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2004 OSN Conference
"Actions Speak Louder than Words"
Friday, March 12, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
University of Oklahoma
Center for Continuing Education, 1704 Asp Avenue, Norman
Speaker Presentations
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Sponsors
Conference interest areas:
Personal, Business, Community, and Design Actions
Read about the scheduled sessions.
Who should attend?
Business, industry, government, educators, students, groups and citizens interested in sustainable solutions for Oklahoma
Proposed Topics Include:
- Straw Bale Homes
- Smart Growth
- Energy Audits & Efficiency
- Native Plants & Prairie Landscaping
- L.E.E.D. (Leadership in Energy & Environmenal Design)
- Public Transit
- The Natural Step
- Business Sustainability
- Skiatook Lake Sustainable Development Case Study
- Issue Panels on:
- Renewable Energy
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Native American Environmental Stewardship
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Roundtable Discussions on the Following Subjects:
- Advocacy & Public Policy
- Agriculture
- Community Development
Cross Timbers - N.E. Oklahoma's 1st resort development in 30 years.
- Design
- Energy
- Higher Education
- K-12 Education
- Transportation
- Waste Reduction & Recovery
- Water Quality & Supply
- Youth
The Oklahoma Sustainability Network (OSN) serves as an instrument to
connect those concerned about and working toward sustainability in Oklahoma.
Accommodations for Overnight Stay
For overnight visitors, hotel accommodations may be reserved by calling the Sooner Hotel & Suites, (405) 329-2270 or visit their online accommodation reservation Website via
http://www.housing.ou.edu/soonerhotel/.
The Sooner Hotel is located on the OU campus adjacent to the Oklahoma College of Continuing Education conference center.
Dr. Mathis Wackernagel
Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ecological Footprint Network, an organization which advances rigorous natural capital accounts to make sustainability requirements measurable and relevant. Mathis has worked on sustainability issues for organizations in Europe, Latin America, North America and Australia. He has lectured for community groups, government agencies, NGOs, and academic audiences at more than 100 universities on 5 continents. Mathis has authored or contributed to over two dozen academic articles and co-authored various books on sustainability that focus on the question of embracing limits and developing metrics for sustainability, including Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, Sharing Nature's Interest, and WWF International's Living Planet Report. After earning a degree in mechanical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he completed his Ph.D. in community and regional planning at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. There he developed, under Professor William Rees, the "Ecological Footprint" concept as his doctoral dissertation, now a widely used measure of sustainability. Mathis is also an adjunct faculty at SAGE of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Scientific Advisor of the Centre for Sustainability Studies in Veracruz, Mexico.
Dr. Wackernagel's Ecological Footprint Concept
OSN's 2003 Conference
See information about the 2003 "Strategies for a Sustainable Oklahoma".
OSN's 2002 Conference
See information about the 2002 "Sustainable Solutions: Envisioning Oklahoma's Future".
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