This course, curated by Deborah Caine, will have six speakers over six weeks, including:

• Climate Change and Justice

Dr. Simon Barak Caine, Director of Research at Univ of Copenhagen and Professor at Harvard

• Ecology and Evolution

Professor Jonathan Wiener, Professor of Science Journalism at Columbia University (author: The Next Hundred Years)

• Ecology and Science Journalism

Karen Christensen, Berkshire Publisher

• Encyclopedia of Sustainability

Professor Zoe Robinson, Director of The Institute for Sustainability at Keele University, England

• The amazing campus at Keele -planned to produce 50% of its own electricity use with a mix of 2500 solar panels and two wind turbines

Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, Director of the Arava Institute

• The extensive work of the Arava Institute for Environmentalism and Diplomacy

Deborah Caine graduated from Keele University in 1954 with an Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She came to the United States in 1954 to the New School in New York and then studied philosophy at Columbia University. She was a teaching fellow in philosophy at the University of Michigan, before moving to Israel where she studied with Walter Kaufman at the Hebrew University. Returning to the US she was a teaching fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She also taught philosophy at Drexel University. She then left to help found an independent congregation, the Society Hill Congregation in Philadelphia. She taught Philosophers of Judaism at the congregation for many years. Deborah coordinates the Climate Change SIG for OLLI at BCC.

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