West Coast Fellows' Spring Retreat - Coalition Building Training and Field Trip to the Port of Los Angeles
Registration is now open for the West Coast Fellows' Spring Retreat in Los Angeles. The focus of this retreat will be a one-day coalition building training, and a Switzer Fellow-led field trip to the Port of Los Angeles
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Presentations and Information Available from Switzer/ELP Federal Policy Training
The Switzer/ELP Federal Policy Training that was held January 21-22, 2010 in Washington, DC was very well-attended and we've received enthusiastic feedback from participants. Presentations from the speakers, and links to other useful information, are available on the Switzer Open Topics blog which is open to everyone. See link below.
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East Coast Switzer Fellows Spring Retreat and Diversity Training - February 26-27, 2010
Registration is now open for the East Coast Fellows’ Spring Retreat. This year’s retreat is a full two-day in-depth diversity training in Harvard, Massachusetts. Switzer Fellows should RSVP as soon as possible - space is limited!
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WEBINAR: Climate Change Adaptation - March 23, 2010
Climate change is a growing challenge for conservation practitioners and resource managers. How to deal with this new set of realities is not yet entirely clear. Drs. Jennie Hoffman and Lara Hansen (Switzer Fellow) of EcoAdapt will discuss the basics of an adaptation philosophy...
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WEBINAR: Innovative Solutions to Climate Change: Green Jobs and Energy Efficiency - February 16, 2010
Switzer Fellow Jeremy Hays, Field Director for Green for All, will lead this discussion on Green for All's efforts to create green jobs that address community needs and innovative solutions to climate change. Web and phone access information are listed - click link below.
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Downstream Strategies, Switzer Fellow Evan Hansen's consulting firm in Morgantown, West Virginia, released a report on the decline of the Central Appalachian coal industry and the need for economic diversification in the region.
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Michael P. Wilson, 2002 Fellow, and newly appointed Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Center for Green Chemistry co-authored an article in the November, 2009 issue of Science magazine on the gaps in U.S. chemicals regulations
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On the subject of forest conservation in unlikely places, Eunice Blavascunas (2005), postdoc fellow at Univ of Washington, was quoted in an article in the winter 2010 edition of Earth Island Journal on forest conservation in Poland
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