Part of my plan for pursuing my interest in environmental issues while working in healthcare has been to attend relevant conferences. *Finding and identifying* relevant conferences is much harder than it sounds. I was searching for months with little success. But today, googling has brought me a much better solution (note, I think this must be a new site. Google was previously tried).
There are several interesting conferences I’ve culled from http://www.allconferences.com/ A week from tomorrow there’s a conference in DC on policy and science. In late november/early december, there’s a conference on industrial ecology in Lusanne Switzerland. At the end of January, there’s a conference on planning an the environment in Mumbai, India. And starting July 8th, of 2007, there’s a week long meeting on greenhouse gases in Kingston, Ontario.
Then there’s this enormous list of sustainable development themed conferences all over the world: http://www.conferencealerts.com/sustain.htm The day after I’m scheduled to leave NYC, there’s a conference on corporate response to climate change. November 4th, there’s a conference on starting environmental enterprises and organizations, also held in NYC. A year from now, there’s a green building conference in LA (it also happens to be in denver one week after I’m out there for GAO training, this year in november)
Of course there’s the US’s energy policy conference (themed around fossil fuels, how shocking). There’s also a European Renewable Energy Policy conference at the end of january (same time as the Mumbai urban environmental issues conference).
So much to choose from… I will have to budget my financial resources, as well as my time for these. I could easily blow all of one or both going to half the stuff that interests me. And sadly, since I’m on the healthcare team, I can’t put any of these down for GAO time or money.
I’m not even sure where to start on the potential journals I could get. I don’t know how much time I’m willing to spend reading them. And my interests are not well enough formed to know which ones I’d want to get. But this is a definite starting point.
what?