Chicago Council on Science and Technology

The dependence on oil and other fossil fuels for over 80% of our energy and the continued emission of carbon dioxide threatening stable climate are captured in a single term: sustainability.

The use of fracking to produce shale oil and shale gas has the potential to make the United States largely independent of foreign sources of natural gas and significantly less dependent on foreign sources of oil.

Join C2ST and experience physics with a bang! Then ask current researchers in astronomy, physics and chemistry your burning science questions.

This program is composed of two parts addressing the causes and effects of obesity. In part I, Chicago-based scientists will present the current science of obesity, describing the various ways obesity harms the body, how our food choices can impact our health and the different health-determinant patterns locally and nationally.

This program is composed of two parts addressing the causes and effects of obesity. Part 2 of the program features keynote speaker Bechara Choucair, M.D., Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, who will highlight the obesity problem and present his vision for a healthier Chicago.