Strategies for Shaping a Sustainable Future
THINK B.I.G. Thursday, April 24 – Saturday, April 26, 2008
A grassroots campus initiative offering students and community the opportunity
to reflect on the green movement and generate new ideas for the future.
This conference specifically aims to bring attention to the connections between seemingly different practices and industries that have all aligned to work on climate change and sustainability issues.
At Brown is Green: Strategies for Shaping a Sustainable Future, we will bring together a wide range of leaders, from CEOs to politicians to grassroots community activists, in order to assemble and cultivate the connections between the many differing approaches, perspectives, and industries that are working on environmental sustainability.
This campus-wide event will encourage students and representatives from the community to reflect on current approaches, and to work with leading business, political, academic, and activist figures to discuss and develop new ideas.
On-line registration is now available for this conference. While registration is not required, it is encouraged so that event planners can secure the space required to accommodate all attendees and allow them to contact you in the event of changes to the agenda. You will not be asked to provide your confirmation receipt at the events.
AGENDA
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Hillel House
6 – 7:30 pm, Panel: Voices of the World: An International Perspective on Climate
Edenise Garcia, Senior Environmental Scientist, Jacques Whitford Axys Ltd., Canada; Bala Ram Kandel, Senior Community Forestry Officer, Department of Forests, Nepal; Jasjit Singh Walia, Watson Institue Scholar of the Environment; Rahanna Juman, Research Officer (Wetlands Ecology), Institute of Marine Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago
Thursday, April 24 to Saturday, April 25
Ongoing Exposition “Selections from the Elm Tree Project”
Hillel Gallery Project
Glen and Darcy Weiner Hillel Center
80 Brown Street
Gallery hours: th-f, 9 am-11 pm, sat 10 am - 8 pm
On December 22, 2003, one of Brown's majestic elm trees had to be removed from where it stood for over 80 years, due to extensive damage from Dutch Elm Disease. The Elm Tree Project offers students, faculty and staff an opportunity to enter into discussion and critical investigation of the tree, its context, and its impact culturally, environmentally, and aesthetically.
Friday, April 25, 2008
The College Green
11 am – 2 pm: Think B.I.G. and get your enviro-friendly conference water bottle
Make a statement and bring your empty plastic water bottles for recycling
Leung Gallery, Faunce House
2:30 pm, Lecture: Leaders of the Movement
Adam Werbach ’95, Global CEO, Saatchi and Saatchi S.; former president, Sierra Club; and international board member, Greenpeace
the 4 pm Address from the governor is cancelled
4:30 pm, Lecture: The World Around Us: Global Environmental Change
Stephen Schneider, Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
5:30 pm, Keynote: Climate Change
Turning Words into Action, Ira Magaziner, Chairman of the Clinton Climate Initiative and the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
6:45 pm, Panel: Responses from Rhode Island Legislators
Moderator: Cynthia Giles, Vice President and Director, Advocacy Center, Conservation Law Foundation, RI Chapter, Panel: Frank Caprio, Rhode Island State Treasurer David Cicilline, Mayor, the city of Providence Sheldon Whitehouse, US Senator (D, RI)
9:30 pm: Green Cinema on the Green
All are welcome for a screening of Into the Wild, on the College Green. Bring a blanket for seating.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Sayles Hall, The College Green
1 pm Panel: Sustainable Design and Emerging Clean Technologies: Engineering a New World
Moderator: Julie Hill, retired Chair and CEO, Costain Homes, US and Lend Lease corporate board member, Panel: Douglas Mass, President, Cosentini Associates; John Picard, green architect and key member of Clinton’s “Greening of the White House” project; Alex Wilson, President, BuildingGreen publications
2:30 pm, Panel: Responsible Communities: Our University, Our City, Our State, Our Country, Our World
Moderator: Jennifer Baumstein ’08, Panel: Art Handy, Sustainable RI Coordinator, Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living; Nat Harris, Production Manager, Newport Biodiesel; Joshua Miller, Rhode Island State Senator; Russell Preston, Design Associate, Cornish Associates
4 pm, Panel: Emerging Green Business: Opportunities of Tomorrow
Moderator: Mary Catherine Lader ’08, Panel: Steve Glenn, CEO, LivingHomes; Rob Berridge, Manager of Investor Programs, Ceres; Julie Hill, retired Chair and CEO, Costain Homes, US and Lend Lease corporate board member
5 pm, Lecture: Green the Ghetto
Dwaine Lee, Field Manager, B.E.S.T. (Bronx Environmental Steward Training)
7:00 pm–8:30 pm, Dinner: Eat B.I.G. and Celebrate!
Food grown and supplied by local farms and distributers will be served. Presentation by Iva Spitzer, Wildlife Photographer and Conservationalist.
On-line registration is now available for this conference.
This conference is being sponsored by:
The Brown is Green Coalition; Office of the President; ECI; CES; emPOWER; UCS