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For immediate use: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

 

Alexandra Cousteau, filmmaker and granddaughter of Jacques-Ives Cousteau, will deliver the campus earth week keynote address on Wednesday, April 16 at 6 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center.

 

The Stone Center is at 150 South Road on the Carolina campus.  The lecture is free and open to the public and is brought to campus by the UNC Institute for the Environment in partnership with “Water in our World” and the Center for Galapagos Studies, Sustainability Office, department of environmental sciences and engineering and Gillings School of Public Health.

 

Cousteau is a National Geographic “Emerging Explorer” and a globally recognized advocate on water issues. Her global initiatives, including her NGO “Blue Legacy,” focus on telling the story of water issues to inspire citizens to protect water resources.  Blue Legacy, led by Cousteau, spearheads educational expeditions to produce short films, blogs, photographs and interactive elements to allow media outlets to more effectively engage audiences.  It pursues water’s intersection with energy, food, communities and diplomacy as themes for its expeditions.

 

Honored as an “Earth Trustee” by the United Nations and a “Principle Voice” by CNN International, the reach of Cousteau’s work extends to projects in Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, India and the Middle East.

 

The campus earth week keynote address, “This Blue Planet: Preserving and Sustaining and Healthy Earth,” will complement Carolina’s “Water in our World” campuswide water theme by addressing worldwide water issues and their broad impacts.

 

RSVP is required: http://tinyurl.com/qc3glgu

 

Media contact: Katie Hall, 919-962-0965, mchall@email.unc.edu

 

 

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