1st Annual Sustainability Champion Award Honoring Robert Kennedy Jr. for the Waterkeeper Alliance

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
University of Southern California
University Park Campus

5:00 PM
Dinner and Award Presentation
Town & Gown

7:00 PM
Lecture Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Newman Hall

SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPION AWARD

The Sustainability Champion Award is presented to an individual or organization whose efforts illuminate the path toward greater sustainability. By highlighting major challenges that imperil our common  future - be they environmental, economic or social – or by offering innovative ways to address them Sustainability Champions help transform knowledge into action on behalf of our planet and its plants, animals, and people.

The 2008 Sustainability Champion Award was awarded to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Waterkeeper Alliance. The WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE is a family of names:  Riverkeeper, Lakekeeper, Baykeeper, Coastkeeper. All work to champion clean water and healthy communities. To protect and restore ecosystems, rivers, lakes, bay, and coastal ocean waters, and to promote watershed protection. Waterkeepers are part investigator, scientist, lawyer, and advocate. Waterkeeper Alliance organizations have won numerous victories in the fight against agricultural, industrial and urban pollution. Waterkeeper Alliance stands as a model for others seeking to protect our planet’s oceans and waterways, and to make communities worldwide more sustainable.

Please click here to read about the event from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Jack Baylis, AECOM
Robert D. Beyer, TCW
Douglas G. Holte, Hines
Lewis C. Horne, CB Richard Ellis
Frank Newman III, Wachovia
Greg Otto, Buro Happold
Alan J. Petrasek, Clark Construction
Thomas L. Safran, Thomas Safran Associates
John M. Tipton,  Allen Matkins Leck Gamble, Mallory & Natsis LLP

For their generous support of The Sustainability Champion Award