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Wm. A. Stewart Lecture & Reception featuring Mark Lynas

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Wm. A. Stewart Lecture & Reception featuring Mark Lynas

Time: April 4, 2013 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: London Convention Centre
City/Town: London, ON
Website or Map: http://www.aalp.on.ca/event.a…
Phone: 519-826-4204
Event Type: fundraiser
Organized By: Rural Ontario Institute in support of AALP
Latest Activity: Mar 26, 2013

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“Changing Perspectives on the World Stage” featuring British author and journalist Mark Lynas
Tickets: $100 per person

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Comment by OntAG Admin on March 26, 2013 at 2:39pm

Mark Lynas

Award Winning Journalist, Author, Environmentalist, 
Oxford University Visiting Research Associate, and former GMO critic

will be the  keynote speaker for the 

2013 William A. Stewart Public Lecture

You may not recognize the name but this global leader who formerly opposed GMOs recently publicly reversed his position on the importance of technology and modern agriculture at a conference in England in early January 2013.  

You can listen to his January 3, 2013 address at http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conferen... .

The 2013 William A. Stewart Public Lecture
 
will be held on
 
Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
 
at the
 
London Convention Centre
  
 
 

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