DANCE PERFORMANCE, SCREENING, LECTURE

TH AUG 13 | event
8pm - 9:30pm

Performance by SHARP Dance Company

Screening of Running Dry

Lecture by Stan Laskowski, Philadelphia Global Water Initiative PGWI

The Philadelphia Global Water Initiative (PGWI) is a group of interested organizations and individuals committed to helping to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals for water/sanitation throughout the world. It includes among its members the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Water Department, Water for People, Aqua America, Pennoni Associates, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Uhl, Baron, Rana and Associates, the United Nations Association – Greater Philadelphia Chapter, Meta Quality of Life Improvement Foundation, Traveling Mercies, Keiyo Soy Ministries, the Delaware River Basin Commission, and Rotary District 7450. PGWI is always interested in welcoming more members.

Mr. Laskowski has been a senior executive, leader, teacher, scientist, advisor, and mentor during his career in environmental protection. Currently he is a lecturer/advisor at the University of Pennsylvania [PENN]. At PENN he develops and teaches environmental management and policy courses and advises students and professors in many Departments (e.g., environmental science, business, law, and medicine). His areas of special interest include U.S. and global environmental management, environmental policy, and issues related to the attainment of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation. He has been and continues to be active in support of various non-for-profit organizations. In 2006, Mr. Laskowski, with other environmental leaders, founded the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative, a Regional organization dedicated to help provide basic water and sanitation services to everyone in the world. He was instrumental in establishing the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGWL) at Wharton Business School at PENN. This businessoriented Institute will have hubs around the world, conduct cutting-edge research and provide training for the business and environmental leaders of tomorrow. He is also a member of the EPA Administrator's National Council on Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT).

RECOMMENDED READINGS / LINKS
Selected from Stan Laskowski's Syllabus.

CLEAN WATER ACT [CWA]
See water section of the report on the environment [ ]

Readings one and two: for overview of the Clean Water Act;

4 basic elements of setting water quality standards


THE SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT (SDWA)

SAFE WATER and STANDARDS

also see this site for two recent rules


US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA)

history of EPA;

EPA’s latest report on the condition of the Nation’s environment;

EPA’s current draft strategic plan
read introduction and goal 5 objective 5.1 to get a sense of EPA’s strategic approach and specifically their overall priorities on compliance;

EPA’s budget report for 2009—see [ through page 40 for a sense of how EPA structures its budget;

for the process about how the planning/budget/evaluation process works and how EPA’s performance is tracked by Congress;

http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/futures/perspectives.htm [then click on the first two readings] for some views of the future challenges in environmental protection