On the occasion of the book The Earth, our home. Guide to Sustainable Consumption, edited by FUHEM is sponsored by Iberdrola on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 is organizing a Conference on Responsible Consumption.

All activities will take place at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, (Aula Polavieja Garcia. C / Alberto Aguilera, 23. Madrid). The program includes the holding of two roundtables on responsible consumption (from 16.30 to 19.00) and a presentation ceremony of the book, from seven o'clock in the afternoon. These sessions will involve some of the people who have worked with his articles in the book The Earth, our home. Guide to sustainable consumption.

AGENDA:

The first round table will begin at 16.30 hours, the exhibition will include presentations from the following:

Your purchase is your vote by Carlos Ballesteros. Professor, Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

Women and Sustainable Development, by Marisa Mercado. Area Director of Institutional FUHEM.

Seeking a change of attitude toward the drought, by Maria Diaz. Head of Projects AMBISAT, Environmental Engineering.

Sustainability Ecodesign and Development ", by José M ª Iváñez. Professor, Universidad Carlos III.

Responsible consumption of fishery products, by Ricardo Aguilar. Director of Research and Projects at the Oceana-Europe Foundation.

Social and environmental responsibilities of companies, Victor Viñuales. Director of the Foundation Ecology and Development.

The second roundtable will be held at 17.45 pm with the following interventions:

Stopping a countdown, Maria Artola. Director General of the Fundación Biodiversidad

Energy and Development: doomed to be understood by Jaime Sureda. Corporate Environment, Innovation and Quality of Iberdrola.

Renewables will take us to Kyoto, by Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera. Director of Foresight Regulatory Iberdrola.

Save the world from my bike, by Heikki Willstedt. Expert on Energy and Climate Change, WWF / Adena.

The EU and environmental policies: a critical look, by Jose Antonio Sotelo Navalpotro. Deputy Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Sustainable Development. Highlights of the future, Domingo Jiménez-Beltrán. Founder of the Observatory of Sustainability in Spain.
 

Source: FUHEM