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> NEW BOOK ON ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY,
>MCGILL UNIVERSITY The book is entitled, "Ethics, Economics and
>International Relations: Transparent Sovereignty in the Commonwealth of
>Life". It is written by Dr. Peter G. Brown, Director of the McGill School
>of Environmental Studies, McGill University, Montreal, published by
>Edinburgh University Press. Peter Brown tries to get us beyond
>traditional economics, even beyond incrementalism where we try to
>piecemeal traditional economics with green taxes and other economic
>instruments. Brown develops what he calls "Stewardship Economics", an
>economics that makes humans one part of the resource base and the web of
>life. It takes humans out of the centre where resources and all other
>life forms are made for the use and abuse of humans. Here is what Brown
>says: "Stewardship economics extends, and may hope to complete, the quest
>for a general theory by explicitly locating the human economy in the
>earth's biophysical systems. It requires therefore both an accurate
>description of the economy in those systems and a normative structure
>that will allow us to say how these systems should function. Stewardship
>economics recognizes the finitude of the earth and its systems." Brown
>warns that, "the most pervasive scientific error made by mainstream
>economics is that it carries forward, as an unexamined background
>assumption that humans are not significant actors in the earth's
>biophysical systems. In more economic texts there is no description of
>any kind of nature.....it is as if the rest of the physical world did not
>exist or that humans could not affect it." Brown reminds us that, "our
>concern is with the commonwealth of life: for its flourishing, including
>its own, and its restoration." He adds that, "the thrust of this book is
>the depiction of a contract between all persons to respect each other's
>basic rights, and to extend the contract to all life." To achieve a
>stewardship economy that operates within the commonwealth of life (e.g,
>the resource rich life-supporting, economy-supporting ecosystem), Brown
>states that society has fiduciary responsibilities that include operating
>an economy within a "Common Pool Resource" (CPR). The concept was first
>developed by Elinor Ostrom and reported in her book "Governing the
>Commons". Brown writes, "a common pool resource can be a fishery, a
>forest, the Internet, the air, the oceans, the ecological health of a
>stream, and so on. In all these cases, and many, many more resources
>units can be appropriated by individuals without regard to the health of
>the system," and states that, "Ostrom has identified eight
>characteristics of institutions that are successful in protecting common
>pool resources. Markets, private property, and government may all have
>roles to play in a successful system." For more information contact Dr.
>Peter G. Brown, Director, McGill School of Environment, 3534 University
>Ave., Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, ph. (514) 398-2827, email
>[log in to unmask] . Visit their website at
><http://www.mcgill.ca/mse/>http://www.mcgill.ca/mse/
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>GALLON TO GIVE TALK ON THE HISTORY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
>MOVEMENT IN CANADA, PIMLOTT LECTURE Gary Gallon, President of the
>Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment (CIBE), will give a
>talk on "The History and Economics of Environmentalism in Canada", at the
>University of Toronto Lecture Series. The lecture series is held annually
>by Innis College in honour of Dr. Douglas Pimlott, the famous Canadian
>scientist who specialized in demystifying wolves, their families and
>their habits. Co-hosted by Dr. Beth Savan, Director Environmental Studies
>at Innis College and Monte Hummel, head of the World Wildlife Fund
>Canada, the Pimlott Memorial Lecture will be held Thursday, February 15,
>2001, 6:00 pm, at the Town Hall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2
>Sussex Ave., Toronto, ph. (416) 978-3424, email [log in to unmask]
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>CONCERN EXPRESSED IN EUROPE ABOUT CANADA'S
>ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE Environment officials in the United States and
>Europe have been watching in disbelief as Canada, particularly its
>Provinces, fall behind on environmental protection and greenhouse gas
>emissions reduction. Where Canada was a leader in the 1970's and the
>1980's, it has failed to keep up with world environmental progress in the
>1990's. Much of this came from the massive budget cuts and senior science
>and engineering staff cuts in Environment Canada and the provinces in the
>mid-1990's. At least Environment Canada has been turned around with new
>cash and some staff infusions from the Government of Canada. But Alberta,
