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April 7, 2008

N.Y. Times columnist to give Earth Day address

PROVIDENCE -- Thomas L. Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, will speak at Brown University on April 22 -- Earth Day.

His free and open-to-the-public Earth Day speech will kick off at 6 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. It's sponsored by Brown¹s Environmental Change Initiative as part of a spring speaker series titled "Going Green, Globally: Scientific, Economic and Political Perspectives."

"Moving nimbly between politics, economics, history, culture and science, Tom Friedman demonstrates a tremendous intellectual agility in his columns and books," Osvaldo Sala, a biology professor and Environmental Change Initiative director, said in the statement. "The Environmental Change Initiative is proud to host his visit and we look forward to a challenging and enlightening conversation."

Friedman will talk about economic and foreign policy implications of "green technology," the new release says.

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