The 4th Annual Environmental Justice Symposium

From Protection to Empowerment: Policy Solutions to Ensure Equal Access to The Green Economy

Date: Friday, April 18, 2008 
Contact: Erik Roper 
Location: UC Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall, Berkeley, CA

Program 

8-9am   Registration and Breakfast 

9:05am   Welcome Remarks

            Erik Roper, Chair, Environmental Justice Symposium

            Christopher Edley, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law 

9:15-10am  Keynote Address

            Jerome Ringo, President, The Apollo Alliance 

10:15-11:30am Session I, concurrent panels 

Panel A: Land Use Policy Reforms: Building Just and Sustainable Communities From The Ground Up

• Caroline Farrell of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
• Michelle Wilde Anderson of Environmental Law Fellow at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP
• CITIES INSIDE OUT: RACE POVERTY AND EXCLUSION AT THE URBAN FRINGE
• Joel Ellinwood of Best, Best & Krieger LLP

Panel B: The Globalization of Environmental Justice: Building a Movement Beyond Borders

• Dr. Henry Clark of the West County Toxics Coalition, member of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
• Ana Maria Murillo, the Hesperian Foundation (She has also worked with the U'wa Defense Project and Amazon Watch).
• Bill Gallegos, Communities for a Better Environment
• Gopal Dayaneni, Movement Generation (for an article about this innovative program, visit http://techforpeople.net/%7Ecatalystproject/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=67) and former Oil Campaign Coordinator for Project Underground

11:45am-1pm  Session II, concurrent panels 

Panel A: The Farmworker Blues: Why Can’t I Work In A Sustainable Agricultural Paradigm?  

• Dr. Dorian Fougères, Center for Collaborative Policy, CSU Sacramento
• Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Human Rights in California’s Central Valley: A Case Study

Panel B: Developing Renewable Energy Projects on Rural & Tribal Lands

• Jeff Keohane of the Keohane Law firm
• Colin Cloud Hampson of Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP
• Presentation Outline
• Tim Seward, of Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP
  

1-1:30pm  Lunch 

1:45-3pm  Session III, concurrent panels

Panel A: Generation Green: How Education Can Positively Shape Our Environmental Future

• Jesse Raskin, Greenlining Institute
• Ina Bendich, Director of EXCEL Law Academy/ Youth Voices are Rising program in West Oakland
• Hydra Mendoza, Education Advisor to SF Mayor and founder of Parents for Public Schools
• Ophelia Basgal, PG&E VP of Civic Participation and Community Initiatives
• PG&E ANNOUNCES SOLAR SCHOOL AND BRIGHT IDEAS GRANT WINNERS
• CA Assemblymember Loni Hancock

Panel B: Linking Food with Social Justice:  Expanding Access to Local, Organic Foods

• Susie White, NextCourse
• Mark Vallianatos, Center for Food and Justice
• Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery

3:15-4:30pm  Session IV, concurrent panels

Panel A: The Environmental, Economic and Social Justice Implications of Market-Based Carbon Emissions Trading

• Prof. Maxine Burkett, University of Colorado School of Law
• Just Solutions to Climate Change: A Proposal for a Domestic Green Development Mechanism
• Adrienne Bloch, Communities for a Better Environment
• The California Environmental Justice Movement's Declaration Against the Use of Carbon Trading Schemes to Address Climate Change
• The Cap and Trade Charade for Climate Change
• Prof. Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law
• Environmental and Domestic Client Change Policy
• Draft Framework for Achieving Environmental Justice
• Matthew Lappé, Center on the Commons
• Cap and Dividend: How to Curb Global Warming While Protecting the Incomes of American Families
• CARBON CAPPING: A Citizen's Guide

Panel B: Green Collar Jobs: Creating Jobs that Reduce Poverty and Improve the Environment

• Mary Lou Van Deventer, co-owner of Urban Ore and President of the Northern California Recycling Association.
• Michele McGeoy, Director, Solar Richmond
• Raquel Pinderhughes
• Green Collar Jobs (PDF)
• Timothy Alan Simon, Commissioner, CA Public Utilities Commission

4:45-6pm  Session V: Roundtable Discussion 

• Thalia Gonzalez, the Greenlining Institute

 

6:15 - 8pm   Post-Event Reception Sponsored by Bingham McCutchen LLC