Beyond Pesticides annual 25th conference

[Guest guest]

Changing Course in

a Changing Climate: Solutions for health and the environment

Beyond Pesticides' 25th National Pesticide Forum

Loyola University

- Water Tower campus (25 E.

Pearson Street), Chicago, IL

June 1-3, 2007

Updated speaker list: www.beyondpesticides.org/forum/speakers

Registration: www.beyondpesticides.org/forum

The Forum is quickly approaching! We

hope you are able to join us in Chicago

to share the latest information with community activists across the country,

meet with scientists and policy makers, and discuss local, statewide and

national strategies. This conference is convened by Beyond Pesticides,

co-convened by the Chicago-based Safer Pest Control Project and co-sponsored by

Nutrition for Optimal Health Association, Beyond Today and the Loyola Campus

Greens. Please register

by May 11 to avoid the $25 late registration fee.

** We have recently added several exciting sessions and

speakers, as well as the option for participants to check out the Butterfly

Social Club, Chicago's

eco-friendly hot spot for our " Organic Night-on-the-Town. " **

Please see a basic schedule of events below. For a more detailed version, see www.beyondpesticides.org/forum.

Friday, June 1

1:00-4:00pm Chicago City Hall Green Roof and Garden Tour

5:00-7:00pm Registration

6:00-7:00pm Pesticides 101

7:00-11:00pm

Welcome/Reception/Dragonfly award presented to Epstein, M.D.

Saturday, June 2

8:00-8:45am Breakfast/Registration

9:00-9:45am Welcome/IL Attorney

General Madigan (invited)

9:50-11:20am Global Warming:

Consequences and the organic connection

11:45am-1:00pm Is There Justice

in Risk Assessment? Lessons from the Big Easy to the Big Apple

1:00-2:30pm Lunch

2:30-4:25pm Emerging Science

Panel: Asthma, Antibacterial hazards, Pesticide mixtures, Nanotechnology

4:45-6:15pm Workshops 1: Global

Warming follow-up; Emerging Science follow-up; Disproportionate Risk follow-up;

Healthy Food: Urban Gardens/Sustainable Agriculture

7:00pm-?? Organic

Night-on-the-Town: Dinner and dancing at the Butterfly Social Club ($25, see

details: www.beyondpesticides.org/forum/programs/socialbutterfly.htm)

Sunday, June 3

8:00-8:45am Breakfast

9:00-10:15am New Opportunities

Panel: Protective policies and effective advocacy

10:30am-12:00pm Workshops 2: New

Opportunities follow-up; Water Contamination/Great Lakes; Healthy Indoor

Environments: Schools, Hospitals and Housing; Introduction to the Pesticide

Working Group

12:30-6:00pm Pesticide Working

Group strategy meeting - all activists are invited, contact Kepner,

jkepner@..., (Beyond Pesticides) or Schafer,

kristins@..., (PANNA) for details.

Schedule is subject to change. Register online at www.beyondpesticides.org/forum.

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