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Description
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Sat Track 1 Cost Saving Energy Solutions 3:30
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Deep Energy Retrofit - Phase 1 at The Northampton Brewery
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Sean Jeffords, Doug Snyder and Pierre Belhumeur from Beyond Green Construction
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In this workshop you'll hear from the Beyond Green crew about the Phase 1 Retrofit of the Northampton Brewery; the challenges they faced, the planning and what they did to dramatically improve the comfort, efficiency and durability of the 100 year old building.
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Sat Track 1 Cost Saving Energy Solutions 11:15
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Window Solutions - Cut your energy bills in HALF!
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Brian Nugent, Winserts; Jim Devine, Advanced Energy Panels; John Laux, Greendustry Park
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You'll learn three ways to tighten up your windows along with practical techniques to take home and try. Come learn about winserts, thermal window coverings, and other efficient window options.
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Sat Track 1 Cost Saving Energy Solutions 10am
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Neighbors Helping Neighbors - Weatherizations, Solar Hot Water System Installations and more!
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Darren Jones, Co-op Power and Rob Riman, Green Port and HEET
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Neighbors around the region are helping each other weatherize their homes and install solar hot water systems. And now they're thinking about working together to install gardens. These programs bring life to community education, get great work done, and offer people new to energy efficiency a hands-on training opportunity. Come learn how you can start a neighbor to neighbor program in your community.
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Sat Track 1 Cost Saving Energy Solutions 3:30
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Easy Greening for the Home
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Mark Tajima, Environmentally Korrect
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This workshop is intended primarily for the homeowner / homerenter who is interested in D.I.Y. (Do-it-Yourself) projects that will help you reduce your energy use footprint. It will also look at other green projects, their return on investment time frames, real green vs. fake green and a model for assessing the "greenness" of a company, product, or service.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 11:15
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Which renewable energy system is right for you?
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Andy Cay, Integrated Solar
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How do solar hot water, solar electric, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass compare from a financial and environmental perspective? Which are the most cost effective? Which reduce our carbon footprint the most?
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 10 am
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Transition Towns - Reducing Oil Dependency and Enhancing Community Resilience
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Tina Clarke
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With energy costs expected to start rising within the next few years, and the need for action on global warming/climate instability becoming urgent, towns in Great Britain created a new initiative to "transition" the community to a better future. Focusing on the triple challenges of energy, economy and social equity, they are bringing their communities together to transition from dependence on dirty, polluting fuels to clean, safe, renewable energy, reduced material needs, reduced waste and community resiliency. The Transition Towns movement is growing rapidly around the world, engaging large numbers of people in positive, creative collaboration. Come hear why, and hear about the Transition groups springing up in the Valley.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 11:15
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Getting to Zero: A plan for zero net energy buildings in the Commonwealth
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Janet Curtis, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
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Presentation will focus on a recently released report of the zero net energy buildings task force, which contains recommendations to Governor Patrick on how to facilitate widespread adoption of zero net energy strategies for all building types.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 3:30
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Climate Science and Sustainable Solutions - Applying the Energy Descent Plan
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Dr. Phil Rice, The Sustainability Institute
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What does the latest science about climate/global warming tell us about what we must do to achieve climate stability? What are the criteria for sustainable energy solutions? The Sustainability Institute and international scientific partners have created a model to help us determine how much we need to reduce pollution in order to regain climate stability. These insights provide a guide for local action planning and help us know if we're on track for averting the climate crisis. The model will soon be available for free on the web. Come get a "sneak preview" of the results and insights. You'll learn how individuals and local groups can use this highly regarded tool and the results to help make the case for ambitious local energy initiatives.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 10 am
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Is ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection Program Useful for Your Town?
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Nancy Hazard, Co-chair, Greening Greenfield Carol Letson, Greening Greenfield
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If you cannot measure it you cannot control it" is the mantra of the Cities for Climate Protection Program run by the international organization ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability. Two members of the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee (GGEC) will talk about what they learned by doing an energy audit of their town with the ICLEI software, and how they are using the resport to motivate their town of 18,666 to take action. There will be a discussion / brainstorm on how this program can compliment other programs such as Transition Towns and the EPA Community Energy Challenge, and how the ICLEI program could be useful to you in your community. GGEC is a citizen committee that works in collaboration with the Town of Greenfield.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 11:15
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Energy Committees as local and regional catalysts: A fishbowl conversation.
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Peter Letson, Greenfield Energy Committee Peggy MacLeod, Center for Ecological Technology Chris Mason, Energy and Sustainability Officer, City of Northampton Becca King, Greening Greenfield Energy Committee
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Members of several town energy and climate action committees will initiate a conversation about their efforts to engage citizens and leaders in planning for a more sustainable energy future and reducing local greenhouse gas emissions. The discussion will include prized projects that worked, challenges not yet successfully met, and ideas for collaboration among communities to build stronger local and regional solutions. All attendees will be encouraged to share their ideas. Come prepared to be inspired by one another, have fun, and leave with lots of ideas.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 3:30
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Building Community Consensus Through Collaborative Change
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Dr. Kenneth Downes, ARIA Group and Co-op Power
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When communities start to build new "green job" businesses, biomass plants, biofuel operations or wind turbines, they can meet with opposition and resistance-a natural human response to change. This workshop will present stories of communities that used a collaborative planning process to minimize potential community conflict, bringing together multiple stakeholder groups to achieve high-level consensus on shared goals. When we engage our communities in a participatory planning process to find out what they want, we gain supporters. When we wait to announce plans after they're pretty much set, people often react in ways that undermine or sabotage. Up front community engagement takes authentic interest, time, effort and facilitation skills. This workshop will discuss how you, with the help of Co-op Power, might develop a collaborative community planning process to define the future just and sustainable energy needs of your community.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 11:15
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Community Based Energy Efficiency
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Chris Mason, Northampton Energy Office and others
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Efforts to develop Community-Based Energy Alliances and Community-Owned Energy Services Company
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 3:30
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The Future of Socially Responsible Investing: Common Good Investing
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Andrew Bellak, StakeHolders Capital
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How a safer, healthier environment is a key component of the common good and how corporations and investing can support, if not lead, positive change.
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 3:30
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Wind Turbine Construction
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Dan Ciarcia, Strategic Energy Systems
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 10 am
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Community-driven District Energy Systems: Planning, Organizing, Implementing
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Ralph Meima, Marlboro College
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What strategies should communities use to conceive, build agreement around, and ultimately plan, build, finance, and own biomass-fired heat/electric district energy systems, given the many challenges?
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Sat Track 2 Community Solutions 11:15
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Power Transmission versus Energy Storage as key Enabling Technologies for Renewable Energy.
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Tam Jozbek, Rethink Technologies Associate
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Buckminster Fuller pointed out many years ago that a capability to share generation capacity globally would have dramatic benefits, including making a true solar-based economy possible, at lower cost than options that rely on energy storage. This workshop looks at practical steps towards a continental scale electric power grid, that would enable many kinds of green energy market access. We will compare supergrid concepts based on superconductors with massive underground HVDC power transmission, and consider the implications for future generation growth. This will be discussed in conjunction with a concept for massive pumped storage at Niagara (operating between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario), which only becomes practical in the context of a massive transmission upgrade.
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Sat Track 3 Clean Energy Technology Options 10 am
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The use of biochar for reducing CO2 and improving agriculture
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Richard Stein, University of Massachusetts Alan Page, Green Diamond Systems, and Ted Wysocki., Materials engineer and private consultant
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The nature and reasons for using biochar will be described. Preparing it from biomass by pyrolysis will be discussed and it will be compared with combustion. The energy balance will be considered and it will be shown why it is CO2 negative. It serves as a soil additive, aids in the growth of biomass, reduces fertilizer needs and NOX emission, and serves to reduce atmospheric CO2. It is "coal mining in reverse". The activities of the Pioneer Valley Biochar Initiative will be described.
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Sat Track 3 Clean Energy Technology Options 11:15
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Small Hydro Power
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Ben Gordesky, Earth Bound Services
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This workshop will discuss the basics of how a small hydro system, from home scale to community or commercial scale, works and the steps to determining if a hydro site is feasible economically. A detailed description of the required permitting steps for hydro systems in Massachusetts will also be covered.
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Sat Track 3 Clean Energy Technology Options 3:30
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Clean Energy Frontiers
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Ludmilla Pavlova, Dhandapani "DV" Venkataraman, Loren Walker (moderator), University of Massachusetts
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UMass Amherst is a leader in clean energy research and campus sustainability. This session will provide a glimpse into the world of leading-edge clean energy science and a behind-the-scenes look at how campus planners are designing new energy efficient facilities to reduce our carbon footprint. Come learn about sustainability in research and practice at UMass Amherst.
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Sat Track 4 Biomass - When is it Sustainable? Biomass - When is it Sustainable? 10 am
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Why Biomass? A Case for small, locally owned woody biomass plants
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Biomass Energy Resource Center and Bruce Spencer, Forester
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What's the case for a small heat and power plant or a small heat-only plant? How could one be sustainable? What are the important environmental and economic concerns?
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Sat Track 4 Biomass - When is it Sustainable? Biomass - When is it Sustainable? 11:15AM
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Why Biomass: A Case for Large Scale Biomass
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John Bos, Russell Biomass LLC
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Is it possible to design a safe large-scale biomass plant? A PowerPoint presentation by Russell Biomass LLC will illustrate the benefits and impacts of its proposed 50MW power plant on a century-old Brownfield site in Russell, Massachusetts. The presentation will track the' four-year development process of the Commonwealth's largest major biomass project.
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Sat Track 4 Biomass - When is it Sustainable? Biomass - When is it Sustainable? 3:30
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When are Biodiesel, Ethanol, and other Biofuels Sustainable?
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Erik Hoffner and Larry Union, Co-op Power
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Many questions are coming up about raising food crops vs. raising energy crops, the energy return on energy invested in the production of biofuels, the real cost of biofuel production, and just what are the sustainability criteria for biofuels. This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to explore these questions and debate the issues associated with the current views on biofuel sustainability.
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Sat Track 5 Waste Not Want Not 11:15
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Composting Humanure: the Jenkins System
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Ron Slabaugh
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An overview of what's wrong with the present system which uses potable water to flush away human 'wastes' and a description of the Jenkins system described in his classic book, The Humanure Handbood: a guide to composting human manure. Easy to use, energy saving, does not pollute and produces a useful product.
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Sat Track 5 Waste Not Want Not 3:30
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Composting as a Way of Life
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Holly Wescott, CompostAbilities, LLC
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Composting is the perfect poster child for sustainability and is a crucial process for reducing our collective carbon footprint. Please join Holly Wescott as she showcases the basic principles of composting as applied to small scale systems in households, at institutions and on farms. We'll examine and re-think some of the long-held ‘do's' and ‘don'ts' of composting that prevent us from taking full advantage of Nature's microbial workhorses. Included in this workshop will be a brief discussion of composting toilets, based on the system promoted by Joseph Jenkin's Humanure Handbook.
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Sat Track 6 Good Green Jobs 10 am
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Seeking Win/Win Solutions with Unions
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Joe Alvarez, Leadership Development & Organizational Strategies
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For community renewable energy organizations running into challenges with local unions. An opportunity to understanding what unions seek, how they work, and to explore how to find win/win solutions.
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Sat Track 6 Good Green Jobs 11:15
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Community and Labor United for Good Green Jobs
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Mary Jo Connelly, Community Labor United
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Participants will hear about the Massachusetts Green Justice Coalition, which is building community and worker power to assure that equity is at the core of our region's efforts to fight climate crisis and transition to a new green economy. We will focusing on strategies to shape the greatly expanded effort to retrofit homes and businesses for energy efficiency and conservation.
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Sat Track 6 Good Green Jobs 3:30
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Labor and the Green Economy
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Ragini Kapadia, Center for Green Jobs at the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute; Jon Weissman, Western Mass Jobs with Justice
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An introduction to the national AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs, other national union initiatives, and the local Western Mass. Green Economy Working Group, advocates for a Green Economy which serves local communities; guarantees workers' rights to organize; and promotes community-owned sustainable projects.
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Sat Track 7 Building a Multi-Racial Multi-Class Sustainable Energy Movement 11:15
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Exploring Class via Theater
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Jenny Ladd, Class Action
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In the hour participants will explore class and sustainable energy issues through theater exercises designed to make the unconscious conscious.
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Sat Track 7 Building a Multi-Racial Multi-Class Sustainable Energy Movement 3:30
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Getting it Right: Making Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Relevant to People in Limited Resource Communities
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Pamela Bush, Co-op Power Metro East and Greater Four Corners
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Come share your ideas on the most effective ways to involve people in low income communities and communities of color in building a sustainable and just energy future.
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Sat Track 8 Spirit and Community 10 am
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Circles of Change: Creating New Ways of Working Together
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Linda Stout, Spirit in Action
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Learn new ways to work collectively in groups that bring each person's best self forward. Learn to create an atmosphere of openness, allowing respectful dialogue about controversial issues and supporting each other as human beings even if we disagree. Understand how our differences strengthen us and help us create a more strategic, powerful, winning movement for change.
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Sat Track 8 Spirit and Community 11:15 am
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Identifying and Organizing Community Assets - A Joint Adventure!
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Nancy Abdalla and Amy Calendrella, Nuestras Raices
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Learn how one community development organization works with the community to identify problems and seek practical solutions together. Explore the power of sharing talents and skills from varied social and cultural backgrounds in the service of commonly created projects. Help create a winning model for social transformation. Key Question: How can an asset-based approach to community collaboration create opportunities for self-empowerment?
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Sat Track 8 Spirit and Community 3:30
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The Impacts of Farming and Composting on Sacred Native American Sites
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Judy Dow, Saba
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Intervale Farm in Burlington was Abenaki territory for 10,000 years. The Abenaki bands lived, planted, harvested, hunted and buried their dead here. This land, located in the floodway and listed on the state historical register, supports a large-scale compost/farming operation today. We will discuss whether this is an appropriate use of land that is a sacred site.
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Sat Track 9 Going Local 10 am
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Creating Common Good Banks -- Democratic Economics for a Sustainable World
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William Spademan, Common Good Finance
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All banks create money. Democratic common good banks will put people to work, for sustainable community prosperity. Once the first common good bank opens, any community anywhere can start one in just a few days. Learn how they work and how to get one started in your community.
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Sat Track 9 Going Local 11:15
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Local, Low Carbon, Renewable Energy Health Care
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Lisa J. Berger, Acupuncturist & Energy Healer in South Deerfield, MA and Wayne Garfinkel, Network Chiropractor in Greenfield, MA
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Join us for a fun, lively discussion of how health care choices relate to sustainable use of resources, self-reliance, local control, happiness and more! As practitioners, both Wayne and Lisa empower the evolution of new and improved habits and capacities in a therapeutic context of skilled and gentle touch, humor and respect.
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Sat Track 9 Going Local 3:30
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The Road Less Traveled: A Local Food System What does it look like and how do we get one?
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John Hoffman, Wilder Brook Farm
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This conversation will begin with a brief consideration of the downsides of mainstream agriculture, especially the excesses of the past 25 years. From there we will look at the potential for a very different model: a reliance on locally produced food, grown by local farmers, with local inputs and minimal use of imported energy. We will brainstorm some of the major ingredients in such a system, discuss some of the obstacles we face, and identify choices that we can be making now to hasten its coming.
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Sat Track 10 Public Policy to Build a Sustainable Energy Future 3:30
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Feed-in Tariffs-Renewable Energy Payments: Bringing the World's Most Effective Renewable Energy Policies from Europe to North America
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Lois Barber, Alliance for Renewable Energy
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Learn about and join the North American campaign to bring these proven, effective renewable energy policies to Massachusetts and the USA. This one policy can do the most to increase our use of renewables. Thirteen States are on their way to adopting REPs.
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Sat Track 10 Public Policy to Build a Sustainable Energy Future 11:15
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Getting There: What Kind of Transportation is Sustainable?
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Amy Zuckerman, A-Z International
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Sat Track 10 Public Policy to Build a Sustainable Energy Future 10 am
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The Policy and Politics Behind Climate Change: How Massachusetts Can Achieve Its Goals Using Your (State and Federal) Dollars
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Presented by: ENE (Environment Northeast), Sam Krasnow, Policy Advocate and Attorney; Danah Tench, Staff Attorney
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In this session you will learn how Massachusetts' groundbreaking law, The Green Communities Act, advances energy efficiency and renewable energy to help lower the state's green house gas (GHG) emissions and keep energy costs low for consumers. We will also discuss the regional greenhouse gas emission program and auctions, federal cap and trade and other federal climate legislation and how Massachusetts can use federal money for our energy efficiency programs. We will provide an energy efficiency policy update on where the Commonwealth needs to be to obtain its goal for reducing green house gas emissions by 2020. We will also discuss how individuals and communities can contribute to this effort.
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Sat Track 11 Communicating Effectively about Sustainable Energy 10 am
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Sustainability Indicators
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Rick Taupier, University of Massachusetts
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Lots of groups are out there trying to make a difference. But how do we know if we're being successful? Rick Taupier from Umass Amherst has studied communities who have created sustainabilty indicators to tell them whether they are becoming more sustainable (or not). He'll share the indicators the Pioneer Valley Sustainability Network has developed and how they can be used to guide community action.
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Sat Track 11 Communicating Effectively about Sustainable Energy 11:15
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Energy Marketing
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Anthony M. Sarkis, Antioch University New England
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Wide scale adoption of support with respect to bringing additional renewable energy capacity on line is critical. This workshop engages participants with what the psychological based behavior change literature says about informing consumer choice toward supporting the growth of renewable energy.
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Sat Track 11 Communicating Effectively about Sustainable Energy 3:30
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Communicating Sustainability
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Bill Baue, Executive Director, SeaChange Radio; Adjunct Faculty, Marlboro College MBA Program
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Different ways to communicate on sustainability including web 2.0 tools such as podcasting and social networking www.cchange.net/about
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Sat Track 12 Teaching Sustainability 10 AM
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Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability Education
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Daniel Greenberg, Living Routes
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Ecovillages are communities striving to create cooperative lifestyles in harmony with their local environments. From appropriate technologies to holistic health; from sustainable agriculture to group facilitation, ecovillages are integrating solutions within human-scale communities and creating new cultures and "stories" in which we can live well - and lightly. In the process, they are developing real-world models of sustainable development that make ideal "campuses" where students can learn about sustainability while striving to live it. This paper will provide an introduction to the growing ecovillage movement worldwide (e.g., Findhorn, Scotland; Auroville, India; Sirius, MA), the possibilities and challenges of using these communities as contexts for education and social change, and the work of Living Routes, which partners with UMass-Amherst to offer study abroad programs based in ecovillages worldwide.
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Sat Track 12 Teaching Sustainability 11:15
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Teaching Green Building - Filling the Needs of Practitioners
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David Damery, Natural Resources Conservation Department, University of Massachusetts
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Sat Track 12 Teaching Sustainability 3:30
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Green Curriculum Resources - the how and why of 'greening' your curriculum
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Alexandra Schroeder, Green Careers Coach, Franklin County Employment Board
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An array of resources, curriculum examples, discussion and interactive moments. All of it about bringing building a green jobs awareness developing relevant skill training.
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Sat Track 12 Teaching Sustainability 10 AM
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Clean Green Power and Wind Wisdom - Curriculum for Youth
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Susan Reyes, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
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In this workshop for parents, youth leaders and educators, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association introduces its Clean Energy for a Clean Environment resources and programs for youth. For example, kids as young as kindergarten can earn a Clean Green Power Champion patch and certificate as they gain an introduction to what renewable energy is all about. Older kids ages 10 and up can learn about wind energy through carrying out activities in the Wind Wisdom program. Web-linked downloadable guide books offer resources and tips for adults to lead and join the kids in these flexible, family friendly learning adventures. Learn about some fun ways you can bring renewable energy education to youth.
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Sat Track 13 Conversations with our Keynote Presenters 10 am
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Conversation with Chuck Collins
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Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies
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Sat Track 13 Conversations with our Keynote Presenters 11:15
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Conversation with Gus Newport
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Gus Newport, Community Training and Assistance Center (CTAC)
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Sat Track 13 Conversations with our Keynote Presenters 3:30
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Conversation with Pat Murphy
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Pat Murphy, Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions
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