Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a discussion of Population, Health, and Environment in Nepal
featuring
Rishi Bastakoti, Director, Resource Identification and Management Society Nepal (RIMS Nepal)
Jon Miceler, Managing Director, Eastern Himalayas, World Wildlife Fund
Thursday, March 19, 2009
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
5th Floor Conference Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Webcast live at www.wilsoncenter.org
Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.
Like many developing countries, Nepal faces serious challenges, including poverty, a growing population, natural resource constraints, and poor access to basic health services. Some areas of Nepal have successfully organized community groups of forest users to address these and other challenges. In this event, we will hear how efforts to integrate population, health, and environment (PHE) programs and coordinate different organizations have improved the management of natural resources and people’s health.
Rishi Bastakoti, director of RIMS Nepal, will present the successes and challenges that his integrated PHE program has experienced in Dhading and Bardia, Nepal. Jon Miceler, managing director of Eastern Himalayas programs at WWF-US, will discuss community conservation in Nepal, including the role of health in ensuring the long-term viability of environmental programs. He will also discuss WWF’s PHE programs in the Terai Arc Landscape.
Rishi Bastakoti is the director and co-founder of Resource Identification and Management Society Nepal (RIMS Nepal). He started his professional career at a USAID-funded community development and forestry project, Dhading Resource Management Project, where he worked for three years as Community Forestry Officer. He is the editor of the book, Chepang: Food Culture and Agro-Biodiversity, and received a master’s degree from Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
Jon Miceler is managing director for the World Wildlife Fund's Eastern Himalaya Program and advisor to the WWF China's Upper Yangtze River Watershed program. He has studied and worked throughout the Himalaya since first landing in Nepal as a university student in 1988. In the early 1990s, he founded the first foreign ecotourism company ever based in Lhasa, Tibet. He has produced four documentary films on topics ranging from Himalayan exploration to the reopening of the old Burma Road. His latest book is Tribal Worlds of the Eastern Himalaya and Indo-Burma Borderlands. He holds a master’s degree from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree from University of Colorado, Boulder.
If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building: 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC, USA ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th Floor Conference Room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Photo identification is required to enter the building. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
EPA Student Summer Employment Opportunities
The EPA Student Summer Employment Opportunities Web site is now up and running.
The site provides a centralized Web portal through which students may enter to learn about EPA offices and summer employment opportunities. Having a central portal makes it easier for students to find information about specific work areas of interest. They also are able to submit job applications directly to the EPA offices with vacancies. The direct link to the Summer Employment Opportunities Web site is
http://www.epa.gov/ohr/student/. It will be available until May 29, 2009.
The Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) is used to hire most summer students and requires no formal competition. Hiring managers within each advertizing office will screen and select applicants for their positions. To qualify, students must be 1) enrolled in an accredited high school, college, university, or technical or vocational school; 2) in good academic standing with at least a GPA of "C" or its equivalent; 3) at least age 16; and 4) a United States citizen.
The site provides a centralized Web portal through which students may enter to learn about EPA offices and summer employment opportunities. Having a central portal makes it easier for students to find information about specific work areas of interest. They also are able to submit job applications directly to the EPA offices with vacancies. The direct link to the Summer Employment Opportunities Web site is
http://www.epa.gov/ohr/student/. It will be available until May 29, 2009.
The Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP) is used to hire most summer students and requires no formal competition. Hiring managers within each advertizing office will screen and select applicants for their positions. To qualify, students must be 1) enrolled in an accredited high school, college, university, or technical or vocational school; 2) in good academic standing with at least a GPA of "C" or its equivalent; 3) at least age 16; and 4) a United States citizen.
