Boricua Green Symposium For Exercise Frozen Beaver, in 2005, Canadian troops helicoptered to Hans Island—a kidney-shaped, half-square-mile rock near Greenland

Boricua Green SymposiumFor Exercise Frozen Beaver, in 2005, Canadian troops helicoptered to Hans Island—a kidney-shaped, half-square-mile rock near Greenland claimed by both Denmark and Canada—and planted a supposedly windproof steel flag and flagpole that the wind toppled over almost immediately. They also confiscated a Danish flag, which the government then delivered to Denmark's ambassador in Ottawa.

Despite assurances by a spokesman that Danish pastries would still be served in the cafeteria of Canada's foreign affairs ministry, Denmark nearly sent a warship to Hans in retaliation.

COLD RUSH"The coming fight for the melting north"By McKenzie Funk

Hans Island

Boricua Green Symposium



Global Warming Effects

• Food shortages and malnutrition will threaten 600 million people by 2080.• Heat waves like the one experienced in 2003 in Europe, when 35,000 people died and agricultural losses reached $115 billion, will be common place by the middle of this century.

• Some disaster scenarios project economic losses as high as $1 trillion in a single year for 2040.

• Nine of the ten warmest years on record since 1850 were between 1995 and 2006.



Global Warming


What is a Green Job?

"Environmental industries and green jobs as those which, as a result of environmental pressures and concerns, have produced the development of numerous products, processes, and services, which specifically target the reduction of environmental impact. Jobs include those created both directly and indirectly by environmental protection expenditures."

– Estimating, and Forecasting the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Industries in the U.S.

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Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Exhibit Hall: 6:00PM

Forum: 6:30


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Boricua Green Symposium For Exercise Frozen Beaver, in 2005, Canadian troops helicoptered to Hans Island—a kidney-shaped, half-square-mile rock near Greenland