Sustainability | Sustainability Activist Speaks Uchita De Zoysa February 24

Boone will be "a writer and activist Zoysa Uchita international reputation from Sri Lanka to speak on climate sustainability at Appalachian State University on Thursday, February 24, at 7:00 in Plemmons Student Union's Price Lake Room. De Zoysa in State United States is to attend the UN conference on sustainability in New York, and his appearance on the Appalachian one lecture in the U.S. and the presentation is free and open to the public and will be time for questions and discussion .

The presentation is sponsored by the anthropology departments of geography and planning, and technology, Appalachian studies, global studies and sustainable development programs, and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, contact Jeff Boyer at 262-2295 or Gregory Reck.

De Zoysa spent years as a leader in mobilizing civil society to public-private partnerships in developing strategies and policies for dealing with climate sustainability. He was a strong voice from the Third World, at the same time advocating for greater social justice and global economic and urgent action to address the causes of global climate change.

His latest book, "Is it to Climate Sustainability," disclosed at the UN Summit in Copenhagen in December 2009. Of Leeuw Bas, former leader Sustainable Consumption at the United Nations Environment Programme in Paris, writes that states when it comes to climate sustainability De Zoysa that "... there's no such thing as 'making the size,' but we are all there together and can only get out of it together. "Flora Ijjas, the sustainable development researcher from Hungary, a discussion of Zoysa's latest book, states that," most of the books written on sustainability or climate change is dealing with effects outside of the process ... it makes Zoysa Uchita a different way. It goes beyond examination and internal forces that drive ... humanity and individuals. "

De Zoysa is chairman / CEO of Global Solutions moderator Sustainability and Global Public 's Sustainability Dialogue. He was a participant at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

He is a member of the National Advisory Committee on Climate Change in Sri Lanka.