Exeter, NH (December 5, 2007)—On Friday, December 7, at 2:00 p.m., Phillips Exeter Academy’s Sustainability Program will host a talk given by David Sandalow, an Energy and Environment Scholar at the Brookings Institution. The talk will be held in the Academy Center’s Forum on Tan Lane and is free and open to the public.

Sandalow is an expert on energy policy and global warming who served in the Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science, and as a Senior Director on the staff of the National Security Council. He is the author of Freedom from Oil: How the Next President Can End the U.S. Oil Addiction and has contributed to Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Al Gore’s national presentation on global warming and climate change. Sandalow will arrive on campus driving a plug-in hybrid Prius.

For further information, please contact Jennifer Wilhelm, PEA’s Sustainability Coordinator at (603) 777-3765. A complete list of sustainability events is available on the Phillips Exeter Academy website at http://www.exeter.edu/comm/866_834.aspx. For directions to Phillips Exeter Academy, call (603) 777-4330.

Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, students come from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. The diverse student body comes from approximately 45 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and 23 foreign countries.