Twenty-First Annual Environmental Ethics Conference:
Public Health and the Environment
Utah Valley State College
April 1 & 2, 2008
April 1:
Session 1
³Water Quality and Community Health in Utah County²
Jim Callison, Coordinator of the Environmental Management Program, UVSC
Moderator: Daniel Horns, Chair, Department of Earth Science
8:30-9:45 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Session 2
Day One Keynote Address:
³Utah¹s Air Pollution: Should You Give Up & Move Out of State?²
Brian Moench, M.D. President, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment
Moderator: Jim Westwater, Chair, Utah Valley Sierra Forum
10-11:15 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Session 3
³Public Health in the Post-Petroleum Age²
Jean Arnold, Post Carbon Salt Lake
(See
http://relocalize.net/groups/saltlake)
Moderator: Jim Westwater, Chair, Utah Valley Sierra Forum
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Session 4
³Nuclear Power Production in Utah²
(See
http://www.energypublisher.com/article.asp?id=11618)
Utah State Representative Aaron Tilton (R-Springville), Co-Owner, Transition
Power Development
John Urgo, Outreach Director, Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL
Utah)
Moderator: Jeff Torlina, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UVSC
1-2:15 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Session 5
³Nuclear Waste Storage in the Great Basin²
Judy Treichel, Executive Director, Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force
Steve Frishman, Geologist, Nevada State Agency for Nuclear Projects
John Urgo, Outreach Director, Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL
Utah)
Moderator: Jeff Torlina, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UVSC
2:30-3:45 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
April 2:
Session 1
³Overview of Environment Health Policy Issues²
Tim Wagner, Director, Utah Smart Energy Campaign of the Utah Sierra
Club
Moderator: Kathryn French, Professor of Psychology, UVSC
9-9:50 a.m., SC 206B
Session 2
Presentation of Environmental Stewardship Award:
Jon Huntsman Jr., Governor, State of Utah
Signatory, Western Regional Climate Action Initiative
(See
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1244181)
Presented by Elaine Englehardt, Special Assistant to the President, UVSC
Accepted by Cheryl Heying in behalf of Governor Huntsman
³Utah Climate Change Blue Ribbon Advisory Council and the Western Climate
Initiative²
Cheryl Heying, Air Quality Director, Utah Department of Environmental
Quality
Glade Sowards, Energy Program Coordinator, Utah Department of Environmental
Quality
10-10:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Session 3
³Not in My Back Yard: Environmental Injustice and Cancer Alley¹²
David R. Keller, Chair, Environmental Studies Program, UVSC
Moderator: Connie Richardson, Student, Environmental Studies Program, UVSC
11-11:50 a.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
Session 4
³A Plague Called Man: The Stresses Man Puts on the Environment and What We
Can do to Create Sustainability²
Ron Tobler, Environmental Health Scientist and Infectious Control Program
Manager, Utah County Health Department in Environmental Health
Moderator: Mary Brown, Assistant Professor of Community Health, UVSC
12-12:50 p.m., SC 206B
Session 5
³Why Justice Must be Ecojustice²
Michael Minch, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Moderator: Connie Richardson, Student, Environmental Studies Program, UVSC
1-1:50 p.m., SC 206B
Session 6
³The Ethics and History of Open Air Nuclear Testing in the West Desert²
Manny Padro, Student, UVSC
Moderator: Jeff Torlina, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UVSC
2-2:50 p.m., SC 206B
Session 7
³Tailpipe Emissions and Environmental Health Public Policy²
Marc Heileson, Southwest Regional Representative, Sierra Club
Moderator: Connie Richardson, Student, Environmental Studies Program, UVSC
3-3:50 p.m., SC 206B
Session 8
Day Two Keynote Address:
³Coming Home from Going Crazy: Restoring Environmental Connectivity²
Chip Ward, Author and Environmental Activist
Moderator: Michael Minch, Director, Peace and Justice Studies Program, UVSC
7:00-8:30 p.m., Faculty Seminar Room (LC 243)
(Cosponsored with the Peace and Justice Studies Program)
Sponsored by:
Center for the Study of Ethics
Environmental Studies Program
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David Richard Keller, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Ethics
Utah Valley State College
801.863.6363
http://davidkeller.us/
