2008 Scott A. Margolin '99 Lecture in Environmental Affairs
The Coming Transformation: America, Capitalism
and the Environmental Future
Gus Speth
Dean, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Monday, April 21
7:30 p.m.
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
Free and open to the public
For more information, contact Janet Wiseman
James Gustave Speth has had a distinguished career as a leader or founder of several major environmental institutions over more than three decades. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School and a Rhodes Scholar, Speth co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, chaired the President’s Council on Environmental Quality under President Jimmy Carter, was president and founder of the World Resources Institute, acted as a senior advisor to President-Elect William Clinton’s transition team, and oversaw the United Nations Development Program as its chief executive officer. In 2002, he was awarded the prestigious Blue Planet Prize for “a lifetime of creative and visionary leadership in the search for science-based solutions to global environmental problems and for pioneering efforts to bring these issues, including global climate change, to broad international attention.” He is the author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (Yale University Press, 2004), of Global Environmental Governance (2006), and of Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment (2003).
For more information about Gus Speth,
please visit his website: http://environment.yale.edu/profile/240/james_gustave_speth/
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The Scott A. Margolin '99 Environmental Affairs Lecture is organized and sponsored each year by the Environmental Studies Program at Middlebury College. The lecture, like the Environmental Studies Program, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the natural environment and human interaction with it.
In 1998, the Environmental Affairs Lecture was named in honor of Scott A. Margolin, of the Middlebury College Class of 1999. In his one year here, Scott established himself as a dedicated student of Environmental Studies, a leader in Environmental Quality and other student affairs, and an outstanding writer. He lives in our memory.
Past Speakers:
2007
Barry Lopez, essayist and nature writer
2006
Michael E. Mann, Director, Penn State Earth System Science Center
2005
Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
2004
J. Baird Callicott, professor of philosophy, University of North Texas
2003
Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University
2002
Michael Dombeck, Former Chief of the United States Forest Service
2001
Lawrence Buell, English Professor, Harvard University
2000
Reed Noss, conservation biologist
1999
Michael MacCracken, US Global Change Research Program
1998
Rick Bass, writer and activist
1997
Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki storyteller
1996
Steven Schneider, environmental scientist
1995
David Orr, environmental educator
1994
Terry Tempest Williams, writer
1993
Walter Reid, environmental scientist
1992
William Cronon, environmental historian
1991
Scott Russell Sanders, writer
1990
Norman Myers, environmental scientist
1989
Madeleine Kunin, Governor of Vermont