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                                                  Dr. Walter Stahel will be the guest speaker at the
                                                  16th annual Chung-Watson Free Lecture Series

                                                  in Business Ethics
                                                  Thursday, April 8th 4:00 - 6:00 pm in the Kate Buchanan Room
                                                

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Mr. Stahel is considered by many as one of the founding fathers of modern industrial sustainability, mainly for his ground breaking 1979 research into the relationship between manpower and energy use in which it was discovered that roughly three-quarters of all industrial energy consumption is associated with the extraction and/or production of basic materials. 

To spread awareness of his discovery, Mr. Stahel coined the term "cradle-to-cradle' and co-founded the Product Life Institute in Geneva, Switzerland (Europe's oldest sustainability based research center and think tank) and wrote The Performance Economy. 

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