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Monday, April 19, 1999 6:00 P.M.

"EARTH DAY 2000: NEW ENERGY FOR A NEW ERA"

Arco Forum of Public Affairs
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Opening Address by:

DENIS HAYES, Chair, Earth Day 2000 Campaign. Denis was
National Coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 -- an event often
credited with launching the modern environmental movement. Twenty years
later, Denis was International Chairman of the phenomenally successful
Earth Day 1990, which enlisted 200 million participants in 141
countries. Earth Day 2000 is now mobilizing half a billion people
worldwide to put forth a new environmental vision and demand sweeping,
rapid changes.

A panel discussion follows with:

- Veronica Eady, Executive Director, Roxbury-based Alternatives for
Community and Environment (ACE);

- John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy
and Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Kennedy
School of Government;

- Robert Massie, Executive Director, Boston-based Coalition for
Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES);

- Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies,
and Chair, Harvard University Committee on the Environment.

- Philip Sharp (MODERATOR), Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School
of Government, ten-term Member of the United States Congress
(1975-1995), and Chair, House Energy and Power Subcommittee (1987-1995).

WHY EARTH DAY 2000? For the first time in history, humans are reshaping
the entire planet. We are changing the climate; triggering an epidemic
of extinctions; violating the last remaining wild places; and
multiplying and consuming far beyond the world's carrying capacity.
Twenty-six years after the first oil embargo; thirteen years after
Chernobyl; seven years after the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio; two
years after the Kyoto Climate Conference - no country on Earth has made
a commitment to a renewable energy future. The time is long overdue to
make a rapid shift away from fossil fuels and towards energy efficiency
and renewable energy solutions that will not only protect the
environment and wildlife, but will also save money, create business
opportunities, and protect human health. The Earth Day 2000 Campaign is
calling for international, national, local, and individual energy
choices that produce far less carbon dioxide and no radioactive waste.

EARTH DAY 2000 FORUM GOALS: The goals of the forum are to spark public
debate on the future of U.S. energy and climate change policy; engage
New England citizens in setting the Earth Day 2000 agenda; and kick-off
a year of environmental action from April 22, 1999 to April 22, 2000 to
persuade universities, companies, governments and others to make a swift
transition to clean, safe, renewable energy sources and to take a giant
leap forward in energy efficiency, among many other environmental policy
reforms.

WHO IS SPONSORING THE FORUM? The forum is co-sponsored by: Harvard
University Committee on the Environment, Environmental Network, Greening
the Crimson: University Greenhouse Reduction Project, Harvard Center on
Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Environmental Action
Committee, Ecology and Environment Professional Interest Council,
Harvard Environmental Law Society, Harvard Department of Operations
Waste Manager, Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values, Alternatives for
Community and Environment, BTI Religion and Ecology Group, the Coalition
for Environmentally Responsible Economies, Earth Day Network/Earth Day
2000, Environmental League of Massachusetts, Second Nature, Tellus
Institute, Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Institute of Politics
Student Advisory Committee.

THE EARTH DAY 2000 FORUM IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
NO TICKETS OR RSVP ARE NEEDED. ALL ARE WELCOME.

FOR MORE INFO, contact Chris Fox by email at (cfox@hds.harvard.edu) or
by phone at 617-247-0700 x19. For more info on Earth Day 2000, visit
their web site at (www.earthday.net).

Directions by public transit (encouraged) and by car (ridesharing
encouraged) can be found at the end of this email or on the web at
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ksgpress/students/directns.htm

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