 40 languages. His most recent book is Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.

Brown is a MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of countless prizes and awards, including the 1987 United Nations Environment Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize for his "exceptional contributions to solving global environmental problems." In 1995, Marquis Who's Who, on the occasion of its fiftieth edition, selected Lester Brown as one of 50 Great Americans. Most recently he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Italy and the Borgström Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, and he was appointed an honorary professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He lives in Washington, D.C.

"Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"

Lester notes that we are trapped between a set of economic indicators telling us that things have never been better and a set of environmental indicators warning us that the economy is heading for decline and collapse. The warning signs are in rising temperatures, shrinking forests, expanding deserts, collapsing fisheries, falling water tables, melting glaciers, rising seas, and declining species.

He proposes Plan B, which includes an all-out effort to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. Plan B is a worldwide mobilization to raise energy efficiency in every sector of the economy, including buildings, lighting, heating and cooling, and transportation. It calls for harnessing the earth's renewable sources of energy through ambitiously exploiting the earth's solar, wind, and geothermal energy sources-and shows it is doable with existing technologies.