The Wilma Dykeman Legacy is a tax-exempt non-profit organization founded in 2012 to sustain and promote Wilma Dykeman’s values by sponsoring workshops, events, and other programs. The core values of this extraordinary woman from Buncombe County were: environmental integrity, social justice, and the power of the written and spoken word. For more information, visit wilmadykemanlegacy.org.
Green Money: Nature Makes Good Business Sense - An Environmental Economics Forum
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May 21, 2020 9:00 AM - May 22, 2020 3:00 PM
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The Collider
1 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC
Description
The Wilma Dykeman Legacy celebrates Wilma’s 100th birthday anniversary, as well as the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, with a major
environmental event. Green Money brings together environmental experts, economists,
and community leaders to clarify the intersection of economics and the environment. This
forum will be a great introduction to the growing discipline of environmental economics,
which explores that place where the preservation of nature meets the pursuit of money.
Green Money consists of 4 two-hour panels, all held at The Collider as follows:
Thursday, May 21, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
“Natural Costs and Benefits”
· Moderator: Susan Kask
Affiliation: Organizational
Strategist and Sustainability Expert
Subject: Some guiding principles
for an economic look at the environment
· Panelist: Dan Pierce
Affiliation: University of North
Carolina Asheville
Subject: Wilma Dykeman and the
French Broad River: a pioneering
cost/benefit analysis
· Panelist: Kathy Newfont
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Subject: The Political Economy
of Forests
· Panelist: Taylor Barnhill
Affiliation: Appalachian Barn Alliance
Subject: Public Lands Management
Thursday, May 21, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
“Valuing
the Environment”
· Moderator: Leah Mathews
Affiliation: University of North
Carolina Asheville
Subject: Some guiding principles
for ascribing value to the natural world
· Panelist: Karen Cragnolin
Affiliation: Former Executive
Director of RiverLink
Subject: Asheville’s River Arts
District
· Panelist: David Gantt
Affiliation: Former Chair of the
Buncombe County Board of Commissioners
Subject: Buncombe County’s Zoning Ordinance, including Steep Slopes/High
Elevations and Protected Ridges
Friday, May 22, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
“Policy Choices”
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Moderator: John Whitehead
Affiliation: Appalachian State
University
Subject: Some guiding principles
for determining appropriate environmental
policy
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Panelist: Mike Fisher
Affiliation: one of the 1st
scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency
Subject: The
EPA: the power and limits of regulation
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Panelist: Julie Mayfield
Affiliation: Co-Director of Mountain
True; member of the Asheville City Council
Subject: Duke
Energy’s power plants and the Blue Horizons Project
Friday, May 22, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
“Climate Change”
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Moderator: Kathleen Lawlor
Affiliation: University of North
Carolina Asheville
Subject: Some guiding principles
for thinking about climate change
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Panelist: Jeffrey Gold
Affiliation: East Tennessee State
University
Subject: What, if anything, MUST
be done? The perspective of
environmental
ethics
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Panelist: James Fox
Affiliation: Director, National
Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center
Subject: What, if anything, MUST be done? The perspective of climate data
Complimentary coffee will be served at the morning panels, and Malaprop’s Bookstore will be staffing a special forum table to sell books by the presenters as well as other books relevant to Green Money.
Tickets
to the full forum cost $40 per non-student (Friends of Wilma Dykeman will receive
a $20 event-only book credit for purchasing books sold at the event by Malaprop’s
Bookstore) and $20 per student (must show student ID at the door).