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Thomas Lovejoy in Conversation

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Partner:: City Arts & Lectures
Location:: City Arts & Lectures
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 06.09.08
Speakers:: Thomas Lovejoy,; Kevin Welch
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Summary: Kevin Welch in conversation with Thomas Lovejoy.

Thomas Lovejoy is an innovative and accomplished conservation biologist who coined the term "biodiversity."

Since 2002, he has served as President of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment based in Washington, DC. Before assuming this position, Lovejoy was the World Bank's Chief Biodiversity Advisor and Lead Specialist for Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Senior Advisor to the President of the United Nations Foundation.

Spanning the political spectrum, Lovejoy has served on science and environmental councils under the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. At the core of his many influential positions are Lovejoy's seminal ideas, which have formed and strengthened the field of conservation biology.

In the 1980s, he brought international attention to the world's tropical rainforests, and in particular, the Brazilian Amazon, where he has worked since 1965. Lovejoy also developed the now ubiquitous "debt-for-nature" swap programs and led the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project.

He also founded the series Nature, the popular long-term series on public television. In 2001, Lovejoy was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement - City Arts & Lectures

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Thomas Lovejoy

Thomas Lovejoy is an innovative and accomplished conservation biologist who coined the term "biodiversity." Since 2002, he has served as President of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment based in Washington, DC.

Before assuming this position, Lovejoy was the World Bank's Chief Biodiversity Advisor and Lead Specialist for Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Senior Advisor to the President of the United Nations Foundation.

Kevin Welch

Kevin Welch is Manager of Lectures for California Academy of Sciences.

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01.: Brief History of Thomas Lovejoy

02 min 00 sec

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02.: Biodiversity Index

01 min 58 sec

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03.: Creating a Universal System

01 min 30 sec

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04.: Index and Marketing

03 min 06 sec

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05.: Carbon Markets

02 min 30 sec

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06.: Carbon vs. Biodiversity

04 min 06 sec

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07.: Exciting People on Biodiversity

02 min 49 sec

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08.: Efforts in Cataloging Species

01 min 11 sec

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Thomas Lovejoy Pits Carbon Against Biodiversity

04 min 19 sec

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Thomas Lovejoy argues that we oversimplify global warming to carbon pollution at the expense of biodiversity.

Valuing a plant for its carbon, Lovejoy responds, is like valuing a computer chip only for its silicon.

Lovejoy says that ignoring the complexity of ecosystems -- or our "magnificent living library" -- greatly hinders our own development as a species.
Thomas Lovejoy Rallies for Biological Age of Exploration

02 min 41 sec

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Thomas Lovejoy explains how we can benefit from harnessing and understanding all the "living wonders" of biodiversity.

Drawing from the example of curare, Lovejoy champions for a "major age" of environmental exploration which would both benefit us and the fragile ecosystems.
Thomas Lovejoy on Marketing for Biodiversity

03 min 08 sec

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Thomas Lovejoy analyzes the potential to harness market forces to protect the "great tropical forests of the world."

Lovejoy hopes that indexing biodiversity may lead to greater environmental protection.
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