CSI Lecture to Focus on China's Business and Its Environment

Staten Island Advance - Friday, September 21, 2007

The College of Staten Island (CSI) will host The Nature Conservancy's Russell Leiman, regional managing director of the Asia-Pacific Conservation Region, in a presentation entitled "Good Environment Is Good Business: Getting the Message Out in China."

The presentation is free and open to the public. It will be held Monday at 6:30pm in the college's Center for the Arts, and will focus on the Conservancy's successes and failures in China.

The Nature Conservancy has been working in China for many years as one of many non-governmental organizations that are playing an increasingly important role in helping the Central government fight against pollution.

"China's amazing economic growth has come at a high price," stated Alan Zimmerman, professor of international business and marketing at CSI. "Air and water pollution have reached dangerous levels. Cancer is now the leading cause of death in China and it is estimated that only 1 percent of China's 560 million city dwellers breathe safe air."

Adding to China's environmental problems is a 2005 report that found that the country was the world's leading source of sulfur dioxide pollution.

The event will be held in the Recital Hall of the CSI Center for the Arts at 2800 Victory Blvd., Willowbrook. It is presented by the college's International Business Society in association with the Modern China Studies Group.

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