>Quebec, and Ontario continue to treat environment as an obstacle to
>economic development and have relegated environmental protection to the
>back of the Cabinet Bus. This environmental backslide in Canada has not
>gone unseen by the rest of the world. The Center for International
>Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), based in Oslo, Norway, has
>just published an article entitled, "Canada on the Brink: From
>Frontrunner to Laggard?, and written by researchers, Jonas Vevatne and
>Santiago Olmos. They wrote that, "Canada was lambasted as "Fossil of the
>Week" at the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP 6) in The Hague by
>environmental activists and was accused of attempting to water down the
>Kyoto Protocol. At the same time, the election campaigns were underway in
>Canada where climate issues were hardly mentioned. What is happening to
>one of the most active environmental frontrunners of the 1980's when its
>Minister of Environment doesn't even show up to COP 6 ?" CICERO said
>that, "Canada was named Fossil of the Week for its efforts to include
>existing forests and agriculture in the category of carbon sinks
>(absorption of carbon dioxide n forests and land). Canada was criticized
>particularly strongly for its demand that export of nuclear energy
>technology should be covered by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), so
>that it could export nuclear power plants to developing countries as a
>greenhouse gas reduction measure.", adding that even, "David Runnalls
>believes that the criticism was well deserved." The article cites as one
>of the reasons for Canada's decline is the decline in environmental
>interest by the two large opposition parties. The Canadian Alliance, the
>official opposition, and the Block Quebecois are both more interested in
>expanding regional powers, not environmental powers. CICERO quoted David
>Runnalls, President of Canada's International Institute for Sustainable
>Development (IISD) based in Winnipeg, saying that, "the main opposition
>party, the Canadian Alliance dedicated only one sentence to environmental
>protection in its 23-page program, and has not formulated any climate
>policy or position on the Kyoto Protocol. The Liberal strongly emphasized
>the possible economic benefits of climate measures but have nevertheless
>failed to make the environment an issue in the campaign." The report
>stated that, "the strong polarization of the election race has dampened
>the parties' willingness to enter into a debate on the environment, and
>there is little to indicate that there will be any change in the short
>run." For more information contact the Center for International Climate
>and Environmental Research (CICERO), Pb. 1129, Blindem, Sognsvelen 68,
>0318 Oslo, Norway, ph. 47.22.85.87.50, email [log in to unmask] , or
>[log in to unmask] . To download the full paper go to
>http://www.cicero.uio.no/cicerone/00/6/Eng/cic6santiago.pdf . Also see
>the GCSI article on politics and GHG in Canada
>http://www.gcsi.ca/risingheat.html . And see the West Coast Environmental
>Law Centre's report card on GHG and Canada at
>http://www.wcel.org/wcelpub/2000/13244.pdf .
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>SEMINAR ON MEETING CANADA'S COMMITMENTS TO
>KYOTO PROTOCOL, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY The School of Community and Public
>Affairs at Concordia University's and the McGill School of Environment
>will host an evening panel on "Climate Change: Meeting Canada's
>Commitments" Wednesday, 14 February 2001, from 6 to 8 pm at the Concordia
>University Faculty Club Lounge, 1455 de Maisonneuve, Hall Building Blvd.,
>Room H767, Montreal, Quebec. The panel will be chaired by Desiree McGraw
>of the McGill School of Environment and will include: Jean Charest, leader
>of the Quebec Liberal Party and former Environment Minister (Canada); Ted
>Ferguson >from Canada's Clean Development Mechanism and Joint
>Implementation Office; Elizabeth May, Executive Director of the Sierra
>Club of Canada; and, Frank Muller, Professor of Environmental Economics,
>Concordia University and Visiting Professor, McGill School of Environment
>. For more information, contact the Concordia University at ph.
>514-848-2575.
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>VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TO HOST
>UNEP INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CONFERENCE IN 2002 Victoria, British
>Columbia, has been selected as the venue for the fourth UNEP
>International Children's Conference on the Environment which will take
>place from 22 to 24 May 2002. The Conference will be held at the
>University of Victoria and is expected to bring together 800 children (10
>to 12 years old) >from over 115 countries, providing them with an
>opportunity to learn about and voice their concerns on the state of the
>environment as well as to showcase environmental initiatives by schools.
