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Lectures & Keynotes

"Saved by the Salmon," Sammy Awards, Vancouver, WA (May 15, 2008).
To read Rebecca Biddle Wood Hardesty and Mary Christina Wood's biographies, click here.
To read press release for this event, click here.

"Tribes as Trustees: The Emerging Role in the Global Conservation Trust Movement," Panel Presentation, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR (March 8, 2008).

"Using the Energy of the Law to Change the Energy of the World," Panel Presentation, US-UK Video-linked Panel, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR (March 7, 2008).

"Building a Better Atmosphere: Legislative & Agency Responses to Global Warming," Panel Presentation, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR (March 7, 2008).

"Culvert Case: Implications for the Future," Panel Presentation, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR (March 7, 2008).

"Public Trust: Tapping the Potential of the Common Law Trust," Panel Presentation, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, OR (March 6, 2008).
Public Trust Panel Press Release

"Aspiring Towards Global Peace Through Nature’s Trust Principles," Lane Peace Center’s Peace and Democracy Conference, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR (forthcoming February 29, 2008).

"Nature's Trust: A Legal Paradigm for Protecting Land and Natural Resources for Future Generations," Keynote Address, The Triumph or Tragedy of the Commons, The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (February 28, 2008).

"Law and Climate Change: Government’s Atmospheric Trust Responsibility," Keynote Address, Video-conference, University of Montana, Missoula, MT (February 19, 2008); Keynote Address aired on Missoula Community Access Television, Channel 7 in Missoula and 8 in Grant Creek, (March 12 & 14, 2008).
   

"Victory Speakers for Climate Crisis: Voicing Government's Obligation," Keynote Address, Eugene City Public Library, Eugene, OR (February 17, 2008). To read an abstract of this speech, click here.

"Advancing Climate Solutions in Business, Law, Design, and Public Health: How You Can Do Activism in Your Career," Panel Presentation, Cascade Power Shift, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (February 9, 2008).

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Economic, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," Keynote Address, American Fisheries Society, Idaho chapter, annual meeting (forthcoming February 5, 2008).

Global Warming Focus Group, McCall, Idaho (January 3, 2008).
McCall Climate Focus Group Outline

"The Draft No One is Telling You About: Global Warming and Your Future," Address to McCall-Donnelly High School and Elementary School Environmental Sciences Classes, McCall, Idaho (December 2007).
Global Warming and Your Future Powerpoint Presentation (also as PDF)
Dear People of McCall: A Letter From a Middle School Student

Team Up to Tackle Climate Change, Motivational Speech, Step It Up 2007 Global Warming Rally, Eugene, Oregon (November 3, 2007), available at http://stepitup2007.org/article.php?id=682.

"Government's Atmospheric Trust Responsibility," Keynote Address, J.E.L.L. Climate Change Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (October 19, 2007).
   
   

"Courts as Guardians of the Global Trust," Keynote Address, "Earth on Fire," A Series of Fireside Conversations on Global Warming, Many Nations Long House, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (August 29, 2007).
   

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Economic, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," Keynote Address, Southwest Renewable Energy Conference, Denver, CO (August 1, 2007).

"Nature's Trust and An Ecological Future," Keynote Address sponsored by Central Oregon LandWatch, Bend, OR (June 16, 2007).

"Fiddling While Earth Burns?: Your Government's Role in Global Warming," Teach-In with Peter Walker, Climate Change Course, Environmental Studies Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (June 7, 2007).
   

"Government and Climate Crisis: Discretion or Obligation?," invited Keynote Address, City Club of Eugene, Eugene, OR (May 4, 2007).
   

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," Keynote Address sponsored by Clark College, Friends of Clark County and Sierra Club, Vancouver, WA (April 21, 2007).
   

"Business As Usual or Leading a New World? -- Your Role in Global Warming," Address organized by the Environmental Studies Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (April 18, 2007).

Global Warming Forum re Mass v. EPA, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (April 9, 2007).
   Read more about the Supreme Court's ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA at truthout.org. Professor Wood's trust framework is featured in this article.

