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For fifteen years, dedicated members of the
environmental club have organized Rice’s annual
environmental conference. Started by undergraduate David Greene
in 1993, the conference began as a way for Rice students to share
their environmental research with the community. While each
conference since then has been bigger and better attended, the
mission of this year’s conference remains the same as that
of the first. The conference, which is run and organized entirely
by Rice students, brings together citizens, business leaders,
public officials, and students of all viewpoints and backgrounds
and encourages debate about protecting the environment both in
the community and around the world.
"The Conference has evolved each year and shows
the influence of its many inspired participants. This started as
a project to engage students in their own education, and
environmental issues gave us a broad theme on which to base the
conference. Environmental issues are not fading away but instead
are demonstrating broader implications as we are literally
surrounded by them."
-- David Greene, Conference
Founder
We are grateful for the support we have
received to sustain the conference each year. Our sponsors have
included Rice’s Energy and Environmental Systems Institute,
the Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, the East Harris
County Manufacturers Association, the James A. Baker III
Institute for Public Policy, the Environmental Science and
Engineering Department at Rice University, the Greene Family, Mr.
James Blackburn, the Wray Trust, HL&P, and DuPont.
1993
Keynote Speakers:
Scott Hochberg, State Representative, District
132
Glenda Callaway, Galveston Bay Foundation
Mary Van
Kerrebrook, Houston Sierra Club
Highlights:
26 Rice Student Paper Presentations
Environmental
Education Roundtable Discussion
High School Activism
Networking
Slide Show on East African Ecosystems and Cultures
1994
Keynote Speakers:
Hal Kane, Worldwatch Institute
Stephen Klienberg,
Dept. of Sociology at Rice U.
Highlights:
Student Paper Sessions
National Wildlife
Federation Workshop on Campus Activism>
1995
Keynote Speakers:
Scott Hochberg, State Representative, District
132
David Rubenstein, Environmentors Project of Washington
D.C.
Highlights:
16 Rice Student Paper Presentations
Community Expo
1996
Keynote Speakers:
Malcolm Gillis, President of Rice University
Jim
Blackburn, Blackburn and Carter Law Firm
Highlights:
Panel Discussions on Environmental Protection and
Houston Development
Workshops on the Environment on the
Internet and Campus Environmental Leadership
Environmental
Expo and Career Fair
1997
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Alan Thornhill, Rice University Ecology Dept.
Dr.
Tony Chase, Univ. of Houston Law Center
Fred Werner, US Fish
and Wildlife Service
Highlights:
Interpretive Environmental Presentation
Panel
Discussions on Environmental Technology, Careers, Education, and
Local Heroes
National Wildlife Federation Workshop on Campus
Activism
Environmental Expo
1998
Keynote Speakers:
Gary Mauro, Gubernatorial Candidate and Texas General
Land Office Commissioner
Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael,
The Story of B, and My Ishmael
Highlights:
Panels on Houston Air Quality and Business and the
Environment
National Wildlife Federation workshop on Campus
Activism
Student environmental paper competition
Environmental
Expo
1999
Keynote Speaker:
Judith Jacobsen, President of the Board, Zero
Population Growth
Highlights:
Panel Discussions on Women, Religion, and Population
as an Environmental Issue
Presentation and workshop on the
systematic study of the future
Student environmental paper
competition
Environmental expo
Conference
Website
EIGHTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Planes, Trains, and
Automobiles: The Future of Transportation
February 12,
2000
Keynote Speakers:
Bob Lanier, Former Mayor of Houston
John Johnson,
Texas Statewide Transportation Commissioner
Highlights:
Panel Discussions on Urban Planning & Smart
Growth, Air Quality, and Future Technologies
Cars of the
Future Display
Student environmental paper
competition
Environmental expo
NINTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
It's the End of the
World as We Know It, and I Feel Fine:
A Sense of Place in the
New Millennium
February 3, 2001
Keynote Speaker:
Ken Kramer - Lone Star Chapter, Sierra Club
Highlights:
Panel Discussions on Sense of Place, Ecology in a
Sense of Place, and Resource Decisions and Community Involvement
in Daily Life
Student environmental paper
competition
Environmental expo
TENTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Power to the People:
The Future of Energy
April 6, 2002
Keynote
Speaker:
Barbara Shook, Energy Intelligence Group
Highlights:
Panel Discussions on Energy Deregulation, The
Potential of Fuel Cells
Alternative Energy Presentations and
Discussion Panels
Student environmental paper
competition
Environmental expo
ELEVENTH ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL
CONFERENCE
This Land is Your Land: Public Lands' History,
Philosophy, and Controversy
February 28 - March 1,
2003
Keynote Speakers:
Paul Edwards, Montana Environmental Information
Center
Scott Silver, Wild Wilderness
Highlights:
Numerous Panel Discussions on such topics as The
Importance of Public Spaces, Public Lands Law, and Urban Public
Lands
Public Lands Photo Exhibition
Environmental expo
TWELFTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Stuck in a Jam: The
Problems and the Future of Transportation in Houston
March 13,
2004
Keynote Speaker:
Elizabeth Deakin, Associate Professor of City and
Regional Planning, Director, University of California
Transportation Center
Highlights:
Panel discussion on the future of Houston
transportation
Closing remarks by Jim Blackburn
Exposition
of hybrid cars
THIRTEENTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Urban Jungle: Cities
in the Image of Nature
February 12, 2005
Keynote
Speaker:
Pliny Fisk III, Co-Director of The Center for Maximum
Potential Building Systems
Highlights:
Panels on Greenspace and Green Building
Talks by
Keith Crenshaw (Texas Parks and Wildlife), David Crossley (Gulf
Coast Institute), Ron Jones (Sierra Custom Builders)
Closing
remarks by Brian Yeoman (Houston Advanced Research Center)
FOURTEENTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Theme
2006
Keynote
Speaker:
TBA
Highlights:
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FIFTHTEENTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Theme
2007
Keynote
Speaker:
TBA
Highlights:
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SIXTEENTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Theme
2008
Keynote
Speaker:
TBA
Highlights:
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SEVENTEENTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Theme
2009
Keynote
Speaker:
TBA
Highlights:
TBA
EIGHTEENTH
ANNUAL RICE ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
Theme
2010
Keynote
Speaker:
TBA
Highlights:
TBA
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