Cool Communities / Living Economies 2008: Program Day 1
Day 1: Cool Communities: fighting climate change and making communities more livable
| 8:00 | exhibits, light breakfast, networking |
| 9:00 | Opening remarks by Melissa Everett, Executive Director, Sustainable Hudson Valley |
| 9:15 | Climate Change and Energy Policy Update, Steve Breyman, Ph.D., NYS Climate Change Office |
| 9:45 | Local action models: Lea Cullen, Sustainability Coordinator, Westchester County Parks; V. Lee Roberts, Supervisor, Town of Bedford; Barney Molloy, Riverfront Director, Historic Hudson River Towns.
| | 10:30 | Break/ exhibits/ networking |
| 11:00 | Financing Local Greening for Scale, Angela Vincent, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability
| | 11:30 | Panel: Mainstreaming green building, energy-efficiency and renewables with David Dell, Ph.D., CEO, Sustainable Profitability Group; Gay Canough, Ph.D., NY Solar Energy Industries Association; John Harrington, Ph.D., The Solar Energy Consortium |
| 12:30 | LUNCH
Jane Jacobs Community Vision Award given to a public sector hero
Sustainable Hudson Valley Report - Patty Goodwin, board chair
Heer Hugo Ward: A Carbon Neutral Village Comes to Life in the Netherlands, Jolanda Jansen, P.E.
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| 2:00 | Beyond the Buildings: Green Industries Protecting Land and Water Rose Baglia, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Orange County; Paul Mankiewicz, Ph.D., Principal, Gaia Institute (invited); Doug Clark, P.E., Sustainable Hudson Valley.
| | 3:15 | BREAK
| | 3:30 | Accelerating Innovation: Maps and Meanings. A round table on strategies for informing, educating and inspiring innovation, drawing on social psychology, communications technologies and pure opportunism. Includes a discussion of the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Celebration as a point of departure for imagining a carbon-neutral world that survives the next 400 years. With Carlos Martinez, Green Map System; Tineke De Vries, Consulate General of the Netherlands; and Melissa Everett of SHV, moderated by Lew Eisenberg.
| | 5 – 6 pm | Reception and optional walking tour: the Kingston Green Trail |
| Evening: | dinner in local restaurants and party + movie night (7 - 10 pm) at Seven21 |
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