"Tribes as Trustees," Wayne Morse Center Symposium, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (forthcoming April 6, 2007).
   Summary Statement
   Agenda
   Wayne Morse Center for Law & Politics website

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," Keynote Address, 25th Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (March 2, 2007).
   

"The Public Trust Doctrine & Climate Change," Pacific Waterkeepers Regional Meeting, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (March 1, 2007).

Legislative Briefing to Oregon Senate Judiciary Committee on Global Warming, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (February 16, 2007).
    Presentation by Prof. Mary Wood

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," Address, Frank Church Conference, Boise, Idaho (Jan. 22, 2007).

"Nature's Trust and An Ecological Future," Public address for McCall Arts and Humanities Council, (dedicated to Nell Tobias), McCall, Idaho (Jan. 10, 2007).

"The Draft No One is Telling You About: Global Warming and Your Future," Address to McCall-Donnelly High School Environmental Sciences Classes, McCall, Idaho (Jan. 4 & 5, 2007).

"Nature's Trust: Reclaiming Environmental Discourse," Keynote Address, Oregon Bioneers Conference, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon (Oct. 20, 2006).
   

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"The Dawn of Planetary Patriotism: A Citizens' Call to Climate Defense," co-authored with Heather A. Brinton (forthcoming 2009).
To read an abstract of this forthcoming book, click here.

Treatise on Public Trust Law (work in progress, 2008).

"Advancing the Sovereign Trust of Government to Safeguard the Environment for Present and Future Generations," Climate Legacy Initiative Project, http://www.vermontlaw.edu/cli/index.cfm?doc_id=1403 (white paper) (forthcoming May 2008).
Climate Legacy Initiative Press Release

"A Framework of China-U.S. Partnership to Address Global Warming," 3 China Environmental and Resource Law Review, Ocean University (Renmin Press, forthcoming Spring 2008). To read an abstract of this article, click here.

"Nature's Trust as a Paradigm for Scientific Input in Policy Decisions," Abstract, Annual Conference of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California (forthcoming December 2007) (with Alison Burchell, Ed Whitelaw, Bob Doppelt), available at http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate.
Nature's Trust Poster

"Government's Atmospheric Trust Responsibility," California Environmental Law Reporter (forthcoming, February 2008).

Climate Legacy Initiative, Consultant, 2007-present
Initiative formed to research and promote legal doctrines, principles, and rules appropriate for recognition by courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and private sector institutions to safeguard present and future generations from harms resulting from global climate change; http://www.vermontlaw.edu/cli/index.cfm?doc_id=1403.
Climate Legacy Initiative Press Release February 2008

"Government's Atmospheric Trust Responsibility," Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Issue 22:2 (December 2007).

The Presidential Climate Action Project, Chapter 9, "Natural Resources Stewardship" (contributing author) http://www.climateactionproject.com (September 2007); "Nature's Trust: A Paradigm for Natural Resources Stewardship" (white paper) (December 2007).

Atmospheric Trust Obligation, chapter in ADJUDICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: SUB-NATIONAL, NATIONAL, AND SUPRA-NATIONAL APPROACHES (William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky, eds.) (forthcoming 2007, Cambridge University Press). To read an abstract of this article, click here.

"Nature's Trust: Reclaiming an Environmental Discourse," Chapter in POLLUTION: POLICIES AND PERSPECTIVES (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University Press (ICFAI Press), Hyderbad, India, Fall 2007) (originally published by the Virginia Environmental Law Journal, 2007).

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," 34:3 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (May 2007).

"Nature's Trust: Reclaiming an Environmental Discourse," 25:2 Virginia L. J. (May 2007).

"Courts as Guardians of the Global Trust", Abstract (April 2007).

"EPA's Protection of Tribal Harvests: Braiding the Agency's Mission," 34:1 Ecology Law Quarterly (April 2007).

