Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: October 31, 2001

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - The National Wildlife Federation and the Center for

Environment and Population (CEP) will hold a town hall

meeting titled “Population and the Environment” Tuesday,

Nov. 13, from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Middlebury College Kirk

Center on South Main Street (Route 30). Experts?including

environmentalist, author and Middlebury College Visiting

Scholar in Environmental Studies Bill McKibben?will give

presentations on the issues, and there will be an open

discussion followed by a reception. The town hall meeting is

free and open to the public.

The

following experts will participate in the event:

  • Paul

    Micou, vice chairman of the United States Committee for

    the United Nations Population Fund, will present the 2001

    United Nations Population Fund State of the World

    Population Report titled “Footprints and Milestones:

    Population and Environmental Change.”
  • Bill

    McKibben, environmentalist and author of “The End of

    Nature,” will offer his perspective on the issues, and

    present the American Association for the Advancement of

    Science’s (AAAS) report, “AAAS Atlas of Population and

    Environment.”
  • Nan

    Jenks-Jay, director of environmental affairs and planning

    at Middlebury College, will serve as moderator during the

    discussion.

“We’re

excited that the two important publications that will be

released at this event are expected to shape national and

international dialogue on the relationship between human

population and the environment,” said Jenks-Jay.

Following

the presentations, members of the public are invited to

participate in a discussion about the impact of population

on the environment in their communities, and to share ideas

on ways to achieve positive change at the local, national

and global levels.

A

limited supply of complimentary copies of the United Nations

report and the AAAS Atlas will be available. A reception

will follow the meeting.

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For

more information, contact Julie Starr of the National

Wildlife Federation at jstarr@nwf.org

or 802-229-0650, or

visit the Web at http://www.nwf.org/population/populationreport.html

and http://www.cepnet.org.