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Presentations take place at 12 noon, Olin-Rice Room 250<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Date<\/th>Type of Presentation<\/th>Description<\/th><\/tr>
“Moby Dick”<\/strong><\/td>9\/16\/99<\/td>Video<\/td>A documentary on Herman Melville’s novel and its scientific significance.<\/td><\/tr>
“The Perfect Pearl”<\/strong><\/td>9\/23\/99<\/td>Video<\/td>A documentary on the pearl industry, covering the history of pearl harvesting and current pearl farming techniques and their impacts.<\/td><\/tr>
“Environmental Education in Japan”<\/strong><\/td>9\/30\/99<\/td>Speaker: Kazuyuki Mikami<\/td>A presentation on the environmental education program at Miyagi University in Sendai, Japan.<\/td><\/tr>
“Three Mile Island”<\/strong><\/td>10\/7\/99<\/td>Video<\/td>Documentary on the worst nuclear accident on U.S. soil and its environmental effects.<\/td><\/tr>
“Saving Baby Whales”<\/strong><\/td>10\/14\/99<\/td>Video<\/td>A documentary on the rescue and release of three baby pilot whales after a beaching.<\/td><\/tr>
“Automobile Pollution in Los Angeles”<\/strong><\/td>10\/21\/99<\/td>Speaker: Sarah West<\/td>A presentation on the current air pollution situation in L.A. and the measures that are being taken to improve it, plus some suggestions.<\/td><\/tr>
“How Not to be a Sheep: Questioning Popular Science”<\/strong><\/td>11\/4\/99<\/td>Speaker: Theodore Rockwell<\/td>A discussion of several widely-accepted scientific theories that may not be true.<\/td><\/tr>
“WTO Ministerial Conference”<\/strong><\/td>11\/11\/99<\/td>Speaker: Brett Smith<\/td>A presentation on the objectives on the World Trade Organization’s approaching Third Ministerial Conference and its environmental concerns.<\/td><\/tr>
“Successful Environmental Partnerships”<\/strong><\/td>11\/18\/99<\/td>Speaker: Mike Harley<\/td>A presentation from a member of the Minnesota Environmental Initiative.<\/td><\/tr>
“Ecological Restoration: The Next and Permanent Revolution”<\/strong><\/td>12\/2\/99<\/td>Speaker: Ray Tricomo<\/td>This presentation, from the founder and director of Kalpulli Turtle Island Multiversity project, will be focused on the necessity of restoring native ecologies and cultures.<\/td><\/tr>
“Solar Energy: Current Status and Future Potential”<\/strong><\/td>12\/9\/99<\/td>Speaker: Dr. James Doyle<\/td>Presentation on the use of solar energy as an alternative energy source.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presentations take place at 12 noon, Olin-Rice Room 250 Title Date Type of Presentation Description “Moby Dick” 9\/16\/99 Video A documentary on Herman Melville’s novel and its scientific significance. “The Perfect Pearl” 9\/23\/99 Video A documentary on the pearl industry, covering the history of pearl harvesting and current pearl farming techniques and their impacts. “Environmental […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":613,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-574","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574\/revisions\/4881"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}