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Biodiversity and Our Future: Healing Mother Earth
Sunday, May 10, 4:00 p.m.
A Mother's Day Benefit Lecture for Canopy
Location: Spangenberg Theater, Gunn High School 780 Arastradero Rd, Palo Alto
Join renowned scientist E. O. Wilson for a lecture to benefit Bay Area urban forests. Hailed as "Darwin's Natural Heir" and one of "America's 25 Most Influential People" by TIME Magazine, Dr. Wilson is a self-professed "tree hugger."
This Mother’s Day, E.O. Wilson will deliver a plea for a new human ethic based on a wiser, more careful stewardship of our vanishing natural world while sharing his optimism that we still have an opportunity to save the living things and wild places that sustain us.
The lecture-style event will be hosted by Donald Kennedy, President Emeritus of Stanford University and editor-in-chief of Science. The event will be emceed by KQED Forum Host Michael Krasny.