2008 PAEP Annual Conference - Registration

Register Now for the
2008 Annual PAEP Conference
May 7- 9, 2008
The Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey, Grantville, PA

Adapting to Global Climate Change: A Pennsylvania Perspective

Seldom has an environmental topic seized the public consciousness like climate change has today. The reports are dire: ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, precipitation patterns are changing. But what are the implications for Pennsylvania? How will our climate be affected? How are the Pennsylvania public and private sectors responding? What does it all mean for us as environmental professionals in consulting, government, education, and industry?

The Board of Directors and Conference Planning Committee of the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Professionals (PAEP) invite you to join your peers in exploring these and other issues related to climate change in Pennsylvania at the 2008 Annual PAEP Conference, May 7-9 at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey in Grantsville, PA. Attached to this email, you will find a registration brochure with a detailed conference agenda. To avoid late fees, we encourage you to complete the registration form and return it with full payment to the address provided no later than April 18, 2008.

• We're very excited that the Conference Keynote Speaker at our Opening Night Dinner will be a global leader on climate change issues: Larry Schweiger, President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. Mr. Schweiger also served as the head on the Pennsylvania Western Conservancy for eight years.

• Presentations on climate change in Pennsylvania will be made by leading officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and other prominent organizations as part of the Land Use Program Track.

• For those more interested in professional development, a separate Program Track will include topics such as ‘Making Wetland Jurisdictional Determinations Post-Rapanos,’ ‘Specialty Certifications for Environmental Professionals,’ and ‘The New PennDOT Transportation Project Development Process.’

• The Pollution Prevention/Energy Efficiency (P2/E2) Program Track will offer many additional seminars, including ‘Performing an Energy Efficiency Assessment,’ ‘ Green Building,’ and ‘Business Sustainability and Climate Change.’

• Two “all new” alternate Traveling Workshops will kick-off the conference on May 7: a "North Tour" with site visits to the Locust Ridge Wind Farm, the Frackville Coal Reprocessing Plant and Hawk Mountain; and a "South Tour" with visits to Three Mile Island, Keystone Biofuels Plant, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania.

• Also new this year is a U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Training Workshop on Fan System Assessment offered in the same hotel on Thursday, May 8 separately from the main conference but with joint meals and social opportunities so that PAEP members and other industrial environmental professionals can network.

• For R&R, we’ve arranged a “Casino Night” – transportation will be provided by the Holiday Inn to and from the Hollywood Casino/Penn National Racetrack in 20-minute increments on Thursday evening.

• The PAEP Board of Directors has already begun to contact PAEP corporate members to offer them an opportunity to formally sponsor some of conference events or to purchase exhibition space. Many of the top sponsorship opportunities have already been sold – so act fast!

Thank you and we look forward to your attendance!

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