June 30, 2005

Dear Colleagues,

The Duke Center for Environmental Solutions (CES) has been an exciting start-up venture for the past four years. We are now very pleased to be part of the continuation and substantial expansion of the CES mission and activities at Duke through the launch of the new full-scale Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (NIEPS). For details, please visit www.nicholas.duke.edu/institute.

I am delighted that, after an extensive national and international search, Tim Profeta has joined us as the new Director of the NIEPS; and that former U.S. EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will serve as Chair of the Advisory Board and Strategic Consultant to the NIEPS. Tim Profeta may be reached at 919-613-8709 or Tim.Profeta@duke.edu.

The CES website you are currently viewing will be maintained as a resource supporting our continuing projects, particularly the Reality of Precaution project and its associated Transatlantic Dialogues on Precaution. The website offers downloadable papers and presentations from past CES events, including these Transatlantic Dialogues as well as our Seminar Series on Environmental Institutions and our annual Colloquia on Environmental Law & Institutions.

CES recently bade fond farewell to our outgoing Executive Director, Kathryn Saterson, who left in April to become the Assistant Director for Ecosystem Protection in the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHERL) of U.S. EPA. Kathryn may now be reached at 919-541-2535 or saterson.kathryn@epa.gov. And we send best wishes to our departing staff coordinator, Carolyn Leith, who may now be reached at carolyn.leith@mindspring.com.

During the 2005-06 academic year, I will be on sabbatical leave as a visiting professor at the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement (CIRED) and at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), in Paris, France. I should be reachable in Paris at my regular email address, wiener@law.duke.edu, and via CIRED at 33-1-43 94 73 73 or www.centre-cired.fr .

I look forward to hearing from you and to working with you to find creative solutions to complex environmental problems.

Very best regards,

Jonathan B. Wiener

Faculty Director, Duke CES, 2000-05
Chair, Search Committee for the NIEPS Director, 2004-05
William R. & Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, and Professor of Environmental
Policy and of Public Policy Studies, Duke University
University Fellow, Resources for the Future (RFF)
www.law.duke.edu/fac/wiener