This year's Kalil Fellow, is the acclaimed environmentalist David W. Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College. His career as a scholar, teacher, writer, speaker, and entrepreneur spans fields as diverse as environment and politics, environmental education, campus greening, green building, ecological design, and climate change. His numerous books on these diverse topics within environmentalism serve as foundational textbooks in universties worldwide.

Study Architecture, Interior and Lighting Design at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. The New School is a university offering distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and design, liberal arts, management and policy, and the performing arts. School of Constructed Environments | http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/constructed-environments-school-sce

The Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design was established in 2001 in memory of designer Michael Kalil at the School of Constructed Environments. The mission of the Endowment is twofold: to foster the understanding of the design intersections between nature and technology and to support a heightened sense of responsibility for increasing the sustainability of built environments. Each year the Endowment awards three Memorial Fellowship Project Grants and sponsors a lecture by an annual Kalil Fellow. The Kalil Fellow is selected from an international community of scholars and practitioners working in the spirit of Michael Kalil.

For more information on David Orr please visit http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/98sep/orr_profile.html

For more information on The Kalil Endowment please visit http://sce.parsons.edu/labs/michael-kalil

This event is being organized as part of the New School's coalition confronting climate change challenges to cities.

PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN | http://www.newschool.edu/parsons

Location: Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
03/07/2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.