climate : CHANGE

Several St. Lawrence faculty and staff members have come together to plan a multi-day campus conference on climate change for March 21-25, 2011. Entitled "climate: CHANGE: acting together on sustainability, climate change and environmental justice," the event will engage faculty, students, staff, and the surrounding community. The conference will feature notable presenters on environmental issues: Michelle Roberts, Foster Brown, Jerry Jenkins and Bill McKibben and will include a poster competition for local middle and high school students on issues of climate change, a film festival dealing with social and environmental issues and an art installation with recycled materials.

Michelle Roberts, Campaign & Policy Coordinator for Advocates for Environmental Human Rights in Washington, D.C., will be our first presenter; her talk is entitled "The Politics of Climate Change: Innovative Legal Justice Advocacy."

Foster Brown, environmental geochemist and senior scientist, Woods Hole Institute, is coming to give a talk on "Climate Change and Its Synergies With Global Environmental Change."

Jerry Jenkins, who is the founder & director of the White Creek Field School and an expert in botanical survey and forest ecology, will present on "Climate Change in the Adirondacks."

Author, leading environmentalist, and Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College Bill McKibben will speak on "Global and Local: Updates from the Climate Fight."

Each day of the conference will include presentations, programs, and classroom visits, as well as open events such as lectures and panel discussions.

Quick Links:

• PDF of the schedule below
• Map of Campus Locations
• Information for visitors to to SLU campus

Information for Visitors to Campus:

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