First Annual Northwest Sustainability Conference
Presentations & Panels
(Tentative schedule; subject to change)
Location & Registration
Registration will take place from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management (AGSM) Lobby on the second floor (street level). All panels will be held in the AGSM building at Willamette University.
Panels: 9–10:30 a.m.
Politics and Policies of Sustainability — AGSM 201
State Responses to Sustainability: Jordan Rash, Office of Senator Ginny Burdick; Drew Johnston, Office of Representative Tobias Read
Measure 37 and Oregon’s Groundwater: Todd Jarvis, Institute for Water and Watersheds, Oregon State University
Responses to Climate Change — AGSM 301
Energy Independence on the Road to Peace and the Health Effects of Global Warming: Richard Raymond, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Faith Responses to Climate Change: Jenny Holmes, Co-ordinator, Oregon Interfaith Global Warming Campaign, Environmental Ministries Director, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Definitions of Sustainability — AGSM 303
Robert M Collin, Senior Research Scholar, Willamette University, College of Law
Jennifer Regan, Student, Willamette University
Sustainability and Organizational Design — AGSM 302
John Rehm, Senior Director, Metropolitan Group
Wendy Radmacher-Willis, Executive Director, City Club of Portland
Panels: 10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Student Panel — AGSM 302
Tree Crops, Urban Foraging and Other Forms of Resistance — or, How to Liberate Yourself from the Industrialized Food Supply Chain, One Apple/Fig/Walnut at a Time: Matt Inverson
Public Transportation and the Policy Process: Lindsay Selser
Harnessing Community Wind Power and Enhancing Public Participation: Sasha Luftig
Lunch Break
From the end of the second panel session until 1:30 p.m.
Panels: 1:30–3 p.m.
Sustainable Business Design — AGSM 204
Creating Sustainable Supply Chains: The Wal-Mart Case: Geoff Huntington, Bluskye; Principal, Sustain; Duncan Berry, Bluskye; Principal, Sustain
Sustainable Start-ups: Eric Brody, Sustainability Manager, Nau
Sustainable Forestry — AGSM 302
Dr. Steven Radosevich, Oregon State University
Robert Andrus, Willamette University
Greening the University — AGSM 201
Noelle Studer, Cascadia Regional Institute for Sustainability Education (CRISE), Portland Community College
Elaine Jane Cole, Antioch University
Laura Fieselman, Environmental Sustainability Educator, Pacific University
Erik Pierson, University of Puget Sound
Representative, Willamette University
Environmental Health Issues — AGSM 301
Children’s Health Risks from Exposure to Toxicants: Sue Koger, Professor of Psychology, Willamette University, Salem Citizens for Alternatives to Pesticides
Toxins in the Food Chain: Health risks of genetically modified foods: Peter Lind, Doctor of Chiropractic, Chair of Public Health Committee, Oregon Doctors of Chiropractic
Sustainability and Stewardship — AGSM 303
Jenny Holmes, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Pastor Gary Langenwalter, Chair, Oregon Interfaith Global Warming Campaign
Sr.Patricia Nagle, IHM, Director, Earth Home Ministries
Revered Ross Miller, Chair, Environmental Ministries Committee, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Panels: 3:15–4:45 p.m.
Sustainability and the Law — AGSM 303
Robin Morris Collin, Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law
Jonathan Norling, Lane County PC
Sustainable Design — AGSM 301
Nathan Good, Architect
Tim Eddy Principal, Henneberry Eddy Architects
Steven Ribeiro, Principal, Independence Station
Creating A Sustainable Business Climate in Salem — AGSM 204
John Miller, Wildwood Mahonia
Food and Film — AGSM 201
“Good Food, Good Business”: Film and discussion, Doug Freeman, Arnold Creek Productions
“Are there genetically engineered hormones in your milk?”: Rick North, Project Director - Campaign For Safe Food, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Reception — 5:00 p.m
AGSM Student Lounge (third floor)
Documentaries
Two documentaries will be shown Friday night at the Grand Theatre in downtown Salem night starting at 6:30 p.m. The Future of Food, by Deborah Koons Garcia, has a run time of 88 minutes and “offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.” Martinis in the Bike Lake is an 11-minute documentary on decorative and unique bike lane markings in Portland.
Admission is free to Willamette University community members (with Willamette ID) and all conference participants. Tickets for the general public are $5 at the door. Refreshments will be provided by Lifesource.
The vision of this conference is to provide a forum for members of the business, education, and activist communities to join together in collaborative discussions in order to create synergy around issues related to sustainability. While all proposals will be considered, conference organizers are particularly interested proposals which foster dialogue on the following topics:
- Sustainability-oriented curricular reform in higher education
- Sustainable supply chains
- Student research and activism in sustainability
- Green building and design, including certification and performance
- Sustainable start-ups: launching sustainable businesses
- Community wind power and other human-scale alternative energy opportunities
- The sustainable bottom line: best business practices
- Sustainability and social justice
- Problem-oriented, collaborative research in sustainability
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainability and religion
If you are interested in giving a presentation, organizing or participating in a discussion panel, sharing a visual communication piece (such as a poster or flyer) or hosting an information table, register today. Participant registrations are due on or before April 10, 2007.
Specifics regarding individual presentations and sessions as well as a full conference schedule will be posted as information becomes available.