CHINESE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION 華美環境保護協會 www.caepa.us.com 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 RSVP $30 members; $45 non-members; $10 students (Cost includes coffee and buffet lunch. Become a member at registration to receive discount rate. Regular Membership is $30 per year; Student Membership is $10 per year.) By Monday, April 27, to Kevin Jim Email: [email protected] Phone: (415) 551-4857 Join LinkedIn to follow us at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2024717 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. Annual Meeting Sponsors OTG EnviroEngineering Solutions, Inc.