For immediate use: Thursday, January 23, 2014
Lester Brown, founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, will deliver a free public lecture, “Peak Water: What Happens to Our Food Supply When the Wells Go Dry?,” Feb. 4 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His talk begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center.
Brown is the author of “Breaking New Ground: A Personal History” and “Full Planet and Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity.” His lecture will focus on global agricultural production and its use of a predominant share of the world’s limited water supply. This event is presented by the Global Research Institute as part of the University’s 2012-2015 campus-wide theme on water.
For more information, visit http://tinyurl.com/lrty3ut/.
UNC Global contact: Katie Bowler, 919-962-4504, kbowler@unc.edu