Conference on Sustainability and the Environment

Posted by on February 20, 2004

The Richard Alsina Fulton Conference on Sustainability and the Environment

Sustainability: Diverse Perspectives for the Path Ahead
March 26 – 27, 2004
Welcome

We invite you to the Richard Alsina Fulton Conference on Sustainability and the Environment which will be held March 26 and 27, 2004, on the Wilson College campus, located in Chambersburg, Pa. The conference is designed to bring educators, policy-makers, agricultural professionals, business leaders and the general public together to deliberate on the concept of sustainability, and the roles of education and public policy in acheiving it.

Conference Subthemes Include:

* Educating for Sustainability through the Liberal Arts and Sciences
* Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems
* Creating Public Policy for Sustainability

Welcome Address:

Bill McKibben,
Author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

Keynote Speakers:
Lois Gibbs,
Author of the Best-Selling Love Canal: The Story Continues
Winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize

Wes Jackson,
President of the Land Institute and nationally acclaimed champion of sustainability

For more information and to register, visit the website at:
http://www.wilson.edu/events/sustainability/