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Presentation by Bill Rees - Thursday, Feb. 28th

Connecting Environmental Professionals' (CEP) February speaker event will feature Professor William Rees from the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP). Prof. Rees willbe giving a talk entitled Epiphany, Serendipity, and the Genesis of Ecological Footprint Analysis, and will be discussing his career and as suggested by the title of his talk, the development of the ecological footprint. Prof. Rees' teaching and research focus on the public policy and planning implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development. Much of this work is in the realm of human ecology and ecological economics where Prof. Rees is best known as the originator of'ecological footprint analysis.' A dynamic speaker, Prof. Rees has been invited to lecture on areas of his expertise across Canada and the US,as well as in Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Finland, France,Germany, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands,Norway, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, the former Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and the UK.

Speaker Bio:
Prof. Rees is a founding member and past-President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, and a Fellow of Post Carbon Institute. He is also a co-investigator in the 'Global Integrity Project,' aimed at defining the ecological and political requirements for biodiversity preservation and a founding member and Director of the OneEarth Initiative. Drawing parts of his answer from various disciplines, Prof Rees' current book project asks: "Is Humanity Inherently Unsustainable?"

In 1997, UBC awarded William Rees a Senior Killam Research Prize in acknowledgment of his research achievements and in 2000 The Vancouver
Sun recognized him as one of British Columbia's top "public intellectuals". In 2006 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2007 he was awarded a prestigious Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellowship.

Time: 6:30pm (first half hour for networking, speaker starts at 7:00pm)
Cost: Admission to our speaker series costs $5 for members and $10 for non-members.
Membership details are available on our web site: www.cepvancouver.org

Additional Info: Space IS limited so please email an RSVP to info@cepvancouver.org by February 21st.