Monday, February 11, 2008

Consilience Launch Event

The Editorial Board is pleased to invite you to the launch event

in celebration of the inaugural issue of

Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development

February 18, 2008

7:30 PM

Doors open at 7:00 PM

Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University

We are honored to present the following distinguished speakers:

Dr. Jeffery D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General.

And

Dr. Joshua Graff Zivin, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Director of the Sustainable Development PhD Program at Columbia University, and Journal Adviser for Consilience.

Seating is limited. RSVP to Betsy Ness-Edelstein at: betsy@ei.columbia.edu





Please visit www.consiliencejournal.org for more information. The journal will be launched on February 11, 2008.


con·sil·ience(noun): The joining together of knowledge and information across disciplines to create a unified framework of understanding.

Consilience is a global, online publication dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. This publication aims to bring students, researchers, professors, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and regions in direct conversation with each other through an online, academically rigorous medium.

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