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GREENPEACE ACTIVIST-GONE-NUCLEAR PATRICK MOORE TO LECTURE

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Patrick Moore -- a leader and co-founder of Greenpeace International in the early seventies and an activist today in favor of nuclear power -- will discuss his environmental conversion Monday, April 6, when he lectures at Northwestern University.

Patrick’s remarks, which will be followed by a question-and-answer session, will take place at 6 p.m. in McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston. As part of the Medill School of Journalism’s Crain Lecture Series, the event is free and open to the public.

After leading Greenpeace International for 15 years and being part of the inaugural mission in 1971 that protested nuclear tests in the Aleutian Islands, Moore severed his ties with the environmental group and became an outspoken advocate of nuclear energy. This month he was awarded the National Award for Nuclear Science from the Einstein Society in Albuquerque.

In “From Greenpeace to CASEnergy: Why I Took Another Look at Nuclear Power,” Moore will explain the reasons behind his departure from Greenpeace and his advocacy today of nuclear energy. In an interview with Newsweek International almost a year ago, Moore pointed, with optimism, to a “nuclear renaissance.”

Moore today is chair and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies, a consulting group that focuses on environmental policy and communications in forestry, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, biodiversity, energy and climate change.

The admission-free Crain Lecture Series is named in honor of magazine publishers Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr. For further information about the upcoming event, call (847) 491-5401.