[Save] Fwd: MCP Seminar Friday October 10th at 1 p.m. by Seth Kaplan (CLF)

Karen Gibson kgibson at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 9 09:15:38 EDT 2003


>
>Joint Mexico City Air Quality Project &
>  MIT-Harvard Seminar Course on Environmental Management
>
>
>Inside, Outside, Top and Bottom:
>
>Seth Kaplan
>Senior Attorney
>Conservation Law Foundation
>
>Room 54-915
>Friday, October 10, 2003
>1-2:30 pm
>
>Refreshment will be served
>
>Abstract:
>Effective advocacy employs a wide range of tools including 
>litigation, press relations, grassroots organizing and 
>behind-the-scenes negotiation with key decision makers. There will 
>also be a discussion of the "American Style Non-Profit 
>Organization," contrasting this model with the "European Style 
>Non-Governmental Organization."
>
>About the speaker:
>Seth Kaplan is a Senior Attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation. 
>He serves as the Director of CLF's Clean Air and Climate Change 
>Project. A graduate of Wesleyan University and Northeastern 
>University School of Law, he worked as a real estate and 
>environmental attorney in private practice in New York City before 
>his return to CLF, where he had previously worked as a law student. 
>His current work focuses on fostering renewable energy, working for 
>climate protection, and reducing the environmental impact of fossil 
>fuel power plants. Previously, he directed CLF's transportation 
>work, which included advocating in favor of expanded and cleaner 
>public transit, including a successful effort to substantially 
>reduce emissions from the MBTA bus fleet.
>
>References:
>Look for material at the Conservation Law Foundation website, 
><http://www.clf.org/>www.clf.<http://www.clf.org/>org on the "Fish 
>Pier" and "South Boston Waterfront/Fan Pier" cases and, also, go to 
><http://www.google.com/>www.Google.<http://www.google.com/>com and 
>write in "seth kaplan" "south weymouth".

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Karen  L. Gibson
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