Schedule
MONDAY, SEPT. 15
7:30 p.m.
Pre-Symposium Event: Sustainability Video Screening
Student-produced video shorts for Concordia On-Air
Jones Science Center 212
TUESDAY, SEPT. 16
4:30-6 p.m.
Reception and Gallery Discussion
Cyrus M. Running Gallery
7:30 p.m.
Opening Plenary: "Understanding Climate Change"
Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Professor, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Learn about the science and global impacts of climate change from a research team which has drilled and analyzed ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. The Thompsons run the ice core paleoclimatology research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center, which has drilling projects on five continents.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17
8:30-10 a.m.
Plenary: "Climate Change and the Developing World"
Memorial Auditorium
Rev. Vy Nguyen, City Coordinator, Lutheran Volunteer Corps, San Francisco Bay Area
A changing climate may have its most far-reaching effects on developing nations which are vulnerable to intensifying storms, lacking in energy resources and prey to rising oceans. What are they owed by the nations which produce the most greenhouse gases? Vy Nguyen, a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and refugee from Vietnam, will speak to questions of justice.
10-10:30 a.m.
Break (Please bring your own coffee mug.)
10:30 a.m.-noon
Panel: “Implications of Climate Change for Regional Energy Supply and Use”
Memorial Auditorium
Brad Crabtree, Program Director, Great Plains Institute, Minneapolis
Scott Handy, President & CEO, Cass County Electric Cooperative, Kindred, N.D.
Carmen Miller, North Dakota Representative, Pew Environmental Group, Bismarck, N.D.
Three experienced energy experts will discuss the future of electric power generation in the region. They will connect their understandings of how the climate is changing to proposals regarding future development of coal, nuclear, oil, gas, wind and other fuel sources.
Noon-1 p.m.
Lunch on your own
1-2 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Various campus locations
2:15-3:30 p.m.
Plenary: “Implications of Climate Change for Regional Water, Wildlife and Agriculture”
Memorial Auditorium
John Flicker, President, National Audubon Society
Eugene Takle will draw from extensive regional climate data and modeling to explain the implications of climate change for regional weather and agriculture. John Flicker, a Minnesota native and long an advocate for preserving natural ecosystems intact, will outline what impact climate change will have on the flora, fauna and general health of regional ecosystems.
3:30-4 p.m.
Break (Please bring your own coffee mug.)
Closing Plenary: "Climate Change: Leveraging Crisis into a New Economy"
With leadership experience ranging from the US Green Building Council to the US Department of Energy to the World Wildlife Fund, Christine Ervin is a well-known advocate of bringing "unlikely allies" together in order to harness the power of the market in combating climate change.
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