Feb 27, 2015 1 min read

Washington & Jefferson College will present another installment of its Energy Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Monday in 100 Dieter-Porter Hall.

The free lecture will feature Daniel Bryan, a global educator, executive director of the Pachayasana Institute, and an instructor at the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.

Bryan’s lecture is entitled, “A Balancing Act: Comparing Local Realities and Global Interests Between the Ecuadorian Rainforest and the Marcellus Shale Region.”

He will address the commonality of experiences of communities facing natural resource development in Ecuador and in southwestern Pennsylvania and the lessons that can be gleaned from the shared experiences.

Bryan’s talk will be followed on March 10 by a previously scheduled lecture by Jorge Pinon, the Director of Latin America and Caribbean Program, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. The Pinon lecture, “Energy Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean,” will address energy development and consumption trends in Latin America and the Caribbean and the economic and geopolitical developments those trends engender.

Pinon’s lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Yost Auditorium at the Burnett Center.