>The Conference is also expected to produce a statement from children to
>the world leaders who will meet in the summer of 2002 in Johannesburg for
>the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Among the issues the
>Conference will focus on are: resource conservation, climate change and
>water. "I am very pleased that Canada will host this important event",
>said David Anderson, Minister of the Environment for Canada and current
>President of UNEP's Governing Council. "There are natural links between a
>healthy environment and healthy children. The various experiences,
>observations and ideas of the children around the world really bring home
>to us their desire for concrete actions to address environmental issues
>in a tangible manner." For more information contact Theodore Oben,
>Programme Officer, Children Youth and Sport Programmes, UNEP, Nairobi,
>Kenya, tel: 254-2-623262, fax: 623692, e-mail: [log in to unmask];
>or Tore J. Brevik, UNEP Spokesman/Director, Communications and Public
>Information, tel: 254-2-623292, fax: 623927, e-mail:
>[log in to unmask] See also www.unep.org/children_youth/ . For
>Canada, please contact: Anne L. Mathewson, Chair, ICC Canada 2002,
>Corporate & Environmental Communications Manager, Tetra Pak Canada Inc.,
>Markham, Ontario, tel: 1-905-305-9777, e-mail [log in to unmask]
>. For Connecticut, please contact: Mr. Tim Love/Joanne Tawfilis,
>Coalition for Justice and Community Understanding, Ledyard, Connecticut,
>tel: 1-860-464-2999, fax: 1-860-464-2368, e-mail
>[log in to unmask]
>************************************************************** MINING
>OPERATIONS IN CANADA RELEASED 2.3 MILLION
>POUNDS OF HEAVY METALS IN 1998 The Canadian Environmental Defence Fund
>(CEDF) in Toronto, said mining smelters in Canada released more than 2.3
>million pounds of heavy metals in 1998, including arsenic, mercury, lead
>and nickel compounds. These have all highly poisonous and harmful to
>people's health and the environment. The fund said the worst polluter was
>Inco Ltd., the western world's largest nickel miner, which released 1.1
>million pounds of heavy metal into the environment >from its facilities
>in Ontario and Manitoba. "Overall, Inco released almost two billion
>pounds of sulfur dioxide which causes acid rain," CEDF said. Their report
>listed Noranda Inc., Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., a unit of Anglo
>American Plc, Falconbridge Ltd. and Cominco Ltd., as major polluters.
>Mausberg said the information for the report came from information
>provided by the mining groups to a consultant for Environment Canada.
>Ranked by facility, the fund's report said Inco's Copper Cliff operation
>in Sudbury, Ontario, was a major polluter, followed by Noranda's Horne
>smelter in Quebec, then Hudson Bay's Flin Flon smelter in Manitoba,
>Inco's Thompson operation in Manitoba, Falconbridge's Kidd Creek facility
>in Ontario and Cominco's Trail zinc operation in British Columbia. "We
>certainly have a strategy in place to spend considerable money to make
>considerably more progress in the Sudbury area and out in Thomson, to
>address both the sulfur dioxide and the metal emissions," Inco spokesman
>Jerry Rogers said. Noranda said it was trying to reduce toxins from Horne
>by more than 50 percent. The smelter processed 720,000 tonnes of copper
>concentrates in 1999. "We are currently working on a program, and have
>already spent C$60 million, to reduce those emissions by another 50
>percent within the next two, two and a half years," Noranda spokesman
>Denis Couture told Reuters. Story by Lesley Wroughton, Reuters News
>Service. See the Mining Association of Canada website at
>http://www.mining.ca/ . Visit the Canadian Environmental Defense Fund
>website at http://www.cedf.net/ .
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>AMERICANA ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE AND TRADE SHOW IN MONTREAL, MARCH 28
>TO 30, 2001 AMERICANA 2001 is a Pan-American Environmental Technology
>Trade Show and Conference that will be held March 28-29-30, 2001 in
>Montreal Convention Centre (Quebec) Canada. For its 4th edition, with the
>theme "Evolving solutions for a changing world", AMERICANA keeps growing
>in 2001 expecting 10 000 participants, 400 exhibitors for the Trade Show,
>300 guest speakers in different tracks (Air, Climate Change, Water,
>Contaminated Sites, Solid Wastes, Environmental Management, etc.) and 600
>business meetings that will be organized for the International Business
>Matchmaking Program. AMERICANA 2001 is organized by RESEAU environnement,
>the Quebec's largest business association in the Environmental Industry.
