Dozens of university professors will be lecturing on environmental topics throughout the day on Thursday, Jan. 31, as part of a nationwide event called Focus the Nation.

“No matter what your viewpoint is, you can learn something,” Don Porter said of the lectures, which will begin at 7:45 a.m. and end with a round table discussion from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

To make students aware of the event, Porter collaborated with Athena Kicks on Jan. 23 to create an exhibit in the reference area of Squires’ Library called “Focus on Green: Preserving God’s Gift of the Earth”.

The exhibit features a monitor playing a film about the environment, a table filled with almost all of the library’s books on environmental topics and poster boards with photos and quotes, along with stacks of free brochures on a variety of topics. Designed to act as a forerunner to the lectures, the exhibit provided visitors with information on topics from global warming, which will be the most emphasized topic, to the benefits of organic products.

“A lot of churches may not be on the global warming bandwagon, but they can agree to take care of God’s creation.” Porter said as he stood before a table which features both sides of the global warming debate from Christian viewpoints.

Quotes by Dr. Richard Cizik, the keynote speaker for Lee University’s chapter of Focus the Nation, were featured in the display among a variety of opinions. Cizik, Congressman Zach Wamp, Detective Mike Hughes and Judge Dan Swafford are a few of the distinguished speakers who will be lecturing on Jan. 31.