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The New Green Economy - Session Videos

Session Videos

Thursday, January 21, 2010
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Washington, DC

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 AMPlenary 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.)

5:30 PMNCSE Lifetime Achievement Award
Herman Daly
Ecological Economist, University of Maryland
5:50 PMWinners of Generation Green youth essay contest announced- Alec Loorz, Kids vs. Global Warming
6:00 PM10th John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment
A New American Environmentalism and the New Economy

James Gustave Speth

Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos, New York City
Professor of Law,
 Vermont Law School
Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

 

Friday, January 22, 2010
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
8:45 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

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.  
1:15 PMSymposia 2 (14 Concurrent Sessions) – These sessions are designed to provide focused discussion on critical cross-cutting topics.
3:15 PMClosing 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  

 

Saturday, January 23, 2010
JW Marriott
9:00 AM - 5:00 PMCouncil of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) Meeting (members only)
Meeting to be held at the
 JW Marriott Washington, DC
 

 



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