Dinner Speaker

We are pleased to announce that the speaker for the Saturday evening banquet will be James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Dean Speth's leadership has opened the door for partnership between the scientific and religious communities, and he has done tremendous work towards building bridges between the disciplines.

In his own words:

"We've heard a lot from scientists and lawyers and economists. We now need to hear more from preachers, poets, psychologists, and philosophers--people who understand the wellsprings of human behavior and values." (Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2007, 53)

Dean Speth has served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and cofounder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He has also served as advisor on environmental issues to Presidents Carter and Clinton, and was awarded the prestigious Blue Planet Prize.

His books include Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment and Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment.