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Lead institution: The Pier Aquarium
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by Dr. Sandra Postel, Director of the Global Water Policy Project Dr.
Sandra Postel, who has worked on water issues for more than
twenty-five years, issued a clarion call for the emergence of “water
ethics” in her award-winning book, Last Oasis. Through the GWPP, she
strives to translate this ethical precept into policy and action. Postel’s
books and numerous scholarly and popular articles on the world’s fresh
water provide valuable insights into the nature of global water challenges
and constructive solutions to them. In 2002 she was honored by Scientific
American for promoting "sweeping changes aimed at preserving the
world's dwindling supplies of freshwater."
Join Dr.
Postel for a lecture at the Mahaffey Theater at the Progress Energy Center,
March 22, 2007 at 7pm.
www.globalwaterpolicy.org
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 Sandra Postel |
Panel Respondents To Sandra Postel
| Dr. Ken Strzepke: Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Interests: Management and Planning of Water and Agricultural Systems; Water Resources and Environmental Economics; Climate Change Impacts on Water and Agricultural Systems |
| For more information, visit: http://bechtel.colorado.edu/water/people/strzepek.shtml |
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Mr.
Brent Blackwelder: President of Friends of the Earth and most
senior environmental lobbyist in Washington D.C. having testified before
Congress over 100 times. Brent has helped expand scenic rivers from 8
in 1973 to 160 today and eliminate over 200 dams and stream channelization
projects and helped found the American Rivers Council. |
| For more information, visit: http://www.foe.org/about/Brent.html |
| Dr. Noel Brown is President of Friends of the United Nations: http://www.fotun.org |
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Previously,
he served as the Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP),
North American regional office. Dr. Brown also currently serves as Chairman
of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism. He is a founding
member of the Aspen Global Change Institute and the International Council
for Local Environment Initiatives, is Chairman of the Rene Dubos Center
for Human Environments, and serves on the Board of the Climate Institute,
the Earth Communications Office, the Rainforest Alliance, and the Global
Education Associates, He currently serves on the Governing Board of International
Ocean Institute (IOI) and is chair of the Board of IOI USA. |
 Ken Strzepke (connecting from Boulder, CO) |
 Brent Blackwater (connecting from Washington, DC) |
 Noel Brown (connecting from St. Petersburg, Florida) |
 Marjorie Ryerson   Mary Youngblood  Michael Arnowitt |
Water
Music Concert with Marjorie Ryerson and special guest Grammy
Award Winner Mary Youngblood
Water Music is a book by Marjorie Ryerson that began with exquisite photographs, and when she sought text to accompany her images, the photographer turned to music for an artistic counterpoint. For the sixty-six musicians gathered in Water Music, the relationship between water and music is both natural and spiritual. Visit Marjorie Ryerson's Water Music Project online at: www.water-music.org Marjorie Ryerson will be in attendance to autograph copies of Water Music while exhibiting the original Water Music Photography as part of the concert program. Enjoy Ryerson’s Water Music photography on exhibit at the Pier Aquarium through April 5, 2007: www.pieraquarium.org
The special guest for this exceptional concert is Grammy Award winner Mary Youngblood: www.maryyoungblood.com Flutist and composer Mary Youngblood explains that her life as a musician was inextricably linked with water as she was born under the Zodiac sign of Cancer. Mary Youngblood is a modern American Indian woman of one half Aleut (Alaskan) and one half Seminole (Floridian) descent. Bending tradition, Youngblood is often recognized as the first Native American female to professionally record the Native flute. Verifying her talent and mastery of this ancient instrument (traditionally only played by men), she was the first woman to win the 'Flutist of the Year' award in both 1999 and 2000 as well as, the 'Best Female Artist' award in 2000 at the Native American Music Awards.
Michael
Arnowitt is considered one of the most creative and imaginative
pianists in today's classical and jazz world. He is best known for the
beauty, clarity and elegance of his musical ideas, for his abilities
to find new articulations and colors from the piano, for his talents
in constructing innovative and thought-provoking programs, and for his
natural and warm on-stage manner with audiences of all ages. He has
performed as piano soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Kiev Chamber
Orchestra, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, and many others a well as
performing the Water Music Concert in Germany and the Netherlands.
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