APRIL 22, 2010
What are you doing on Earth Day?
From the Udall Center and NNI staff, here's a selection of our personal, professional, and
community-level connections to the planet during Earth Week and beyond.
Laura Lopez-Hoffman spoke on U.S.-Mexico
transboundary conservation at the Environmental Law Students Earth Week lecture series at the UA Rogers College of Law (April 21). [more]
Anne Browning-Aiken will "attend" a teleconference on
water basin governance and the Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy
program hosted by UNESCO's International Hydrology Programme (April 23). [more]
Robert Merideth will be far afield in southern Arizona
this weekend as part of the annual Birdathon fundraiser for the Tucson Audubon
Society and for which his team, AveVentura, aspires to see more than 100
species of birds (April 24). [more]
Chrys
Gakopoulos, among others, will this week hike and enjoy
nature and the outdoors, especially taking advantage of the
free
admission to the national parks during National Parks Week (April 17-25). [more]
Christopher Scott will speak at a "data blitz" hosted by UA ADVANCE on the topic of
water-borne, infectious gastrointestinal diseases (April
26). [more]
Robert Varady is preparing his talk "Global Water
Governance: Confronting Aridity, Climate Change, and Transboundary
Conflict," which he will present as the Weston Distinguished Lecture in
Global Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Nelson Institute
for Environmental Studies (April 29). [more]
Margaret Wilder, who is carpooling and walking to work
this week in honor of Earth Week, is planning a workshop on adaptive water
management in the U.S.-Mexico border region (May 7) and is preparing a
talk, "Research, Networks, and Collaboration: Shaping Governance Strategies for
the Colorado River Delta," for presentation at the symposium, Marine and
Freshwater Law and Governance, hosted by the University of California, Irvine
(May 14). [more]
Ian Record is completing the documentary film,
"Return of the Red Lake Walleye," which tells the story of the efforts of the Red Lake Band of
Chippewa Indians to nurse its prized walleye back to health, for a debut showing in Minnesota and Arizona (May or June). [more]
Other Udall Center and NNI staff members will be attending one or more UA campus events on April 22 (Earth Day),
such as:
- Climate Wise Women forum (co-sponsored by the Udall Center) [more]
- Carbon Down Festival on
the UA mall [more]
The earth around the Udall Center has been transformed by Students for Sustainability into the Garden in the
Desert, or "One Tree Garden," a demonstration garden to show other students how to grow their
own food. [more]
SEE ALSO:
Udall Center Environmental Policy Programs [more]
Udall Center Environmental Policy Publications [more]
Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy [more]
ECR2010 (U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution) [more]
On the History of Earth Day (and its founder, Gaylord Nelson) [more]
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