Climate Change: Science, Culture and the Regional Response
January 24 – 25, 2008
Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus
Opening Keynote: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save our Civilization
Janet Larsen, Director of Research at the Earth Policy Institute
**The first 150 attendees at the keynote on January 24th will receive a complimentary copy of the just released book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. The book will be available for purchase at a discount on Friday, January 25th at the conference ($10 per book)**
Morning Keynote: Global Warming: The Gap Between Science and Policy
Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University, and lead author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report.
Interdisciplinary Roundtable: Political and Cultural Response: The Problem of the Problem
Moderated by Andy Revkin of The New York Times, the Roundtable will discuss cultural apathy to the climate change crisis. Discussants include Spencer Weart of the American Institute of Physics' History Center, Lexi Shultz of the Union for Concerned Scientists' Climate Program, and Edward Morris of The Canary Project.
Panel - Climate Change Impacts on the Region: Manhattan to Lake Tear of the Clouds: Impacts on the Hudson Valley
Panel experts will present information about regional impacts and adaptation.
William Solecki, Department of Geography at CUNY Hunter College - Climate Change and the New York Metropolitan Region: Process, Impacts, and Adaptation
Jennifer Phillips, Environmental Policy at Bard College - Perceptions, Vulnerabilities and Responses to Climate Change by Farmers in the Hudson Valley
Brian Troy, Con Edison and Pace Law School - How Con Edison of New York is Addressing Climate Change
Esther Siskind, NYCDEP - Climate Change and New York City's Water Supply and Wastewater Drainage Systems
Peter Iwanowicz, Climate Change Office, NYSDEC - Climate Change in New York
Focus the Nation:
The Environmental Consortium's 5th annual conference is also the regional Focus the Nation kick-off event! If you are organizing a Focus the Nation event on your campus, this conference will provide an interdisciplinary perspective on climate change. Eban Goodstein, Project Director for FTN will join us via SightSpeed to answer your questions.
Book Room:
Over 40 titles of books will be for sale during the conference, with emphasis on climate change as well as interdisciplinary regional books about the Hudson River Valley.
Manifest Destiny on Display:
A full digital reproduction of the 8 ft x 24 ft mural, Manifest Destiny, by artist Alexis Rockman will be on display throughout the conference. This panoramic landscape mural represents downtown Brooklyn in the year 5000, after three millennia of global warming have transformed the borough into a vast floodplain. From the Brooklyn Bridge to the Brooklyn Museum, familiar landmarks are submerged, humans are absent, and a new geology hosts migrant life from the tropics.
Full conference agenda and downloadable registration form are available at: http://environmentalconsortium.org/news/january2008conference/home.htm.
CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS:
Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities
Fordham University
Pace University
The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries
Nature-Network
INQUIRIES:
Contact the Environmental Consortium at 914-773-3738 or info@environmentalconsortium.org