MADISON – A bold, all-out effort like America's spectacularly successful Apollo program, which repeatedly landed men on the moon in the 1960s and '70s, could simultaneously solve the nation's energy woes, revitalize its industrial economy, and alleviate climate change.
That's the take-home message of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, social justice, and environmental leaders aiming for sustainable American energy independence within a decade.
Joel Rogers, co-founder and first chair of the organization, will outline its bold vision in a public lecture, "The Apollo Alliance: How Global Warming Can Save Democracy," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium, 816 State Street.
Rogers is a professor of law, political science, and sociology at UW-Madison. He also is founder and director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) and of the John R. Commons Center on state policy innovation.
A contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review and a MacArthur Foundation fellow, Rogers has been cited by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.
His talk, part of the Gaylord Nelson Retrospective Lecture Series, honoring the late Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator, is sponsored by the Nelson Institute with support from the Holstrom Environmental Endowment.
For more information about the lecture, contact Tom Sinclair, 263-5599, tksincla@wisc.edu.