Talk: “Sustaining Life in a Climate Changing World"

Talk sponsored by LexGwac – Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition, Lexington League of Women Voters, Sustainable Lexington, Sustainable Arlington, Sustainable Belmont 

Date: Sunday, September 18, 7 pm, Cary Hall, Lexington

Speaker: Aaron Bernstein, MD,MPH, Acting Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and pediatrician at Children’s Hospital, Boston

Talk:  “Sustaining Life in a Climate Changing World: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity”

Dr. Bernstein’s talk will focus on the intersection of climate change, biodiversity and human health in this century.

With Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Eric Chivian, he co-authored and co-edited the Oxford University Press Book Sustaining Life, which received the distinction of best biology book of 2008 from the Library Journal along with Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson's The Superorganism.