>For more information contact Americana 2001, 911 Jean-Talon East, # 220,
>Montreal, Quebec H2R 1V5, Ph. (514) 270-7110, Fax (514) 270-7154. Email
><mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] . Visit their website at
>http://www.americana.org .
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>GORD MILLER, ONTARIO'S ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER TO SPEAK
>AT CEIA ONTARIO BUSINESS BREAKFAST Gordon Miller the Environmental
>Commissioner of Ontario will speak Thursday, February 15, 2001, 7:30 am
>at an environment business opportunities breakfast (EBOB) hosted by the
>Canadian Environment Industry Association, Ontario Chapter at the
>International Plaza Hotel, Ballroom C, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ontario.
>A hot breakfast will be served. Expect to join up to 100 environment
>business representatives at the breakfast. Cost of the breakfast is $55.
>To register contact CEIA Ontario, 2175 Sheppard Ave., E., Suite 310,
>Toronto, Ontario M2J 1W8, ph. (416) 491-1670, fax (416) 491-1670 email
>[log in to unmask] . Visit their website at http://www.ceia.on.ca .
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>AWMA CONFERENCE ON IMPLEMENTING CANADA-WIDE STANDARDS The Air & Waste
>Management Association (AWMA) will sponsor a the "Implementation of
>Canada-Wide Standards Conference" March 7 and 8, 2001, at the Toronto
>Marriott Eaton Centre. It is cosponsored by Environment Canada and
>chaired by Dr. Jane Pagel, Vice-President, Corporate and Government
>Affairs, Jacques Whitford Environment Ltd. The keynote speaker will be
>Barry Stemshorn, Assistant Deputy Minister, Environmental Protection
>Service, Environment Canada. It will deal with ozone and small diameter
>particulate, mercury and petroleum hydrocarbons in soil standards, and
>dioxins, furans and benzene. The Canada-Wide Standards are an attempt by
>the provinces and the Canadian Council of the Ministers of the
>Environment (CCME) to take over the standard-setting role of the federal
>government. So far the Canada-Wide Standards are late and have delayed
>what would have come out of the federal government under the Canadian
>Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The Canada-Wide standards are weak
>and don't meet standards that are required in the United States, plus
>they are unenforceable at the national level since the provinces have
>been mandated to enforce each of the Canada-Wide Standards within their
>own jurisdiction. Quebec, Ontario and Alberta have so far stripped their
>environment ministries of resources and staff that they are not in a
>position to enforce new standards. In essence, the provinces would be
>operating with an unfunded mandate - - they are required to do it, but
>don't have the resources to do it. The cost of participation for
>non-members is $625.00. For more information contact AWMA, One Gateway
>Center, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222, ph. 1-800-270-3444,
>or ph. (412) 232-3444, fax (412) 232-3450. Visit the website at
>http://www.awma.org .
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> SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GREEN TAXES IN
>VANCOUVER, B.C., APRIL 2001 The Second Annual Global Conference on
>"Environmental Taxation Issues: Experience and Potential," will be hosted
>by the Pembina Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia from April 1st to
>3rd, 2001. It is co-sponsored by Cleveland State University, the BC
>Institute of Technology, and the Government of British Columbia. The
>objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of
>ideas, information and research findings among scholars, executives, tax
>professionals, non- governmental organizations and policy makers focussed
>on environmental taxation issues, experience and potential throughout the
>world. Participants will include professors of taxation, accounting, and
>finance from major universities worldwide, tax and accounting
>professionals from leading CPA and law firms, executives from industry,
>members of non-governmental organizations and officials from governmental
>bodies throughout the world. The registration cost is $250 + GST. Contact
>Aida Burgos, BCIT Venture Development Centre, 3700 Willingdon Ave.,
>Burnaby, B.C. V5G 3H2, ph. (604) 453-4018, fax (604) 436-0286, email
>[log in to unmask] . Download conference brochure, registration form and
>call for papers from the website http://www.piad.ab.ca/ , and click on
>"What's New".
