DATE:5 p.m. Oct. 14, 2009.

EVENT: “How Green is the Future” is a free, public talk by Adam Aston, energy and environment editor at BusinessWeek, who will discuss what a greener global economy might?and might not?look like in 30 years.

Aston covers alternative and conventional energy, efficiency, transportation, building and design, green business and finance, and climate science.

His Green Business blog tracks the business aspects of energy, the environment and climate change, with a focus on policies, technologies, markets and people that are shaping how the earth’s resources will be used in the century ahead.

PLACE: Blau Auditorium, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 701 Tappan St., Ann Arbor.

SPONSOR: Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

THE BLOG: www.businessweek.com/investing/green_business

INFORMATION: (734) 647-0342 or events@umich.edu