Distinguished Speakers

Speakers

Distinguished Speakers

Speakers

Distinguished Speakers

Authors, scientists, professors, and experts share their insights every month!

Every month FaCT sponsors an hour long presentation featuring a distinguished speaker with special expertise in the environment and/or climate change. Each presentation is hosted over Zoom and is generally held on a weekend.

Past speakers have discussed issues relating to changes in the Arctic region and how they affect us living in lower latitudes, the on-going battle to preserve species from extinction, and the fossil fuel industry and energy violence.

Find the Zoom registration link in each event description to the right. Or, watch a previous presentation by clicking on the Zoom link in the description.

Every month FaCT sponsors an hour long presentation featuring a distinguished speaker with special expertise in the environment and/or climate change. Each presentation is hosted over Zoom and is generally held on a weekend.

Past speakers have discussed issues relating to changes in the Arctic region and how they affect us living in lower latitudes, the on-going battle to preserve species from extinction, and the fossil fuel industry and energy violence.

Find the Zoom registration link in each event description to the right. Or, watch a previous presentation by clicking on the Zoom link in the description.

Subject matter experts share their insights on topics impacting the Ohio Valley region and beyond!

September 10: SUPPLY SHOCK - Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution

Brian Czech - Distinguished Speaker - September 10

Supply Shock by Brian Czech leaves no doubt that the biggest idea of the 20th century—economic growth—has become the biggest problem of the 21st century. Required reading for anyone concerned about the world our children and grandchildren will inherit, this landmark work lays a solid foundation for a new economic model, perhaps in time for preventing global catastrophes; certainly in time for lessening the damages.

Via Zoom, Wednesday, September 10, 7:30 p.m.

Register for this Zoom Event: REGISTER

Jonathan Meiburg, Distinguished Speaker June 21

In 2021 Knopf published Jonathan Meiburg's first book, A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey, a journey through landscapes and wildlife of South America with the crow-like falcons called caracaras, their human companions, and the 19th-century naturalist William Henry Hudson.

Register for Zoom Meeting: JUNE21

Distinguished Speaker Katie Surma - May 17: Human Rights & the Environment

Scheduled on May 17, 2025

Katie is a reporter at Inside Climate News focusing on international environmental law and justice. Katie is a reporter at Inside Climate News focusing on international environmental law and justice.

Register for her May 17 Presentation on Zoom

Apr 12: Adam Hanieh and his book, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market"

Scheduled on April 12, 2025

A groundbreaking history of oil and its importance to US politics, finance, militarism and consumerism from an award-winning author and scholar.

The book provides an original and fine-grained empirical analysis of corporate ownership and control, including refining and petrochemicals. By exposing these structures of power and placing oil in capitalism, the book makes an essential contribution to debates around oil-dependency and the struggle for climate justice.

Register for the Zoom webinar

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