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Two members address U.N. World Summit — Oren Lyons and Donald Jacobs, two faculty members at SUNY Buffalo, addressed the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development held last month in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit focused on the global changes that have occurred since the historic 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.

Lyons, a professor of American studies in SUNY Buffalo’s Center for the Americas, participated in a private roundtable discussion for heads of state. Jacobs, founder and director of the university’s Center for Applied Technologies in Education, joined world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall in several presentations during the 10-day conference.

Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee, Chief Lyons is internationally recognized as a distinguished spiritual leader of indigenous peoples. He has participated in a number of U.N. forums on the rights and status of indigenous peoples, the environment and sustainable development. He is credited with helping the Haudenosaunee launch the first comprehensive sustainable-development strategy to initiate the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People.

Jacobs and Goodall discussed their collaboration in the use of advanced information and communication technologies that support and enhance environmental education around the world.

For information on the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, go to http://www.johannesburgsummit.org.