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Gifford Pinchot III & Theodore Roosevelt IV: Keynote Speakers at Yale Conference of Governors |
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Gifford Pinchot III delivered the keynote address on April 21 to Yale University’s Conference of Governors on Climate Change alongside Theodore Roosevelt IV. Five governors, former EPA head, Christine Todd Whitman, and several foreign dignitaries gathered to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Conference of Governors, which launched the modern conservation movement and spurred the development of the national park system, and to honor Pinchot’s grandfather and Roosevelt’s great-grandfather.
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt I called a Conference of Governors to address the issue of land preservation in the United States. Gifford Pinchot I, at the invitation of the President, attended as the leading conservation specialist and keynote speaker. Pinchot was the first head of the U.S. National Forest Service and is commonly referred to as the “Father of the Conservation Movement.” Washington State’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which contains Mt. Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument, was named after Pinchot I.
“I was sheep-dipped in the environmental movement from a very early age,” chuckled a grinning Gifford Pinchot III, “whenever the Roosevelts came to the Pinchot household several things were always discussed: land use; boxing and wrestling.”
Pinchot III has followed in his grandfather’s footsteps as a life-long conservationist and now as the head of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, which is pioneering sustainable business education. Says Pinchot, “I believe we need to teach business education on the triple bottom line [profit, people and planet] instead of solely using profit as the gauge of success. If business takes the lead in the conservation movement, we can change the world”.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 April 2008 )
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