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"Regaining Nature's Trust," ÁViva! Mercy Magazine, Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Silver Spring, MD, http://www.sistersofmercy.org/ (September/October Edition, 2007).

"Nature's Mandate, Our Obligation," 33: 3 Down to Earth 9 (Montana Environmental Information Center, September 2007), available at: http://www.meic.org/files/energy/global-warming/NaturesTrust.pdf.

"Nature's Mandate, Our Obligation," Climate Crisis Coalition Newsfeed, http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/blog/?m=20070807. (re-publication of a speech given at the 2007 Southwest Renewable Energy Conference) (August 2007).

"Rachel's News # 907: "Discretion or Obligation," Montague, Peter and Tim Montague, eds., (May 2007).

"Government and Climate Crisis: Discretion or Obligation?," invited Keynote Address, City Club of Eugene, published online Eugene Weekly (May 4, 2007), http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2007/05/10/news1.html.

"Now is Time to Stem Global Warming," Opinion Editorial, Vancouver Columbian (Feb. 9, 2007).

"A UN Warning Americans Should Not Ignore," Opinion Editorial, Long Valley Advocate, Cascade, Idaho (Feb. 7, 2007).

"Demand Global Warming Legislation," Opinion Editorial, Idaho Statesman (Jan. 21, 2007).

"Bureaucrats Violate Trust by Ignoring Preservation," Opinion Editorial, The Register-Guard (Jan. 12, 2007).

"Trust in Property Rights to Stem Global Warming," Opinion Editorial, The Star News (Dec. 21, 2006).

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Wise, Carla, "Climate Revolutionary: Creating a Legal Framework for Saving our Planet," High Country News (May 12, 2008).

Interview with Marty Matsche and Andy Derringer for forthcoming documentary, www.ecocycle.org (April 23, 2008).

Interview with Jason Bradford, "NPR's The Reality Report," KZYX, http://www.kzyx.org/joomla/, Mendocino County, CA (April 14, 2008), available at http://globalpublicmedia.com/the_reality_report_mary_wood_on_government_as_
the_trustee_of_common_assets.

Mortensen, Camilla, "Greener on the Other Side? Which Side of the Democratic Fence is More Eco-Friendly?," Eugene Weekly (April 10, 2008).

Interview with Sally Mock, "NPR's Montana Evening Edition," KUSM, http://www.mtpr.net/programs/2008-02-19, Missoula, MT (February 19, 2008).

To listen to the interview:

1. Click on or copy the following URL into your browser: http://www.mtpr.net/programs/2008-02-19
2. Select " 5:30 PM - 5:55 PM Montana Evening Edition"
3. Select "Click to Listen."
4. The interview begins 8 minutes, 30 seconds into the program and lasts 10 minutes.

Interview with Hosts Andrew Bartholomew and Claude Offenbacher, "Sunday at Noon," KLCC, http://www.klcc.org/OnlineAudio.asp, Eugene, OR (February 17, 2008).
   

Interview on Environmental Studies Department Teach-in with Ch. 9 KEZI, Eugene, OR (June 7, 2007).

Interview with Carla Castano, Ch. 13 KVAL, Eugene, OR (April 3, 2007).
   

Interview with Sari Gelzer and Kelpie Wilson, 25th Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (March 2, 2007)
   Video on Climate Change, from www.truth.org (April 27, 2007).

Interview with Brian Shaw, host of "The Vocal Majority", 1600 AM KOPT "Oregon's Progressive Talk", Eugene, Oregon (March 1, 2007).
   

Interview with Ed Monks, host of "To Pursue the Truth", Ch. 29 CCTV, Eugene, Oregon (Feb. 12, 2007).
   

Guest Interview with host Don Wimberley, KBSU, Boise, Idaho (Jan. 22, 2007)
   

Interview with Fox 12 KTRV-TV, Boise, Idaho (Jan. 22, 2007).

Guest Interview, Northwest Passage with host Tripp Sommer, KLCC, Eugene, Oregon (Oct. 17, 2006).

Guest Interview and Call-In, Jefferson Exchange Radio Program with host Jeff Golden, KRVM, Eugene, Oregon (Sept. 21, 2006).

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Metcalf, Peter, "Law Professor Says Government Obligated to Curb Climate Change," New West.Net: The Voice of the Rocky Mountains (February 20, 2008).

Carla Wise, "Climate Projections: Uncertain but Certainly Worse," Quixo (blog), http://www.quixo.com/cwise_climate_projections.htm, (November 16, 2007).

Cyrus, Heather, "Step It Up Demonstration Brings Awareness of Global Warming to UO," The Torch (LCC), http://media. www.lcctorch.com/media/storage/paper1259/news/2007/11/08/ News/Step-It.Up.Demonstration.Brings.Awareness. Of.Global.Warming.To.Uo-3087017-page2.shtml, (November 8, 2007).

Braden Wolf, Cheering for Change, Oregon Daily Emerald, (Nov. 5, 2007).

Step it Up Rally, University of Oregon, NPR coverage (Nov. 3, 2007).

Step It Up Rally, University of Oregon, KEZI TV coverage (Nov. 3, 2007).

Diane Haecker, Wilderness Holds Other Than Material Values, The Nome Nugget (Oct. 18, 2007).

David Fisher, Aubrey Butte Residents May Vote on Clotheslines, THE BEND BULLETIN (Sept. 29, 2007).

Climate Today: News to Make a Difference, "Nature's Mandate Means Obligation to Defend Our Atmosphere." story posted at http://climatetoday.org/?p=341 (August 8, 2007).

Climate Change Coalition: News Archive, "How Should Government View a Looming Catastrophe?," story posted (May 20, 2007), http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/blog/?m=20070520.

Montague, Peter and Tim Montague, eds., "Rachel's News # 907: Government and Global Warming," Organic Consumers Association (May 17, 2007), http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5261.cfm.

Taylor, Ted, "Discretion or Obligation: How Should Government View a Looming Catastrophe?," Eugene Weekly, Vol. XXVI No. 19 (May 10, 2007).

"Government and Climate Crisis: Discretion or Obligation?," invited Keynote Address, City Club of Eugene, aired on KLCC (89.7 FM) (May 7, 2007); aired on OPAN (Cable Channel 21) (May 10, 2007).

Kellner, Angela, "U.O. Law Professor Says Global Warming Is Top Priority," story aired on KLCC (89.7 FM) (May 4, 2007), http://www.klcc.org/Feature.asp?FeatureID=41.

Carcini, Justin, "Warnings on warming: Environmental groups sponsor Earth Week," The Vancouver Columbian (April 29, 2007); posted on redorbit.com (April 23, 2007), http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/910897/ warnings_on_warming/index.html?source=r_science.

Nelson, Nathan, "Beyond on Inconvenient Truth," The Independent Online Clark College's News Publication (April 26, 2007), http://www.clarknews.org/node/203.

"Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming," Keynote Address Clark College, aired on CVTV (Cable Channel 23-Vancouver Television) (April 24, 2007), http://www.cityofvancouver. us/cvtv/cvtvarchive/
Community_Events/2007_Events/Natures_Trust_04-21-07.wmv;
aired on KBOO (90.7 FM Portland; 100.7 FM Corvallis; 91.9 FM Columbia Gorge) (April 21, 2007), http://www.kboo.fm/node/2837.

Gerstenberger, Linda, "Frohnmayer pledges to take environmental action and curb the University's carbon emissions," Oregon Daily Emerald, Vol. 108 Issue 133 (April 19, 2007), http://www.dailyemerald.com/

Wilson, Kelpie, "Global Warming Challenges the Unitary Executive," Truthout.org (April 15, 2007), http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041507Y.shtml.

Black, Dan, "Climate still hot topic in Gem State," Idaho Press-Tribune (January 29, 2007), http://www.idahopress.com/articles/2007/01/29/news/news5.txt.

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