Six Billion Downstream Thursday, March 2 through Sunday, March 5, 2000 The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference is the premier annual gath- ering of environmentalists in the world. Now in its 18th year, the Conference I unites activists, attorneys, students, scientists and concerned citizens to share their expertise, experience and insights. With more than 100 panels, keynote addresses, workshops, films and celebrations, the Conference has become world-reknown for its energy, innovation &inspiration for all who par- ticipate. This year's theme, Six Billion Downstream, focuses on the interde- pendence of all livingthings. This year, the Earth's population reached six bil- lion people, making environmental concerns more pressing than ever. Not . onlymustweunderstandthat our ac- tions affect all people, animals and natural systems of the planet, but we must also understandhow we depend on other people, animals and nature for our own welfare.As we begina new millenium,environmentalstewardship mustbe a unitingprinciplebecauseev- eryone lives downstream. About the Art Registration This year's conference artwork was created by Deb Carson Thomas, all Registrationfor the Conferencewill be around outdoorswoman, dedicated environmentalist, whitewater river guide, on the front steps of the University of loving mother and wife. Deb died in a tragic automobile accident in April Oregon Law School at the corner of 1996. Her husband, Mark Thomas, a University of Oregon School of Law Agateand 15thStreet.Registrationwill alumni and former Land Air Water member, donated this work to LAW. A begin at 2:00 p.m.Thursday, March 2 portion of the proceeds from the sale of goods with this artwork willbe do- and will continue throughout the con- nated to an education fund for their son. ference. Conference Sponsors Keynote Address & Meals Land Air Water (L.A.W.)is the nation's oldest stu- All keynote addresses and meals will dentenvironmentallawsociety.LAW.'ssixty-plus ~- be at the University of Oregon Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. If attending members from the University of Oregon School of Law ~~:::s- meals, please pre-purchasetickets at [ organize the conference on a volunteer basis. L.A.W. ~ ~ members also publish both the Western Environmen- the Registration tables on the Law School Steps. However, meal tickets tal Law Update and the Directory of Public Interest LAND AIR WATER are not requiredto attend the keynote Environmental Lawyers. addresses. Friends of Land AirWater (F.L.A.W.)is a 501 (c)(3) N non-profit organization started by LAW. members in Time Changes 1993. The board of directors includes graduates and Many panels, presentationsandwork- students of the University of Oregon School of Law, W- E shops have changed since the origi- as well as interested citizens and attorneys from the nal brochure. Please consult this ad- community. Its primary interest is the annual Public dendum for the correct times and Interest Environmental Law Conference. 6 locations. I RECEPTION FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE Friday 5:30 p.m. (LAW 282) syecialEvents Sponsored by the Native American Law Student Association OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY NIGHT CELEBRATION! Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m. (LAW 110) Friday 9:00 p.m. (Agate Hall) Sponsored by Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation Clumsy Lovers followed by Casey Neill Trio TREE DEDICATION NATURE WALKS Friday 11 :50 a.m. (LAW - Wayne Morse Commons) Spencer Butte Quest, Friday2:30p.m.- 5:30p.m. Honoring David Brower & his commitment to the environment & A 3+ hour round trip to the top of Spencer's Butte, a natural highlight of the the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference City of Eugene. Sturdy shoes suggested, dress warm if it's cold. MOVIE PREMIERS Guided by Roy Keene, Public Interest Forestry pickAxe Campus Tree Tour, Saturday 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. A walking tour of the University of Oregon's campus & its trees & groves. Friday 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (LAW 175) Guided by Roy Keene, Public Interest Forestry Tim Ream & Tim Lewis, Co-directors/Producers ALUMNI RECEPTION The Return of the Navajo Boy Saturday 10:30 a.m - 12:00 a.m. (LAW 175) Saturday 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (LAW 206) Law School Career Services Jeff Spitz, Director/Producer & Bennie Klain, Producer Subdivide & Conquer: A Modern Western SATURDAY NIGHT CELEBRATION! Saturday 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. (LAW 175) Saturday 9:00 p.m. (Agate Hall) Jeff Gersh, Director/Producer Bug Guts followed by jentzu & the alter followed by Slugthang Julia Butterfly Hill, Forest Activist. Julia Butterfly Hill lived for over two years atop the 1,000 year-old redwood tree she named Luna. On Dec. 10, KeynoteBiogmyhies 1997, she ascended 180 ft. into Luna in an effort to save her & awaken the David Brower, PresidenVFounder, Earth Island Institute; former world to the destruction of our old-growth forests. Executive Director & current board member of the Sierra Club; member of Dr. Sviti ana Kravchenko, Ukranian professor of environmental