IEEE Central Coast Holiday Banquet – 20 Dec @ 6:30 – 9:00 PM

At Mulligans Café Santa Barbara Golf Club (3500 McCaw Ave)

Greetings, You (& Guest) are invited to a FREE Holiday Banquet. Please Register for Event (below) and select your entrée(s) Prime Rib or Salmon or Vegetarian. Professor Roland Geyer from UCSB is our guest speaker.

Link to Register for Event: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/334598

“ The Business of Less: The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril“

Synopsis of the Talk: Since its inception thirty years ago, environmental sustainability has been based on the concepts of “eco-efficiency” and “win-win”. Despite countless eco-efficiency and win-win efforts across the world, the state of the natural environment has further degraded instead of improved. This talk first explains why our current approach to environmental sustainability was doomed to fail and then introduces a new set of principles that together provide a road map, for businesses and for households, to a world in which human prosperity and a healthy environment are no longer at odds.Bio: Roland Geyer is Professor of Industrial Ecology at University of California’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. He is working with a wide range of governmental organizations, NGOs, trade associations, and companies on environmental sustainability issues. Roland has won multiple awards for his work, including the International Statistic of the Year from the Royal Statistical Society, and his work has been covered widely in the media, including worldwide appearances on radio and television shows. Roland has a graduate degree in physics and a PhD in engineering. Learn more about him and his work on www.rolandgeyer.com.