Because you love biking, because you love challenges, because you want to attend the 35th annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. Help us reduce the carbon footprint for PIELC. Bike the 140 miles or get a partner and split up the ride. New to biking? It really isn’t that bad. We promise.
Join us as we continue to restore the riparian corridor of Fanno Creek in Greenway Park. This project will focus on planting native trees and shrubs. Please bring a re-usable water bottle to drink from throughout the project. Tools, gloves, snacks and a water cooler will be provided!
Warren Washington is the senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. President Obama awarded Washington the National Medal of Science in 2010.
The Crag Law Center will celebrate ten years of legal aid for the environment on November 5 with Wild Shots, a benefit auction and party featuring wildlife and nature photography donated by acclaimed NW artists, including internationally renowned landscape photographer Robert Adams.
Tickets are $25 in advance, $35 at the door, and include complimentary wine, beer and plentiful appetizers. Live music provided by Squirrel Butter. The doors open at 5 PM.
On Monday, October 24, L&C Law School will host a lunchtime speaker in honor of FOOD DAY. Cathy McQueeney of Friends of Family Farmers, will speak about the challenges and opportunities that independent farmers face in practicing sustainable and responsible small-scale agriculture - and how they get the delicious food they produce TO YOUR PLATE.
Join us as national and international experts from government, industry and environmental groups discuss the MBTA and whether there are ways to make it more effective. Before the conference begins, an optional Thursday morning field study and an afternoon session on the California Condor and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act will help participants frame some of the issues facing birds. The Friday and Saturday sessions will focus in on the MBTA, how it works and how it might be made more effective. Saturday will include a roundtable discussion by all participants on their thoughts about the future of migratory bird protection and the MBTA. Although there will be discussion of the laws protecting birds, the conference is designed for a general audience; all who are interested are welcome to attend.
Join us as national and international experts from government, industry and environmental groups discuss the MBTA and whether there are ways to make it more effective. Before the conference begins, an optional Thursday morning field study and an afternoon session on the California Condor and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act will help participants frame some of the issues facing birds. The Friday and Saturday sessions will focus in on the MBTA, how it works and how it might be made more effective. Saturday will include a roundtable discussion by all participants on their thoughts about the future of migratory bird protection and the MBTA. Although there will be discussion of the laws protecting birds, the conference is designed for a general audience; all who are interested are welcome to attend.
Join us as national and international experts from government, industry and environmental groups discuss the MBTA and whether there are ways to make it more effective. Before the conference begins, an optional Thursday morning field study and an afternoon session on the California Condor and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act will help participants frame some of the issues facing birds. The Friday and Saturday sessions will focus in on the MBTA, how it works and how it might be made more effective. Saturday will include a roundtable discussion by all participants on their thoughts about the future of migratory bird protection and the MBTA. Although there will be discussion of the laws protecting birds, the conference is designed for a general audience; all who are interested are welcome to attend.
ELC is proud to present the L&C Law community with the opportunity to “take a hike” with BARK on September 11. Potential topic: survey work on how many snags (standing dead trees that provide habitat for a host of critters) are left post-logging. This is your chance to get actively engaged in gaging the effects of logging in Mt Hood National Forest!
ELC is proud to let the L&C Law community know about BARK’s awesome NEPA training opportunity on Thursday, September 1 from 6-8pm. Come join some ELC-ers and others to learn about the National Environmental Policy Act and how it can be an effective tool in defense of forests and other ecosystems.
ELC strongly encourages students interested in environmental law to attend the 2011 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. In fact, we challenge you to bike there with us. Read more about the 2009 Bike to PIELC Challenge. The conference is free for law students and accommodations will be provided.
Rising sea levels are flooding Tuvalu, Kiribati and other small island nations, threatening water and food supplies, as well as the existence of the nations themselves. Learn more about this important issue from Gary Braasch, a Portland environmental photojournalist, and the International Environmental Law Project (IELP), a nonprofit organization based at Lewis & Clark Law School.
DIY (do it yourself) & BYO (bring your own) is the way of the future, sustainable, easy and cheap. Join for the first of a series of workshops and roundtables throughout the year to disseminate DIY-BYO secrets. Please let us know if you have a DIY-BYO idea to bring to the roundtable. In the meantime, please visit our tips on living sustainably.
From a cabin in the woods, hike and explore Mount Hood National Forest, hunting mushrooms with our personal mycologist who also moonlights as mushroom epicure. Stay one night or two. All food and beverages provided. Cost TBA.
Annual fall beach clean-up and picnic on the stunning Oregon Coast with SOLV, an organization of Oregonians volunteering to improve the environment and build a legacy of stewardship.
NEDC and ELC are proud to present Cartesian Eco-FemDarkanism, a lunchtime lecture-exhibit based on an innovative law review article by 2007 Lewis and Clark Law School graduate, Troy Payne, who offers one of the most groundbreaking assessments of the intersections of law, culture, and environmental ethics since Christopher Stone’s seminal 1972 article, Should Trees Have Standing.
Klan We Talk? Race, Environment, Engagement, and Empowerment, a keynote by Daryl Davis
