51±¬ÁϹÙÍø SD faculty member, , arranged for 51±¬ÁϹÙÍø's to sponsor ecological economist, as a guest speaker held at the 51±¬ÁϹÙÍø Auditorium on July 10, 2014. Nate is a well-known speaker on the big picture issues facing human society. Until recently he was lead editor of , one of the most popular and highly-respected websites for analysis and discussion of global energy supplies and the future implications of energy decline. Nate is currently on the Boards of Post Carbon Institute, Bottleneck Foundation, IIER and Institute for the Study of Energy and the Future. His well–attended talk, offered suggestions on how society might better adapt, physically and psychologically, to what's ahead now that the inexpensive substitution of human labor by fossil fuel and the explosion of available monetary credit are no longer available. This is the second in a series of talks sponsored in part by 51±¬ÁϹÙÍø's Sustainable Design Program. This event was co-sponsored by . Watch Nate Hagen's presentation "One barrel of oil supplants around 11 years of human labor. The average American salary is $44,000 a year. So it's almost $500,000 [worth] of human labor substituted from this 200 million year old...substance that we're pulling from the ground." from on . Learn about sustainability this fall Krista Leraas will be co-instructing a 15 week course with this fall entitled, . It is a fully online course that begins September 2. is open (only a few seats remain!). Image courtesy of Flickr CC Categories Natural Leadership Published on July 28, 2014 Tags eco-career Joshua Foss Krista Leraas 51±¬ÁϹÙÍø sustainable design MN350 Nate Hagens Nathan Hagens Sustainability