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.

(Posted April 04, 2003)