Doc students, This event will be of interest to people interested in the nexus of communication, information, policy and environment. It also may be a natural complement to citizen science. If you plan on going please let me know. I am trying to change my schedule to be there but may not be able to make it. I would love to hear about it from whoever may end up going! Suzie From: Zygmunt Plater [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:03 AM To: Wirth, Michael Otto Subject: Thursday conference-UT Howard Baker Center--on journalism and environmental law A Jeffersonian Challenge: The Biggest Environmental Law Case in Twentieth-Century Tennessee …and Where Was the Press? builds on the notorious little snail darter, the endangered fish that for a time halted TVA's Tellico Dam. My students at UT and I carried the case up through all three branches of government over six years, including the Cabinet-level God Committee that held that the citizens' river-based development for the project made better economic sense than the reservoir, but the public never saw past the silly fish-big dam cliché. Yale is publishing my book on the case in a few weeks, and a large part of the book is how citizens can work better with journalists to make sure basic information for governance gets through to the government and the American public. I attach a conference flyer, and a flyer for the book. It would be very good to have a contingent from your department with us on Thursday at the Baker Center at 3:30, and thereafter for a reception and panel across Cumberland Avenue at the College of Law. Warm good wishes. Zyg Plater ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zygmunt J.B. Plater Professor of Law Boston College Law School 885 Center Street Newton Centre Massachusetts 02459 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 617-552-4387 Cell: 617-512-7326 ** STAY TUNED FOR MY BOOK "THE SNAIL DARTER & THE DAM — HOW PORK-BARREL POLITICS ENDANGERED A LITTLE FISH AND KILLED A RIVER," COMING FROM YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS THIS SPRING ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To view the archives of the cci-facstaff or Join/Leave this list: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/cci-facstaff.html