MAR 26, 2013 PROGRAM:
Future Earth

Posted by Sherry Howe

on Mar 26, 2013

What will Earth be like in 2050 with 9 billion people? No one knows. But as the healthiest, wealthiest, most educated and most connected population in Earth's history, we're in a good position to face the challenges ahead. Join us in exploring Future Earth!

Patrick Hamilton is the Director of Global Change Initiatives at the Science Museum of Minnesota. He also is a Principal Investigator with the University of Minnesota’s National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, a Resident Fellow of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and a Board Director of District Energy St. Paul.

Patrick has been producing energy and environmental exhibits and programs for the Museum for 29 years. In recent years, these projects have included Water, an international traveling exhibition developed in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History; the Big Back Yard, the museum’s outdoor environmental science park, and Science House, the museum’s net-zero energy building.

Patrick’s current project is Future Earth – exhibits and programs that explore the implications of humans as the dominant agents of global change. Away from the museum, Patrick and his wife J. like to kayak and grow organic, blue-ribbon-winning plums and peaches at their home in Saint Paul.