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Forum Powerpoint presentations (converted to Adobe Acrobat) are now on-line, see below for available presentations. Videos will be available this summer. To reserve a copy, send us an email with the name of the session(s) that you would like to purchase. Speaker bios are available.
Friday,
June 1
1:00-4:00pm Chicago City Hall Green Roof and Garden Tour
[video available]
6:00-7:00pm Pesticides 101 [video
available] (Caroline Cox, reseach director, Center for Environmental
Health; Terry Shistar, Kaw Valley Greens [Powerpoint];
Jay Feldman, moderator, executive director, Beyond Pesticides)
7:00-8:30pm Awards Reception, sponsored by Farmworker
Justice. Samuel Epstein, M.D. honored with the Dragonfly
Award, his wife Catherine accepted the award, due to Dr. Epstein's illness.
8:30-9:00pm The Big Picture: Linking pesticide exposure
and health effects [video available]
(Warren Porter, Ph.D. professor of zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Powerpoint)
Saturday,
June 2
9:20-11:10am Climate Change: Consequences and the organic
connection [video available] (Peter
Orris, M.D., Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental Safety
and Health, University of Illinois [Powerpoint];
Lewis Ziska, Ph.D., USDA Crop Systems And Global Change Lab [Powerpoint];
Pamela Miller, executive director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics;
Paul Hepperly, Ph.D., Rodale Institute [Powerpoint];
Routt Reigart, M.D., moderator, Medical University of South Carolina)
11:40am-12:45pm Toxic Policies that Hurt Communities
of Color [video available] (Cecil Corbin-Mark,
program director, West Harlem Environmental Action; Cheryl Johnson, executive
director, People for Community Recovery; Shelley Davis, executive director
of Farmworker Justice; Andrea Kidd Taylor, DrPH, moderator, Morgan State
University School of Public Health )
2:15-4:10pm Emerging Science Panel: Asthma,
Antibacterials, Pesticide mixtures, Nanotechnology [video
available] (Muhammed Towhid Salam, M.D., Ph.D. candidate,
Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California; Rolf Halden, Ph.D.,
P.E., co-founder, Johns Hopkins Center for Water and Health [Powerpoint];
Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley; Jennifer
Sass, Ph.D., NRDC senior scientist [Powerpoint];
Warren Porter, Ph.D., moderator, professor of zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
4:30-6:00pm Workshops 1
-- Global Warming follow-up (above list)
-- Emerging Science follow-up (above list; Karl
Tupper, staff scientist at Pesticide Action Network North America, Powerpoint)
-- Toxic Policies that Hurt Communities of Color follow-up
(above list; Margaret Reeves, Ph.D., senior scientist at Pesticide Action
Network North America)
-- Healthy, Organic Food in the Community (Abby
Mandel, president of GreenCity Market; Parris Brewer, driver and assistant
marketing representative for Growing Home)
Sunday,
June 3
9:00-9:30am Practicing Precaution [video
available] (Debbie Raphael, program manager, San Francisco's
Toxics Reduction and Green Building Programs)
9:30-10:15am Protective policies and effective advocacy
[video available] (Jason Rupaka, Plainville,
CT Conservation Commission; Fawn Pattison, executive director, Pesticide
Education Project; Joel Kupferman, executive director, New York Environmental
Law and Justice Project; Robina Suwol, executive director, California
Safe Schools)
10:30am-12:00pm Workshops 2:
-- Precaution/Protective policies follow-up
(above lists)
-- Water Contamination/Great Lakes (Elizabeth
LaPlante, senior manager, Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes
Protection Office; Merrill Clark, owner, Roseland Organic Farms; and Rolf
Halden, Ph.D., P.E., co-founder, Johns Hopkins Center for Water and Health,
Powerpoint)
-- Healthy Indoor Environments (Tom Green, president,
IPM Works; Cecil Corbin-Mark, program director, West Harlem Environmental
Action; Rachel Rosenberg, executive director, Safer Pest Control Project)
-- Introduction to the Pesticide Working Group
2007 Dragonfly Award recipient:
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., the international leading authority
on the causes and prevention of cancer, is professor emeritus of Environmental
and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public
Health, and chairman of the Cancer
Prevention Coalition. He has published over 260 peer reviewed articles
and authored 11 books including: the prize-winning The Politics of
Cancer, Safe Shopper's Bible, and Cancer-Gate: How to Win the
Losing Cancer War. Dr. Epstein is an internationally recognized authority
on avoidable causes of cancer, particularly unknowing exposures to carcinogens
in air, water, workplace and consumer products. Catherine Epstein,
Sam's wife will accept the award. Dr. Epstein can no longer attend due
to an illness.
See a complete list of speakers here.
THANK YOU! The generosity of our sponsors helps make the conference a great event year after year. The sponsors listed below contributed to the National Pesticide Forum scholarship fund, making it possible for people from around the country to participate in one of the most important grassroots pesticide meetings of the year. Learn more about becoming a sponsor. Click on the logos for more information.
