The Medicine Wheel Lecture Series will feature a brown bag lunch and panel discussion on environmental responsibility on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at Zimmerman Library. The brown bag lunch will be from noon to 1 p.m. and the panel discussion will begin at 3 p.m. in the Willard Room in the west wing of the library.
Panelists include Patrick Willink, a UNM graduate student who will discuss uranium mining on the Navajo reservation; Ramona Montoya, the environmental planner for Isleta Pueblo; and Cassandra Bloedel, a supervisor for civil and administrative enforcement of the Navajo Waste Act.
The panelists will discuss both the technical and cultural aspects of environmental waste problems. The program is sponsored by the Indigenous Nations Library Program at University Libraries.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at October 17, 2006 10:38 AM