Upcoming webinar with Professor Chris Kennedy, April 15

Hello all,

I am happy to account that the Political-Industrial Ecology Initative at Penn State will host Professor Chris Kennedy next Wednesday, April 15 at noon eastern for a talk, Transitioning Metabolisms. 

It would be wonderful if ISIE members can join us! You can register here: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bV6kUdysQgSCjxqOlPZqNw

The talk abstact below: 

To address climate change and other global environmental challenges requires a major transition in socio-economic metabolism.  This lecture begins with a review of the ‘metabolism’ concept from an industrial ecology lens, and then examines metabolic transitions through relationships between capital and energy. Capital can be interpreted from dual perspectives – both physical and financial. From a physical perspective, three relationships are central to growth and change in metabolism: i) energy is required to build capital assets; ii) energy is required to use capital assets; iii) capital assets are needed to produce and distribute energy.  Example studies of capital-energy relationships from the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression and the 21^st century show how energy transitions have played out.

Thank you and I hope to 'see' many of you on Wednesday!

Jenn