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NCSE Energy for a Sustainable and Secure Future Conference: Breakout Sessions
Nineteen concurrent breakout sessions will allow conferees to create new alliances while developing science-based recommendations to advance energy sustainability and security. The results will be circulated widely to Congress, federal agencies and other decisionmakers. The sessions will look at fundamental issues that affect energy decisionmaking, including the role of finance, planning and design, science and technology, and education.
Seven sessions will explore DECISIONMAKING IN THE REAL WORLD, including: Financing Energy Decisions, chaired by Mindy Lubber, President, CERES; Public Incentives vs. Market Forces, featuring former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Tom Donlan of Barron’s Financial Newspaper; Vehicles & Transportation chaired by Joe Romm, Director Center for Energy & Climate Solutions; Community Planning chaired by Jeff Soule of the American Planning Association; Creating Climate-neutral Campuses organized by Julian Keniry, National Wildlife Federation; Building Design, chaired by the US Green Building Council and featuring Tom Kiser, CEO, Professional Supply, Inc and Volker Hartkopf, of Carnegie Mellon University, Utilities, chaired by Scott Sklar, President, Stella Group and including Winifred Perkins, Manager, Environmental Relations, Florida Power and Light.
GUIDING RESEARCH FOR SAFE, CLEAN, AVAILABLE, RELIABLE AND AFFORDABLE ENERGY, will include: Earth Observation Systems and Energy Programs, with discussants from Battelle; NASA; NOAA, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Boeing; The Future of Energy: Projections, Uncertainty and Risk, with former USGS Director Charles Groat and Dan Desmond, Deputy Secretary, Energy and Technology Development, Pennsylvania; Assessing Energy Impacts on the Environment and People, including Stanley Rhodes, President and CEO, Scientific Certification Systems; Agriculture and Bioenergy - Achieving Sustainability, co-chaired by Rick Cruse, of Iowa State University and Robin Graham of Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Setting Research Priorities: Who? How? Why? chaired by Gerry Stokes, VP, Battelle Joint Global Change Research Institute.
EXPANDING UNDERSTANDING OF ENERGY ISSUES will include Professional Education and Capacity Building, chaired by Hilary Inyang, Duke Energy Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Consumer and Decisionmaker Education, chaired by Carol Werner, Exec. Dir., Environmental and Energy Study Institute and including US EPA’s Energy STAR program; K-12 Energy Education, chaired by Blanche Sheinkopf, former National Coordinator of DOE’s EnergySmart Schools; Why do People Make the Decisions They Do? - Capitalizing on the Social Sciences, including Paul Stern, National Academy of Sciences; Innovative Uses of Information Technology, chaired by Cutler Cleveland, of Boston University; Business Approaches to a Sustainable Energy Future, chaired by The Conference Board and including The Coca-Cola Company and S.C. Johnson & Sons.
A special session on Global and U.S. Perspectives on the Prospect for Renewable Energy will be co-chaired by Michael Eckhart, President, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and David Hales, Worldwatch Institute and will include Hank Habicht, CEO, Global Environment & Technology Foundation, Howard Learner, Executive Director, Environmental Law & Policy Center and Griffin Thompson, US Agency for International Development.
Please visit www.ncseonline.org to register for the conference and to view the latest program updates. Please note: the deadline for online registration is January 22, 2006. Please direct general conference questions to conference2006@NCSEonline.org or call 202-530-5810.
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