[tugs] Massey College Walter Gordon Symposium
- From: Angela Brinklow <angela.brinklow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tugsgeneral@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:51:28 -0400
Massey College is pleased to present the 2007 Walter Gordon Massey Symposium:
Harnessing the Green Wave: Taking Action in an Era of Eco-Consciousness at
The Isabel Bader Theatre, 140 Charles St. West, Toronto
Thursday, 4th October, 2007, 8.00 p.m.
featuring panelists:
The Hon. David Anderson, Director of the Guelph Institute for the
Environment and Former Canadian Minister of the Environment
Professor Adam Harmes, Assistant Professor, Political Science,
University of Western Ontario
Dr. J. André Potworowski, Associate Director Research & Development,
Centre for Research in Biopharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
moderated by:
Mr. Jordan Poppenk, Massey College Junior Fellow and Ph.D. student,
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Admission is free, but you must reserve a ticket. For tickets, please
call 416-978-6896 as soon as possible
Description:
In the context of unprecedented public interest in environmental
issues provoked in no small part by the global warming crisis Canada
and other world governments are now poised to make meaningful and
lasting progress towards more sustainable public policy. Taking
advantage of this opportunity will require the cooperation of
business, government and the international community. The 2007 Walter
Gordon Symposium, "Harnessing the Green Wave: Taking Action in an Era
of Eco-Consciousness," will focus on what it will take for Canada's
environmentally aware public to capitalize on today's collective
motivation to pursue environmental solutions and make change happen.
David Anderson
The longest-serving Canadian Minister of the Environment, the
Honourable David Anderson served for five years in Prime Minister
Jean Chrétien's government and a further short term with Prime
Minister Paul Martin, ending his term in 2004. He was appointed
Director of the Guelph Institute for the Environment in February,
2007. Born in Victoria, Mr. Anderson studied law and economics at
UBC, where he received his law degree. Soon afterwards he began a
career in the diplomatic corps before moving into federal politics.
Mr. Anderson's priorities as Environment Minister were improving air
and water quality (particularly from US/Canada trans-boundary
sources), protecting biodiversity (which included affirming Canada's
first endangered species legislation, the Species at Risk Act, after
three previous efforts had failed) and perhaps the success for which
he is best known, securing Canadian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol
on Climate Change. His environmental work has included coastal and
wetland protection, marine pollution from oil exploration and
transportation and very much also development of the rules governing
implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. In 2001, he became the first
Canadian elected as President of the Governing Council of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the leading international forum
for governments to address current and emerging environmental issues.
In 2005, the Sierra Club of Canada presented Mr. Anderson with the
John Fraser Award for Environmental Achievement.
Adam Harmes
Dr. Adam Harmes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Political Science at the University of Western Ontario. He received
his Ph.D from York University and completed a two-year Social Science
and Humanities Research Council post-doctoral fellowship at the
University of Toronto's Munk Centre For International Studies. He
teaches in the areas of Business and Government, International
Relations and the Political Economy of North-South Relations. His
research interests are in the area of international political economy,
business-government relations, and global governance. Dr. Harmes is
the author of Unseen Power: How Mutual Funds Threaten the Political
and Economic Wealth of Nations as well as a number of scholarly and
media articles. His most recent book is The Return of the State:
Protestors, Power-Brokers and the New Global Compromise, which
describes the role of international business and government
interactions in the shaping of domestic policy. He is currently
writing a book on the political economy of federal, regional and
global governance.
J. André Potworowski
Dr. André Potworowski is a management consultant living in Ottawa. His
clients include government agencies and international corporations in
Canada, the US and Europe, focusing on environment, research and
development management and innovation. At the Science Council of
Canada (an influential government think tank), he worked on the
Conserver Society study, published in 1977, and was the founding
editor of the policy quarterly Conserver Society Notes. Dr.
Potworowski helped develop the first government program to
commercialize renewable energy technologies, worked in technology
transfer and was a senior policy advisor for the Prime Minister's
National Advisory Board on Science and Technology. He teaches at the
University of Ottawa. He has a Ph.D in physical chemistry from the
University of Toronto (where he was a Junior Fellow at Massey College)
and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. A former science writer
for the CBC, he has written widely on technology management and edited
a compendium of environmental technologies and companies for the
mining industry.
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