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 Millenium
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The Rice Environmental Club would like to invite you and your organization to the Ninth Annual Rice Environmental Conference. This year's Conference focuses on implementing solutions to environmental problems in daily life and the community by challenging our conceptions of place.

In particular, the Conference will focus on how students can make improvements in the environmental design, consumer decisions, and resource streams of their own lives, their campuses, and their communities to lessen their impact. We'll have outside speakers leading an eye-opening discussion of the living world around us, and old friends and recent alumni back to tell us what they're up to. Rice administrators, students, and alumni will team up to discuss inflexible policies, along with how to increase and maintain involvement in community issues. But it all starts with a sense of place, and we've got several exciting keynote speakers leading off the day.

In a phrase, we'll grab the bull by the horns and let everyone have a say in how students really can make a difference, right now. It just takes the right kind of outlook.

The conference will be held February 3, 2001, in the Ley Student Center (RMC) at Rice University, and will include a full day of speakers, panels, and other presentations.

The conference is free and open to the general public. It is intended for students, faculty, concerned citizens, public officials, business leaders, researchers, and anyone interested in the environment. Walk ins are VERY WELCOME!

We are moving along on planning this event, so stay tuned for more information or contact the Conference Directors.

Jen Trub
jentrub@rice.edu
Brian Pietruszewski
palisade@rice.edu

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About the Conference
For the past eight years, concerned Rice students have planned, organized, and run the Rice Environmental Conference. The goal of the Conference is to inform Houston citizens and Rice students about specific environmental issues and to raise awareness of the importance of protecting our environment. However, the Conference is more than an informative tool. It is a vehicle for generating excitement about the possibility of a sustainable planet, for bringing Rice students and the environmental community together, and for spreading the idea that every individual can really make a difference.

Since its inception by David Greene in 1992, the conference has remained entirely organized by Rice students. It features presentations by Rice students, community activists, researchers, and environmental professionals. It is heavily supported by Rice professors, programs and departments. We are very grateful for all of the support the Conference receives each year to make it bigger and better than the last.

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 we are literally surrounded by them.
       ~ David Greene, Conference Founder

Conference History

About the Greene Prize

The purpose of the Greene Prize for Environmental Student Papers is to encourage original environmental work by undergraduate students at Rice. The contest is graciously endowed by the family of David Greene, who created the conference. Winning papers are presented at the Conference. You can read the contest announcement here.
 
Conference sponsors include Rice's President's Programming Fund, EESi, and the Wray Trust.
  

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