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Dune Lankard was a commercial
fisherman in Alaska until the Exxon
Valdez oil spill in 1989 devastated
his industry.
“The oil spill happened, and for me
that was the day the ocean died,”
Lankard said. “But it was also the day
my spirit came to life.” Since then,
Lankard said he has worked to protect
the environment and the rights of
native people in Alaska.
“It’s really important that we
remember we’re all the same tribe,”
Lankard said. “We’re all indigenous of
planet Earth.”
At the conference, activists who had
made significant contributions were
also recognized.
Fernando Dougnac, founder of
Chile’s premier public interest environ
mental organization Fiscalfa del Medio
Ambiente, received the Kerry Rydberg
Award for Environmental Activism,
given annually at the conference.
“I have to say that there is
nothing more important than
defending the environment,”
Dougnac said in Spanish through an
interpreter. “Another struggle is not
only to recognize the environmental
right as human rights, but to
recognize there are other beings
more important than human beings,
or at least as important. To this
struggle I have given my life. ”
The conference is a student-run
event. Conference Co-director
Rachel Kastenberg said she and
three other student co-directors
started compiling a list of possible
speakers last summer.
Kastenberg, a second year law
student, said she chose to attend
the University because of the environ
mental law program and conference.
“It puts the law school right on
the map,” Kastenberg said.
“It’s neat,” conference Co-director
Kat Moore said. “It reaches out
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Bill Devall,
co-author
of “Deep
Ecology:
Living as
if Nature
Mattered,”
was one of
several
keynote
speakers
at the
environ
mental law
conference
this weekend.
to other law schools and they bring
their students here.” Moore said
in past years, she met students
from other schools such as Harvard
at the conference.
This year’s conference did draw
both local students and students from
other campuses.
University junior Ben Nussbaum
said he attended the conference
for a Clark Honors College class he
is taking, Human Rights and the
Environment. He said he enjoyed
the panel about forestry in Ecuador
and Bolivia.
“It was really helpful for me because
I’m doing a paper on Ecuador,”
Nussbaum said.
Chris Coelho, an environmental
science graduate student at California
State University, Chico, said he also
attended the conference for a class.
His favorite part was a panel
discussion Epstein led about cosmetics
and cancer.
To earn class credit, Coelho and his
classmates had to attend at least four
panel discussions and write papers
about the event. They will also speak
about their experiences at their
university’s Earth Day celebration.
“We’re going to present the
information we got here to
campus,” Coelho said.
Dan Clarkson first attended the
conference in 1988, when he was
a Harvard University law student,
at the insistence of his professor
Zygmunt Plater. Plater, now a
professor of law at the Boston College
Law School, spoke at this year’s
Conference and received a lifetime
achievement award.
“He dragged me out here on a
plane,” Clarkson said. “He said, ‘You
have to come out here. It’ll change
your life.’ It changed my life. ”
Clarkson, now director of legal and
governmental affairs for an alternative
energy company in Seattle, said he has
attended the conference every year
since then. He also makes periodic vis
its to Harvard to encourage more stu
dents to come to the conference.
“It’s more than a conference,” he
said. “It’s a life-changing event.”
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