EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 5:10 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011

EVENT: Wendy Abrams, environmental activist and founder of Cool Globes Inc., a nonprofit organization raising awareness of climate change, will discuss how her concerns about climate change affecting her children’s future kick-started her journey from career businesswoman to environmental advocate.

Abrams will discuss the challenges she overcame in establishing her nonprofit organization and what happened when business leaders, policymakers and presidential candidates took notice of her success.

Abrams’ organization’s inaugural exhibit of more than 100 globes, titled “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet,” premiered in Chicago in June 2007 with more than 3 million viewers. Since then, Cool Globes has toured the United States and had its international debut in Copenhagen in 2009. The globes are currently on display in Amsterdam, with plans for future exhibits in Monaco, Milan and Rio.

Abrams serves on the National Council of the Environmental Defense Fund. She is a trustee for the Waterkeeper Alliance and a member of the Field Museum of Natural History’s board of trustees. In 2011, she helped establish an environmental litigation clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.

Abrams has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s in business administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

PLACE: The Betty Ford Classroom, 1110 Weill Hall, U-M’s Ford School of Public Policy, 735 S. State St., Ann Arbor. The free public lecture will be followed by a Q&A and reception in the Great Hall.

SPONSOR: Co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Program in the Environment and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.