Earth Day: How We Got Here and What Challenges Remain

Tues. April 19th 7:00 pm UW-Madison, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (330 N. Orchard) Earth Day: How We Got Here and What Challenges Remain – presentation with Tia Nelson, daughter of Earth Day founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson.  Come hear a brief history of Earth Day followed by a discussion of what is considered by many to be the dominant environmental challenge we face today--global climate change.

Tia Nelson has continued the crusade her father started and is internationally recognized for her work on climate change. She spent 17 years with The Nature Conservancy, including serving as the first director of its global Climate Change Initiative. For her work, she received the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Protection Award in 2000. She then served 11 years as executive secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands (BCPL), Wisconsin’s oldest state agency, which included a gubernatorial appointment in 2007 as co‐chair of Wisconsin’s Task Force on Global Warming. Her outspokenness on climate change put her under political pressure and she left the BCPL to become managing director at the Outrider Foundation, which advances science-based literacy on global challenges that affect the well-being of the planet.  Hosted by the Madison Audubon Society and the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.  Info?  http://madisonaudubon.org/calendar/event/evenings-with-audubon-celebrating-earth-day-with-tia-nelson/