On Friday, Feb. 21st from 12:30-1:30, we are offering a seminar by Marcin Jakubowski in ME1051. Feel free to send the flyer out to anyone with interest in a Sustainable Civilization! Please see Dr. Jakubowski's Bio below. Marcin Jakubowski is a Polish-American who came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his Ph.D. in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)—an open source tool set of 50 industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts. His work has recently been recognized as a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, in Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2012, as a 2013 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and a White House Champion of Change in 2013. Please also look for a follow-up email with an abstract of the topic of the Seminar. I apprecaite your attention and look forward to your attendance and collaboration! Best Regards, Justin S. Richter ------ richtej@purdue.edu<mailto:richtej@purdue.edu> PhD Student Ecological Sciences and Engineering EcoVillage Lead