Environmental Speaker Series
An annual lecture series featuring leaders in the fields of environmental policy and sustainable business.
The Monterey Institute of International Studies is pleased to announce the Fall 2009 Environmental Speaker Series, featuring local and national environmental and business leaders speaking on current issues ranging from promoting green building practices to the economics of sound ocean policies.
The series is the centerpiece of the Institute’s fall semester course “Hot Topics in Environmental Policy.” While the lectures are part of an ongoing class curriculum, the Institute welcomes attendance by all students, regardless of field, and the general public. Funding is generously provided by the Homer Hayward Family.
The speaker series will convene every Monday through the fall semester from 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Irvine Auditorium in the McCone Building at 499 Pierce Street in Monterey. The schedule through the end of the Fall semester is as follows:
Monday, September 14th
Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Coordinator, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
“Brewing a Successful Sustainability Program”
Monday, September 21st
Jeff Condit, Manager, Strategy and Development, Rana Creek
“Advances in Green Building”
Monday, September 28th
Myra Goodman, co-founder, Earthbound Farms
"Beyond Food Miles: Thinking Critically About Agricultural Sustainability”
Monday, October 5th
Heidi Gjertsen, Consultant, Conservation International
Marine Management Areas Science: Economic Incentives
“Incentive-based Approaches to Marine Conservation”
Monday, October 12th
Dean LaTourette, Executive Director, Save The Waves
“The Value of Waves”
Monday, October 19th
Elizabeth Chornesky, Freelance Consultant
Lessons from the Front Lines: Linking Science and Policy to Advance “Ecosystem Sustainability”
Thursday, October 22nd
Screening of “End of the Line” followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Jason Scorse and IEP alum and winner of the 2009 Time Magazine Environmental Heroes Award, Casson Trenor.
Monday, October 26th
Juliet Christian-Smith, Senior Research Associate, Pacific Institute
“Two Decades of Water Transfers: What have we learned and where do we go from here?”
Monday, November 2nd
Dick Rice, Chief Conservation Officer, Save Your World, LLC
“Code REDD: What to expect in Copenhagen?”
Monday, November 9th
Rikki Dunsmore, Professor, University of the South Pacific
“Managing our Oceans: Recent national and international initiatives to conserve marine ecosystems.”
Wednesday, November 11th
Richard Wolfson, Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics, Middlebury College
“Nuclear Power: One Environmentalist's Perspective”
(Global Vision – Global Reach M2 Lecture)
Monday, November 16th
Aaron (Ronnie) Chatterji, Assistant Professor, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
“Corporate Social Responsibility or Greenwashing? Do metrics actually measure and motivate CSR?”
November 23rd
Bruce Paton, Chair of the MBA Program, GSIPM, Monterey Institute
Jason Scorse, Chair of the IEP Program, GSIPM, Monterey Institute
Lyuba Zarsky, Associate Professor, GSIPM, Monterey Institute
“Can business solve global problems of poverty and the environment?”
November 30th
Ed Norton, Senior Advisor–Environment, TPG Capital
“ It isn't easy being green”
December 7th
Jim Williams, Associate Professor, GSIPM, Monterey Institute
“The World in 2050: Technology Pathways to a Low-Carbon Future”