Advisor to U.N. to speak as part of Earth Day activities
BOWLING GREEN, O. -- An address by a senior adviser to the United Nations highlights a week's worth of events taking place
at Bowling Green State University to commemorate Earth Day.
On Wednesday (April 23), the Environmental Action Group and Environmental Programs will host keynote speaker John Peterson
Myers, senior adviser to the United Nations Foundation, who will speak on "Environmental Potholes on the Road to Progress."
Myers' free talk will focus on the alteration of the environment and natural cycles by the proliferation of human activity
worldwide. He will address the need to develop new rules for governance and commerce that incorporate these new realities
at 8 p.m. in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater.
As part of the campus Earth Day celebration, a number of organizations will have tables in the Union Oval on Earth Day. The
Environmental Action Group and the Environmental Health Program will have a table focusing on the Talloire Agreement, to which
BGSU is a signatory. The declaration provides the methods for universities to play a leading societal role in moving toward
sustainable development.
Also planned are a 5-K Run/Walk and 1-Mile Kids Fun Run on Saturday (April 26) at the Ice Arena. Registration begins at 7:30
a.m. The events are sponsored by the Environmental Health Student Group and the Environmental Action Group. For more information,
call Dr. Gary Silverman at 419-372-6062.
