Greens hosting lecture series in Vernon

By Staff Writer - Vernon Morning Star Published: February 26, 2012 1:00 AM

The Okanagan Shuswap Green Party kicks off its guest professor series Monday.  The opening speaker is UBC professor Dr. Hans Schreier from the faculty of land and food systems.  Schreier will present Watersheds, Food Security and Climate Change Science Monday at 7 p.m. in the Schubert Centre.
Admission is by donation. Schreier’s research focuses on watershed management, land-water interactions, soil and water pollution and geographic information systems.  He has worked extensively in watershed studies in the Himalayan and Andean regions, in Brazil, Honduras, Vietnam, Mongolia and British Columbia.  On March 12, Dr. Ross Hickley, a UBC professor of tax and public economics will speak on Taxation, CEO Salaries and Leveling Income Equality. And on April 2, Dr. John Janmatt will lecture on Tarring The Spirit Bears: Pipelines, People and Profits. All lectures are presented by the Okanagan-Shuswap Green Party Association.
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