News
from the Nicholas Institute
Subject
line: News from the Nicholas Institute
Nov. 13, 2006
A brief roundup of news and information about the Nicholas Institute
for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University
1. McCAIN TO BE AMONG FEATURED SPEAKERS AT D.C. LAUNCH.
Sen. John McCain will be a featured speaker at a VIP luncheon
and public discussion from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16,
at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., to launch the Nicholas
Institute’s new D.C. office. McCain will be joined by utility
executive Jeffry Sterba, chairman and CEO of PNM Resources, in
a moderated discussion on “Post-Election Priorities for Energy,
the Environment and the Economy.” They will discuss setting a
U.S. carbon limit to achieve national economic, environmental
and energy security objectives. To register or for more information,
go here >
Video of McCain and Sterba’s discussion will be available
on this Web site, following the launch.
2. ENVIRONMENTAL PEACEBUILDING. The Nicholas
Institute is cosponsoring a gathering of distinguished scholars
and practitioners for a Nov. 29 workshop at Duke University
on the role the environment can play in post-conflict peace
building and the rebuilding of war-torn societies. Members
of the group, led by Nicholas School political scientist Erika
Weinthal, will take part in a public policy discussion from
4:15 to 6:15 p.m. at Love Auditorium in the Levine Science
Research Center. To learn more, go here >
3. NEW TOOLS FOR MARINE CONSERVATION. Patrick Halpin, director of the Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory at the Nicholas School, is spearheading a new, two-year pilot program designed to reduce the time it takes to get new technologies for ecosystem-based marine resource and conservation management into the field. The program, funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Packard Foundation, will award between five and eight grants a year, totaling $500,000 annually, to individuals and organizations that have developed new and useful software for marine and coastal management but who lack the resources to make the tools operable for broad use. Halpin is one of many Duke faculty members who work closely with the Nicholas Institute on policy issues. To learn more, go to http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/11/marinefund.html
4. INSTITUTE ADDS VISITING SCHOLAR. Bill Holman, executive director of North Carolina’s Clean Water Management Trust Fund and former secretary of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, has been appointed a visiting scholar at the Nicholas Institute. Holman will work with the Institute staff to identify new avenues for applying the Institute’s policy expertise, and the broad academic resources of the Nicholas School, Duke University and other universities statewide, to North Carolina environmental issues. To learn more, read the news story here >
