Eco-Footprints & Solid Waste

Eco-Footprints & Solid Waste:

Making Tracks to Achieve Sustainable Patterns of Production and Consumption

Featuring Worldwatch Institute Senior Researcher Erik Assadourian

Monday, May 10, 2010

1:15 - 2:45 pm

ECOSOC, United Nations

How can we make real progress towards a culture of sustainability?

Come join us at the UN for a discussion on sustainability, consumer culture, and more. Our international panel of experts will share their thoughts on waste management, how to lessen our ecological footprints, and the roles of government, business and civil society in promoting new patterns of consumption.

Worldwatch's Erik Assadourian will be joined by Bill Rees, the inventor of the Ecological Footprint and Juliet Schor, the author of The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer and Do Americans Shop too Much?

Plus, help us celebrate the launch of the Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability, the institute's annual environmental report.

The panel will be moderated by Vanessa Timmer, Director of the One Earth Initiative.

Panel

Bill Rees, One Earth Initiative, University of British Columbia

Mwalim Ali Mwalim, Ministry of Water, Construction Lands/Housing and Environment, Government of Zanzibar

Erik Assadourian, Worldwatch Institute

Cesar Castañeda, Departmentof External Cooperation and International Relations, Managua, Nicaragua

Graham Alabaster, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Kenya

Juliet Schor, Boston College, Center for a New American Dream

For more information visit blogs.worldwatch.transformingcultures