23rd Annual
Hazardous Materials Management Conference
on Household and Small Business Waste
Join us for another great conference at a beautiful location, back where NAHMMA began.
Come to Burlington, Vermont!
Conference Program
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Dr. John Peterson ("Pete") Myers
Reporter, editor and publisher of Our Stolen Future, a book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. He has published the website OurStolenFuture.org since that book was published, synthesizing hundreds of scientific articles about endocrine disruption to make them accessible to the media and the lay public. Dr. John Peterson Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist at Environmental Health Sciences, publisher of EnvironmentalHealthNews.org and DailyClimate.org. From 1990-2002 he was director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a private foundation supporting efforts to protect the global environment and to prevent nuclear war. He holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the UC Berkeley and a BA from Reed College, and lives near Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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Dr. Joel Tickner
Chemical Policy Program Director, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, UMass Lowell. www.chemicalspolicy.org
Dr. Joel Tickner training is in toxics chemicals policy, epidemiology, risk assessment, and pollution prevention. He has served as an advisor and researcher for several government agencies, international agencies, non-profit environmental groups and trade unions both in the U.S. and abroad during the past twelve years. He teaches and conducts trainings in a variety of environmental health topics including risk assessment, toxic substances policy, children*s environmental health and pollution prevention. He was co-coordinator of the Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle, co-editor of the book Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle and editor of the book Precaution, Environmental Science, and Preventive Public Policy. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana and a Doctor of Science Degree from the Department of Work Environment at University of Massachusetts Lowell and for three years was an Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellow. |
