Oil, Water and Oregon Symposium: Illahee 2006 regional symposium June 2, 2006

Illahee�€™s 2006 lecture series on Oil & Water raises issues that will challenge our region for years to come. To begin a dialog on how we should respond here in Oregon, Illahee is producing the Oil, Water & Oregon Symposium. The symposium will be a forum for businesses, policy makers, and citizen leaders to expand their understanding of how oil and water issues will impact our part of the world, and begin the process of finding solutions for our shared energy and water future.

The full-day symposium will begin with plenary sessions on global oil and water issues, and how changing resource supplies are likely to affect the Pacific Northwest. The afternoon will feature panel discussions with local agency officials, elected representatives, and business and community leaders. The panels will cover topics including Oregon�€™s economy and global trade, energy innovation, transportation, agriculture, water issues, and neighborhood life.

$95; reg by 5/31

Roger H. Bezdek: Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts and the Scope of the Mitigation Problem

Roger Bezdek is president of Management Information Services, an internationally recognized, Washington D.C.-based economic research and consulting firm with expertise in the analysis of energy, environmental and electric utility issues, and labor markets. He is the co-author of a widely-distributed report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy entitled, �€œPeaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management�€� (sometimes known as the Hirsch Report). He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971 and has worked extensively in academia and for the federal government.

Peter H. Gleick: Water and the New West - Economics, Politics, and Nature

Dr. Peter Gleick is co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources.

Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In 2001, Gleick was dubbed a "visionary on the environment" by the British Broadcasting Corporation. That same year he was also appointed to the Water Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences based in Washington, D.C. In 1999, was elected an Academician of the International Water Academy, in Oslo, Norway.

Patricia Limerick: The Future of Energy and Water in the West

Historian Patricia Limerick agues that the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality--in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Limerick is chair of the Center of the America West at the University of Colorado and a MacArthur Fellow.

Limerick has published a wide variety of books, articles, and reviews. Her best known work, The Legacy of Conquest, has had a major impact on the field of Western American History. In addition to numerous scholarly articles and book reviews, she writes frequent columns and op-ed pieces for "The New York Times," "USA Today," "The Denver Post," "The Daily Camera," and "The Rocky Mountain News."

Official Website: http://www.illahee.org/symposium