Workshop: Climbing Your Own Everests: Making Change
Monday, April 5, 10:30 am-12pm. Optional lunch following.
Cost: 4,000
Location: Tokyo Hackerspace, 5-11-11 Shirokanedai
Climbing the world's highest mountains is an excellent a model for achieving other extremely demanding objectives. Mountaineering requires total physical, intellectual and psychological commitment--and can yield the greatest rewards. Reaching the summit means standing on the top of the world with an ocean of white-capped peaks on every side and the clouds at your feet.
Arlene Blum has had extensive experience in leading successful Himalayan expeditions and organizing other complex ventures. Based on this experience, her lecture focuses on how to define worthwhile goals, manage logistics and finances, select a winning team, anticipate and solve problems, maximize successes, and overcome failures. She will also talk about her current "mountain" to work with the chemical industry, scientists, government, and environmentalists to define a better policy for fire retardants and related chemicals to create a cleaner and safer environment in which we live.
Date: Monday, April 5th
Time: 10:30 a.m. to Noon
Place: Tokyo Hackerspace
5-11-11 Shirokanedai
Cost: JPY4,000
Max.# 15 people.
Sponsored by the Tokyo American Club Women's Group
RSVP to Betsy Rogers, beijingbetsy@yahoo.com
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ABOUT ARLENE BLUM
Arlene Blum PhD, biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer is a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Department of Chemistry and executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute. Her past research contributed to the regulation of two cancer-causing chemicals that were used as flame retardants on children's sleepwear. Blum has taught at Stanford University, Wellesley College, and U. C. Berkeley,
Blum is the founder of The Green Science Policy Institute (GSP) which brings government, industry, scientists and citizens groups together to support policies to protect our health and environment. By stopping the unnecessary use of hundreds of millions of pounds of toxic chemicals in consumer products, GSP has contributed to preventing cancer as well as reproductive, neurological, endocrine, and other health impairments in humans and animals worldwide
Blum led the first American—and all-women’s—ascent of Annapurna I, considered one of the world’s most dangerous and difficult mountains, Blum also led the first women’s team up Mt. McKinley; was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest; made the first traverse of the Great Himalaya Range of Bhutan, Nepal and India; and hiked the length of the European Alps with her baby daughter on her back.
Her first book, Annapurna: A Woman’s Place was included in Fortune magazine's 2005 list of “The 75 Smartest Business Books We Know” and chosen by National Geographic Adventure Magazine as one of the 100 top adventure books of all time. Her award-winning memoir, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life tells the story of how Blum realized improbable dreams among the worlds’ highest mountains, in the chemistry laboratory, and in public policy.
Blum’s awards include a Purpose Prize to those over are 60 who are solving society’s greatest problems, National Women’s History Project selection as one of 100 “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet” and a Gold Medal from the Society of Women Geographers, an honor previously given to only eight other women including Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead, and Mary Leakey.
Arlene Blum is the founder of the annual Berkeley Himalayan Fair and the Burma Village Assistance Project. She serves on the boards of the Society for the Preservation of Afghan Archeology; ISET, an organization dedicated to solving climate, water and disaster problems in South Asia; and the Advisory Boards for Project READ which builds libraries in Asia, Environmental Building News, and the Plastic Pollution Coalition.
