75 Years of the CWA
The Conference on World Affairs (CWA) celebrated its 75th anniversary with a focus on climate change this April 12–14. Panelists from all over the world held discussions within topics ranging from urban planning and food production to the Colorado River crisis. Speakers included Rose Marcario, former CEO of Patagonia, and Jim Lochhead, CEO and manager of Denver Water. 4,000 registrants attended the three-day conference either in person or virtually.
Award-winning environmental photographer and filmmaker James Balog (Geog’77) served as keynote speaker. He shared a photo, pictured, that he and CIRES physicist Patrick Cullis took at 76,000 feet using a camera attached to a weather balloon in 2017.
“It’s looking down on Denver in the bottom part of the photo, out through the atmosphere and into the blackness of space,” he said. “It was our little photo art performance piece to see, feel and experience how thin the atmosphere is.”
Photo by Glen Asakawa