Symposia (DRAFT)

Morning Sessions | Afternoon Sessions
Friday, January 22, 2010

On Friday, January 22, there will be two sets of concurrent symposia to provide focused discussion on critical cross-cutting topics. Symposia are 90 minute 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 and a brief question and answer period and open discussion with all session attendees. Unlike breakout sessions, symposia do not develop recommendations for action. Symposia feature success stories in economic transformation.

*Please note that symposia 23 and 24 have been canceled.

 Morning Sessions (10:15-11:45 am)

GLOBAL GREEN ECONOMY

01. UNEP Green Economy Initiative -- Findings and Recommendations for a Transition to a Green Economy: Pavan Sukhdev, Project Leader, UNEP Green Economy Initiative, Amy Fraenkel, UNEP Regional Director, William Becker, Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project, Melinda Kimble, Senior Vice President, UN Foundation, Edward Barbier, Professor of Economics, University of Wyoming and principal author of the 2009 UNEP report,  A Global Green New Deal

STEADY-STATE MACROECONOMY

02. Counterpoint: The Limits of Markets to Achieve Sustainability: The Dangerous Illusion of Endless Growth:  Paul G. Heltne, Independent Scholar, George Rabb, Board of Directors, Center for Humans and Nature; President Emeritus, Chicago Zoological Society,  Peter Brown, Senior Fellow, Center for Humans and Nature; Professor, School of the Environment, Geography, and Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Peter A. Victor, Professor in Environmental Studies, York University, John Fullerton, Founder and President, Capital Institute, James Gustave Speth, Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University; Board of Directors, Center for Humans and Nature, Brian Czech, President, CASSE, Robert Nadeau, Professor, George Mason University

INVESTMENT 

03. Investments for a New Green Economy: Jeffrey Leonard, President & CEO, Global Environment Fund, Lauren Bigelow, New Energy Finance, Philip Bane, Global Smart Energy, Kirk Hourdajian, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund

CLIMATE

04. Report from the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations: Jennifer Layke, Johnson Controls, Inc., Rob Bradley, World Resources Institute, Jennifer Morgan, Director, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute, David Waskow, Climate Change Program Director, Oxfam America, Holmes Hummel, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Policy & International Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy

STATES

05. Minnesota Initiatives Toward a More Sustainable Economy:  Alfred Marcus,  Spencer Chair in Strategy and Technological Leadership, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management, Dave Miel, Electrical Engineer, Forbes Miel, Myron Dowell, Partner with Advanced Policies and Strategies, S. Massoud Amin, Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Blair Hamilton, Policy Director, Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, David Zuckerman, farmer, member of the Vermont House of Representatives

06. How Equitable Growth Supports the New Green Economy: Carlton Eley, Environmental Protection Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Carlton Brown, COO of Full Spectrum, Robert Garcia, Executive Director and Founder of The City Project, Bob Gough, Secretary, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy

30. Funding Strategies for Green Community & Regional Development: Achieving Rapid, Resilient Renewal of the Natural, Built, & Socioeconomic Environments:  Storm Cunningham, CEO, Resolution Fund, LLC and David Rouse, Principal with Wallace Roberts & Todd (WRT Planning and Design)

BUSINESS

07.  Greening of Products and Operations: The Business Perspective:  Vesela Veleva, Research Manager, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Mark G. Popovich,  Senior Program Officer, The Hitachi Foundation, Chris Lloyd, Executive Director of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon, Lynette McIntyre, Director of Corporate Reputation Management, UPS

08. Not Business as Usual: Driving Change in the New Green Economy: Antje Danielson, Co-Founder, Zipcar, and Program Manager, Tufts University Institute of the Environment, Jeff Seabright, Vice President for Environment and Water Resources, The Coca-Cola Company, Dawn Rittenhouse, Director of Sustainability, DuPont,  Lorrie Vogel, General Manager, Nike Considered, Candace Taylor, Director of Corporate Strategy and Sustainability, Wal-mart

