Thursday Teach-in, January 31, 2008
(All daytime events are free and open to the public.)
Morning presentations, 8:30 - 10:50 a.m. Hendricks Chapel
8:30 a.m.
Invocation and Introductory remarks: Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper, and Chancellor Nancy Cantor, Syracuse University
9:00 Opening keynote address: "Eco-footprints, Climate Change, and Environmental (In)justice." William Rees, UBC School of Community and Regional Planning
10:00 "Tapping the potential of energy efficiency." A conversation between David Goldstein, NRDC, and Scott Ryan ,Corning Inc. Moderated by Eric Spina, Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Syracuse University
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Mid-day sessions, 11:00 to 3:20. Eggers 220 (Public Events Room) and various locations nearby
First Breakout session, 11:00 - 12:20.
| How the media portray climate change and possible responses to it. (Mark Meisner, Environmental Studies, ESF, and Joan Deppa, Communications, SU) Eggers 100A |
| New climate change research priorities for ecologists and environmental scientists. (John Stella, Biology, ESF, and Jason Fridley, Biology, SU) Maxwell 205A. |
| The future of water. (Sharon Moran, Environmental Studies, ESF, Robert Wilson, Geography, SU, Fereshteh Toosi, Ford Faculty Fellow at SU, Peter Black, Forestry, ESF) Tolley 115 |
| Economic benefits of energy conservation (David Goldstein, NRDC, Ann Stocum, Xerox Corp.) Eggers 220 |
| The role of universities in responding to climate change (Tim Sweet, Energy and Computing Management, SU, Jeanne Steffes, Student Affairs, SU; Scott Shannon, Landscape Architecture, ESF, Jack Manno, Environmental Studies, ESF) Eggers 155 |
| Clean energy technology (Eric Schiff, Physics, SU, Jim Olcott, Constellation Energy) Physics 202 |
12:20 -1 Lunch break
1:00 Keynote address: "Turning Up the Volume about The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change." Donald Brown, Penn State University. Introduced by Mitchel Wallerstean, Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Eggers 220 (Public Events Room)
Second Breakout session, 2:00 - 3:20.
| Imagining a carbon-free future. (Rosemary O’Leary, Public Administration, SU; Donald Carr, Industrial Design, SU) Eggers 220 |
| Economic incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (David Driesen, Law, SU, Peter Wilcoxen, Economics, SU) Eggers 100A |
| Landscapes of a changing climate. (Sarah McCoubrey, Fine Arts, SU, Kevin Lair, Architecture, SU, Rachel May, Office of Environment and Society, SU and ESF) Eggers 155 |
| Equitable distribution of costs and benefits of climate change (Steve Brechin, Sociology, SU, Donald Brown, Penn State) Eggers 209 |
| Adapting to realities of a changing climate (Allan Mazur, Public Administration, SU, Stewart Diemont, Engineering, ESF, Margaret Bryant, Landscape Architecture, ESF) Eggers 151 |
| Workshop on carbon mitigation strategies (Tony Eallonardo, SU) Eggers 352 |
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3:30 - 5:45 Late afternoon session: Engaging with climate change policy. Eggers 220 (Public Events Room)
3:30 Political Keynote: "States on Steroids: The Intergovernmental
Odyssey of American Climate Policy." Barry Rabe, University of Michigan.
4:30 Green Democracy roundtable with students and policy makers. Moderated by Cornelius Murphy, President, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Participants include
U.S. Representative James Walsh
Syracuse Mayor Matthew Driscoll
New York State Assemblyman William Magnarelli
Jeff Cooper, OCRRA
Representative from NY Dept. of Air Resources, Climate and Energy
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7:00 - midnight Evening Celebration. Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Admission is free but tickets are required. Tickets will be available at Schine Box Office from Monday, Jan. 28 through the evening of the event.
7:00 p,m, Live music with Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
9:00 p.m. live music with ZLux, Sophistafunk, and Buddhahood
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Keynote Speakers:
Don Brown in Director of the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy.and Senior Counsel for Sustainable Development for the State of Pennsylvania. He is also a senior Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute and Penn State University, He has written and lectured widely on the ethical dimensions of climate change.
David Goldstein has co-directed the Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) since 1980. Craig Noble states in the Winter 2003 issue of OnEarth Magazine, "(Goldstein's) work on energy efficiency standards for appliances is saving as much energy every year as the entire output of the U.S. nuclear energy program." Since then Goldstein has expanded his work to include both building efficiency and location efficiency.” Goldstein has received a MacArthur Award and the Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest. In addition to his work at the NRDC, Goldstein serves on the boards of the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, the Institute for Market Transformation, the New Buildings Institute, the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, and the Institute for Location Efficiency. [Source]
Scott Ryan is the Engagement Manager for Corning's Global Energy Group and Energy Manager for its Business Services Division. Scott has been with Corning for 15 years and has held various management positions in Corporate Engineering and Procurement before becoming the Global Engagement Manager for the Global Energy Group. Scott is a member of AEE and is a Certified Procurement Manager. Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is a diversified technology company that combines its expertise in specialty glass, ceramic materials, polymers and the manipulation of the properties of light, with strong process and manufacturing capabilities to develop, engineer and commercialize significant innovative products for the telecommunications, flat panel display, environmental, semiconductor, and life sciences industries
Barry Rabe is a professor of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. Barry Rabe, He has received the US EPA’s Climate Protection Award for his groundbreaking research on how and why U.S. states are taking the lead on climate protection. [Source]
William Rees is the originator of the “ecological footprint” concept and literally wrote the book on it, Our Ecological Footprint (1996), with his former student, Mathis Wackernagel. He teaches population ecology at the University of British Columbia School of Community and Regional Planning. Prof Rees is also a founding member and recent past-President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; a co-investigator in the ‘Global Integrity Project,’ aimed at defining the ecological and political requirements for biodiversity preservation; a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute and a Founding Fellow of the One Earth Initiative. [Source]
Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet, with an archive of over 7,000 articles by leading thinkers around the world… Steffen was also the editor of Worldchanging's wildly successful first book, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Abrams, 2006). [Source]
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