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>Letter to the Editor, Dear Gallon Environment Letter:
>
>The article on Birdwatching as a $25 billion dollar "industry" tells me
>how out of touch the urban environmental movement is in America. I too
>enjoy birdwatching. I have been a compiler for 25 years and have several
>feeders at my home, but to equate birdwatching with the steel industry
>or the chemical industry, strains the imagination. Explain to me exactly
>what birdwatching produces? Could we even exist without the steel
>industry and chemical industry. I am disappointed in your shortsighted
>logic. Without the agricultural industry the minerals industry and the
>other basic raw materials industries that make our country great and allow
>us the standard of living we enjoy... there wouldn't be any time for bird
>watching. We would be spending 90% of our time seeking shelter and
>finding food to survive. Let's put a little more thought into your
>articles. We can enjoy birdwatching and have both a viable steel
>industry and chemical industry without trashing them. Sincerely, Michael
>Noel, Farmer/Rancher, email
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> Dear Editor, Instead of just harping on the "What if we had less
>democracy" vein of thinking, how about the following, also from USA
>Today, on the topic of "What if we had more democracy"?? Thanks, by the
>way, for including the letters to the editor in this issue of your
>newsletter. And you do an incredible job of pulling together lots of
>useful environmental news, and I do appreciate that. (You don't need to
>add this email address to your mailing list -- Sincerely, Craig Harvey,
>email [log in to unmask]
>************************************************************* WICKES
>STORE IN BANGOR, MAINE BLOCKADED FOR SELLING
>INTERFOR, B.C. WOOD PRODUCTS Members of the Student Environmental Action
>Coalition in Bangor, Maine, protested in front of the do-it-yourself
>store hardware store "WICKES" in Bangor, demanding that the company stop
>selling old-growth word products >from International Forest Products
>(Interfor) out of British Columbia. Student perched atop three tall metal
>tripods, whiles others chained themselves to the bases, blocking
>entrances to the store. Eleven students from College of the Atlantic and
>the University of New Hampshire were arrested. "WICKES knows the history
>of Interfor Forest Products in the ancient temperate rainforest in
>British Columbia, Canada and yet the company still carries Interfor's
>products," said Mike Roselle, Forests Campaigner for Greenpeace, who
>supported the student action. "Today's protest is part of a national
>grass roots uprising across the United States. Concerned citizens are
>doing everything in their power to expose both Interfor's highly
>destructive practices and the stores that refuse to stop selling their
>products," said Roselle. The students maintain that forest products must
>come from well-managed forests that have been certified to Forest
>Stewardship Council (FSC) standards or better. Many retailers, including
>home furnishing giant IKEA, have already pledged to use only forest
>products that have been FSC- certified. Although many forestry companies
>operating in the Great Bear Rainforest are working with environmental
>organizations in British Columbia to protect highly contentious areas
>within the rainforest, Interfor walked away from negotiations and has
>resumed its logging plans, says Greenpeace. Since then, environmentalists
>have exposed the company's plans to log 18 pristine valleys and
>critically important areas of the Great Bear Rainforest in the next five
>years. Contact Rob Fish, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Bangor,
>Maine, email [log in to unmask]
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>PLE LEAF PACKING FACTORY POLLUTES MANITOBA RIVER A Maple Leaf Pork
>plant was built in Brandon, Manitoba, once it promised to help build and
>pay for the maintenance of a new Brandon municipal sewage treatment plant
>that the Maple Leak Pork plant could use to discharge its slaughterhouse
>waste. The u.v. treatment system broke down and a new computer system
>installed to run the waste water operations was found to be incompatible
>with the rest of the new sewage treatment plant operations. As a result,
>the Maple Leaf-assisted sewage plant began discharge large amounts of
>improperly treated pork and human waste into the Assiniboine River during
>a long period in the Summer of 2000. Downstream water users were not
>notified of the pollution. Their drinking water and recreation water were
>harmed by it, according to Bill Paton, a Brandon University biologist. He
>said that farmers who irrigate strawberries and lettuce with river water
>should have been told to take precautions. In June, the amount of fecal
>coliform discharged into the river from Maple Leaf waste exceeded the
>limit in the treatment plant's licence >from Manitoba Conservation. By
>July, the mean reading was more than six times the licence limit. Fecal
>coliforms are bacteria found in the guts of warm- blooded animals. They
>are used as an indicator for other disease-causing organisms that are
>harder to detect. Swimming is not recommended when fecal coliform levels
>are above 200 per 100 millilitres of water. The mean reading for July
>2000 at the end of the Maple Leaf pipe was 1,255, but that would have been
>diluted in the river. The strain of E. coli that killed seven people in
>Walkerton, Ont., last summer is rarely found in pigs, but Paton sees
>parallels to Walkerton in the lack of checks and balances when something
>goes wrong. The $12-million sewage treatment plant was built by the City
>of Brandon as an incentive for the new slaughterhouse. City staff run the
>treatment facility, although Maple Leaf pays the operating expenses.
