CAEPA 2015 ANNUAL MEETING Waking the Green Tiger

CHINESE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS
ASSOCIATION
華美環境保護協會
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Photo Courtesy of Jeanny Wang
CAEPA 2015 ANNUAL MEETING
Waking the Green Tiger:
China’s Environmental and
Sustainability Challenges
Saturday, May 2, 2015
9:30 am – 2:30 pm
HS Lordships Restaurant
199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley
Speakers:
Jeanny Wang, President, Ecowang, Ltd.
Wang Jiuliang, Environmental Photographer and Filmmaker
CAEPA 2015 ANNUAL MEETING
Waking the Green Tiger: China’s Environmental and
Sustainability Challenges
Program
Tartan Room, HS Lordships Restaurant
9:30 - 10:00 am
Registration and Networking
10:00 - 10:20 am
Opening Remarks and Introductions
10:20 - 11:20 am
Jeanny Wang
President, Ecowang, Ltd.
Cross Border Collaboration on China’s Wetlands
11:20 - 11:30 am
Break
11:30 – 12:30 pm
Wang Jiuliang
Environmental Photographer and Filmmaker
Short film “Plastic China”, followed by Q&A
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 pm
CAEPA Business and Raffle
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
End of Meeting and Networking
Reservation
Cost
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registration to receive discount rate. Regular Membership is $30 per
year; Student Membership is $10 per year.)
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2014 CAEPA Officers and Committee Chairs: Xinggang Tong (President), Diane Wang (Vice President and
Membership Chair), Joann Lin (Treasurer and Secretary), Willard Chin (Program Chair and Scholarship
Chair), Shin-Roei Lee (Visitor Chair)
2014 CAEPA Board of Directors: Sue Chau, Willard Chin, Kevin Jim, Shin-Roei Lee, Joann Lin, Jim Leu,
Sanjay Reddy, Ivy Tao, Xinggang Tong, Diane Wang, Ray Yep
Speakers
Jeanny Wang has an extensive professional and academic
background in environmental sciences, aquatic resource
management, and civil and environmental engineering and
has spent twenty years working on wetlands and water
issues for agencies, companies and NGOs around the world.
She has interviewed residents of the pre-Three Gorges Dam
reservoir area, researched and promoted conservation of
high alpine wetland habitat for black necked cranes in
Yunnan Province, and facilitated local participation of
environmentalists in the UNDP Tumen River Area
Development Program in advance of founding Pacific
Environment's China Program. She has worked on several
projects for the Global Environmental Facility in the focal
areas of international waters (Dniepr River Basin, Tumen River Basin), biodiversity (China wetlands and
sustainable use) and climate change (CC adaptation through enhanced water management) in the Mekong
River Basin, and traveled with the USGS research team to China working on wetlands, avian flu and bird
telemetry projects. Jeanny runs a small consulting outfit called EcoWang, specializing in water resource
planning, restoration, and education.
Wang Jiuliang (王久良), an environmental photographer
and filmmaker, is best known for his documentary, Beijing
Beseiged by Waste, which looks at the encirclement of
landfills that surround Beijing, both legitimate and illegal.
Here is an interview he did about Beijing Beseiged by
Waste where he discusses how his documentary garnered
significant media attention after posting it online for free
at dGenerate films. He even attracted the attention of
Xinhua Media, who asked him to include his film in their
Internal Reference (内草), a Party document that
highlights significant media trends for officials.
Apparently, Jiuliang was told by a senior Xinhua employee that then-Premier Wen Jiabao spent a lot of
time on his films and eventually ordered edicts to better handle Beijing's waste management issues. He is
currently working on his second film, Plastic China, and is currently in Berkeley for a couple of months to
gather footage for his film.
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