The Weston Roundtable is made possible by a generous donation from Roy F. Weston, a highly accomplished UW-Madison alumnus. Designed to promote a robust understanding of sustainability science, engineering, and policy, these interactive lectures are co-sponsored by the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Office of Sustainability.
Lectures are held 4:15–5:15 p.m. Thursdays in 1163 Mechanical Engineering. Some lectures will be presented online, which will require registration.
Videos from Past Lectures
Schedule
Feeding the World as if People Mattered: A Diverse, Political Ecology of Agrarian Change
Speaker: Andrew Flachs, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University Although farms are living spaces that anchor diverse economies, the challenge of feeding the world is dominated by narrow questions of yield, efficiency, and cost-benefit analysis. … ...
Local Voices, Local Choices: Insights from Community-Led Conservation Using the Jane Goodall Institute’s Tacare Model
Speaker: Lilian Pintea, Vice President of Conservation Science, Jane Goodall Institute ...
Maximizing Co-Benefits of a Clean Energy Transition
Speaker: Denise Mauzerall What are the opportunities to reduce emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases in China and other countries? Mauzerall will share recent research in her group on this topic, and examine the … ...
Refocusing Climate Research to Maximize Impacts
Speaker: Jason Vargo, Senior Researcher, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The impacts of climate change on daily life continue to become increasingly evident, and the unequal nature of those impacts demands attention to the … ...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The XPRIZE at UW–Madison
Speaker: Jenna Greene, PhD candidate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW–Madison ...
How the Energy Transition is Going: A View from the Front Lines
Speaker: Rob Witwer, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Onward Energy ...
Ghost Wolves of North America
Speaker: Bridgett vonHoldt, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University ...
The Spirit of Dialogue: Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Water Conflicts
Speaker: Aaron Wolf, Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University In the West, we are generally trained to base our approach to managing water conflicts on rationality, and tools typically focus on … ...
Our Carbon Hoofprint: Meat and Climate
Speaker: Diane Mayerfeld, Senior Outreach Specialist, UW–Madison Division of Extension ...
Sustainable Development Goals and the Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems: The Case of Dairy Farming
Speaker: Michel Wattiaux, Professor, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, UW–Madison ...
Events have concluded for the semester. Stay tuned for future events!