#96-10-05
For Release: 10-02-96
Contact: Peter Bailley

Environmental economics specialist Charles Komanoff will present a free, public lecture, "Bikes, Cars and Air Pollution," at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25 in the Common Room, Old Main on the Knox College campus.

Komanoff is a consultant, analyst and author on the economics of electric utilities, nuclear power and transportation. His recent book, The Bicycle Blueprint: A Plan to Bring Bicycling into the Mainstream in New York City, is heralded for its public policy approach to bicycle transportation. He is currently director of Komanoff Energy Associates, an energy and economic consulting firm in New York City. He also works with other consulting firms and advocacy organizations in Boston and New York.

Komanoff received his B.A. degree in Applied Mathematics with honors from Harvard College in 1968. He has been widely published and has provided expert testimony in court on environmental economics issues. His lecture is presented as part of the Environmental Economics Seminar class offered this term by economics professor Steve Cohn.

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.