with Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, Executive Director, Global Footprint Network and Co-Creator of the Ecological Footprint (a standardized way to measure what has been immeasurable, contentious, and often misunderstood: ecological limits.)

During this talk, Dr. Wackernagel, Founder and Executive Director of Global Footprint Network, and co-creator of the ecological footprint method, introduces this accounting tool and explains its scientific basis. He will show how the tool has evolved and what it can do to measure humanities demand on ecological resources and global overshoot. The Ecological Footprint has applications for cities, regions or businesses. It can assess their sustainability performance, set realistic targets, monitor projects and programs, communicate successes and assess risks and, by comparing scenarios, identify implications of policy choices.

This event is also part of the 2006 IEM Lecture Series sponsored by the Yale Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Program. In its sixteenth year, the IEM Lecture Series brings speakers from a variety of companies and organizations to the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies to discuss the relationship between business and the environment.

The IEM Lecture Series is supported by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund. Joel Kurihara, F&ES Class of 1992, was committed to improving business and environmental relations, including the type of dialogue this series seeks to advance. For more information about the lecture series, please contact the program coordinator at (203)432-6953 or jennifer.mcfadden@yale.edu.

This talk is the keynote address for the 4th Annual Northeast Climate Conference Dr. Wackernagel will introduce the Ecological Footprint and key questions and will also contextualize the climate issue and show how placing it in a broader measurable framework can avoid mistakes, increase efficiency of effort, improve range of buy-in, and unify supportive efforts and policy directions that in their course help solve the climate issue. Learn from Dr. Wackernagel, the co-creator of ecological footprinting, how to measure and build on success. The 9 AM talk serves as the first part of the workshop, so make sure you attend! Learn how to chose, execute and apply footprinting projects and communicate effectively at each stage from inception to completion and follow-up.

Tickets for workshop are $75 ($35 for students) in advance, $100 ($50 for students) at the door. Lunch will be provided. Note: this workshop is a prerequisite if interested in attending May 12th all-day advanced ecological footprint workshop.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Sustainable Step New England, and Network for a Sustainable New Haven, Inc. and is currently accepting further sponsorships.

The continuing education portion of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies annual Alumni Weekend, this advanced footprinting workshop, lead by Dr. Wackernagel, is open to F&ES alums and attendees of the first workshop on April 8th (Others by prearrangement, while space lasts). The focus of the workshop will be a "dry run" of a Connecticut footprinting project, possibly focusing on accelerating implementation of CT Climate Action Plan, which includes 55 cross-sector recommendations developed by stakeholders and passed into law by the CT legislature in 2004.

Prices similar to first; package deal and financial assistance available for both.

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For more information about any of these events e-mail: Nathan@sustainablenewhaven.org.