Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research Launches the Carbon Conversations

Panel series to feature interdisciplinary debates to address problem solving in the global carbon crisis

Monday, February 27, 2012, Peterborough

The Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research (TCBR) at Trent University, in partnership with Champlain College’s “Across the River” Series, invites the public to the highly anticipated launch of a new, interdisciplinary panel discussion series, the Carbon Conversations, on Monday, March 5, 2012 from 12 to 2 p.m. in Champlain College Lecture Hall 307.

“The Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research has designed this exciting new series specifically as a multi-perspective approach to examining the integral and complex role that carbon plays in our world,” said Dr. Suresh Narine, director of the TCBR.
 
The core of our planet’s crisis is carbon – its use, management and ownership is at the fulcrum of fundamental issues in our world: climate change, environmental stewardship, economic development, culture, ideology and the consumption of resources.

The Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research engages a broad spectrum of thinkers in the Carbon Conversations– from students and scientists to philosophers and consumers – generating discourse about carbon-related sustainability issues and the future of our world.

Featured Trent University professors in the first panel of the series include: Dr. Stephen Bocking, chair of the Environmental Resource Studies / Science Department, Dr. Suresh Narine, director of the Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research, Dr. Raul Ponce-Hernandez, director of the GEORESLAR Laboratory, Dr. Laura Summerfeldt, associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Dr. Asaf Zohar, director of Sustainability Studies.

All are welcome to attend this free and public event. Please RSVP at http://www.trentu.ca/tcbr/rsvp.php

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To RSVP, please contact: Noranne Flower, 748-1011, ext 1237, nflower@trentu.ca

For more information about the TCBR or the Carbon Conversations, please contact: Dr. Suresh Narine, director, Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research, 705-748-1011 ext. 6105, sureshnarine@trentu.ca