JOBS - LABOR/PARTNERSHIPS

09.  Blue + Green = Success: Margrete Strand Rangnes, Deputy Director, Blue Green Alliance, Roxanne D. Brown, Assistant Legislative Director for United Steelworkers (USW), Ted Green, Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA), Franz Matzner, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Stewart Acuff, Utlity Workers Union of America (UWUA)

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

10. Ecosystem Services Session: Carl Shapiro, Senior Advisor for Science, Decisions and Policy, U.S. Geological Survey, Robert Costanza, Gordon and Lulie Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and Director, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, Jim Boyd, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, Sarah Lynch, Director, Agriculture, World Wildlife Fund, Mark Nechodom, Deputy Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets, Ben Simon, Acting Director, Department of the Interior, Office of Policy Analysis, Amanda Desantis, Project Director, DuPont

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GREEN BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

11.   Green Building, Green Jobs: Kate Graves, Program Director, Island Press, Gregory Kats,  Managing Director, Good Energies, Chris Leinberger, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Founding Partner of the Arcadia Land Company, President of LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors, Jair Lynch, Founder, Jair Lynch Development Partners, Rebecca Flora, Senior Vice President, Education & Research, U.S. Green Building Council

12. Green Infrastructure, Transportation, Energy and Transatlantic Learning: Melissa Keeley, Assistant Professor, George Washington University, Ralph Buehler, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech University, Michael Mehling, President, Ecologic Institute, Klaus Linsenmeier, Executive Director, Heinrich Boell Foundation North America

ENERGY - RENEWABLES

13. A Renewable Energy Future: Can We Get from Here to There? Or How Many Technologies Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?: Mark Bernstein, Managing Director, USC Energy Institute, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Dan Reicher (invited), Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org, Marc L. Ulrich, Vice President of Renewable and Alternative Power, Southern California Edison, Jigar Shah, CEO, The Carbon War Room, Jacques Beaudry-Losique, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), U.S. Department of Energy

14. Ensuring a Green Recovery: Biomass Certification Schemes from Both Sides of the Atlantic:  Mandy Ma, Transatlantic Fellow, Ecologic Institute - Berlin, Stephanie Schlegel (moderator), Fellow and Coordinator of Agriculture & Bioenergy Division, Ecologic Institute - Berlin, A. G. Kawamura, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Jessica Löhndorf, Fellow, Ecologic Institute on behalf of the German Ministry for the Environment, Lucia Muñoz, Argentina Representative, International Sustainability and Carbon Certification, Consultant, Meó Consulting,  Benjamin Cashore, Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University 

 Afternoon Sessions (1:15-2:45 pm)

ECONOMICS

15. Technological Progress Toward a Green Economy: Innovation, Expectation and Precaution: Brian Czech, President, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, David Rejeski, Director, Science and Technology Innovation Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kevin Hurst, Assistant Director for Energy Technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

GREEN JOBS – FEDERAL 

16. Federal Family Grows Green Jobs: Leanne Nurse, Program Analyst, US EPA, David Widawsky, Acting Director, US EPA National Center for Environmental Innovation, Charles Cox, Green Jobs Community Manager, Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, Michelle Fox, Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

ENERGY

17. Low Emissions Fuel Technologies - The Bridge to the Green Future: Timothy R. Carr, Marshall Miller Professor, Department of Geology/Geography, West Virginia University, Sarah Forbes, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute, David L. Pumphrey, Deputy Director & Senior Fellow for Energy & National Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Carey W. King, Research Associate, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy, Allyson Anderson, Permanent Staff, US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

18.   Green Grid Success Stories: Phillip F. Schewe, Chief Science Writer, American Institute of Physics, Massoud Amin, Director of the Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota, Thomas Casten, Chairman, Recycled Energy Development, Katherine Hamilton, President, GridWise Alliance

