FORUMS:

Forums:
(Thursday, April 24th and Friday, April 25th, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Wagner College, Spiro Hall, Room 2)

Thursday, April 24th: "Paradigms of Sustainability"
The panel presently includes: Jaimie Cloud, director of the Sustainability Education Center speaking on sustainability; Michael Menser of Brooklyn College and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at CUNY Graduate Center speaking on bioregionalism and the World Social Forum; Maria Gelabert of the Chemistry Department at Wagner College speaking on carbon combustion and the waste cycle; and Christina Altsen Norodom of UNESCO and Columbia University on the Biosphere designation project. Moderator: Andrew Mearman, Wagner College Economics Department

Friday, April 25th: "Active Environmentalism: Grassroots Action and Sustainable Living"
The panel presently includes Jim Scarcella, President of the Natural Resources Protective Association (NRPA); Angela A. D' Aiuto, Vice President of the North Shore Waterfront Conservancy; Catherine Greene Manzi, President of the South Beach Pond Park Preserve; Daniel Botting, Project Coordinator, College of Staten Island, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG); Victoria Opthof, representative of Free the Planet at Wagner College; Aresh Javadi, co-founder of More Gardens! Coalition; Lawrence Carter Long, animal rights activist; Christina Salvi of Recycle This!, a New York City recycling and waste-prevention activist group; Warcry, journalist and anarchist filmmaker ("The Real Eco-Terrorism"); and Mitchel Cohen, coordinator of the No Spray Coalition and editor of Green Politix (national newsletter of the Green Party USA). Moderator: Prof. Richard Currie, College of Staten Island English Dept. and Head of the Social Concern Committee, Universalist Unitarian Church, Staten Island.

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