Activities

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CEP undertakes a series of activities each year.  They include:

•  Follow-up Activities to the CEP Reports
•  University internships, fellowships, and lecture series

Activities

2009:

• Nationwide roll-out of the new "U.S. Population, Energy & Climate Change" report
• Materials, backgrounders, and briefings for U.S. Presidential Transition Teams, the new Obama Administration and Capitol Hill Members' and Committees' staff, and other leading government and non-government "influentials" on the issues
• Release of the new "50 States Ranking: Population, Energy & Climate Change" interactive website map and report
• Production and release of two new briefing reports to nationwide audiences, on "Global Population and Climate Change", and "Global Population and the Environment"
• "Biking for Balance" Coast to Coast trip for the Environment in Summer 2009, to bring attention to the issues and benefit CEP (go to bikingforbalance.org)

2007-8:

• January, "People and the Environment in Connecticut Communities" Special Event Screening of  "An Inconvenient Truth", with experts' panel and audience discussion (click here for event)
• March, CEP presentation to Canadian Federal Government's Policy Research Initiative
• March, New York City, Population Association of America (PAA) CEP's Special Session on U.S. Population and the Environment
• April, Earth Day events
• October, U.S. Capitol Hill Briefing, "U.S. Environmental Sustainability:  How the Nation's Growth Affects the Environment" (click here for event).  Distribution of  "U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment" to all U.S. Senators and Members of Congress and Committees.
• October, Yale University "Demography & Population" Seminar Series,  Seminar on "Is Population Important in Achieving U.S. Environmental Sustainability? " with Martha Farnsworth Riche, Cornell University, former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, and Moderator, Vicky Markham, Center for Environment and Population (CEP) (click here for event).
  
  

2006:

• Launch of the U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment
• Launch of the Michigan State Report on Population and the Environment
• Yale University Green by Design Keynote Speech and workshop
• Complete list of other 2006 activities available on request

2005:

Earth Day events, April 2005

• April 18:  "People, Policies and the Planet" series of briefings and presentations, CEP with Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Global Partners Program and the Sierra Club, at University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University, Ct.
• April 19:  Yale University's Sustainability Week, features presentation by CEP linking population to Earth Day issues, New Haven, Ct.
• April 22:  In celebration of Earth Day, "America in the Global Context" is a side event to the UN's Commission on Sustainable Development. CEP presentation on the population connections, with The Nature Conservancy, UNEP, and UNDP.  Co-sponsored with the UN Association of the USA, UN Plaza, New York (see flyer).

• June 1-5:  UN's "World Environment Day (WED)", CEP has been endorsed by the UNEP to host a series of activities on the US East Coast, linking population issues to WED's events (see WED link).

2004:

• September 8-10:  "People and the Environment: Achieving Global Sustainability through Equitable Practices", UN, New York. The lunchtime presentation and workshop was part of the UN Department of Public Information's (UN DPI) Annual Midday Interactive Workshops for NGO's.  Vicky Markham, CEP's Director, presented excerpts from CEP's new "U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment" (currently in production).  CEP presented the case for the U.S. as a major global player in human population's environmental impacts, and how it relates to Planned Parenthood Federation's "A Mother's Promise Campaign" and the UN's Cairo +10 and Millennium Development Goals (see flyer). 
• October 4:  "Women's Lives, Children's Futures, Planet's Hope:  The Power and Promise of International Family Planning", Albany, NY.  A Public Forum focused on opportunities to improve the quality of life for women, their families, and the environment around the world (see flyer).
• October 22:  CEP hosted a workshop at the Society for Environmental Journalists (SEJ) 2004 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. The session provided a sneak preview to journalists from the U.S. and around the world of key findings from the "U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment".  CEP lead a discussion on the report and on America's role in the global population/environment arena, in light of "A Mother's Promise Campaign" and the UN's Cairo +10 assessment.

Other Activities

• New Hampshire State Report on Population and the Environment Activities

-Follow-up to Launch with statewide events

-Media coverage (Boston Globe articles and cartoon, NPR talk show, local coverage, Planetwire).

• Michigan State Report Activities

  -Launch Fall/Winter 2006

  -Events (to be announced)

•  U.S. National Report Activities

  -Launch and Events 2006 (to be announced)

  -Coordination with the UN's Cairo +10 Proceedings and "A Mother's Promise Campaign"

• AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment Activities

  -CD Rom available

University internships, fellowships, and lecture series

CEP works with Yale, Duke and Princeton Universities, University of Michigan, University of New Hampshire, Philips Exeter Academy, Bard College, and other schools.  We have internship and fellowship opportunities, school activist projects, and special guest lecture series.  To participate contact CEP.