Tulane Law School's 13th Annual Environmental Conference

Tulane Law School's Environmental Conference on Law, Science & the Public Interest
April 4-5, 2008

The overarching theme this year is "Climate Change: In the Community and the Courtroom."

The Conference will feature panel discussions given by attorneys, professors, scientists, activists, and industry & agency representatives on topics including: water impacts of climate change, coal in the post-Mass v. EPA world, a biofuels debate, impacts of climate change on forests, sustainable civil planning, sea level rise & coastal risk, the Morganza Project, recent climate change litigation, impacts on various endangered species, Kyoto implementation, ocean acidification impacts of CO2 emissions, and impacts of climate change on indigenous communities.

Keynoting the Conference will be world-famous ethnobiologist, Dr. Mark J. Plotkin, who co-founded the Amazon Conservation Team; Jerome Ringo, Chair of the National Wildlife Federation and President of the Apollo Alliance; and Dr. Devra Davis, author of "The Secret History of the War on Cancer," who will be speaking about environmental impacts on human diseases.

Registration is free for Tulane students and faculty.
http://www.tulanelawenviro.org/
Or go straight to the event's remarkable program:
http://envirolaw.vesana.com/images/fliers/envconf13.pdf

RecycleMania on now until April 5

2008 is the second year that Tulane is competing in RecycleMania, a ten-week nationwide recycling competition among universities. Last year RecycleMania gave our campus recycling program a tremendous boost, as our recycling in 2007 nearly doubled and is now back at pre-Katrina levels.

Once again, Tulane will host an on-campus recycling competition between student teams, sponsored by the Office of University Services. The teams that collect and weigh-in the largest amount of recyclables will win prizes. This year's competition features prizes for small, medium and large teams of up to 50 students. Visit the Tulane RecycleMania Competition website to learn about the prizes and enroll your team.

RecycleMania measures how much we recycle and how much we waste. Watch for special Tulane reusable cups in the LBC. To learn more about the national event, visit the RecycleMania website. To volunteer help to Tulane's efforts, contact the Student Recycling Coordinators at recycle@tulane.edu.

Dr. David Campbell to speak on Biodiversity & Maya Gardens

On Thursday, February 14th from 12 noon to 1:15 p.m. on the third floor of Alcee Fortier, Dr. David Campbell of Grinnell College will be presenting a lecture entitled “The Ontogeny of a Feral Forest: Maya Domestic Gardens as Biodiversity Hotspots.”

We are honored to welcome Dr. Campbell, a professor of Biology, Henry R. Luce Professor in Nations and the Global Environment, and Chair of Environmental Studies at Grinnell, who received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He specializes in the ecology and species composition of tropical and subtropical forests. His work has taken him throughout the world with study sites in Belize, Southern China and the Brazilian Amazon with extensive research on the Maya Civilization.

Dr. Campbell is the acclaimed author of The Ephemeral Islands, The Crystal Desert, Islands in Space in Time, and A Land of Ghosts. His accomplishments have been merited with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Burroughs Medal, the PEN Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award, and the 2005 Lannan Award for Nonfiction.