Eighth Annual Symposium on Environmental Affairs

October 10-13, 2009
Lewis & Clark College

Monday, October 10

Panel Session: Beyond the Resource Wars
3:30 PM, Templeton Student Center

Speakers:
Brent Brownscombe, Hells Canyon Preservation Council
Gloria Flora, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions
John Lamoreau, Union Country Board of Commissioners

Keynote Address: Living the Landscape: Response and Responsibility

7:30 PM, Templeton Student Center
Speaker: Gloria Flora; Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions

Tuesday, October 11

Panel Session: Local Food and the Local Economy
3:30 PM, Templeton Student Center

Speakers:
Matt Emlem, Office of Sustainable Development, City of Portland
Christina Grace, East Bank Farmers Market
Jenn Louis, Culinary Artistry
Ramone Ramirez, PCUN (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United)

Panel Session: Water in the Developing World
7:30 PM, Templeton Student Center

Speakers:
Carlos Cardenas, Mercy Corps
Aviva Imhoff, International Rivers Network Asia Program
Luis Metzger Terrazas, Peruvian National Meteorology and Hydrology Service

Wednesday, October 12

Panel Session: Trying on a Sustainable Life: The Tryon Life Community Farm
3:30 PM, Templeton Student Center

Speakers:
Bruce Podobnik, Lewis & Clark College
Tryon Life Community members

Thursday, October 13

Panel Session: Art and the Environmental Movement
3:30 PM, Templeton Student Center

Speakers:
Sam Bower, GreenMuseum.org
Robert Glenn Ketchum, photographer
Anne-Katrin Spiess, artist

Keynote Address: Let My People Go Surfing, The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
7:30 PM, Templeton Student Center

Speaker: Yvon Chouinard, Founder, Patagonia and 1% for the Planet