Burden of Choice: Waste

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012, 6:30 to 8pm
Common Room, Second Floor
Heyman Center for the Humanities

A conversation with Allison Macfarlane, professor of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University. Her research focuses on environmental policy and international security involving nuclear energy, and she is the editor of Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation’s High-Level Nuclear Waste. Moderated by Klaus Lackner, Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics.

Burden of Choice is a conversation series about how proliferating choices in a liberal democracy both liberate and constrain us, including charitable giving on February 15; guns on February 29; and debt on April 3.

Directions to the Heyman Center. Enter the Wien Hall Gate on 116th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive.