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Calendar
ELS-sponsored events have ended for the year. Check back this fall for listings of new events!
Visit the Harvard University Center for the Environment website for a more comprehensive listing of environmentally-themed events on all the Harvard campuses.
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Outings and Social Events
Whether you are looking to explore nature, explore job opportunities, explore the field of environmental law, or just meet other people with similar interests, we hope that you will find some events on our calendar that interest you. Popular ELS outings in past years have included whale watching, hikes, maple-sugaring, and other trips designed to remind us of the wonders of the environment we work to protect. This year, we hope to combine those outings with local events to build up our campus community and connect with the larger Boston environmental community.
Social Events
Local events will include regular Open House/Study Nights in the ELS office and regular trips to Boston’s new environmentalist happy hour, Boston Green Drinks.
Outings
Look out for the great outings we are planning this semester, including a Maple Sugaring trip to tap maple trees and learn how maple syrup is made. Check the calendar often for updates!
Join us!
If there are other events or outings you would like to see planned, or would like to help plan, please get in touch with Jackie Cohen, Events and Outings Chair, at jgcohen@law.harvard.edu.
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Speakers
ELS invites speakers from the University, the local community, and the nation to discuss contemporary issues in environmental law.
Speakers planned for Spring 2006
Spring Brown Bag Lunch Series at the Conservation Law Foundation
CLF's Brown Bag Lunches cover the most pressing environmental issues
facing the Bay State and offer a friendly forum in which to share ideas.
Bring your lunch and come prepared to discuss!
All lunches are held at 62 Summer Street, Boston, MA at 12:00 noon.
Contact Abbie Daniel at 617-350-0990 x727 or adaniel@clf.org to reserve
a spot at the table.
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The Problem of Acid Rain
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Acid rain has a devastating impact on New England's forests, water
bodies and public health. Emissions from power plants that form the
ingredients for acid rain blow from west to east, crossing state and
national boundaries, causing this environmental crisis. Let's discuss
the problems, ways to curb acid rain and how to begin the process of
ecological recovery in New England.
2004-2005 Speakers
- Stephen Kass (Environmental Counsel to Lower Manhattan Development Corporation)
- Richard Lazarus (Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center)
- Jan Schlichtmann (Pioneering plaintiffs' attorney in toxic torts litigation; protagonist of "A Civil Action")
- Jim Milkey (Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Chief of Environmental Protection Division)
- Noah Sachs (Climenko/Thayer Lecturer, Harvard Law School)
- Mindy Lubber (Executive Director, Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies; Founder, Green Century Capital Management)
- Doug Kysar (Associate Professor of Law, Cornell Law School)
- Trip Van Noppen (Managing Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center)
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Conferences
In addition to sending students to outside conferences, ELS participates in the environmental conference hosted at HLS every other year.
Hosted Conferences
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New Prospects for Climate Regulation is a conference on U.S. climate policy held at Harvard Law School on March 10, 2006.
The day-long event featured leading policymakers and scholars who assessed recent proposals for a U.S. regime of greenhouse gas regulation. Visit the conference website for more information.
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