MEDIA ADVISORY: LSU College of the Coast & Environment Hosts National Environmental Economist

04/09/2018
BATON ROUGE – The LSU College of the Coast & Environment will host a special guest speaker, environmental economist Brian Czech, to give a timely seminar presentation for Earth Day. Czech is the president and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy based in Arlington, Va.

Czech will discuss why he believes global economic growth conflicts with environmental protection, national security and international stability and leads to biodiversity loss, climate change and resource wars. Czech proposes an alternative economic model in which sustained economic production and consumption and population stabilization, or a “steady state,” will help solve these problems. This seminar is sponsored by the Coast & Environment Graduate Organization at LSU. It is free and open to the public.
 

WHO: Brian Czech, president and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.

WHAT: Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution seminar

WHEN: Friday, April 20, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

WHERE: Dalton J. Woods Auditorium in the LSU Energy, Coast & Environment Building.

 

NOTE: Czech will be available for scheduled interview with the media in Baton Rouge from April 17-20. He will be in New Orleans on April 21. Feel free to attend the seminar, and please contact Christine Wendling if you would like to interview him about how his economic model could influence economic conditions in the state of Louisiana.

 

 

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Contact Christine Wendling
LSU College of the Coast & Environment
225-578-4984
christinew@lsu.edu

 

Alison Satake
LSU Media Relations
225-578-3870
asatake@lsu.edu