Staying Afloat: National Association of Environmental Law Societies Annual Conference

Time: 
03/04/2010 - 9:00am - 03/07/2010 - 2:00pm

This conference will be held at the Danna Center, Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans.

Conference Activities include:

  • Thursday, March 4th service project.  Join 2010 NAELS to help restore the coast as we partner with Bayou Rebirth and the American Bar Association's One Million Trees Project- Right Tree at the Right Place at the Right Time.

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  • Thursday night special screening of the documentary film Tapped.

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  • Friday and Saturday will be filled with a variety of panels, and keynotes.
    • The keynotes we have secured for the conference are John M. Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, Michael Gerrard, professor of law at Columbia, director of the Center for Climate Change Law, and author of the ABA's resource book entitled Global Climate Change and the Law, Richard Louv, author of the book Last Child in the Woods and founder of the Children & Nature Network (Open to the Public - Nunemaker Auditorium on the main campus of Loyola University),  Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist for the Rocky Mountain Institute, F. Gerald Maples, a local attorney who has recently begun litigation on global warming, and Beverly Wright, Executive Director for the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice.

     

    • Sunday, March 7th, conference attendees will have the chance to truly explore a side of New Orleans most tourists never get to see.  We will explore the new New Orleans, and the building of a resilient and sustainable urban coast. We will visit the lower 9th ward, sustainable housing projects, wetlands restoration on Bayou Bienvenue, and a look at the future to come with river turbine projects to provide clean, renewable energy.

     

    Please visit our website for more information on the conference, and updates, including a complete conference schedule at: http://law.loyno.edu/national-association-environmental-law-societies-annual-conference

     

    If there are any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Samuel Steinmetz at ststeinm@loyno.edu