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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT holds its conference on 2nd national conference on science, policy and the Environment sustainable communities: science & Solutions.
AGENDA: Highlights:
2 p.m. - Congressional Leadership Award
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-NY, Chair, Science Committee
2:30 p.m. - Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented by Ambassador Richard Benedick, President, National Council for Science and the Environment
Maurice Strong, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General
3 p.m. - Closing Plenary: From Washington Dc To Johannesburg: Science, Stakeholder Needs And Solutions
Reports from Breakout Sessions & Response from panel of US Government and United Nations Officials
John Edward Porter, Member of Congress (retired)
Alan Hecht, Council on Environmental Quality
Maurice Strong, Jacob Scherr, Director, International Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Jonathan Margolis, U.S. Department of State
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Constitution Avenue at 10th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-530-5810
WEB ADDRESS: ncseonline.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LAGISLATURES holds its Assembly on Federal Issues and Assembly on State Issues Joint Meeting.
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-5400
WEB ADDRESS:ncsl.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: US CHINA COMMISION holds hearings on The Chinese Budget And The Role Of The People's Liberation Army In China's Economy, December 7th.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Dr. Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Barry Anderson (CBO) Deputy Director, Congressional Budget Office
Cheng Xiaonong, Lecturer, Departments of Political Science and History, Princeton University
Dr. Charles Wolf Jr., Rand Corp (video conference), Corporate Chair, International Economics, RAND Graduate School
PRC Military Budget Issues and PLA's Role in the Economy/Party/National Priorities
11 a.m. - Dr. David Shambaugh, Senior Fellow, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University
Dr. John Frankenstein, Research Associate & Adjunct Faculty, East Asia Institute, Columbia University, Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council of the United States
Dr. James Mulvenon, Deputy Research Director, Rand Corporation, Center for Asia-Pacific Policy
John Corbett ,U.S. Army retired, Senior Analyst, Centra Technologies
Dr. Andrew Marble, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations/Taiwan
Service Components of the Chinese Defense Budget
2 p.m. - Dennis Blasko, U.S. Army retired
Dr. Bernard Cole, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Programs, Professor of Maritime Strategy and History, National War College
Luke Colton, Independent Defense Consultant
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: 124 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-1407
WEB ADDRESS: 202-624-1407
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMIES AND HEINRICH BÖLL FOUNDATION US-ASIA ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM holds a conference on Renewable Energy Technology Development and Implications for Poverty Alleviation.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Dr Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences
Dr R.K Pachauri, President, TERI-NA
Sascha Mueller-Kraenner, Director, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Washington D.C
Ambassador Sheila Sisulu* Embassy of South Africa
Minister Dr. Eberhard Koelsch, DCM, Embassy of Germany
10:30 a.m. - Session I: Renewable Energy: Policies and Practices
Dr R.K Pachauri, President, TERI-NA
Dr Paul V Tebo, Vice President, Safety, Environment and Health, Dupont
Dan Reicher, World Resources Institute
Dr John Boright, Executive Director, National Research Council
Gavin Murray*, Director, Environmental and Technology Division, IFC
Dr Leonard Coburn*, President-Elect, IAEE
1.30 p.m. - Session II: Experiences in RET Market Development
Adm. Richard Truly, Director, NREL
Dr Eric Martinot, Program Manager, Climate Change Program, GEF
Andreas Wagner, Vice President, Enron Wind
Todd Foley, Director, BP-Solar
3.30 p.m. - Session III: RET Development: Prospects for Global Partnerships
David Garman, Asst Secretary, EERE, US DOE
Dr Ajay Mathur, Team Leader for Climate Change, World Bank
Dr Karl Hausker, Managing Consultant, PA Consulting Group
Chris Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute
Peter Kimm, Executive Director, USAEP
5.30 p.m. - Closing Address with Judith Richards Hope, Member, Board of Directors, TERI-NA
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202 462 7512
WEB ADDRESS:boell.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE holds a High Performance School Buildings: Energy Smart Schools That Make a Difference.
WHO: The speakers are:
Gary Bailey, American Institute of Architects
Sarah Woodhead, deputy director of Facilities, DC Public Schools
Roy Michaelsiin, Howard County Public Schools
Jim Zavesky, Trane Company
Deane Evans, Center For Architecture and Building Science
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: SC-5 U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-628-1400
WEB ADDRESS:eesi.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM holds a briefing to release the Latin American Competitiveness Report.
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6449
WEB ADDRESS:weforum.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION OF THE STATES AND NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTITUTE present "Environmental Security: How Do We Adapt After 9-11?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Gov. Christie Todd Whitman, US EPA Administrator
Gov. James Gilmore, Chairman, Congressional Advisory Panel
to Assess Preparedness for Weapons of Mass Destruction
Mayor Pat McCrory, Charlotte, NC, Chair, Conference of
Mayors Environmental Committee
U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee
on Terrorism and Homeland Security
Judge Robert Eckels, Harris County, TX Commissioner,
Chairman, National Association of County, Officials (NACO) and head of
the NACO Taskforce on Homeland Security
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-775-1401
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS ON PALESTINE presents "After Kabul: Is Baghdad Next?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Scott Ritter - former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq
Denis J. Halliday - former UN Assistant Secretary General
Edward Peck - former Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: 2425 Virginia Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-338-1290
WEB ADDRESS: palestinecenter.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a brownbag public affairs meeting on Pearl Harbor and the Consequences of Denying History: How the Interests of Enslaved American WWII POWs have been Sold Out by the Bush White House and what this Means for Soldiers in Today's Afghanistan with Steven C. Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation.
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES holds a program on"View From The Ground In Afghanistan And Pakistan," featuring Medea Benjamin, just back from a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Medea will present an overview on the situation on the ground with a special focus on the realities facing women
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: 733 15th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-234-9382
WEB ADDRESS:ips-dc.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "The Korean Peninsula And The Clinton Administration: Reflections On The Year 2000."
WHO: The speakers are:
Don Oberdorfer, former diplomatic correspondent, The Washington Post, and author, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
Wendy Sherman, former U.S. North Korea Policy Coordinator
Stephen Bosworth, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER Kennan Institute U.S. Alumni Series presents Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc with Anders Áslund, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C., and former Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents members of the National Symphony Orchestra performing works from their broad repertoire for various small ensembles.
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: PEACE FORUM holds a program entitled "Worldwide Transformation."
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Ervin Laszlo. experts on systems theory and general evolution theory
Ambassador John McDonald, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Multitrack Diplomacy
Dr. Abdul Aziz Said. Director of the Center for Global Peace, American University
DATE: December 7, 2001
LOCATION: Washington Ethical Society, 7750 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-751-7823
WEB ADDRESS: peaceforum.info
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALS holds a telephone news briefing on "Bioterrorism and Public Health: Views From the State Level."
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Leslie Beitsch, Oklahoma State Department of Public Health
Dr. George Benjamin, Secretary of Health and Hygiene
Dr. Diana Bonta, director, California Department of Health Services
Dr. George Hardy, ASTHO
DATE: December 7, 2001
CONTACT: Janet Firshein, 301-652-1558
WEB ADDRESS: astho.org
