#96-10-20
For Release: 10-20-96
Contact: Peter Bailley

Christopher Flavin, senior vice president and director of research at Worldwatch Institute, will present the 1996 Bohan Lecture, "Beyond Fossil Fuels: Fueling the Economy Without Heating the Greenhouse," at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, Common Room, Old Main, Knox College.

Flavin directs Worldwatch Institute's research program, which focuses on energy resource, technology, and policy issues. The Institute is a non-profit organization devoted to the analysis of global resource and environmental issues. Flavin has published 10 Worldwatch papers, contributes annually to the State of the World report, and has published articles in over 50 popular and scholarly periodicals.

Flavin has studied climate change, sustainable energy and economics, and the development of new energy sources. He has testified before U.S. congressional committees and at parliamentary hearings in Canada, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Flavin has also served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program.

A graduate of Williams College, cum laude and with highest honors, Flavin has a B.A. in economics and biology, and a certificate in environmental studies.

The Bohan Lecture at Knox College is sponsored by an endowment fund established in memory of Peter T. Bohan, a member of the Knox Class of 1946.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.