EDUCATION

19. Educating for a Green Economy: Sean Miller, Director of Education, Earth Day Network, Harry Wiland, Executive Producer, Director, Co-President and Co-CEO, Media Policy Center Foundation, Jim Elder, Campaign Director, Campaign for Environmental Literacy, Greg Kats, Senior Director and Director for Climate Change Policy, Good Energies, Tony Geraci, Director of Food and Nutrition Services, Baltimore City Public Schools

COMMUNITIES

20. Rethinking City Economics: How Green Infrastructure and Deconstruction Can Provide Green Jobs, Revitalize Communities, and Encourage Local Self-Reliance: Samuel Sage, President, Atlantic States Legal Foundation, Neil Seldman, President, Institute of Local Self-Reliance, Jean Kessner, Counselor at Large, Onondaga County, NY, Alexander Shisler, Green Infrastructure Coordinator, Atlantic States Legal Foundation

21.  Local and Regional-Scale Blueprints for a Green Economy: Nathan Sandwick, Science Fellow, Smart Growth and Climate Change, Natural Resources Defense Council, Marc Weiss, Director, Global Urban Development and the Climate Prosperity Project, Ted Howard, Executive Director, Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland

BUSINESS

22. Moving to Future States: From Today to Green and Beyond: Evan Smith, Team Carbon/Metamorphosis Management Group, Dave Mosby, Senior Consultant, Talisen Technologies, former Director Facilities, State of Missouri, Hiroko Kawai, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute/Mobility+Vehicle Efficiency Practice, Patrick O'Shei, Senior Consultant, Metamorphosis Management Group, former COO/Capital Projects Manager, Kripalu Center

25. Climate Security in an Age of Uncertainty: Kate Graves, Program Director, Island Press, Todd Baldwin, Vice President and Associate Publisher, Island Press, Joseph Romm, Editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Robert S. Young, Director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, Professor of Coastal Geology at Western Carolina University, Jay Inslee, U.S. Representative for the 1st District of Washington State, Leo Wiegman, Mayor of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Co-author, The Climate Solutions Consensus

AGRICULTURE

26. Rural Economy and Agriculture: The Green Path to Prosperity:   Sally Kane, Sally Kane Associates, Gary Radloff, Midwest Energy Policy Director, Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative, Dale Bell, Co-Director, Media Policy Center, Gary Hirshberg, President and CEO, Stonyfield Farm, Inc., Arthur Allen, nationally known journalist and author, Carol Jones, Economic Research Service, USDA, Carol Kramer-LeBlanc, Director of Sustainable Development, Office of the Chief Economist, USDA, Jeffrey Domanski, Princeton University, Office of Sustainability

INNOVATION

27. Local and Regional Innovation Processes in the Green Economy: Experiences from Sweden and Silicon Valley:   Katarina Larsen, KTH--The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, also reporting on work by Karin Widegren, Science and Technology Attache, Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, San Francisco 2008/2009 and Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling, Environmental Strategies Research

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

28. Green Forests, Greener Revenues: Tools for Forest Carbon and Other Ecosystem Services: Sarah Kruse, Senior Economist, Ecotrust, Astrid Scholz, Vice President of Knowledge Systems, Ecotrust, Sally Collins, Director, USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets, Bettina von Hagen, CEO, Ecotrust Forest Management, Inc., Steve Dettman, Forest Carbon Program Manager, Ecotrust, Michael Jenkins (invited), President and CEO, Forest Trends

TOXICS

29. Understanding and Solving Our Toxic Predicament: Greening the Chemical Industry:  Jaime Jennings, Senior Publicist, Island Press, Karen Peabody O'Brien, Executive Director, Advancing Green Chemistry, Elizabeth Grossman, Freelance Journalist and Author, Frank Ackerman, Director of the Research and Policy Program, Global Development and the Environment Institute at Tufts University, John Warner,  President and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry