Galen Fulford (pictured left), who has led projects in ecological design in India, Bolivia, the U.S. and elsewhere, will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in Collins Classroom Center Room 101. The event is free and open to the public.

Fulford is a founding partner of The Ecovillage Institute, an ecological design, engineering and training organization based in Findhorn, Scotland. EVI designs and delivers village-scale sustainability projects, and provides on-site training with an emphasis on water recycling and the shared stewardship of common natural resources. He is also the founder of the One Water Network in Bolivia, which implements a whole-systems approach to the problems of water scarcity, contamination and land degradation.

Fulfords presentation, "Common Stewardship in a Changing World," is the second in the 2007-2008 GEM Critical Issues International Seminar Series. The series theme this academic year is United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Update on Building a Sustainable Future.

Nearly all of the worlds nations committed to the Millennium Development Goals at the UN-sponsored Millennium Summit in 2000. They set priorities that would improve the lives of billions of people, such as reducing by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water, and eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education, all to be achieved by 2015.

Gonzalo Pizarro, a United Nations Development Program policy analyst, provided an overview of progress and challenges in meeting Millennium Development Goals as the October GEM Critical Issues seminar speaker. In February, Sushma Iyengar, who leads a nonprofit organization in Bhuj Gujarat, India, will discuss gender equity issues and sustainability.

The series is sponsored by the Global Environmental Management Education Center (GEM), a center within the College of Natural Resources at UWSP, with funding through the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Contact: Ron Tschida, communications coordinator, Global Environmental Management Education Center (GEM), (715) 346-4266; Ron.Tschida@uwsp.edu.

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