GLIN==> PRESS RELEASE: A Public Session with Cameron Davis, Senior Great Lakes Advisor, on July 16, Duluth, MN

Please join the Lake Superior Binational Forum at

a Public Session and Environmental Stewardship Awards Presentation with
Mr. Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor for the Great Lakes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Friday, July 16, 2010
8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Great Lakes Aquarium, 353 Harbor Drive, Duluth, MN


The Lake Superior Binational Forum welcomes you to a celebration of Lake Superior as part of its annual Lake Superior Day events (Lake Superior Day is held every year on the third Sunday of July). This year, the Forum is proud to share the world's largest freshwater lake with special guest Cameron Davis of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The event is free and open to the public, and no reservations are required

 Mr. Davis will talk about the importance of recent funding appropriations for the restoration of the Great Lakes ecosystems through the federal Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. This initiative was proposed by President Obama and supported by the U.S. Congress in the fall of 2009. Mr. Davis will also present the Lake Superior Binational Program's Environmental Stewardship awards to the 2010 U.S. recipients who have completed outstanding restoration or protection activities.

Mr. Davis will be joined at the podium by several regional elected officials, lake leaders, and others involved in the protection and restoration of the Lake Superior basin. A special Lake Superior cake will be served with locally roasted coffee. The event is co-sponsored by the Great Lakes Aquarium.


In 2009, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson appointed Davis as the Senior Advisor for the Great Lakes in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Davis is responsible for overseeing the agency's Great Lakes restoration plan.



During 11 years as chief executive of the nonprofit organization the Alliance for the Great Lakes<http://www.greatlakes.org/Page.aspx?pid=243> in Chicago, Davis led the organization to receive the American Bar Association's Distinguished Achievement Award for Environmental Law and Policy. It was the first time a nonprofit citizens' organization won this honor.



The Alliance--North America's oldest Great Lakes citizens' organization--has seen more than a decade of successes under Davis' leadership, among them the launch of the Adopt-a-Beach(tm)<http://www.greatlakes.org/Page.aspx?pid=525> stewardship program, now 7,000 volunteers strong and active on four of the five Great Lakes.



Davis helped write and pass the Great Lakes Legacy Act and subsequent reauthorization legislation that directly hastened critical contaminated sediment cleanups in the Great Lakes. Most recently, the Alliance helped write and pass the landmark Great Lakes Compact <http://www.greatlakes.org/Page.aspx?pid=526> adopted by Congress and signed into law, providing historic protections for Great Lakes waters.



Before assuming the Alliance's CEO position, he was a litigating attorney and served as an adjunct clinical assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. He also served with the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya, where he worked on the Montreal Protocol to protect the Earth's ozone layer, and in the U.S. EPA's Office of Regional Counsel in Chicago.



He graduated from Boston University in 1986, and received his J.D. and certification in environmental law from the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1992. He began his career in environmental advocacy as a volunteer for the Alliance in 1986. Today Cameron lives with his young son, Sage, and wife, Katelyn, a child therapist, across the street from Lake Michigan. He tries to swim in it at least three times a week, but only when it's warm enough.



Here's a recent interview with Mr. Davis<http://www.greatlakestownhall.org/weekly-editorial/3548> on the Great Lakes Town Hall website sponsored by The Biodiversity Project.


The Lake Superior Binational Forum is a multi-sector stakeholder group of U.S. and Canadian volunteers that work together to provide input to governments about lake issues and educate basin residents about ways to protect and restore the lake. Members come from Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Visit www.superiorforum.org<http://www.superiorforum.org> for more information.

The Forum is located in the United States at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute<http://www.northland.edu/sigurd-olson-environmental-institute-overview.htm> at Northland College<http://www.northland.edu/> in Ashland, WI, and funded in the U.S. by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes National Program Office<http://epa.gov/greatlakes/>. The Canadian Forum office is at EcoSuperior<http://www.ecosuperior.org/> in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and funded by Environment Canada<http://www.ec.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=ECBC00D9-1>.

Lissa Radke
U.S. Coordinator
Lake Superior Binational Forum
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College
1411 Ellis Ave., Ashland  WI  54806
(715) 682-1489
www.superiorforum.org
"Water is life, and the quality of water determines the quality of life."
     --Lake Superior Binational Program vision statement
The next Lake Superior Day is Sunday, July 18, 2010!
Look for us on Facebook!


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20100629/23385d89/attachment.html