Faculty Development book talk Jan. 21
Looking for an interesting book? Check out Thomas Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why we need a green revolution and how it can renew America and then join us for discussion at 
noon Thursday, Jan. 21 in CMU 227. Denny Jacobs and Tim Decker, Corrick Center, and Brian Smith, School for Teaching and Learning, will lead the discussion about Friedman’s provocative look at American society.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded asserts that artificially triggered climate change is a deadly threat to society. Rising global population, accompanied by rising rates of resource and energy consumption as the developing world grows affluent, may overwhelm both the Earth and the marketplace. Only fundamental change in energy production and use—”a whole new system for powering our economy”—can stave off disaster. Yet there’s an upside, Hot, Flat, and Crowded contends: Radical change in energy use represents an opportunity for the United States to preserve its global economic leadership, by beating the world to clean-energy ideas that will sell. (from Slate)