THE BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

JOINS ON- AND OFF-CAMPUS SPONSORS

To Present

Carl Pope
Executive Director
The Sierra Club

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007
7-9 pm
Corwin Pavilion

"Changing the U.S. National Agenda"

Mr. Pope will address the need for a strategic refocusing of U.S. public policy

to meet the challenge of the global environmental crisis.

Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992 and has spent nearly thirty years with the nonprofit named by the Aspen Institute as the most influential environmental organization in Washington, D.C.

Under Mr. Pope, the Sierra Club has helped protect nearly 10 million acres of wilderness and brought the litigation that challenged the right of Vice-President Cheney’s Energy Task Force to conduct its policy-making in secret negotiations with major energy interests. The Sierra Club also collected more than a million comments – the most ever on a single regulatory issue – in support of protecting the remaining roadless areas in America's National Forests.

The Sierra Club pressured the Bush Administration to reverse its position against new rules lowering the allowable amount of arsenic in America’s drinking water and mercury in its fisheries. And the Club has continued to hold the line in protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling, and in repeatedly stopping proposed omnibus energy legislation that would give tens of billions in subsidies to oil, coal, and nuclear interests.

Mr. Pope is co-author, along with Paul Rauber, of Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress. Mr. Pope’s other books include Sahib, an American Misadventure in India (1971) and Hazardous Waste in America (1981).

Mr. Pope graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1967. He spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bihar, India, where he helped communities and families address the human and environmental impacts of overpopulation.

Sponsored by:

Community Environmental Council

Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Environmental Defense Center

For The Future

Institute Of Reverential Ecology

Institute Of World Culture
Santa Barbara City College Sustainability Center

The Santa Barbara Ecological Education Coalition

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
Spiritual Paths Institute
UCSB Associated Students Environmental Affairs Board
UCSB Environmental Studies Department
UCSB Geography Department
WH Capps Foundation

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