Environmental attorney will talk on urban stream protection
Lorraine Herson-Jones, environmental attorney and engineer with Science Applications International in McLean, Virginia, will be the next speaker in the semester-long series "The Restoration Agenda: Water!"
at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her talk, titled "Site Planning for Urban Stream Protection," will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
There is a fee of $100 per person for community participants for the series. A limited number of fellowships are available for qualified registrants. For registration information, contact Aimlee D. Laderman at 432-3335 or via e-mail at aimlee.laderman@yale.edu.
Herson-Jones will discuss preventive tools for environmental site planning in urban watersheds and will illustrate the municipal, state and regional approaches to urban stream protection with examples from Montgomery County in Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay Protection Areas in Virginia and the Land Development Statute in Vermont. Herson-Jones has 12 years of experience in regional water resource management and urban land planning. She has provided technical and policy support for resolving land-planning issues, ranging from local development projects to Chesapeake Bay protection areas.
Baxter International executive
to speak at forestry school
William Blackburn, vice president and chief counsel for the corporate environmental, health and safety divisions at Baxter International Inc., a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of health-care products, will speak about "Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance in Financial Terms: The Baxter Experience" on Thursday, Feb. 5. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. It will be followed by a reception in the Sage Hall lounge.
Blackburn's lecture is the second in the spring series "How Do You Know If You're Going Green? Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance," sponsored by the Yale Industrial Environmental Management Program. Through his work at Baxter, Blackburn has advanced the state-of-the-art in corporate environmental reporting. He will discuss Baxter's development and use of financial "income statements" for environmental programs, environmental management standards and performance measures.
Decline in voluntarism in Australia is topic of scholar's talk
"'Bowling Alone' Down Under: Associational History and Social Capital in Australia" is the topic of a talk being given noon-1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10, by Susan Keen, a lecturer in the School of Science and Policy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her talk is sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations, part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. It will take place at noon in the first-floor conference room of 88 Trumbull St. It is free and open to the public; however, as seating is limited, those wishing to attend should call Karen Refsbeck in advance at 432-2121.
Keen will explore the current decline in Australia's traditional voluntary associations and examine the history of their development. Her talk will focus on nonprofit/state relations and will examine whether there was a "golden age" of unfettered voluntarism in Australia. Keen is currently working on a history of one of Australia's leading research-producing welfare nonprofits. Her interests include nonprofit/state relations and knowledge production by nonprofit organizations and its use in policy making.