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OOQ586 BRIEFINGS WATER AND SUSTAINABILlTY On October 17, the Pacific Institute's President, Dr. Peter H. Gleick, discussed water and security issues on National Public Radio's KQED Forum with Michael Krasney. Also in October, Dr. Gleick gave the keynote addresses to the Environment Section of the California Bar Associa- tion and to the annual meeting of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies on "Water in the 21 st Century." On October 9, Dr. Gleick gave the keynote address on water and anergy at the 5th Biennial State of the Bay Conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. An article by Dana Haasz was printed in the October issue of Water Conditioning and Purification. Ms. Haasz, a RasearchAssociate with the Pacific Institute, wrote on the importance of demand management to California's water policy. On September 17, Michael Cohen, Senior Research Associate, participated in a panel entitled "Providing a Reliable Water Supply in the San Diego/Imperial Valley/Baja California Region: An Overview" at the San Diego Dialogue's Forum Fronterizo in San Diego. On September 10, The Wall Street Journal ran a piece discussing our economic analysis of. the Cadiz water project and quoting Dr. Gary Wolff, the Pacific Institute's Chief Economist and Engineer. COLORADO RIVER The September issue of the peer-re- viewed Journal of Arid Environments published an article by Michael Cohen and Christine Henges-Jeck, titled "A Preliminary Water Balance for the Colorado River Delta, 1992-1998." Ms. Henges-Jeck is a Research Associate with the Pacific Institute. Mr. Cohen was also the U.S. coordina- tor for the Environmental Issues and the Technical and Scientific Studies panels at the United States-Mexico Colorado River Delta Symposium held in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico from September 11-12. SECURITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT On November 9, Elizabeth Chalecki, a Research Associate with the Pacific Institute focusing on security, presented information on environmental terorrism to a seminar at the Monterey Institute for International Studies. The Monterey County Herald ran a piece on environmental terrorism that week- end that quoted Ms. Chalecki in-depth. On October 23-24 the Pacific Institute, Oregon State University, and the Cooperative Monitoring Center of Sandia National Laboratory organized a workshop on reducing water-related conflict that brought together arms control experts, environmentalists, and other researchers. On October 19, the San Diego Union- Tribune interviewed and quoted Ms. Chalecki for an article on water supply safety and terrorism. On September 20, Ms. Chalecki presented "New Security Challenges in the Global Era: Environmental Secu- rity," at the National Defense University's 2001 Topical Symposium on National Security and Globalization. Also interviewed on this subject in Sep- tember was the Pacific Institute's President, Peter Gleick. He provided background material to a recent piece written by Anthony DiPalma for the New York Times and was also interviewed by the Arizona Daily Star and Portuguese National Radio. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE On September 20, The Oakland Tribune ran a feature piece discussing the West Oakland Clean Air Festival that quoted Meena Palaniappan, co-director of the Pacific Institute's Environmental Indicators Project. Ms. Palaniappan joined Monsa Nitoto, of the Coalition for West Oakland Revitalization, to present a talk on clean air in West Oakland to a group of McClymonds High School Students at the end of October. The speakers pre- sented information on toxic air pollution and asthma rates in the community. GLOBALIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT The Pacific Institute and the Global Environmental Management Initiative hosted a workshop on corporate accountability on October 24. Environmentalists, researchers, includ- ing the Pacific Institute's Jason Morrison, community leaders and industry representatives came together to find common ground on what is meant by transparency and how best to achieve it. CLIMATE CHANGE William C.G. Burns, now an Affiliate with the Pacific Institute, wrote an opinion essay on energy that was printed in The Columbus Dispatch on November 11, and several other papers in the Midwest. The piece argues for increasing our use of renewable energy and energy efficient technology to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Gary Wolff spoke to a joint workshop of the Monterey Peninsula World Affairs Council and the Monterey Institute of International Policy on "Why the US is still married to fossil fuels." Dr. Wolff has been asked to speak again on the topic by California assembly-member Fred Kelley (D). On October 23, William C.G. Burns delivered a public lecture at the Vernon Center of New York University entitled: "That Sinking Feeling: The Role of Carbon Sequestration in the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. "