Governor-Elect Patrick to Headline Congressman Meehan Town Meeting
“Climate Change: Local Solutions to a Global Crisis”
Saturday, Dec. 16 – 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
DURGIN HALL, UML South
Governor-elect Deval Patrick will join a panel of UMass Lowell experts on campus for U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan’s Town Meeting, “Climate Change: Local Solutions to a Global Crisis.” It is free and open to the public.
Meehan selected UMass Lowell because it is home to the School of Health and Environment and the University’s Lowell Center for Sustainable Production – both of which are sponsoring the event – and the Toxics Use Reduction Institute, as well as programs in energy engineering, asthma research and intervention, green chemistry and bio-based polymers.
Panelists from UMass Lowell will be Dr. Kenneth Geiser, director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, and Dr. Amy Cannon of the Center for Green Chemistry. Dr. David Wegman, dean of the University’s School of Health and Environment, will moderate and Chancellor David J. MacKenzie will open the event. Joining them will be Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global environment at Harvard Medical School, and Lee Ketelsen, New England director of Clean Water Action, a national citizens’ organization. |