Action Against Mountaintop removal
Hello friends,
There are two important things your group can do to help end mountaintop removal this week and next week -- the first is sending a letter, on your letterhead, to Lisa Jackson asking the EPA to put an immediate moratorium on mountaintop removal permits under the Clean Water Act -- this is important, as a recent court ruling has opened up 100 new permits that would destroy over 200 miles of streams -- and the EPA has the power to stop that destruction. The letter is attached, with contact info included, feel free to adapt for your own group. It would be ideal to have the letter sent in via email or fax this week or next. Please let me know if you do send a letter in to the EPA.
The second important thing is passing forward an action alert next Tuesday, March 17th. We are having a call in day to support the 150+ citizens who will be in Washington next week lobbying for the Clean Water Protection Act HR 1310 -- if you have an action alert list, or just a list of interested people or list-servs who might have a few minutes to call in or send an email, please pass it along next Tuesday. A sample call in day email blast is attached.
It's an exciting time for those working to end mountaintop removal coal mining -- but it's also become more important to show the new administration that the grassroots outcry against mountaintop removal is more powerful than the coal lobby.
Thanks so much for all you do! Please let me know if you have any questions.
PS--Please let me know if you'll be in DC to join us for any part of the End Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington!
Thanks again for your support!
Dana Kuhnline
Alliance for Appalachia
PO Box 11701
Charleston, WV 25339
Call: (304) 546-8473
Fax: (304) 342-3183
Dana@TheAllianceForAppalachia.org
www.ilovemountains.org
www.theallianceforappalachia.org
There are two important things your group can do to help end mountaintop removal this week and next week -- the first is sending a letter, on your letterhead, to Lisa Jackson asking the EPA to put an immediate moratorium on mountaintop removal permits under the Clean Water Act -- this is important, as a recent court ruling has opened up 100 new permits that would destroy over 200 miles of streams -- and the EPA has the power to stop that destruction. The letter is attached, with contact info included, feel free to adapt for your own group. It would be ideal to have the letter sent in via email or fax this week or next. Please let me know if you do send a letter in to the EPA.
The second important thing is passing forward an action alert next Tuesday, March 17th. We are having a call in day to support the 150+ citizens who will be in Washington next week lobbying for the Clean Water Protection Act HR 1310 -- if you have an action alert list, or just a list of interested people or list-servs who might have a few minutes to call in or send an email, please pass it along next Tuesday. A sample call in day email blast is attached.
It's an exciting time for those working to end mountaintop removal coal mining -- but it's also become more important to show the new administration that the grassroots outcry against mountaintop removal is more powerful than the coal lobby.
Thanks so much for all you do! Please let me know if you have any questions.
PS--Please let me know if you'll be in DC to join us for any part of the End Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington!
Thanks again for your support!
Dana Kuhnline
Alliance for Appalachia
PO Box 11701
Charleston, WV 25339
Call: (304) 546-8473
Fax: (304) 342-3183
Dana@TheAllianceForAppalachia.org
www.ilovemountains.org
www.theallianceforappalachia.org
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Poverty and Water Quality Talks: March 11th and 15th, 2009
Politics and Prose:
PETER SINGER
Wednesday, March 11, 7 p.m.
THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE
(Random House, $22)
The philosopher and ethicist believes that we can end world poverty now, and he offers a seven-point plan for doing so, one built on a combination of personal philanthropy, local activism, and political awareness.
Newseum:
Inside Media: Our Water Quality
Guest: Hedrick Smith
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009
Location: Documentary Theater, Concourse Level, 2:30 p.m.
How have 35 years of the Clean Water Act impacted our environment?
Join Emmy Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Hedrick Smith for a discussion about his new documentary "Poisoned Waters," a revealing look at the fragile condition of the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound.
Smith is also an Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent, author of several best-selling books and creator of 20 award-winning PBS prime-time specials and miniseries.
"Inside Media," produced by the Newseum and held in the Knight TV Studio, is open to the public. Seating is on a space-available basis.
PETER SINGER
Wednesday, March 11, 7 p.m.
THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE
(Random House, $22)
The philosopher and ethicist believes that we can end world poverty now, and he offers a seven-point plan for doing so, one built on a combination of personal philanthropy, local activism, and political awareness.
Newseum:
Inside Media: Our Water Quality
Guest: Hedrick Smith
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009
Location: Documentary Theater, Concourse Level, 2:30 p.m.
How have 35 years of the Clean Water Act impacted our environment?
Join Emmy Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Hedrick Smith for a discussion about his new documentary "Poisoned Waters," a revealing look at the fragile condition of the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound.
Smith is also an Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent, author of several best-selling books and creator of 20 award-winning PBS prime-time specials and miniseries.
"Inside Media," produced by the Newseum and held in the Knight TV Studio, is open to the public. Seating is on a space-available basis.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Climate Refugees: March 18, 2009
"Preparing for a Warmer World: The Challenge of Climate Refugees"
Wednesday, March 18, 6-8pm, MGC 3
Featuring:
Dr. Philipp Pattberg
GEP Visitor Scholar from VU University Amsterdam
Talks followed by a conversation moderated by Prof. Paul Wapner, Director of the GEP Program.
Dr. Pattberg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, and a leading scholar in the field of private and transnational environmental governance. He also holds an appointment as assistant professor for International Relations at the Faculty of Social Science, VU University Amsterdam. In addition, Dr. Pattberg holds a number of relevant appointments, including Management Committee Chair of the COST Action ‘The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance’, Vice Chair of the Environmental Studies Section of the German Political Science Association and Deputy Director and Research Coordinator of the International Global Governance Project (www.glogov.org).
The event is sponsored by the Global Environmental Politics Field, SIS.
Pizza and drinks will be served.
Wednesday, March 18, 6-8pm, MGC 3
Featuring:
Dr. Philipp Pattberg
GEP Visitor Scholar from VU University Amsterdam
Talks followed by a conversation moderated by Prof. Paul Wapner, Director of the GEP Program.
Dr. Pattberg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam, and a leading scholar in the field of private and transnational environmental governance. He also holds an appointment as assistant professor for International Relations at the Faculty of Social Science, VU University Amsterdam. In addition, Dr. Pattberg holds a number of relevant appointments, including Management Committee Chair of the COST Action ‘The Transformation of Global Environmental Governance’, Vice Chair of the Environmental Studies Section of the German Political Science Association and Deputy Director and Research Coordinator of the International Global Governance Project (www.glogov.org).
The event is sponsored by the Global Environmental Politics Field, SIS.
Pizza and drinks will be served.
Discussion with Eric Chivian: March 17, 2009
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Author: Eric Chivian; Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment; Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist
Tuesday March 17
12:00-1:30 pm
THE WORLD BANK
1818 H STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20433
The Earth's biodiversity - the rich variety of life on our planet - is disappearing at an alarming rate. Too often the focus of discussion is limited to the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, However there is a fuller range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health.
This event focuses on a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. Climate change and invasive species are among the latest threats on the horizon.
RSVP TEL: (202) 458-9350
Author: Eric Chivian; Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment; Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist
Tuesday March 17
12:00-1:30 pm
THE WORLD BANK
1818 H STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20433
The Earth's biodiversity - the rich variety of life on our planet - is disappearing at an alarming rate. Too often the focus of discussion is limited to the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, However there is a fuller range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health.
This event focuses on a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. Climate change and invasive species are among the latest threats on the horizon.
RSVP TEL: (202) 458-9350
Seminar Event at WWF: March 12, 2009
World Wildlife Fund’s Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Seminar Series
Dr. Dan Nepstad
Chief Program Officer, Environmental Conservation Programs
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
_____________________________________________________________________________
Date: This Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Time: 4:30-5:30pm (lecture); 5:30-6:30pm (reception)
Admission: FREE!!
