Hutton Honors College

Environmental Impoverishment
and the World's Economies

Fireside Pizza Supper with Environmentalist and Attorney Bruce Rich,
Author of Mortgaging the Earth

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 * 6-7:30 p.m. * HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

With a faltering international economy and a warming planet, what are the prospects for developing countries? —for our own? Can we simultaneously protect the environment and expand economically? Who are the players with influence? Who is accountable for protecting the world's resources? What are the environmental and health impacts in developing countries of projects funded by global financial institutions, such as the World Bank?

Join environmental advocate and attorney Bruce Rich for pizza and an informal fireside Q&A. Rich has worked for the World Bank as well as the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the United Nations Environment Program, and USAID. He has advocated social and environmental reform for more than 20 years and his environmental research has been honored with the United Nations Global 500 Award. His books include Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development and To Uphold the World: The Message of Ashoka and Kautilya for the 21st Century; and his many articles have been published in such journals as The Ecologist, the Environmental Forum, The Financial Times, and The Nation.

Rich is on campus as a guest of the Environmental Law Society and the Department of Governance and Management in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He will deliver a public presentation on Tuesday, November 10, 12-1 p.m. in room 125 of the Maurer School of Law. For additional information on the event at the law school, please go here.

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