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Join UT faculty, students and others for the first gathering of the new Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy with special guest, Paul Ehrlich, on Thursday, Aug. 25, 3:30 - 5 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium. Dr. Ehrlich will give a 45 minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. Paul's talk is The Population - Environment Crisis and the MAHB (Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere). Paul will be appearing in the Forum over a weblink. Paul is the Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. He has won numerous awards for his service to science and the environment; is the best-selling author of environmental science books including The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment (2009) and Humanity on a Tightrope: Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future (2010); and has published pioneering papers on coevolution, population biology, community ecology, conservation biology among many topic areas. The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (http://mahb.stanford.edu) is an international initiative to address the human response to global environmental destruction. It was originally proposed as a mobilization of the social sciences and humanities, in cooperation with the natural sciences, to encourage public discourse and to inform policy making about relevant human behavior and possibilities of significant changes in that behavior. The Baker Center Discussion forum is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers, and students from outside their own discipline but who have a common interest in environmental and energy issues. For more information about the Baker Center Interdisciplinary Group on Energy and Environmental Policy visit the forum's website: http://web.utk.edu/~jlarivi1/bcinter.html We invite you to participate in what promises to be a vibrant first discussion. Paul Armsworth, College of Arts and Sciences Jacob LaRiviere, College of Business Administration Becky Jacobs, College of Law Chris Clark, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources