Earth Week will bring speakers, panel discussions and possibly a renewed student group to campus.

The keynote speaker for Earth Week will be Brian Czech, a conservation biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Czech is also the author of the book, “Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders and a Plan to stop them all.”

Czech’s speech will be “Earth Day 2006: The Mounting Conflict between Economic Growth and Environmental Protection and the role of International Diplomacy in Establishing an American Steady State Economy.”

Czech is also the president of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, whose mission is to educate policy-makers on the conflict between economic growth and environmental protection.

A former UTM student organization may be seeing a comeback during Earth Week. Project Recycle was at one time a very active group on campus and deeply involved in helping the recycling program at UTM take off, said Dennis Kosta, custodial manager for the UTM Physical Plant and head of the recycling program.

“Recycling is something that takes all of us working together. If we are going to see our environment last for our children and their children we all have to work to set an example for everyone,” Kosta said.

The group’s first meeting will take place after Czech’s speech in the lobby of Cooper Hall.