Jared Diamond
"Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"

Monday, January 28, 2008, 7 p.m.

(Registration is not required.)

Jared Diamond, Ph.D., universally regarded as one of the great minds of our time, is author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book Guns, Germs and Steel and its followup Collapse. Through his books and lectures, Diamond explains the environmental and geographic reasons why certain human populations have flourished while others, such as the Vikings in Greenland, the Maya, and modern-day Rwandans, have fallen apart. His research offers insights into such questions as: What makes certain societies especially vulnerable? Why didn't their leaders recognize and address their environmental problems? And perhaps most importantly—What can we learn from their examples and do differently to avoid their fates?

Find out more about Jared Diamond.

Carolyn Watkins
"Ohio's Environment"

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

(Registration is required.)

As Chief of Ohio EPA's Office of Environmental Education, Carolyn Watkins oversees a grant program that provides $1 million annually to fund education projects in schools and universities, and efforts to educate the general public and the regulated community about environmental concerns. She also oversees Ohio's Clean Diesel School Bus Retrofit grant program and Ohio EPA's environmental science and engineering scholarship program.

Find out more about Carolyn Watkins and the Ohio EPA.