Registration: http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/fellowships/fuller/item1816.html
Location: World Wildlife Fund Headquarters
1250 24th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
_____________________________________________________________________________
Towards a global framework for environmental conservation
The environmental conservation movement has won many important battles, but it is losing the war. The capacity of the Earth to sustain life is diminishing progressively through the depletion of fisheries and forests, climatic disruption, soil degradation, chemical contamination, and the destruction of native ecosystems. The challenge of environmental conservation is to manage the Earth in its entirety. The sum of environmental conservation efforts worldwide must be sufficient to arrest and reverse the progressive erosion of Earth's capacity to sustain life. Anything less is failure. For example, the land crisis will only be resolved in the context of a global framework within which market forces and policies become aligned to reconcile competing needs for food, fiber, fuel, and ecosystem services. Some reflections on what this framework might look like will be presented.
Abbreviated Biography
Dr. Daniel Nepstad is the Chief Program officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Environmental Conservation Program, which includes the Andes-Amazon Initiative, the Conservation International Commitment, the Marine Conservation Initiative and the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative. Prior to his work at the Moore Foundation he served as a scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) for 18 years. A tropical forest ecologist, Dan has studied tropical forests and strategies for their conservation for the last 24 years, and he has published more than 110 scientific papers and several books on the Amazon. His research includes the Amazon forest “tipping point,” the analysis of public policies to conserve the Amazon’s natural resources, the prediction and simulation of future trends of Amazon land use, the “taming” of agroindustry, and the development of carbon markets to reduce deforestation within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
In 1995, he co-founded the Brazil-based Amazon Institute of Environmental Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais da Amazonia), now the largest non-governmental research institution in Amazonia. In recognition and support of this application of science to public affairs in Brazil, Dan was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment in 1994.
Dan has a Ph.D. from Yale University, an M.S. from Michigan State University, and a B.A. from Kalamazoo College.
Dr. Dan Nepstad
Chief Program Officer, Environmental Conservation Programs
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
_____________________________________________________________________________
Date: This Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Time: 4:30-5:30pm (lecture); 5:30-6:30pm (reception)
Admission: FREE!!
Registration: http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/fellowships/fuller/item1816.html
Location: World Wildlife Fund Headquarters
1250 24th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
_____________________________________________________________________________
Towards a global framework for environmental conservation
The environmental conservation movement has won many important battles, but it is losing the war. The capacity of the Earth to sustain life is diminishing progressively through the depletion of fisheries and forests, climatic disruption, soil degradation, chemical contamination, and the destruction of native ecosystems. The challenge of environmental conservation is to manage the Earth in its entirety. The sum of environmental conservation efforts worldwide must be sufficient to arrest and reverse the progressive erosion of Earth's capacity to sustain life. Anything less is failure. For example, the land crisis will only be resolved in the context of a global framework within which market forces and policies become aligned to reconcile competing needs for food, fiber, fuel, and ecosystem services. Some reflections on what this framework might look like will be presented.
Abbreviated Biography
Dr. Daniel Nepstad is the Chief Program officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Environmental Conservation Program, which includes the Andes-Amazon Initiative, the Conservation International Commitment, the Marine Conservation Initiative and the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative. Prior to his work at the Moore Foundation he served as a scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) for 18 years. A tropical forest ecologist, Dan has studied tropical forests and strategies for their conservation for the last 24 years, and he has published more than 110 scientific papers and several books on the Amazon. His research includes the Amazon forest “tipping point,” the analysis of public policies to conserve the Amazon’s natural resources, the prediction and simulation of future trends of Amazon land use, the “taming” of agroindustry, and the development of carbon markets to reduce deforestation within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
In 1995, he co-founded the Brazil-based Amazon Institute of Environmental Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais da Amazonia), now the largest non-governmental research institution in Amazonia. In recognition and support of this application of science to public affairs in Brazil, Dan was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment in 1994.
Dan has a Ph.D. from Yale University, an M.S. from Michigan State University, and a B.A. from Kalamazoo College.
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