Saturday, September 11, 2004

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Exley Science Center, Room 150

 

Welcoming Remarks:  Judith Brown, Provost, Vice President and Professor

 Introductory Remarks:  Nora Connor, Wesleyan Class 2007

 Introduction of Mr. Strong:  Thomas Malone

 

Keynote Address


Maurice Strong


2004 Public Welfare Medallist,
National Academy of Sciences

 

 

Panels

Gary Yohe, Wesleyan, Moderator

 

Panel I:  James G. Speth, Yale – Time for a Revolution

William Clark, Kennedy School, Harvard – Sustainability & Equity

Steven Rockefeller, Middlebury – Earth Charter

Anthony Leiserowitz, Univ. of Oregon – Values, Attitudes, & Behavior

`                          Janet Poley, Amer. Distance Educ. Consortium – The Education Challenge

 

Discussion among panelists and with audience

 

Panel II: Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute – Food & Water Crisis, Plan B

Robert Corell, Kennedy School, Harvard – The Climate Issue

John Holdren, Kennedy School, Harvard – The Energy Issue

Timothy Weiskel, Harvard – The Ethics Issue

Ned Strong, LASPAU, Harvard – Academic Exchanges

 

Discussion among panelists and with audience

 

Summarizing Remarks: Thomas Malone

 

Followed by an Executive Session – 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. – of speakers, specially invited students, and Richard Clugston, Robert Frosch, Mike Redden, and William Stillinger to frame a strategy for pursuing the vision of a global society that is environmentally sustainable, economically equitable, and socially stable.

 

(Informal dinner ca 7:00 p.m.)