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Attention STUDENTS - On Wednesday, Feb. 10, 5 - 8 pm, Baker students, Phi Sigma Alpha and SGA Government Affairs will host an event for students to learn about all the Presidential candidates and issues. Toyota and Rotunda On Thursday, Feb. 11, please join us for the next Energy and Environmental Policy Forum, which will take place at 1-2:30 pm in the Toyota Auditorium. Dr. Bart Elmore, from the University of Alabama, will give a 45 minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. His talk is titled: What the History of Coca-Cola Can Teach Us About Building An Environmentally Sustainable Economy Summary: Bart Elmore will discuss his research pertaining to the environmental history of the Coca Cola Company and how that history might inform the design of an environmentally sustainable economy for the future. Elmore’s findings describe the tremendous environmental footprint and remarkable ecological appetite of this company which operates in 200 countries worldwide, sells roughly 1.8 billion beverage servings a day, consumes over 78 billion gallons of water at its bottling plants each year, and purchases copious quantities of sugar, caffeine, and coca leaves from tropical communities the world over. Dr. Bart Elmore is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama, where he teaches courses on U.S. and global environmental and business history. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Virginia in 2012. He is the author of the prize- winning Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism (W.W. Norton, 2015) which examines the global ecological footprint of one of the world's largest corporations. Elmore is also the author of multiple scholarly articles on environmental, cultural, and business history, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California - Berkeley before joining the University of Alabama.