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  • What’s an origami artist got to do with us?

    Event, Partnerships, climate change | (1)

    In solidarity with CI’s commitment to tropical forest protection for global climate change mitigation, physicist-turned-origami-artist Dr. Robert J. Lang will be building a paper forest in NYC's Greeley Square beginning this coming Sunday (September 20th). The creation of the forest will culminate in our highly-anticipated press conference Monday morning, where leaders in government, business and other fields will come together to rally support for collective action for the world's forests. So how does one go from rocket scientist to origami artist? Dr. Robert J. Lang's career progression may seem unusual, but his background in physics remains at the core of ...