This Webinar discusses how trees are critical to biodiversity and carbon sequestration & implications for the proposed private jet expansion at Hanscom and the 20 acres of threatened trees.
About the author: Dr. Moomaw has been a lead author of five major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. As a Science Fellow, he worked in the U.S. Senate on energy and forestry legislation and on legislation that eliminated American use of CFCs in spray cans to protect the ozone layer. He was the first director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute in 1988 He has been elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Dr. Moomaw was also founding director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts Climate Initiative, and co founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute.
(from https://scienceimpact.mit.edu/people/bill-moomaw)
See Dr. Moomaw’s article: Curb Climate Change the Easy Way: Don’t Cut Down Big Trees
Sponsored by LexCAN. More details and RSVP form – coming soon!
Mar 4th @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
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