2 0 1 2 N o r th e a s t E n v i r o n m e n ta l E t h i c s C o n f e r e n c e
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Alternative Energy Policy
Ecology and Land Ethics
Food Ethics and Animal Rights
Environmental Justice and
Indigenous Rights
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Registration
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Opening Ceremonies
Keynote Address: Paul Pojman, Environmental Ethics Theory and Application (Mary S.
Harkness Memorial Auditorium)
9:00 am – 10:30 am
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Exhibits Open
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Understanding the
Causes of Global
Climate Change
(Connecticut Hall)
The World Food
Supply
(Marsh Hall)
Overcoming Racism
in Environmental
Decision Making
(Grace Building)
Lunch Break
Ethics and Global
Climate Change
(Connecticut Hall)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Biodiversity: The
Key to Saving Life
on Earth
(Allwin Hall)
Reverence for Life
(Allwin Hall)
The Damage Done
by Cattle-Raising
(Marsh Hall)
Earth Democracy
(Grace Building)
Afternoon Workshops
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Friday, May 11, 2012
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Registration
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Keynote Address: William F. Baxter, People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution
(Mary S. Harkness Memorial Auditorium)
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Sustainable
Development
(Connecticut Hall)
Naturalizing Values:
Organisms and
Species
(Allwin Hall)
Exhibits Open
The Denial Industry
(Connecticut Hall)
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Deep Ecology
(Allwin Hall)
A Utilitarian
Defense of Animal
Liberation
(Marsh Hall)
Native Struggles
for Land and Life
(Grace Building)
Afternoon Break
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Indigenous
Knowledge and
Technology
(Grace Building)
Lunch Break
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Against Zoos
(Marsh Hall)
War and Climate
Change
(Connecticut Hall)
Ecocentric Ethics:
The Land Ethic
(Allwin Hall)
The Radical
Egalitarian Case
for Animal Rights
(Marsh Hall)
Environmental
Risks, Rights, and
the Failure of
Liberal Democracy
(Grace Building)
Evening Presentation and Coaktails (Elizabethan Club)
Saturday, May 12, 2012
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Registration
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Keynote Address: Bill McKibben, A Special Moment in History: The Challenge of
Overpopulation and Overconsumption
(Mary S. Harkness Memorial Auditorium)
9:00 am – 10:30 am
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Exhibits Open
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Is Sustainable
Capitalism an
Oxymoron
(Connecticut Hall)
The Green Kant
(Allwin Hall)
ETC Report:The
Poor Can Feed
Themselves
(Marsh Hall)
Radical
Environmentalism:
A Third World
Critique
(Grace Building)
Lunch Break
Towards a Future
Without Coal
(Connecticut Hall)
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Map and
Directions
to Yale
University
Radical
Environmentalism
(Allwin Hall)
Vegetarianism and
Treading Lightly
on the Earth
(Marsh Hall)
Deceiving the
Third World: The
Myth of Catchingup Development
(Grace Building)
Closing Ceremonies
Interstate 95
From the north: Connect to I-91 North in New
Haven; take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street) and
follow directions below for I-91.
From the south: Connect to I-91 North in New
Haven (left exit); take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street)
and follow directions below for I-91.
Interstate 91
From the north or south: Take Exit 3
(Trumbull Street). Stay in the middle lane and
continue straight onto Trumbull Street to the
fourth traffic light. Turn left onto Prospect
Street and continue to the second traffic light.
Turn left onto Elm Street. The Visitor Center is
located on the lefthand side of the street,
opposite the New Haven Green.
Parking
On-street metered parking convenient to the
Visitor Center is available on Elm Street, and
commercial parking facilities are located
throughout the city.