Past Events at The Nicholas Institute
- Friday, April 25, 2008 - Clinton and Obama on the Environment
Dan Utech, environmental advisor for Sen. Hillary Clinton, and
Jason Grumet, environmental advisor for Sen. Barack Obama,
discuss the Democratic presidential candidates’ positions
on environmental issues.
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- Friday, April
11, 2008 - Carbon Offsets: Opportunities
and Challenges for State Carbon Trading Schemes
The Environmental Law Program at Harvard Law School, the
Harvard University Center on Environment, and the Nicholas
Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University
held a day-long conference focused on
the design of carbon trading schemes, with particular attention
to offsets.
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- Thursday, April 3, 2008 - Corporate Sustainability
Panel and Book Reading
A panel discussion with industry leaders
followed by a book reading by Fred Krupp
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- Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - Gubernatorial Candidates
Forum on Water
The forum, “The Future of the Water in North Carolina,”
was held in 500-seat Griffith Film Theater in the Bryan Student
Center on Duke’s main campus.
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- Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - Managing Costs in a
U.S. GHG Trading Program: Issues, Options, and Implementation
Resources for the Future
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- Wednesday, December 19th - Durham Drought Forum
An informal, roundtable discussion among the top commercial,
industrial, and institutional water customers in Durham and
how they have been reducing water usage to meet goals and
restrictions.
- Tuesday, November 6th - Seminar with Stephen Faulkner,
Research Ecologist, USGS National Wetlands Research Center: Evaluating
Conservation Practices and Restoration of Ecosystem Services
in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Science and Resource Management
Challenges
- Wednesday, October 24th - Brown Bag Lunch with TNC's
Jeff Opperman: Integrating environmental flows into
water management and policy
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- Friday, October 5th - Complete Seafood Symposium
Sponsored by the Nicholas Institute, The Green Wave and Duke Fish
- July 21, 2007-- Linking
air pollution, climate change, and human health: management
of ozone air pollution by reducing methane emissions,
a seminar by J. Jason West, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- July 18-19, 2007-- D.C. Symposium Aims to De-mystify
Economic Models
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- June 29, 2007-- "Role of Efficiency Resources
in State Energy and Climate Policy," a seminar by Dr.
Neal Elliot, American Council for Energy-Efficient Economy
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- June 15, 2007 - Institute for Emerging Issues Energy Calculator: Demonstration and Discussion
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- May 17, 2007 - Seminars with Fred Keeley, Treasurer
of Santa Cruz County, California
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- March 5-8, 2007 - Forestry and Agriculture Greenhouse Gas
Modeling Forum
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- March 1, 2007- “The Future of Water in North Carolina:
Strategies for Sustaining Abundant and Clean Water”
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- Jan 18, 2007- “Don’t Be Such a Scientist” -- A
seminar and video presentation by evolutionary biologist turned
filmmaker Randy Olson
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- Nov. 29, 2006 - Workshop on environmental
peace building, Duke University
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- Nov. 16, 2006 -- Launch of the Institute's
Washington, D.C. Office --
Mellon Auditorium, Washington,
D.C.
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- Sept.
27, 2006 -- The
Robertson Scholar Program Buses: A cost-benefit analysis
of existing technology and fuel options to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions
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- Sept. 25, 2006 --Marine Fisheries
Management: What We Need to Know-- Rayburn House
Office Building, Washington D.C.
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- Sept. 22, 2006 -- Round Table: For Security's Sake:
Can the U.S. Help Petroleum-Rich Nations Avoid the Resource
Curse? -- Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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- June 29, 2006-- Washington DC
Congressional briefing: Climate change and Tropical Forests - Dirksen Senate Office
Building, Room SD-456
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- April 25, 2006-- Understanding Acoustic Impacts on
Marine Mammals - panel discussions 2:30 p.m. Love
Auditorium
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- April 24, 2006 -- Congressional briefing on Ecosystem
Based Management of our ocean resources
- March 9, 2006 --Press and Hill Briefings on International
Water
