“Focus Hawaii: UH Climate Change Teach In”

 

As Hawaii hosts a major international climate change summit

-- the U.S.-initiated “Major Economies Meeting” –

at the East West Center on Jan. 30-31 . . .

 

We invite you to a fast-paced, interactive, open forum

focusing on climate change science and solutions for Hawaii.

Join Hawaii’s experts – hear from top faculty, students, and community leaders –

and prepare yourself to make a difference!

 

William S. Richardson School of Law  -- Weds. January 30, 2008 

2515 Dole Street, Honolulu -- 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Classroom 2 (courtyard, main building)

 

7-minute “what you really need to know” presentations by:

Denise Konan, UH Faculty, Dep’t of Economics

Lorenz Magaard, UH Faculty, Chair, Mānoa Climate Change Commission

Chip Fletcher, UH Faculty, Geology & Geophysics

Terry Surles, UH Faculty, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute

Josh Stanbro, Evolution Sage

Senator Ron Menor, Chair, State Senate Energy & Environment Committee

Mike Hamnett, Director, RCUH

Jack Kittinger, UH Graduate Student, Geography

Charles P.M.K. Burrows, Ahahui Malama I ka Lokahi

David Turner, Interfaith Power & Light

Henry Curtis, Life of the Land

Makena Coffman, UH Faculty, Dep’t Urban & Regional Planning

Shanah Trevenna, UH Graduate Student, Sustainable Saunders

Jeff Mikulina, Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter, Executive Director

 

Moderator:

Denise Antolini, UH Faculty, School of Law, Env. Law Program

 

Sponsors:

Mānoa Climate Change Commission * * International Center for Climate and Society

Department of Urban and Regional Planning * * UH Student Climate Change Committee

Environmental Law Program, Law School * * Environmental Law Society, Law School

UH Mānoa Sustainability Council * * Sustainable Saunders * * UH Environmental Center

Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter * * Environmental Defense * * Life of the Land

Ahahui Malama I ka Lohaki * * United Church of Christ Environmental & Energy Task Force

Hawaii Interfaith Power & Light * * Windward Ahupuaa Alliance

Conservation Council for Hawaii * * Evolution Sage * * Focus the Nation

 

** Carbon Neutral thanks to Hawai‘i carbon offsets provided by Evolution Sage **

 

Dessert and Drinks for Participants!

 

Contact information:

Prof. Denise Antolini, Law School, 956-6238 antolini@hawaii.edu

Jack Kittinger, UH Student Climate Change Committee, 858-945-2011 jkittinger@gmail.com

Jeff Mikulina, Sierra Club, 548-6616, mikulina@lava.net