>Source, "Downstream warning urged in wake of pollution surge", By Helen
>Fallding, Winnipeg Free Press, Mon, Jan 8, 2001.
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>NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES ECONOMICS FORUM, TO BE HELD IN
>NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 2001 The first North American Fisheries Economics
>Forum will be held on April 1 to 4, 2001 at the Pontchartrain Hotel in
>New Orleans, Louisiana. The goals of the Forum are to strengthen
>communication between North American fisheries economists in industry,
>government and academia, and to provide opportunities to discuss research
>results, research in process and future research needs and plans. The
>keynote theme for the Forum is "The State of North American Fisheries
>Economics." Sessions relating to this keynote theme will include
>discussions on the future of North American fisheries economics,
>fisheries economics data, teaching fisheries economics, and publishing in
>the area of fisheries economics. Other special sessions will be held on
>topics including seafood trade and the internet, economics of fishing
>cooperatives under the American Fisheries Act, bio-economic models and
>fishery management, measuring efficiency and capacity in fisheries,
>economic assessments of marine reserves, catfish economics, and economics
>and conflicts between commercial and sport fisheries. Additional
>sessions on other topics are under development. The Forum will serve as
>the inaugural meeting of the North American Association of Fisheries
>Economists. This Association will be affiliated with International
>Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), an international
>organization of fisheries economists which meets in even-numbered years in
>different countries around the world. The most recent IIFET meeting was
>held in Corvallis, Oregon in July 2000, and the next meeting will be in
>Brisbane, Australia in July 2002. North American Fisheries Economics
>Forums will be held in odd-numbered years in different coastal areas of
>North America. For additional information, contact Gunnar Knapp, Program
>Chair, University of Alaska Anchorage (telephone 907-786-7717; e-mail
>[log in to unmask]). The deadline for submitting abstracts is February
>2, 2001. Additional information about the First North American Fisheries
>Economics Forum, including lists of sessions and participants and
>procedures for submitting abstracts, registering for the Forum and making
>hotel reservations, may be found at the website
>http://www.naafe.uaa.alaska.edu .
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> U.S. EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES CONTINUE TO INCREASE:
>COAL, OIL AND NATURAL GAS LARGEST SOURCES Total greenhouse gas (GHG)
>emissions of the six main greenhouse gases (weighted to reflect
>equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)), in the United States rose
>from 6,689 to 6,748 million metric tons. These gases include CO2,
>methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur
>hexafluoride. The CO2 from fossil fuel combustion at power plants and
>factories is the largest source of all greenhouse gases, accounting for
>80 percent of all emissions in 1999. Fossil fuel combustion was
>responsible for 88 percent of total greenhouse emission growth from 1990
>to 1999. The study also shows that >from 1990 - 1999, GHG emissions from
>cars, trucks and buses rose 21 percent, while total highway miles
>traveled climbed 13 percent. A Federal Register notice announcing a
>40-day public comment period on the report was published Jan. 9, 2001. To
>receive a hard copy of this document, fax a request to the Agency at
>202-260-6405, or write to the following address: U.S. EPA, Office of
>Atmospheric Programs, Market Policy Branch (MC: 2175), 1200 Pennsylvania
>Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20460. For technical information, call Wiley
>Barbour of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation at ph. (202) 260-6972. The
>report is available at
>http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/emissions.
