GEN: Boston Area:FreeConference:CHINA/ENVIRONMENT(at Wellesley

[Joanne Sullivan <joanne@shore.net>]

*Please Post*

FREE CONFERENCE AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE THIS FRIDAY (5/1) ON CHINA & THE
ENVIRONMENT: (spaces still available!)

Jessica Plumb wrote:
>
> ****China and the Environment****
>
> Friday, May 1
> Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
>
> Hello everyone!!
>
> Spring is here, and it's time for our final conference of this year's
> series.  I hope that you will be able to take a day off and join the New
> England China Network for a one day conference on environmental issues
> in China. The main topics of the day will be China's Three Gorges Dam
> project, and air pollution challenges. This event is co-sponsored by the
> New England China Network of Primary Source with the Department of
> Education, the Biological  Sciences Department, and the Chinese
> Department of Wellesley College.
>
> PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE for this free event!  Call Jess at 617
> 923-9933, check out our on-line information request page at
> http://primarysource.org/necnet/ and select the "Calendar and Events
> Sign-up" button, or email necn@primarysource.org.
>
> Weather permitting, lunch will be a picnic on the lovely grounds of
> Wellesley College.  Delicious box lunches are available at Wellesley.
> If you would like a box lunch, please sign up a week or more in advance
> and bring $6.00.  Otherwise, join us with a brown bag lunch.
>
> The schedule runs from 9:15 to 3:00. Registration begins at  8:45 in the
> Jewitt Arts Center of Wellesley College.  The morning presenters will be
> Deirdre Chetham, Executive Director of the Harvard Asia Center, Patience
> Berkman of Newton Country Day School and Professor Zheng Shiping, Dept.
> of Political Science, University of Vermont.
>
> We have an exciting line-up of afternoon workshops as well: Patience
> Berkman will return for the afternoon to demonstrate how she has
> introduced the 3 Gorges Dam debate in her classroom. Joanne Sullivan,
> librarian at the Williams Middle School will speak about the Great
> Tangshan Earthquake of 1976. Mary Klug will present a video and discuss
> sustainable development in Zhejiang Province, and Primary's Source's own
> Jessica Plumb (yes that is me) will lead a workshop on Chinese gardens.
> Learn the philosophy behind Chinese gardens, then design and build your
> own in the classroom!
>
> I really hope that you can make it for this conference.  Please get in
> touch and let me know if you plan to come.  Also, I'm looking for a few
> fine VOLUNTEERS to help out with registration and set-up in the
> morning.  Could that be you? We'd love your help, and we'd provide a
> tasty breakfast.
>
> I hope that you're having a wonderful spring! I look forward to seeing
> you at Wellesley.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jessica,
> NECN Coordinator
> --
>
> WWW Home Page: </http://www.primarysource.org>
>
> Jessica Plumb
> NECN Coordinator
> Primary Source
> (617) 923-9933

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