Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Bhikhu Parekh on Gandhi

Published on January 12, 2008 in Featured and Podcasts. Closed

Professor Bhikhu Parekh is one of the most distinguished scholars and remarkable public figures to have visited the University of Maine in 2007. He was the Philosophy Distinguished Visiting Scholar and gave several sessions on April 12, 2007. This post contains the evening speech as broadcast on WERU Community Radio, and the extended question & answer session that accompanied that speech.

Educated in India and an influential figure in the United Kingdom, he is world-renowned author of numerous books. A member of the House of Lords, he is also an influential public figure working on issues of multi-ethnic relations, violence, and mutual understanding.

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Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-free, Nuclear-free energy

Published on January 1, 2008 in Energy, Featured and Podcasts. Closed

Talk at University of Maine November 8, 2007

Arjun Makhijani, Founder and President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Tacoma Park, Maryland spoke on “Achieving a Carbon-Free Society Without Nuclear Energy” on November 8, 2007.

Makhijani, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the principal author of the first study (1971) ever done on energy conservation potential for the U.S. economy. This study was even more remarkable as it was published two years before the 1973 oil embargo which was pivotal in our understanding of our dependence on fossil fuels. He has also written or edited four books on energy and the environment.

An edited 26-minute version of this talk broadcast on WERU on January 1, 2008. The full version is approximately 72 minutes.

 
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