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Draft Agenda
| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 (Held in Various Locations in Washington, DC) | | 9:00 am-5:00 pm | Skill-building Workshops (concurrent): (half-day or full day - registration required) to provide training and guidance in implementing strategies for establishing the new green economy. These workshops will take place at various locations in downtown Washington DC and may be hosted by a non-profit or other organization. The goal of the workshops is to prepare the individual workshop participants with of knowledge and “take-away” skills that help them to be more effective participants in a new green economy. | 9:00 am-5:00 pm | Council of Energy Research and Education Leaders (CEREL) meeting (members only)
Meeting will be held at the JW Marriott Washington, DC |
| Thursday, January 21, 2010 (Held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center) | | 8:00 am | Registration, Continental Breakfast, Exhibition and Scientific Poster presentations open | | 8:45 am | Keynote Address: The New Green Economy: (How) can we get there from here? William E. Spriggs (Assistant Secretary of Policy, Deparment of Labor), Mr. Charles Holliday (Chair & CEO Emeritus, DuPont), Lisa P. Jackson (Administrator, EPA) | | 10:15 am | Plenary Roundtable – Growing the Green Economy or Greening the Grown Economy?
Moderator: Robert Costanza (Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont; Editor in Chief, Solutions Journal) Discussants: Mindy Lubber (President, Ceres ), Van Jones, (author), Tim Jackson (Economics Commissioner, UK Sustainable Development Commission; Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey) | | 11:15 am | Plenary Roundtable – How Can Science, Technology, and Education Help to Green the Economy?
Moderator: David Gergen; Discussants: Michael Crow (President, Arizona State University ), Richard Freeman (Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University), Martha Kanter, Under Secretary, US Department of Education, Representative Rush Holt, and Kyung-Ah Park (Vice President of the Environmental Markets Group, Goldman Sachs & Co.) | | 12:15 pm | Lunch on your own – breakout session leaders will meet | | 1:30 pm- 5:00 pm | 30 Breakout Sessions (concurrent) – These sessions will each develop recommendations for using science and education to improve and transform the economy in the US and globally. Each session will be organized around a particular topic. The topics include a combination of micro and macroeconomic, short-term and long-term, sector-specific and general issues. Each will involve a combination of brief opening comments from invited experts in the field and facilitated participant group discussion to develop a set of 8 – 12 recommendations to the Obama Administration, Congress, state and local government, business, non-profit organizations, colleges and universities and others. Collectively the recommendations will constitute a greenprint for transition to a new green economy. | | 5:30 pm | NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award- Herman Daly (Ecological Economist, University of Maryland ) | | 5:50 pm | Winners of Generation Green youth essay contest announced- Alec Loorz, Kids vs. Global Warming | | 6:00 pm | 10th John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment - James Gustave Speth (Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos, New York City; Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; and Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies ) | | 7:00 pm | Reception | | 8:30 pm | Student and Young Professional Networking Expedition |
| Friday, January 22, 2010 (Held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center) | | 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | | 8:45 am– 10:00 am | Moderated Roundtable: The New Green Economy Moving from Theory to Action – federal, state, local and private sector representatives
Moderator: Dr. Mark Berstein, Managing Director, Energy Institute, University of Southern California, Discussants: Jacques Beaudry-Loiselle, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy, Leonard Peters, Secretary, Energy and Environment Cabinet, State of Kentucky, Gary Guzy, Deputy Director, White House Council on Environmental Quality, Seth Dunn, Renewable Energy Policy Director, GE Energy, | 10:15 am–
11:45 am | Symposia 1 (15 Concurrent Sessions) – These 90-minute sessions are designed to provide focused discussion on critical cross-cutting topics. The concurrent symposia are mini-plenaries comprised of coordinated presentations by a 3-5 diverse experts to provide insightful perspectives on the topic of the session, followed by moderated discussion among the speakers including a brief question and answer and open discussion with all session attendees. Unlike breakout sessions, symposia do not develop recommendations for action. Symposia feature success stories in economic transformation. | 11:45 am–
1:15 pm | Buffet Lunch (with youth mentoring tables) | | 1:15 pm– 2:45 pm | Symposia 2 (14 Concurrent Sessions) – These sessions are designed to provide focused discussion on critical cross-cutting topics. | | 3:15 pm– 4:30 pm | Closing Discussion: Progress of the Obama Administration in Moving Toward a Green Economy – How are we doing? What else is needed? -- Roundtable including Moderator:David Goldston, Natural Resources Defense Council Member, Discussants: Damon Silvers (Policy Director, AFL-CIO; Deputy Chair, Congressional Oversight Panel of TARP), Jessy Tolkan, Executive Director, Energy Action Coalition, Gary Hirshberg (President and CEO, Stonyfield Farm, Inc.), Cecilia Rouse, Member, Council of Economic Advisors | | 4:30 pm | Adjourn |
Embedded Events (Thursday and Friday only):
Poster Session – Scientific presentations of innovative research, education, information, communication, and implementation Green Pioneers Expo – Government, commercial and non-governmental displays of innovative research, education, information, communication, and implementation of transformation towards a green economy. Generation Green: Youth Voices and Visions -- University and high school students participate in a writing contest, the winners of which are showcased in this one-time publication.
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