Transportation for the 21st Century Will Be Topic of Rawlins Environmental Literacy Lecture
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 3, 2006
Kathleen McPartland
530-898-4260
Mark Stemen
530-898-5428
Transportation for the 21st Century Will Be Topic of Rawlins Environmental Literacy Lecture
Transportation expert Will Toor will deliver the 4th Annual Jack Rawlins Environmental Literacy Lecture on April 12, 7 pm in the BMU Auditorium at California State University, Chico. Toor is co-author of the books "Finding a New Way: Campus Transportation for the Twenty-First Century" and "Transportation for Sustainable Campus Communities." He will speak on new visions for campus transportation.
Toor served as the director of the University of Colorado, Boulder's Environmental Center from 1992 to January 2005. During his tenure, the center received national recognition, including a 2001 Green Power Leadership award from the U.S. Department of Energy for initiating the nation's largest university green power program.
Toor was also an instructor in the University of Colorado's Environmental Studies Program, teaching classes titled Environmental Leadership, the Campus and the Biosphere, and Transportation and Environmental Policy. He is currently an adjunct professor in the University's School of Architecture and Planning.
In November 1997, Toor was elected to the Boulder City Council, and in November 1998, he was elected mayor and then, he was reelected four years later. In November 2004, Toor was elected to the Boulder County Board of Commissioners. He is currently leading the county's environmental sustainability initiative. Under his leadership, the county adopted two resolutions on sustainability and zero waste, and it is now developing programs and policies designed to reduce energy waste and to transition to renewable energy sources.
Toor was born in Pittsburgh, Penn. He graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with a BS in physics in 1978 and moved to Boulder in 1980, where he worked as a truck driver, mechanic and yard foreman for Eco-Cycle. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1992.
The Rawlins Endowed Professor of Environmental Literacy and the Environmental Studies Program sponsor Toor's visit. For more information contact Mark Stemen via e-mail at mstemen@csuchico.edu.
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