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The Annual Utah Valley University Environmental Awareness Week

and the 21st Annual Conference on Environmental Ethics

 

March 31‑April 4, 2008

Utah Valley State College


March 31
Film Screening:
The Great Fog (1999), Directed by David Monaghan
(about the noxious 1952 London Fog that killed thousands of people and led
to new environmental legislation
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=873954>)
3‑5 p.m., LA 101

April 1 & 2
Twenty‑First Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Public Health and the Environment
(for full schedule go to http://ethicscenter.info/2008envconf.html)

April 1 Keynote Address:
³Utah¹s Air Pollution: Should You Give Up & Move Out of State?²
Brian Moench, M.D. President, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
Moderator: Jim Westwater, Chair, Utah Valley Sierra Forum
10‑11:15 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)

April 2 Keynote Address:
³Coming Home from Going Crazy: Restoring Environmental Connectivity²
Chip Ward, Author and Environmental Activist
Moderator: Michael Minch, Director, Peace and Justice Studies Program, UVSC
7:00‑8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the Peace and Justice Studies Program)

April 3
Second Annual G. Lawrence Anderson Keynote Address:
³The Future of Environmental Ethics²
Holmes Rolston, III
2:30‑3:45 p.m. SC 213B
(Cosponsored with the Department of Philosophy and Humanities)

April 4
Information Table on Utah Air Pollution and Health
Hosted by UVSC students Kristy Durney, Keith Harward, Kathleen Lauritzen,
Rachel Ann Moss, Connie Richardson, and Matthew Tiemann
Information provided by Utah Moms for Clean Air
<http://www.utahmomsforcleanair.org/>
Student Center Hallway near bookstore, 8 a.m.‑2 p.m.

Sponsored by:
Center for the Study of Ethics
Environmental Studies Program

*****
David Richard Keller, Ph.D.
Utah Valley State College
801.863.6363
http://davidkeller.us/

 

 

March 31-April 4

Environmental Awareness Week

 

March 31

Film Screening: TBA

3‑5 p.m., LA 101

 

April 1 and 2

 

Twenty-First Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:

Public Health and the Environment

 

April 1

8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)

Environmental Ethics Conference Keynote Address:

Brian Moench, M.D.

President, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment

“Utah’s Air Pollution: Should You Give Up & Move Out of State?”

10-11:15 a.m.

April 2

9 a.m.-3:50 p.m., room SC 206b

Environmental Stewardship Award:

“The Future of Environmental Stewardship in Utah”

Jon Huntsman Jr., Governor, State of Utah

Presented by William A. Sederburg, President, UVSC

10-10:50 a.m., Regan Theater

Reception

11-11:30 a.m., Trustees Suite, SC 213c

(Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program)

 

April 2

Monthly Ethics Forum:

Environmental Ethics Conference Keynote Address:

“Coming Home from Going Crazy: Restoring Environmental Connectivity”

Chip Ward, Author and Environmental Activist

7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)

(Cosponsored with the Peace and Justice Studies Program)

 

April 3

Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference:

“The Greening of Ethics”

8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m., [room TBA]

Second Annual G. Lawrence Anderson Keynote Address:

“The Future of Environmental Ethics”

Holmes Rolston, III, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University

2:30-3:45 p.m.

Book Discussion Group with the Author:

Rolston’s Genes, Genesis, and God

4-5:30 a.m., [Trustees Suite, SC213c]

(Cosponsored with the Department of Philosophy and Humanities and the Honors Program)

 

Questions, Concerns? Contact David Richard Keller via at david.keller@uvsc.edu or call 801.863-6455 to speak with someone.

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