News Articles
Environment and Media Focus of 13th Symposium
Speakers to include Green Party leader
Renowned author and academic Thomas Homer-Dixon, Green Party leader Elizabeth May and Greenpeace Canada executive director Bruce Cox are among the speakers at the 13th annual Environmental Science Symposium being held Jan. 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Rozanski Hall.
This year's conference will bring together experts to discuss the relationship between media and the environment. Eleven speakers will examine issues and solutions from political, economic and social perspectives.
Homer-Dixon is director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and a political science professor at the University of Toronto. He's the author of The Ingenuity Gap, which won the 2001 Governor General's Award for non-fiction; Environment, Scarcity and Violence; and Ecoviolence: Links Among Environment, Population and Security.
May has been a leading environmentalist, author, activist and lawyer for more than 30 years. An Officer of the Order of Canada, she is a recipient of the United Nations environment program's Global 500 Award, a former executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada and a former senior policy adviser to the federal environment minister. She is the author of five books, including her most recent, How to Save the World in Your Spare Time, a manual for activists.
Before joining Greenpeace in 2004, Cox spent two decades bringing his passion for the environment to politics by holding positions with the Ontario ministries of Energy and Environment and at Toronto City Hall.
Other presenters include journalists Saul Chernos, Robert Fisher, Rick Searle, Nicola Ross and Barry Zwicker.
The conference is organized by environmental science undergraduate students. Advance tickets are $13 general, $8 for students, and can be purchased at the Information Desk in the University Centre. Tickets will also be available at the door for $15 and $10.
For more information and to register, visit www.uoguelph.ca/~envsymp.