2007 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, June 19-22, 2007
Social events and excursions
Earth & Spirit Concert
Wednesday 8pm
Jim Scott, an exciting acoustic guitarist, singer, and composer of powerful music that furthers the ideals of ecology, justice, and peace, Jim makes an impact on hearts and minds across the world.
For more than two decades, Jim Scott has made it his business to create and perform music that celebrates the earth. His songs and poetry have inspired and educated audiences around the world. He has developed presentations for every age group and crafted songs that sensitize his listeners to the beauty of the earth, teaching principles of ecology in memorable verses.
Just released, Jim’s latest project "The Earth and Spirit Songbook" is an anthology of songs of earth and peace. Jim arranged and edited this collection including songs by many contemporary songwriters with some of his own. Book One containing 77 songs is now out and Book Two is expected in early 2004.
From his work with the Paul Winter Consort where he co-wrote the celebrated Missa Gaia - Earth Mass and many other pieces, including his "A Song for the Earth", recorded live at the United Nations on the album Concert for the Earth, Jim has gone on to create an extensive body of work. His own recordings "Earth, Sky, Love and Dreams" and "Sailing with the Moon" include many of his eco-anthems.
In songs, choral music, instrumental soundtracks for several documentaries and the PBS series Body and Soul, Jim continues to make music with a depth of artistry and craft that separates his music from that of many other singer songwriters.
As Co-Chair of the Unitarian Universalist Seventh Principle Project Jim helped to create the "Green Sanctuary" program and accompanying handbook for building an ecological/spiritual awareness in church congregations. He performs many benefit concerts and often appears at events, supporting environmental causes with his music.
CLIMATE CHANGE Presentation
Douglas Plante, climate@treblecove.com
Thursday June 21, Tabernacle
People are a force of nature. Due to rapid increases in global population, consumption and waste, we are now the foremost influence on this planet's future. But human nature can often prevent us from understanding the impact we have on our planet's climate, and the most rigorous scientific training is not always enough to shake us loose from that nature. What are the barriers to understanding these issues? How can we, as individuals, business owners and educators contribute to a solution to global climate change? What special responsibility does the scientific community have to this issue?
Climate change has become a challenge we must face in this decade, but to do so, the issue must become a part of our culture's political and social consciousness. In early 2006, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's award-winning film "An Inconvenient Truth" was released. While many countries around the world already acknowledge climate change as a reality, the purpose of this movie was to educate and energize people in the United States. Following the release of this film, Gore created the Climate Project, a non-profit organization designed to train 1,000 volunteers from around the United States to give his slideshow presentation to schools, businesses and community organizations across the country.
Douglas Plante is a media developer and science educator who has done work for Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution, and was trained at the Climate Project in Nashville, Tennessee in January 2007. He will be tailoring this presentation to our audience of scientists.
Sunset Cruise
Thursday 5:00pm
A two-hour excursion onto Cape Cod Bay to learn about resource management issues facing New England, sponsored by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises. Pizza party back at the conference site will follow.