law. Dr. the Board of Trustees of the Glen Canyon Institute; & Founder of Friends of Kravchenko is an important environmental lawyer in Europe & one of the the Earth. He is the inspiration behind much of the environmental move- two most preeminent environmental lawyers in the newly independent state ment in the U.S. of the former Soviet Union. She established the first environmental law Rod Coronado, Animal Rights Activist. Rod Coronado has been a clinic in Europe & the first public interest law firm in the Ukraine. warrior in the struggles for earth & animal liberation since the early '80s. He Bill Meadows, President, The Wilderness Society. Mr. Meadows has hac:{ has infiltrated the U.S. fur farm industry & obtained graphic evidence of a long history in environmental work, beginning with Earth Day 1970. He ~ animal abuse that was later aired on 60 Minutes. He is presently working served in Tennessee for many years as a leader within the state & local with indigenous youth from the Tohono O'Odham & Pascua Yaqui Nations. level Sierra Club; was on the board of the Tennessee Environmental Carrie Dann, Executive Director, Westem Shoshone Defense Project. A Council & was a founder & board member of the Environmental Action fund, Westem Shoshone grandmother & traditionalist who has been an outspo- a state lobbying foundation. He has also been a supporter & member of the ken advocate for indigenous lands rights for the last 25 years. She & her League of Conservation Voters for many years. sister were the first recipients of the Right Livelihood Award. She has been Florence Krall Shepard, Author. Ms. Shepard is a Professor Emeritus active in opposing the nuclear bombardments of the Westem Shoshone at the University of Utah, Department of Educational Studies. She is a lands at the Nevada test site, & in fighting the mining industry which teacher, essayist, naturalist & an advocate for wildemess. She is the author produces 70 percent of the country's gold on Westem Shoshone lands. of Ecotone & editor of Coming Home to the Pleistocene & Encounters with Miguel Fredes, Public Interest Environmental Attorney from Chile. Miguel Nature, posthumous books by Paul H. Shepard, scholar of human ecology. Fredes is a co-founder & staff attorney of FIMA, the first public interest Ka Hsaw Wa, Environmental/Human Rights Activist from Burma. Ka environmental law organization of Chile. He has been working to inform the Hsaw Wa was bom a member of the Karen, one of Burma's many ethnic American public about the legal, environmental & socio-economic implica- minorities long discriminated against by the ruling military regime. He has tions of Cascada Chile in the south of Chile. He is currently a legal advisor traveled throughout Burma documenting human rights & environmental of Geoaustral, a Chilean NGO that battles multinationals' forestry projects in abuses committed by the Burmese government. Ka Hsaw Wa received the the south of Chile. Goldman Environmental Prize in 1999. He is the founder & director of Earth Dr. Birute Galdikas, President, Orangutan Foundation International. Dr. Rights International. Galdikas has spent over twenty years in Borneo studying the orangutan & Charles Wilkinson, Professor, University of Colorado School of Law; reintroducing former-captive orangutans to the wild. She has been featured Author, Fire on the Plateau. Wilkinson's primary specialties are federal twice on the cover of National Geographic & is the author of over 50 public land law & Indian law. In 1990, in its 10-year anniversary issue, scientific articles & two books. Outside magazine named Wilkinson one of its 15 "people to watch.' In Eileen Gauna, Professor, Southwest University Law School. Eileen addition to his many articles in law reviews & popular journals, his ten books include standard texts on public land law & a text & the leading treatise on Gauna's publications include articles on environmental justice, citizen suits, Indian law. He is now completing Messages From Frank's Landing, a profile the Clean Air Act & public participation in environmental decisionmaking. of Billy Frank, Jr. of the Nisqually tribe of westem Washington. She is currently on the executive board of the environmental law section of the American Association of Law Schools & is also a member of the Mobile Carla Garcia Zendejas, Human Rights / Env. Justice Attorney, Mexico. Source Technical Review Advisory Subcommittee of the Clean Air Act Ms. Zendejas is Environmental Program Director, staff attomey & co- Advisory Committee. founder of Yeuani, an organization which gives free legal & consulting Paul Hawken, Author. Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, educator, services to grass roots community groups & women workers from the lecturer, entrepreneur, joumalist & bestselling author. His writings & work maquiladora industry in the city of lljuana, Mexico. Presently she is have caused CEOs to transform their internal corporate culture & business participating directly with the Baja California State Congress to draft State philosophy toward environmental restoration. His latest book is entitled Environmental Law reform which incorporates fundamental issues of public Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution.