Agenda

Friday (4/2)
At Duke
3:30-6:30 Registration in Duke's Marketplace (map & directions)
Tours of Duke's Coal Plant will be available if interested.
6:30-7:30 Seated Dinner
7:30-8:15 Student Success Panel
8:30-9:30 Keynote
Randy Udall
Director of the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), a nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy.
 
Saturday (4/3)
At UNC
8:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Introductions
9:30-10:30 Concurrent presentations (attendees may choose one)
Renewable Energy Policies: Southeast vs. the Rest of the United States
Renewable Energy Policy: What is the Federal Government Doing to Encourage Renewable Energy in the Southeast?
 
10:45-11:50 Concurrent presentations (attendees may choose one)

Renewable Energy Economics 101: Making Renewable Energy a Reality Through Markets, Growth, and Entrepreneurship
Renewable Energy Research & Development: Available Technology and Potential in the Southeast
Energy and Environmental Justice in the Southeast
 
12:00-12:35 First Round of Mastering Organizing Workshops
Working with Campus Administration
Working with Student Government and Building Coalitions on Campus
Working with the Media
Running good meetings: Facilitation, Consensus, and Accountability
Building Membership: Recruiting, Retention and Diversity
Fundraising / Grant Writing
 
12:35-2:05 Lunch and State Networking # 1
 
2:05-2:40 Second Round of Mastering Organizing Workshops
 
2:50-3:40 First Round of "Looking into the Details" Workshops
How do you buy renewable energy?
Do it yourself projects
The Price of Electricity: Adding Up the Hidden Costs of Energy Production
Green House Gas Inventories: How to Get One at Your School
Panel: What Counts as Green Energy?
University Buildings: Energy Efficiency & Green Buildings
 
3:40-4:00 Break - light refreshments provided
 
4:00-4:50 Second Round of "Looking into the Details" Workshops
 
5:00-6:00 Campaign Planning Workshops

Participants will break up into small groups. Each student from the student panels (as well as additional students) will lead a small workshop on campaign planning.
 
6:00-7:00 Dinner
 
7:00-8:15 Keynote: Josh Tickell, founder of The Veggie Van Organization slides are copyrighted
 
8:15-11:00 Hang out, network, and listen to some great local music in the Great Hall.
Collect feedback for Sunday break-out sessions.
 
Sunday (4/4)

At UNC

8:30-9:30 Breakfast
   
9:30-10:30 Transportation Presenations
 
  Hydrogen: The Future of Transportation?
  Using Alternative Fuels to Mitigate Environmental Transportation Problems
  Energy Effective and Efficient Transit Solutions
  Environmental Impacts of Transportation
   
10:45-11:45 The Next Step in the Student Clean Energy Movement Break-Out Groups

To include the following topics which can be expanded or compressed depending on the feedback received Saturday night on these topics.

Renewable Energy Policy at the State and National Levels
Purchasing Renewable Electricity
Environmental Justice
Green Building, Energy Conservation and Efficiency
Transportation
Global Climate Change
Green House Gas Emissions and Inventories

 

12:00-12:30 Closing Ceremony - Brent Blackwelder

 

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