> Friends and colleagues: > > Please route this message to your friends, colleagues, and others you feel > may be interested in participating in an important upcoming meeting. While > it is appropriate to send this to ecology, natural resources conservation, > earth/geoscience, and environmental persons, institutions, and agencies; > it is also very important that representation from fields of environmental > education and environmental information are informed and encouraged to > attend. > > The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) is bringing > together individuals from key communities to identify new and existing > approaches worthy of support. Conference highlights include a keynote > lecture by Dr. Sylvia Earle of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, and a > special Friday afternoon address by Dr. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain > Institute. > > In four days I will be participating in the first National Conference on > Science Policy and the Environment, which will be held December 7- 8, 2000 > at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC. Join us in Washington > to help shape the "science for the environment" agenda of the next > Administration and Congress. > > I will be moderating, "Information Systems," one of the concurrent > breakout sessions taking place on Friday morning (December 8). Other > Breakout Sessions include: > > - Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health > - Environmental Implications of Biotechnology > - Environmental Indicators > - Federal Government Structure > - Global Environmental Change > - Higher Education > - Human Health & Environment > - Information Systems > - Invasive Species > - Pollution Prevention/Waste Management > - Population/Demographics > - Public Education > - Sustainable Communities > - Sustainable Resource Management > > There is a lot that all of us can do: come to the conference, tell others > about the conference, follow subsequent events and activities at > > www.cnie.org > > Fred Stoss > Advisor, National Library for the Environment > National Council for Science and the Environment > > Science and Engineering Library > University at Buffalo > State University of New York > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
