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GCSC Seminar “Sustainability and the Corporate Self: engineers and scientists working in the mining and oil and gas industries”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

FASB room 295 To attend online, register: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIoceisrD4jGdCPqjsKBMjgS0aKULFo6msF How do engineers and applied scientists who work in the mining and oil and gas industries understand their work in relation to broader calls for greater public accountability of the corporations employing them? In this talk, Professor Smith uses in-depth ethnography to explore how the corporate context […]

GCSC Seminar: Promoting Environmentally Responsible Behavior

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

FASB room 295 To attend online, register: https://utah.zoom.us/j/98492126188?pwd=MFhaNkZsNGNrSi93K29nbXIzWkIyUT09 Abstract: Change to address the climate crisis in socially just ways requires integrated action at both collective and individual levels. The connections between beliefs, values and behavior are complex, so promoting environmentally responsible behavior involves far more than educating people about climate change, as a wide variety of […]

GCSC Seminar: Thure Cerling “From the illegal ivory trade to nuclear waste – an improbable journey by an accidental geologist”

295 FASB (Sutton Geology Bldg.) 115 S 1460 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

FASB 295 and on Zoom. To participate via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscOurrjMpHdQY-6L81WvBK0jX8N1oKElI "From the illegal ivory trade to nuclear waste – an improbable journey by an accidental geologist" Abstract: Sometimes science questions seem to choose us. In this talk I will discuss my involvement in problems related to nuclear waste, the illegal wildlife trade, and […]

Faculty Think Tank – Environmental Justice

College of Law 6th floor Flynn Faculty Workshop Room

College of Law 6th floor Flynn faculty room Register to attend https://environment.utah.edu/think/ (This is a faculty only event - students may not attend.)