Conversations of Sustainability at Ripon College

6:30-8:00 PM

Sunday April 22, 2007

Great Hall of the Harwood Memorial Union, Ripon College

From the Stone Age to Sustainability: How Do We Get From Here to There?

Dave Newport, Keynote Speaker

Environmental Center Director at the University of Colorado-Boulder and pioneer in the integration of sustainability and higher education. Mr. Newport was previously the University of Florida’s Director of the Office of Sustainability where he stewarded “a plan to make the nation’s fourth largest university ‘a global leader in sustainability,’ launched a zero-waste program that has since become UF’s 2025 target for all operations, and published carbon-neutrality research and planning designed to make the university climate-neutral.“

     Legislating for Sustainability and the Environment in Wisconsin

Stan Gruszynski

Board Member for the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters, director of the Global Environmental Management Education Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and 71st Assembly District representative from 1984 to 1994.

     Bringing Renewable Energy to Your Community

Chamomile Nusz

Executive Director of the Citizens Energy Cooperative of Wisconsin and executive committee member of the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice.

Please Contact Ryan Gustafson at gustafsonr@gmail.com with any questions!