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The Polson Institute for Global Development Presents:

Pathways to Transformative Change:
A Long and Winding Road to a Low Carbon Future?

6 p.m. Thursday, April 25701 Clark Hall

An Engaged Conversation with:

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Liz Walker, Co-Founder and Executive Director of EcoVillage at Ithaca, and

David Kay, Research Associate, Department of Development Sociology

 "There are people who say that it is not revolution, but evolution, that brings about change - but evolution is simply the term used by nonparticipants to denote a particular sequence of revolutions as they synthesized into a specific major social change."   Saul Alinsky

 

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Spring 2013 Call for Proposals

The Polson Institute small grant program is designed to support activities in the field of development at different spatial scales, as well as special lectures, workshops and seminars. Click here to read the Call for Proposals.

The Polson Institute does not fund dissertation or pre-dissertation research. 

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