Section 1 Introduction Our 2004 Town Hall Julie Knutson, President and CEO, Oklahoma Academy; Bill McKamey, Vice-President, American Electric Power; Michael Lapolla, University of Oklahoma; and Craig Knutson, E-conographic Consulting.............................................................................................................. 2 River Projects Envisioned Brian Barber, Staff Writer, Tulsa World, August 11, 2004 Indian Nations Council of Governments; and Carter-Burgess (Dallas, TX) ............................................................ 4 Moving Toward Sustainable Progress Will Focht, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science; Director of the Environmental Institute and the Environmental Science Graduate Program, Oklahoma State University................................................... 8 Smart Growth: Investing in Oklahoma Susan Savage, Secretary of State and former Mayor of Tulsa............................................................................. 14 Smart Growth: Investing in a Better Future A Review of the Fiscal and Competitive Advantages of Smarter Growth Development Patterns by Mark Muro and Robert Puentes, March 2004, The Brookings Institution ........................................................ 18 “Breakfast from Arkansas” Marty D. Matlock, PhD, PE, CSE, Associate Professor of Ecological Engineering and Robert A. Morgan , University of Arkansas; and Kent W. Thornton, FTN Associates, Ltd. ............................ 24 Section 2 Oklahoma Thoughts of an Oklahoma Environmentalist, Oilman & Teacher R. Dobie Langenkamp, Professor and Director National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute at the University of Tulsa College of Law ......................... 2 Thoughts of an Oklahoma Scientist and Educator Charles J. Mankin, PhD, Director, Oklahoma Geological Survey, and Sarkeys Energy Center ............................. 8 Tar Creek: Oklahoma’s Poster Child for “Imbalance” Steve Thompson, Director, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality ...................................................... 12 Urban Sprawl in Oklahoma Robert Gregory and Anita Poole, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture ........................................................... 20 Brownfields in Oklahoma Rita Kottke, PhD, Brownfield Program Coordinator, Land Protection Division, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality......................................................... 24 Air Quality in Tulsa: “An Ounce of Prevention ...” Jerry Lasker, Executive Director, Indian Nations Council of Governments........................................................... 27 Air Quality in Oklahoma City: “Any Way The Wind Blows ...” Zach D. Taylor, Executive Director; and Jerry A. Church, Special Programs Officer Association of Central Oklahoma Governments................................................................................................... 29 Recycling in Oklahoma? Michael Patton, Executive Director, The Metropolitan (Tulsa) Environmental Trust ............................................. 32 Efforts to Boost (Oklahoma) Recycling Going to Waste By Michael Baker, Staff Writer, Daily Oklahoman, July 6, 2004............................................................................ 34 Section 3 Social Balance Human Behavior and Land Use Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University ............................................................................................ 2 Human Behavior and Water Use Guy W. Sewell, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Robert S. Kerr Endowed Chair, East Central University......................................................................................... 6 Human Behavior and a Culture of Compliance John R. Shook, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University and Director of OSU’s Pragmatism Archive and Beth Shaefer Caniglia, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University............... 9 Section 4 Environmental Balance Hydrogen and Automobiles Stan Ovshinsky, National Public Radio, April 27, 2004........................................................................................... 2 Cleaning Up Oklahoma’s Landscape Robert J. Sullivan, Jr., Chairman, Oklahoma Energy Resources Board................................................................. 4 A Responsible Balance and the Nature Conservancy Grant Gerondale, Director of Environmental Affairs, The Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma ................................ 6 Restoring the Tall Grass Prairie Samuel D. Fuhlendorf and David M. Engle, Rangeland Ecology and Management Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University.................................................................... 10 Nature’s True Value Tom Libby, Chairman, Oklahoma Chapter, The Sierra Club ..................................................................................11 Save The Illinois River Ed Brocksmith, Secretary-Treasurer, Save the Illinois River, Inc.......................................................................... 13 Illinois River: Deal Leaves Tulsa Developer Facing Fine Rod Walton, The Tulsa World, May 16, 2004 ....................................................................................................... 14 Working For Oklahoma’s Economic & Environmental Future James Barnett, President and General Counsel, The Environmental Federation of Oklahoma........................... 15 Us ... and Our Neighboring States Diana Wilkins, Department of Environmental Quality (Oklahoma) ....................................................................... 17 Section 5 Economic Balance Corporate A Global View of Corporate Sustainability Mark P. Sharfman, PhD, Associate Professor of Strategic Management Division of Management, Michael F. Price College of Business, The University of Oklahoma............................... 2 Xerox and Corporate Sustainability James E. Warram, P.E., Environmental Engineer, Xerox Corpration, Oklahoma City............................................ 8 The Built Environment & Sustainable Development Dru Meadows, AIA, CCS, CSI and, Chuck Bell, AIA, NCARB .............................................................................. 12 Weyerhaeuser in Oklahoma Mike Wood, Environmental Affairs Manager, Weyerhaeuser Company ............................................................... 19 Making the Case for High Performance Buildings Francis Kubier, (Rees and Associates) Oklahoma Organizing Group, ................................................................. 23 Sustainability: Good Business and Good Sense J.J. Mulva, President & CEO, ConocoPhillips....................................................................................................... 26 Agri-Business Poultry and Pork Agri-Business: Oklahoma’s Two White Meats Anita Poole, Assistant to the President/Legal Counsel, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture ......................... 29 Seaboard Farms: Pork in the Panhandle Gary Reckrodt, Communications and Public Affairs Manager Seaboard Farms, Inc ........................................... 34 Agriculture Oklahoma Agricuture - A Major Conributor to a Responsible Balance, Terry Detrick, Vice President, Oklahoma Farmers Union ..................................................................................... 38 Valuing Natural Resources Tom Lucas, Resource Conservation & Development Coordinator USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service .................................................................................................. 41 Sustainable and Diversified Agriculture Terry Peach, Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture and Jack Carson Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry ................................................................................... 43 Sustainable Agriculture at Oklahoma State University Ross O. Love, PhD, Assistant Director Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University............................................................... 46 Section 6 Institutional Balance Oklahoma Legislature: The Inside Scoop Larry Rice, State Representative; and Director of Public Affairs, University of Tulsa ............................................. 2 Native American Indian Sovereignty Lee Hester, Director of American Indian Studies, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Director of the Howard Meredith Indian Humanities Center. ........................................................................... 5 EPA Policy for Programs on Indian Reservations William Ruckelshaus, Director, Environmental Prtection Agency, November 8, 1984 .......................................... 18 The Inter-Tribal Environmental Council of Oklahoma Lee Hester, Director of American Indian Studies, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Director of the Howard Meredith Indian Humanities Center. ......................................................................... 22 State Government This Generation’s Problem Miles Tolbert, Secretary of the Environment, State of Oklahoma ......................................................................... 24 DEQ …”for a clean, attractive, prosperous Oklahoma.” Steve Thompson, DEQ Executive Director........................................................................................................... 26 Oklahoma Conservation Commission Larry Edmison, Water Quality Division Director, Oklahoma Conservation Commission......................................