TENTATIVE AGENDA
The WHY WE CAN'T WAIT Sustainable Development Summit
Information:
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
On-site Registration and Materials Pick Up
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Welcome - President Ernest McNealy, Stillman College
Introduction - Lukata Mjumbe, Chief Operating Officer, Whatley Health Services, Inc.
Opening Remarks, Congressman Artur Davis, “Building the Dream, Keeping the Promise”
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Keynote - Trey Glenn, ADEM Director
2:05 – 3:30 pm
ADEM Plenary
The Product of Reform: The Future of ADEM
A two hour open forum panel discussion on the challenges faced by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management as it relates to infrastructure and fiscal organization, public access and accountability, environmental justice and strategic planning for sustainable development.
3:30 – 3:45pm
Break
3:45 – 5:15 pm
Concurrent Workshops
Monitoring & Testing: Air, Soil, Water and Your Home
A workshop on how to monitor, sample and test your own community water, soil and air quality. The workshop will also explore effective strategies for self directed environmental protection in your own home.
Peace with Honor: Preserving the Environment While Avoiding Litigation
A "how to" workshop of how impacted residents, targeted businesses and government officials can more effectively interface, engage in deliberative dialogue and public relations strategy in the midst of an environmental crisis and campaign.
Industrial Environmental Management & Compliance
A workshop exploring different strategies business and industrial operations can employ in order to maintain and ensure effective environmental management and compliance systems within the context of a sustainable development strategy.
78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, What Else Are You Breathing?
A workshop discussion on the state of air quality in Alabama. Various perspectives will be offered on the nature of the problem and the solutions to those problems. Efforts will be made to find common ground between the differing perspectives in the context of solution strategies.
5:20 – 6:00pm
Performance by Stillman College Choir
Keynote – Alabama State Senator, Quinton Ross, Jr.
8:00 – 9:00am (Continental Breakfast)
On-Site Registration and Material Pick Up
8:30 – 10:00am
Concurrent Workshops
Environmental Public Policy: What Works, What Doesn’t
A panel discussion of a series of case studies exploring effective and ineffective environmental public policy efforts from a national and international perspective.
The Sustainable Development Evolution – Where Do We Go From Here?
A discussion of the concept of sustainability on an international, national and local scale. The workshop will be geared towards the development of a cooperative definition and outlook of sustainability for Alabama.
Do
Milk Cartons Go To Heaven? - Where Should Trash Go and Landfills Be Located?
An exploration of
the business and government processes in placing landfills, and the community
response to those decisions. How business, government, and community leaders can
work together in the citing and construction of landfills and how that placement
affects public health.
Brownfields: Industrial Aftermath and Building Sustainable Opportunity
A workshop discussing the definition and scope of abandoned industrial sites in Alabama and the seventh congressional district. The discussion will be geared towards new use, clean up and restoration of brownfields as a more sustainable development strategy.
Recycling Good Ideas
A panel discussion on innovative strategies and sustainable opportunities that can be employed and accessed through the use of recycling on the municipal, industrial and the agricultural arenas.
Poverty, Wealth & Public Health
A panel discussion of how poverty impacts public health conditions in the seventh congressional district, the state of Alabama, nation and globe and how sustainable development strategies can impact the historical and current trends.
10:00 – 10:30am
Break
10:30 am – 11:00am
Keynote - Van Richey, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, CEO
11:00 – 11:30 am
Break
11:30 am – 1:00pm
Concurrent Workshops
Next Steps: Building a More Sustainable Alabama
A solution-oriented, brainstorming session on what is required for the creation of a sustainable development strategy for the state of Alabama from a local and state perspective in terms of environmental protection, transportation, industry and micro-enterprise development, etc.
EPA & Federal Environmental Law
A panel
will review of the major pieces of federal environmental
legislation,
executive order 12898,
and how environmental impacts are monitored and environmental law is enforced in
the states and local communities.
Organic Agriculture and the Environment
A discussion of the use of more sustainable approaches to agricultural production through the use of tested, chemical free methods for soil fertility and pest control on Alabama crops.
Strategic Planning for Clean Industry & Clean Jobs
How industrial development authorities and economic development entities can development a strategic plan for the recruitment of environmentally friendly, sustainable industrial prospects.
Forestry & Urban Sprawl
How forestry resources can be used to promote sustainable development and improved water quality resources in urban areas.
1:15 – 3:00 pm (Luncheon)
Summit Report and Closing Session, EJPWG Members
Closing Keynote, Congressman Artur Davis