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>S. EPA REGION 10 ISSUES RFP ON PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP AND
>RECYCLING The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 is
>soliciting proposals for projects that address product stewardship,
>recycling, source reduction, reuse, market development, or green
>purchasing. The amount of the contracts could range from US$10,000 to
>$20,000. Grants or cooperative agreements will be awarded though Solid
>Waste Assistance Funds (SWAF) under the authority of Section 8001 of the
>Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976. Goals EPA Region 10 seeks
>to fund proposals that fit into one or more of the following categories:
>Promote education and outreach on source reduction, product stewardship,
>reuse, recycling, composting, and/or buying recycled products Identify
>and test strategies that lead to improved environmental performance by
>Region 10 business organizations. Provide technical assistance or spur
>innovative technology development to promote source reduction, product
>stewardship, reuse, recycling, composting, and/or buying recycled
>products. Stimulate market development for materials that are difficult
>to recycle, such as construction and demolition debris, electronics,
>tires, etc. Incorporate EPA initiatives (e.g., community-based
>environmental protection, environmental justice, extended product
>responsibility, sustainability, protecting children's health from
>environmental threats) with source reduction, product stewardship, reuse,
>recycling, composting, and/or recycled product procurement projects. EPA
>Region 10 includes the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and the
>lands in Indian country belonging to federally recognized tribes in those
>states. Matching funds are not required under this solicitation. All
>matching funds or other contributions provided by the grantee are subject
>to audits and all federal regulations. Written proposals should be
>submitted on double-sided recycled paper with a minimum of 30%
>post-consumer content. The proposal process relies extensively on direct
>communication (in person or by phone, fax or electronic mail) with the
>EPA Region 10 contact. For this solicitation please contact Domenic
>Calabro at ph. (206) 553-6640 or by e-mail at [log in to unmask] The
>deadline for application is February 15, 2001, when a two-page
>pre-proposals should be received by the EPA. Applicants are encouraged to
>contact an EPA Region 10 representative prior to submitting their
>pre-proposal. Contact Domenic Calabro at ph. 206-553- 6640 or email
>[log in to unmask] This solicitation and additional EPA Region 10
>Solid Waste Program funding information are available on the Internet at
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>GREENING INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION AND
>COMPETITIVENESS WAS HELD IN BANGKOK, JANUARY 2001 The Greening of
>Industry Network (GIN) held its annual conference on "Sustainablity at
>the Millennium: Globalization, Competitiveness, and the Public Trust",
>January 21-24, 2001, in Bangkok, Thailand. It was the 9th International
>Conference of the Greening of Industry Network The Honorary Conference
>Chair was Dr. Supachai Panitchapakdi, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister
>and Director-General Designate of the World Trade Organization. The
>co-chair was Jan Pronk, Minister of Environment of the Netherlands. The
>four-day conference featured more than 150 presentations in plenary
>sessions, workshops, exhibitions, posters, discussion and debate,
>delegates from business, government and research will explore that latest
>research, business strategies, policies and case studies on cross-cutting
>issues of industrial development, environment and society. They pursued
>the issue of transition "From Environment to Sustainability". The
>conference started with sessions on Fair Globalization Policy,
>Doctoral Research Workshops, and a meeting of the Environmental
>Management Accounting Network. This convening marks the first
>international GIN conference in Asia, and we will use the occasion to
>launch the Second Decade of the Greening of Industry Network. The
>conference program is posted at http://www.eric.chula.ac.th/GIN-Asia/.
>Conference sponsors include Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Ministry of
>Science, Technology and Environment, United States-Asia Environmental
>Partnership, Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the
>Environment, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Environment Programme,
>European Community, Regional Institute of Environment Technology -
>Singapore, Ford Motor Company, Kenan Institute Asia, International Human
>Dimensions of Global Environmental Change - Industrial Transformation,
>New Jersey Institute of Technology. See
>http://www.eric.chula.ac.th/GIN-Asia/sponsors.html .
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> Environment, Montreal & Toronto
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Justin Dillon
Director, International Education Unit
School of Education
King's College London
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